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GARDENING. 



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THE GOOSE PIjOWEK,' (I 



sible preserve the plants from frost. A 

 slight frost might not hurt the plants, 

 but it wouldn't do the flower buds any 

 good. If indoors, keep the plants where 

 they will get good light and free ventila- 

 tion; if outdoors or on the piazza have 

 them where cold winds can not sweep 

 through them, and never let them get 

 drenched with cold rains. But don't 

 coddle them. If you have no house room 

 for them it is an easy matter to get up a 

 make-shift shelter for them in a warm, 

 sheltered nook or spot. Make a low 

 house-like frame of light scantling and 

 enclose it with hotbed sashes not now in 

 use, or with oiled calico, or plant cloth. 

 Store the plants inside of it, either planted 

 out close together or in pots, and keep 

 the house shut up in cold or wet weather, 

 and opened at the sides in fine weather. 



From New York southward we can 

 bloom a good man3' chrysanthemums in 

 the open garden. When the summer 

 flower beds — if in sheltered parts — are 

 emptied of their tender occupants, thev 

 are filled with chrysaxithemums. This 

 should be done as soon as possible, and in 

 transferring the plants from their summer 

 quarters to the beds in which we wish 

 them to bloom preserve all the ball possi- 

 ble to their roots. 



Propagating Gera.vrms From Cut- 

 tings.— R. J. R., St. Joseph, Mo., writes: 

 — I propagated several thousand gera- 

 niums last April by putting the cuttings 

 direct in 2-inch pots in soil (in place of 

 sticking them first in sand), succeeding 

 better in that way. I lost fewer cuttings, 

 saved labor and raised extra good plants. 

 Will I succeed in this manner in October 

 and November as well as in spring from 

 out of door and greenhouse grown cut- 



tings? I raise about twelve thousand 

 geranium plants. Growers in Europe 

 propagate in this manner successfully. 



You can root them in that way quite 

 well, but not as easily as you could in 

 August and September, or in spring. Be 

 careful to keep them dry overhead, espe- 

 cially in the afternoon and at night, re- 

 move every damping leaf and scale as 

 soon as you notice it. Set the pots on a 

 bed of ashes or sand on the bench, and 

 keep them only moderately moist. Gera- 

 niums of most all kinds strike readily 

 from outdoor grown cuttings. 



Gloxi.\ias, How to Winter them.— S. 

 P. J., Minnesota, asks: "How to carry 

 seedling gloxinias over winter. Two 

 years ago we had over two hundred at 

 this date (middle of September) three 

 quarters of which had not bloomed. I 

 got them all into pots and let them dry 

 off in the cellar where they probably 

 dried too much, for only thirteen showed 

 life in spring. We have now nearly as 

 many as before yet in frames. What shall 

 I do with them?" 



Do as we do. We have a large number 

 in pots, now on their sides and drying off 

 under a bench out of doors, they get a 

 little water from drip and rain. In a few 

 days we will bring them indoors laying 

 them in a pile on their sides in the cellar 

 or under a greenhouse bench, where the 

 temperature will run about 50°, and 

 where they will be dry, but not dust dry. 

 We store lots of them in this way every 

 winter and they keep fine. We also have a 

 frame filled with gloxinias, now past, but 

 some of them are still green. In a lew 

 days we will cut the tops off all of them 

 then dig up the roots and save them. We 



take shallow boxes, say 3 or 4 inches 

 deep; such as are used for starting seeds or 

 cuttings in, and lay the gloxinia "bulbs" 

 in them one deep and close together, cov- 

 ering them over with Hght loam or sand; 

 now store them in the cellar or elsewhere 

 as stated for those in pots. But don't lay 

 one box above another unless there is a 

 wide air space between them and while 

 the earth or sand in the boxes should be 

 pretty dry, it should not be dust dry. 

 Kept in this way we lose very few. 



The Flower Garden. 



NOTES ON CflNNflS. 



Gilt edo^d Cannas are what we call 

 those of the Madame Crozy type that 

 have a deepgold band around theirpetals. 

 A year ago Paul Sigrist was the par e.v- 

 ceilence of this type, but to-day it is com- 

 pletely superseded by three others, namely 

 Queen Charlotte, Souvenir d'Antoine 

 Crozy, and James Farquhar, all having a 

 close resemblance to each other. Most 

 fanciers regard Souvenir d'Antoine Crozy 

 as the best because of its intense, glowing 

 color, while others look upon Queen 

 Charlotte as the better one. We must 

 grow them a year longer before we can 

 decide. 



Cannas Florence Vaughan, Antoine 

 Barton, and Comte de Bouchard look 

 very much alike. Florence Vaughan, 

 however, having the right ot priority is 

 the proper pame. 



Madame Montefiore Canna has large 

 pale yellow flowers with faint markings 

 like those of Capt. P. de Suzzoni and is 

 regarded as the yellowest among our 

 showy large blossomed sorts, 



Eldorado Canna, a yellow flowered 

 variet3' still in the hands of F. R. Pierson 

 Co., however, is regarded as the greatest 

 acquisition we have yet found in the way 

 of a yellow canna. 



Our American Florists wish the 

 French canna raisers were a little more 

 discriminating in the new varieties they 

 send out year after year. In order not to 

 get left the American dealers have to 

 buy the full set of the French new sorts, 

 and after growing them for a year have 

 the mortification of dumping the majority 

 of them into the rot pile, for they are 

 trash. They would far rather pay $5 a 

 plant for the really good sorts, than $1 

 a plant for good and bad as they come. 



Unique Rose Canna.— The co'or of the 

 blossoms strongly reminds us of those of 

 C. Ehemannii, but they are not pleasant 

 to look upon. 



"Mme. Crozy Canna," says one of our 

 keenest fanciers, "is among cannas what 

 Verschaffeltii is among coleuses, indispen- 

 sable; come or go what may it willstaj'." 



Columbia, the crimson flowered canna 

 from Iowa, that was so highly honored 

 at the World's Fair last year, is said to 

 retain every feature of its promised excel- 

 lence. 



Orange Perfection has disappointed 

 a good many people; it doesn't seem to be 

 a free growing sort. But let us give it a 

 further trial. 



Paul Marquant is a splendid variety, 

 but there is a rumor that a coming new 

 one named Sunshine is going to supersede 

 it. If it does, it must be extra fine. 



Six good cannas no one should be with- 

 out are Mme. Crozy, Charles Henderson, 

 Alphonse Bouvier, Paul Marquant, 

 Florence Vaughan, and Queen Charlotte. 

 Others may be better, but we will wait 

 till we prove them before dropping any 

 one of these. 



