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GARDENING. 



Oct. /, 



e«DENIM6 



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CONTENTS. 

 aquatics. 



A little pond in Iowa (iUus) 17 



trees and shrubs. 

 Planting evergreen trees and shrubs in fall ... 18 



Pruning lilacs 18 



Transplantingdeciduous trees and shrubs . . .18 



Azaleas— Magnolias 19 



Shrubs in bloom 19 



Rhododendron — China pinks 19 



Plan for a small park (illus) ... . . . . ! 19 



GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW. 



How to build a small conservatory (4 illus) ... 20 



Amaryllis— Tender shrubs in pots 21 



Bulbs as house plants 22 



A sick begonia— Echeveria 22 



Amaryllis— Fuchsias — Crinums 22 



The greenhouse . 22 



Sturtevaufs goose flower (illus) 22 



Chrysanthemums . 22 



Propagating geraniums from cuttings . . ! ! 23 

 How to winter gloxinias 23 



THE flower garden. 



Flower garden questions . . . .' . . . .' .' .' .".24 



The flower garden 24 



Some of the newer sweet peas 24 



Wild plants in bloom Sept. 20 24 



Grass, sweet peas, asters, etc 25 



Tuberous rooted begonias 25 



Red spider on sweet peas 25 



Vinca rosea 25 



Clematis fungus 25 



ROSES. 



Xoses in winter 25 



Rose Alsace and Lorraine .' 25 



THE FRUIT garden. 



The fruit garden 27 



Black currants not bearing 27 



Mulching strawberries ! ! . 27 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 27 



MUSHROOMS. 



Home-made spawn (illus) 27 



flNNfllS OF HORTICULTURE FOR 1893. 



This is tlif litth volume of the series of 

 ;iiinu;il books g<jttcii ud by Professor L. 

 H. Bailey of Cornell University. It con- 

 tains about 180 pages, costs a dollar, and 

 is published by theOrange Judd Co., New 

 York. It is largely devoted to horticult- 

 ure at the World's Fair, Chicago, last 

 year. The ornamental and landscape 

 features of the exhibition are discussed, 

 the fruit and other exhibits enumerated. 

 In fact it is unique as being the only 

 record of the horticultural department of 

 the World's Fair, that we know of. In 

 the way of living plants every plant ex- 

 hibited is mentioned, that is' the names 

 under which the plants were shown are 

 given. We value the book highly as a 

 work of reference. 



The Earl of Harrington has opened 

 a fruit and vegetable stoie in London. 



Home made Mushroom Spawn. — We 

 have received from R. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co., seedsmen, Boston, a sample brick of 

 home-make spawn. The brick is com- 

 pletely permeated by the bluish white 

 mycelium, and even before we plant it we 

 have no hesitation in saying that it is 

 good spawn and full of life. 



Seedling Cannas. — We have received 

 from Mr. Antoine Wintzer, West Grove, 

 Pa., a boxful of flowers of his seedling 

 cannas. Some of these blossoms are very 

 beautitul, large, full, bright, and distinct; 

 two seedlings from Queen Charlotte are 

 especially attractive, one is in the style of 

 the mother but more golden. Some yel- 

 lows are very yellow, one being pure yel- 

 low, but unfortunately rather narrow 

 petalled. A seedling of Ca/jna Ehetnannii 

 has blossoms not unlike those of the 

 parent in color. By the way, we never 

 before knew C. Ehetnannii to ripen seed. 



Clerodendron trichotomum is now 

 (September 10) in full bloom. It is a tall, 

 dense, broad, and bushy hardy shrub from 

 Japan. Its leaves are heart shaped, large, 

 bold, dark green, and like those of most 

 of the genus, ill-smelling; the flowers are 

 white with reddish-purple tinged calyx, 

 peculiarly fragrant, and produced in 

 terminal cymes. This bush has retained 

 its foliage and kept its healthy green color 

 all summer notwithstanding the severe 

 drouth. It is a very fast grower, attain- 

 ing, under favorable conditions, a height 

 and spread of six or seven feet in three 

 years. While it is perfectly hardy at 

 Dosoris we are not prepared to say how 

 hardy it may be in more rigorous places; 

 but even if cut to the ground, providing 

 its roots have been well mulched, it will 

 start from the bottom the next spring. A 

 very good addition to large gardens or 

 parks, but not neat and pretty enough 

 for small gardens. 



Magnolia parvifora.— The meaning 

 of this name is small-flowered magnolia. 

 A subscriber wants to know why we 

 didn't give the English name as well as 

 the botanical one. Because there are 

 several magnolias that have smaller flow- 

 ers than this one has, M. glauca and AT. 

 Kobus for instance. The specific name 

 (parviffora) is a most unfortunate and 

 undeserved one, and in the eyes of those 

 who don't know the plant, it has a ten- 

 dency to depreciate it. 



Wild Mushrooms are unusually plenti- 

 ful. The long summer drouth, recently 

 succeeded by the copious rains is the 

 cause of this. But we never knew wild 

 mushrooms to be more infested with 

 maggots than they are this season. 



Aster Blister Beetles have been 

 very numerous and destructive this sum- 

 mer. They come in July, last through 

 August, and disappear before the middle 

 of September. They are nearly an inch 

 long, black and voracious; indeed, it is 

 almost incredible the amount of mischief 

 they can do in a short time, eating over 

 the aster flowers. Their technical name 

 is Epicanta Pennsylvanica, and they have 

 before now been referred to in G 



August 1, page 378. Tedious although 

 it may be the best way to get rid of them 

 is to shake them off into a wide mouthed 

 tin with a little water and kerosene in it, 

 as we do with rose bugs in June. 



Soap Suds for house plants and those 

 about our doors, in last issue, page 10, 

 has brought us some comments. We are 

 glad of this, for we speak from many 



year's actual, practical experience, and 

 cannot retract one word, no matter how 

 long cherished, pet a theory the soap suds 

 notion may have become. Use all the 

 soap suds you may out in the garden, but 

 keep it away from about the house, it 

 looks bad and smells bad, and we have 

 other means of feeding our plants that 

 are much more cleanly and quite as 

 eflfective. 



Hedvsarum multijugu.m is the name oi 

 a half-shrubby plant from Central Asia, 

 and which has been recently introduced 

 to our gardens. It has pinnate (15 to 20 

 pairs) leaves and loose racemes of pea 

 flowers. "They are bright red-purple, 

 with a white and yellow spot at the base 

 of the standard." The plant is said to be 

 remarkably handsome but we have not 

 yet tried it. 



Cupressus Nutkaensis var. lutea is 

 one of the novelties among hardv ever- 

 green conifers. Its terminal growths are 

 said to be of a clear bright yellow color. 

 Although the typical green form, usually 

 called Tbujopsis borealis, is hardy here 

 and makes quite a pretty evergreen, some- 

 times plants of it have a disagreeable way 

 of dying off suddenh', and without any 

 visible cause. 



Tchihatchewia isatidea is the name 

 of a little ornamental cruciferous plant, a 

 native of Armenia and a novelty in our 

 gardens. No matter how pretty the 

 plant may be that name will kill it in 

 cultivation. But we might call it the 

 rosetted stock, and put up with it in this 



Teas' Weeping mulberry.— When Mr. 

 Temple saw it on its own roots and its 

 main stem trained up as straight as a 

 ship mast and how the arms drooped 

 straight down all around, and that the 

 trunk was as stiff as that of any other 

 tree, he declared he was going right home 

 to do the same with his squat headed 

 things. 



Not a Canna — G. R. C, Springfield, 

 0., writes: A Texas correspondent sends 

 us enclosed flower. He claims it to be a 

 canna and white flowered. He sowed 

 canna seed and this was one of the pro- 

 ducts. It somewhat resembles a canna in 

 foliage. No, it is not a canna. It is 

 probably a Curcuma. The flowers were 

 damp and rotted when they got to us; 

 we base our opinion on the thickset spike 

 and leaflet. Curcuma albiiiora has white 

 flowers. 



Building a Greenhouse.— Now is the 

 time, when we have more plants than we 

 know what to do with, that many ama- 

 teurs wish they had a small greenhouse 

 to relieve the congestion. But they are 

 afraid to build one because thi-y don't 

 know how, and they fear the expense, and 

 they have no idea of how to heat it. 

 Select a warm, south or southeast facing 

 exposure, in front of a building, close fence 

 or wall, and make up your mind about 

 how much of a greenhouse you want. If 

 you want a pretentious structure get a 

 regular greenhouse builder to put it up 

 for you; but if it is simply a plain, cheap 

 house you are after, make a plan of it and 

 send the same to some builder dealing in 

 greenhouse materials (several advertise 

 in Gardening) and ask him what he'll 

 furnish you the woodwork for— that will 

 include grooved sash bars, mountings, 

 plates, and as much more as you wish, 

 with them on hand, any handy person, 

 or the village carpenter, can put the house 

 together. It is far better and cheaper to 

 get the sash bars, etc., from these build- 



