GARDENING. 



Mar. 75, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



PUBLISHED THE 19T AND 15TH OF EACH MONTH 

 BY 



THE GARDENING COMPANY, 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. 



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 Copyright 18iit), by The Gardening Co. 



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 tisements and other business matters should be 

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 Editor of GARDENING, Glen Cove. N. T. 



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With the view of advancing public 

 interest in gardening the gardeners and 

 florists of Tacoma, Washington, have 

 organized a society to be called The 

 Tacoma Gardeners' and Florists' Associa- 

 tion. E. R. Roberts is president, and 

 Bruno Lehman, secretary. 



ToM.vTOEs. — In answer to C. H. wc 

 would say, we are glad that the drug 

 clerks of Kansas City are so much inter- 

 ested in this excellent vegetable. Advise 

 them to send to some of our state experi- 

 ment stations for a bulletin on the analy- 

 sis of chemical fertilizers. Dr. R.de Roode, 

 of the West Va. Ex. Station, Morgan- 

 town, West Va. for instance has issued 

 some very easy to understand ones. 



Such Editors!— Such is the compliment 

 paid to us and also to our esteemed friend, 

 the editor of Meeban's Monthly, by one 

 of otir readers, who submitted two strictly 

 botanical questions to us and which we 

 declined to answer. We are sorry, but as 

 we feel a good deal more at home in prac- 

 tical horticulture than solving botanical 

 problems we must restrict our course to 

 our own sphere and not dabble in sub- 

 jects we know so little of. 



and tell us what you want. It Is our 

 desire to help you. 



ASK ANY QUESTIONS you please about plants, 

 flowers, fruits, vegetables or other practical gardening 

 matters. We will take pleasure In answering them. 



Send us Notes of your experience in gardening in 

 any line; tell us of your successes that others may be 

 enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures, 

 perhaps we can help you. 



SEND us Photographs or Sketches of your 



SSSk^u''rLl\"p%lfaTc?s''tSlfwfmi?.'h\'vWJ^'e°^^ In PLANTING A BELT OF TREES never 



graved for gardening. run the front row in an even line be this 



— " straight or curved, becauseit isunnatural 



CONTENTS. and disagreeable to look upon, avoid 



THE FLOWER garden. anything that is hatslily artificial. And 



Lilies in a New Jersey garden (illus.) 193 don't measureofl' exact distances between 



Flower garden questions I'Jl the trees, like polka dots on a calico frock, 



Auemone''co"ronirit '.'..'.:'.'.'.'.'.'.:.'. litl ""l^ss you are planting a woods for tim- 



TREES AND SHRUBS. bcr as the trucker plants cabbage in the 



The American holly j94 field, and even then let the margin be a 



Trumpe\°crTepeVoudithes^ie(iilis;); ! ! ! 195 little ragged in outline and diverse in 



Bechl^ers double flowering crab 195 composition. 



Some good lilacs 195 



The Sugi or Japan cedar tree (illus.) 196 LiLlES IN PoTS.— Dean Hole, the eini- 



Double flowenng sloe-Fertilizer 19b ^^^^ English divine and rosarian who 



Lord Penzance's hybrid briar roses 198 visited this country last year, tells the 



Black spot ou roses 196 London Garden how he grows his lilies. 



Rosagrandiflora. -^-^-^ 196 "By keeping them in pots, plunging in 



Water lilies 196 winter under leaves or ashes, starting in 



THE greenhouse. mild heat in spring, taking them out of 



Bo'ulaln^ta-snSrnthef".-.- .•.;::: m doors in the warmer mouths and when 



The Ranche greenhouses (2 illus.) 198 they come into flower placing them in the 



Winter-blooming climbers 199 beds, covering the pots with soil wherever 



rsSJJf.'Lnfor killing worms-. . i ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! m they will be most effective. Remove and 



Adiantum cuneatum and A. tenetum 199 repot m autumn." This is a capital plan 



Carnation rust 199 even here, but we should also mulch the 



orchid notes. . . . '"'^'!°''.' 201 ground in summer. It also helps to save 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. thc bulbs from rot. 



Red cedars to shelter an orchard 201 ^. „ „ ti, , , 



Fruit tree questions 201 PLANTS IN SMALL PoTS.— Plants to 



Strawberries 202 look well should alwavs be grown in 



The vegetab^garden'"."^'-'^."':^""" 202 '"f hjr small pots. A big pot and a Httle 



A good bed of mushrooms 202 plant not only look amiss but they mdi- 



MiscELLANEous. catc bad gardening. Of coursc whcH WC rC" 



ArtffidrSnSrls'' ^°""' 202 pot a healthy, vigorous plant the pot may 



GeratiiumTasbe'dding' plants'. '. '. '. '. '. '. . 203 at first appear a little large, but even then 



Cannas 204 it should not have an Over-size look about 



The Egyptian Luffa -m it, but when the plant reaches its bloom- 

 How I grow amaryUis 20f) . ' , „ . t^ , , , . 



^ _2 '"g stage, for instance a calceolaria, a 



pelargonium, or a genista, to be in good 



Wants moke plants.— A New England taste as well as correct cultivation the 



Subscriber writes: "I have a new home pot should appear under rather than full 



with an acre or more of land, anu am a gized. Not only should this be observed 



great admirer of hardy plants, indeed I ;„ the window and greenhouse, but it 



already have a large number of shrubs, should be very pronounced as regards 



herbaceous perennials, lilies, bulbs, etc., plants used in dwelling houses for hall, 



and wish to addsome newvaneties every room, or table decoration, 

 year." This is how every one who loves 

 a gardens feels, the more one has the 

 more one wants and the greater pleasure 

 he derives from his garden. Gardening is 

 like music or literature, a smattering is 

 not enough, the better one knows the 

 rudiments the more anxious he is for more 

 practice and more knowledge, and the 

 more he indulges his taste for either, pro- 

 viding he is governed by discretion in selec- 

 tion and proficiency in progress the hap- 

 pier he is and the greater is the refining 

 atmosphere that surrounds him. 



Examine the Labels.— Now that the 

 frost is leaving the ground many of the 

 labels in thc flower borders will probably 

 be heaved out of the ground and lying on 

 their sides; lookafterthese and stick them 

 back into the earth, firmly. Also examine 

 labels on rose bushes, grape vines, fruit 

 trees and other outdoor plants to see 

 that they arc plainly and legibly written, 

 and securely wired. If the labels are old 

 or decayed and insecure replace them with 

 new ones. Always used painted labels. 



Never use iron wire for fastening labels on 

 to trees if you can get copper wire, iron 

 corrodes and breaks, 1 opper doesn't, and 

 be careful to have the tying so loose that 

 there will be no fear of cutting in to the 

 bark, even after allowing for another 

 year's growth. 



What is it?— In a special list of rose 

 novelties from one of the most respectable 

 and reliable firms in Europe, just to hand, 

 we find the following: "Rosa Rugosa. 

 America. The American form of rugosa 

 found wild on the Rocky Mountains. It 

 differs from the Japanese type in its more 

 open larger flowers, which are of a fine 

 crimson-like color; and in its longer and 

 more ovate fruit often covered with long 

 spines." Neverhavingheardof such arose 

 and finding no clue to it in the botanical 

 works on our shelf, we submitted the 

 matter to the leading systematic botanist 

 of the countrT,', who kindly replies: ' I 

 have never heard of an American form of 

 Rosa rugosa and must think that there 

 is some error as to the source or identity 

 of the plant." 



The Bayberry (Myrica cerifera) for 

 ornamental work is one of the most desir- 

 able of all shrubs for massing in park or 

 large plantings, but where can we get it? 

 It grows abundantly by the wayside, the 

 seashore, in waste fields and like places, 

 but such plants are not very desirable 

 stock; they are nowhere alongside of the 

 j'oung nursery-grown ones. Talking 

 with a nurserj'man making a specialty of 

 native plants the other day we asked him 

 for bayberry bushes. "We haven't got 

 one left," he replied. "We had only 

 about a thousand, and the first man I 

 called on in Philadelphia took every one 

 of them." Nurserymen raise it from seed 

 and in quantity, so that other folks 

 besides our brother of the Quaker city 

 may get some. 



Plants that Will Grow by the Sea- 

 side. — We often read in horticultural 

 papers, especially in trans-Atlantic ones, 

 about plants that can be induced to grow 

 near the seaside Now, the fact of the 

 matter is this: All manner of hardy gar- 

 den plants— trees, shrubs, vines, or peren- 

 nials will grow within 20 feet of the sea- 

 shore just as well as if 20 miles away 

 from it, providing they are sheltered fi-om 

 the winds and salt spray, and this shelter 

 may be afforded by a belt of trees, hedge, 

 fence, building, or the like. The idea of 

 the salt air being injurious to garden 

 plants is all nonsense. Instead of telling 

 vis what plants will thrive near the sea- 

 coast, rather tell us what ones won't 

 thrive there, if you know. But when it 

 comes to plants that will thrive right on 

 the edge of the seashore and where the 

 salt water often laves their roots, that's 

 a different matter, and the list is limited. 



The desirableness of VARiETY.-When 

 we first look upon a flower garden filled 

 with geraniums and coleus or checkered 

 with echeverias and altemantheras, the 

 glare is dazzling, the eflfect is striking and 

 on first sight wc may be apt to exclaim 

 "oh my, what a show!" But that is all, 

 the brilliance becomes monotonous, we 

 soon tire of it, and never think of hover- 

 ing over those beds for an hour at a time, 

 so we turn aside to broken gardening and 

 miscellaneous plants. To the true lover 

 of gardening there is far more pleasure in 

 a rock garden filled with all manner of 

 little plants and a fringe of shrubs and 

 lillies, or a variously filled border contain- 

 ing "everything" than in those show beds. 

 But far be it from us to condemn those 

 vivid beds any more than the singleness 



