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GARDENING, 



April /, 



6«DENI» 



William Falconer, Editor. 



P(7BLI8HBD THE 18T AND 15TH OF EACH MONTH 

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PHOTOGRAPHS 



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 horticultural appliances tha 

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CONTENTS. 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Begonias and how to grow them (illus.) . 



Greenhouse questions 



My little greenhouse (illus ) 



Greenhouse plants In bloom 



Brompton stocks in winter . . . . 



Polyanthuses ' • 



Taberna-montana coronaria ... 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Heading in transplanted trees 



"Flicder" ... 



Camperdown elm 



A hedge for St. Louis ... 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Plan for a 4acre place (illus.) . . 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Sweet peas 



Hardy ferns .... 



Beddmg geraniums 



Snowdrops and wi: 



i.) 

 Some of the newer hardy perennials 



The European wild primrose 



Boiling canna seed 



A boot on floriculture 



AQUATICS. 



Water lilies in tubs 



ORCHIDS. 



Orchid notes 



The Japanese trailing rose (i'lus.) 217 



Hybrid tea rose "Bardou Job" . . . . . . 218 



Marechal Niel failing 218 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Greenhouse grapes 218 



The apple maggot 218 



Budding cherry trees .... 218 



Mildew in a grapery 218 



The P:ivira grape vineasa stock 219 



Growing berry plants 219 



Inarching grape vines . . 219 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden ... 219 



Smooth carrot seed 219 



■.' 219 



John Dunbar is assistant superintend- 

 ent of the parks at Rochester, N. Y. He 

 went there a few years ago from Dosoris, 

 where he had been foreman for us for 

 four years. But "New lairds hae new 

 laws," and the new mayor of the city sent 

 a thunderbolt through the departments 

 when he notified the officials that in order 

 to hold their positions they would have 

 to submit to and pass the civil service 

 examinations. A month after being so 

 notified the park officials underwent the 

 examination, and we are delighted to 

 learn that Mr. Dunbar obtained 989!, 

 and of course holds his position. We 

 look upon his excellent showing as an 

 honor to Dosoris, as well as a great credit 

 to himself. 



PROM DOSORIS TO PITTSBURG. 



Having been appointed superintendent 

 of Schenley Park, Pittsburg, Pa., I have 

 resigned my position at Dosoris and 

 removed to this city. My object in mak- 

 ing this change was more one of profes- 

 sional ambition than financial induce- 

 ment. At Dosoris we had a lovely and a 

 happy home, a large acquaintance, many 

 friends, and good health, and the island 

 itself is a teeming museum of what is 

 beautiful and useful in horticulture. Since 

 my appointment has been made public 

 hiindreds of friends, known and unknown, 

 have written urging me not to disconnect 

 myself from Gardening, indeed, until now 

 I had no idea of how strong was the 

 attachment of our subscribers to and 

 interest in this journal. But your adhe- 

 sion is no stronger than mine. 



This from Anson D. Morse of Amherst 

 College indicates the general tenor of the 

 letters we have received. 



t the acceptance of this 

 a from Gardening. 

 The excellence of that most valuable publication 

 is due to the way you have put yourself and your 

 experience into it. It would be a calamity to 

 thousands of American citizens and to the cause 

 of horticulture if you were to resign its ed torship. 

 My duties at Schenley Park will be more 

 exacting than they have been at Dosoris 

 and I shall not be able to give as much time 

 to Gardening as I used to, but we have 

 thoroughly considered this matter and 

 provided for it amply. I shall retain the 

 editorial direction of the paper as before, 

 and all inquiries and other business per- 

 taining to this department should be sent 

 to me direct. My principal relief will 

 come from the Chicago office where provi- 

 sion has been made to attend to all detail 

 matters I may transfer to it, and from 

 additional gardening experts who have 

 signified their willingness to assist me all 

 in their power. 



A WORD about gardening. 



When Gardening commenced it started 

 as a beautiful, clean, helpful, impartial, 

 and original journal, and from this it has 

 never deviated or taken one backward 

 step. Aside from diffusing useful horti- 

 cultural knowledge it has no axe of its 

 own to grind, and it won't grind any- 

 body else's. Its teachings are concise, 

 practical, easily understood, timely, and 

 authoritative, and it endeavors to cover 

 every useful field. But now that I am 

 away from lovely Dosoris what about 

 our illustrations? Never fear on that 

 score. In our drawer are dozens of un- 

 published photographs taken there, and 

 that beautiful island is alwaj'S open to us 

 and our camera. We dealt heavily in 

 Dosoris pictures to begin with because 

 we hadn't others to use, but of recent 

 years our readers are coming generously 

 to our aid, and we pray they may con- 

 tinue so to do. Gardening has never 

 entered into the premium business for two 

 reasons, first, because it would be be- 

 neath the dignity of the paper; we will 

 not lower the standard of the paper, and 

 we cannot maintain it if we give a 

 premium, for it costs us every penny we 

 receive to publish the paper. In the 

 second place, because you, our subscribers, 

 are not the class of people who can be in- 

 fluenced by a catch-penny premium, and 

 we appreciate it. During the last five or 

 six weeks we have been deeply touched 

 by the way in which our horticultural 

 and floral contemporaries have treated 

 us, they have vied with each other in 

 kindness to and speaking well of us. We 

 tender them our sincerest thanks. 



SCHENLEY PARK, PITTSBURG, 



Is a new park consisting of several 

 hundreds of acres of very hilly red clay 



and rocky land. It has not yet been 

 designed, but a good deal of work has 

 been accomplished in the way of clearing 

 the ground, evening some of the surfaces; 

 fertilizing and road-making, but nothing 

 in the way of permanent planting has 

 been effected. A large assortment of 

 trees, shrubs, and other hardy plants, 

 however, have been gotten together and 

 set out in nursery rows to await the 

 planter's call. The great feature of the 

 park in the meantime is its extraordinary 

 village of conservatories— the finest and 

 most extensive in America; over$140,000 

 worth have already been built, and work 

 has been commenced by Lord & Burn- 

 ham on the erection of other extensive 

 ranges. These splendid greenhouses, filled 

 to overflowing, are a sea of blossom and 

 tropical luxuriance, and just now one of 

 the most gorgeous Easter display s of flo w- 

 ers imaginable is on exhibition here and 

 free to everybody. The collections of 

 large palms and tree ferns that were 

 exhibited in Horticultural Hall at the 

 World's Fair was purchased bj- the city of 

 Pittsburg and planted in the Schenley 

 conserv-atories, where Ihey are now in 

 luxuriant vigor. The magnificent public 

 library recentlv built bv Andrew Carnegie 

 at a cost of $,S10.000"and presented by 

 him to the people of Pittsburg stands in 

 Schenley Park. 



LOVELY DOSORIS. 



It was not without many a pang, and 

 among the gentler members of our family 

 many a tear, that I concluded to resign 

 my position there to accept of this one at 

 Pittsburg. At Dosoris we had lived for 

 I2V2 years — one unbroken period of sun- 

 shine and happiness. There is no other 

 garden like Dosoris; it is a museum of all 

 that is good and usefiil and beautiful in 

 horticulture, and as an educational, 

 experimental center its influence has been 

 more potent on gardening in America 

 than has that of anj' other institution, 

 for it has been broader and more compre- 

 hensive, and its workings have been given 

 freely to the people. Look back through 

 the volumes of Gardenlng and see the 

 beautiful pictures from Dosoris that have 

 appeared in them; they will give you an 

 idea of what it is. In no other garden on 

 this continent could such a variety of apt 

 illustrations be obtained, and there are 

 more to come. The beauty of this island, 

 its vast collection of plants andtheirindi- 

 vidual perfection and the refining influence 

 it has had throughout the land are all due 

 to the fine taste, generous liberality, keen 

 interest and progressive nature of its 

 proprietor, Mr. Charles A. Dana, and his 

 family. And although I havecomeaway 

 from it, the good work shall becarried on 

 there as before, and there shall be no ces- 

 sation of interest or curtailment of the 

 munificent manner in which that Eden 

 island has been maintained. 



William Falconer. 



Name av Geranium? — One of our 

 readers sends us two blooms of a scarlet 

 geranium and asks us for its name. We 

 don't known what it is. There are hun- 

 dreds upon hundreds of scarlet flowered 

 varieties of geraniums, in fact, during the 

 last thirty years we may have seen ovcra 

 thousand kinds, some of them "born 

 to-day and dead tomorrow," and scores 

 of them have blooms so much alike that 

 only a specialist in geraniums, and often 

 not then, can distinguish them. We can- 

 not do it ourselves and we don't know 

 the man who can, no matter how much he 

 may profess to know about it. It takes 

 a good deal more material than one 

 bloom of a geranium as a clue to its 

 identity. 



