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GARDENING. 



April 15, 



Chinese Primrose Bousuet is the 

 name of a new variety recently obtained 

 by Carter & Co., London. Its flowers are 

 said to be single-stemmed, large, white, 

 fringed and set in a broad crumpled leafy 

 calyx that projects far beyond the margin 

 of the corolla. 



William Falconer, Editor. 



PDBLI8HKU THE 1ST AND 15th OF EACH MONTH _ ^^ t> o o 



Roses IN A HuRRV.— Pope & Sons, wnt- 



""^ ing in the Gardeners' Chronicle, say: "On 



THE GARDENING COMPANY, December 31, 1895, we sowed the con- 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. tents of twenty seed pods {of Rosa wulti- 



Hora, dwarf perpetual), and on February 



^ „ - ^ „. X, >, AH 25, 1896— that is, under two months— 



Butacription Prtf«.f,i^«JfJ-„7,^gr'*"- '"'"" one of the plants had a good healthy 



Kntered at Chicago postotfice as second-clasa matter. flower bud. The plant is under four 



Copynnhi law. by Th e Gardening Co. inches high. The seed was not sown in 



. ., , „ . „ „,., ,!„„. .rt^or Strong heat and the plants have been 



All communications relating to BUDscrlptlona. adver- *^ .^ K ^ 

 tlsements and other business matters should be grown along with Our flower stocks, 

 addressed to The Gardening Company. Monon Build- 

 ing, Chicago, and all matters pertaining to the editorial ShoW PELARGONIUMS are to boom again 

 &^'Srt5A"L'E^-.??G^,"cS'y^trr«^^^^^^^^^^ and we are glad of it. They are easily 

 grown, sure to bloom and very showy 



GARDENING Is gotten up for Its readers and In their when in flower. The conditions suitable 



interest, and It behooves you, one and all. to make It r ,.:nprnrin« nnH ralcenlarias and 



Interesting. If It does not exactly suit your case, lor Cinerarias ana calceolarias ana 



please write and tell us what you want, it Is our Chinese primroses suits them admirably, 



Asl 'any "questions you please about plants, and thev make an excellent succession to 



flowers, fruits, TBgetables or other practical gardening calceolarias. As cut flowers thev are of 



matters. We will take pleasure In answering them . ,.,,1 , ^, • ^ 1 '1 



SEND ns Notes of your experience In gardening In very little use because their petals drop so 



"".I'i?"' •?" "5''*5:?!i™lT''fS?i'^fS™,ff„'VH7rp'!f readily, when in bloom we should be 



enlightened and encouragea, ana or your laiiures, -^ ^ , , , , t, c ti j. 1 cc 



perhaps we can help you. verv careful to shake all fallen petals off 



flo'wers. ^;"rd»s"'^ee^nirouLs°'frSftf,''v?geUleror of the foliage every day, else where they 



horticultural appliances that we may have them en- fall and rest on the leaves for a day or SO 



graved for oardeninq. ^^^^ ^;„ ^^^_ ^^^ ^ ^^^^ ;„ ^^^^ 



_^ „„„,,„_ AmPELOPSIS VeITCHII ON A PAINTED 



CONTENTS. WALL.-Our good neighbor Mr. W. L. 



.,, ,?,?<l°P^- ;,.,-, Swan, ofOyster Bay, the other day told 



Ccelogyne cnslata J.nus.r ^._^^^^ 21.0 ^^ ^^.^ experience in trying to grow this 



Greenhouse flower seeds 226 vine against a painted wall or painted 



Plants in bloom at Washington '^6 surface. He said it was a very hard 



SryTulb7a°nd Vh°e? 'p^ntl ! ' ' ' ' ! ! 1 i matter to get this ampelopsis to cling to 



Palm, oxalis, cyclamen as house plants .... 227 painted woodwork or painted brick; it 



Poinsettia as a window plant 227 ^jn ^.^^j, j.ii„g ^^ ^ smooth glass surface 



Large '>''"^'^"%^|°y'^j,P shrhes. and refuse to attach itselfsecurelv to anv- 



A group of pine trees (illus.) . . . . . 228 thing that is painted. But if the wall, board 



Trees and shrubs for river embankments. . .228 ^^ brick, is painted and sanded at the 



Semall's'''n^m7g°arden';illi;s ) . . . ! ! ! i l 229 Same time the ampelopsis will cling to it 



Some select hardy shrubs . . . 229 as tenaciously as to an old board. 



Roses for New Hampshire 230 . „ „ 



the FLOWER GARDEN. A. POINTED Truth.— It somctimes 



Flower garden questions . . '. 230 happens that we find trees usually re- 



My garden in Pennsylvania 230 stricted tO damp low grounds, growing 



Threl'ouifeshionedgirden flowers' '.'.'.. Sil in high, dry, sterile places, and wonder 



Flower bed design (illus.) 231 why it is SO. Read what Robert Douglas, 



Crocuses in the grass 231 ^]^g^ most observing, learned and practi- 



Hamburgh gripes ta°he s^otth '''!' 233 cal veteran in tree culture says, page 228; 



Pears for winter use 233 that's the secret: "Many trees grow 



Scale insects • • .- '^^ most plentiful in low wet grounds for the 



BushAlpme^strawbemes.^.^.^^^^^ -34 ^j^j^p,^ ^^^^^^ that their seeds will not 



The vegetable garden . . . 234 germinate in dr\- ground." The "acci- 



MiscELLANEous. dcntal" individuals that occur on dry 



llrtuL'rf fn7thlir''ap;iiSSn"':' l l . . . is sterile hills or slopes grew there because 

 the seeds happened to drop into a little 

 hollow that held moisture and litter or 

 leaves like enough till they germinated, 

 after that all was well except that the 

 growth may have been slow. 



Nonsensical Multiplicity OF Names.— 

 A reader writes: "We have a single blue, 

 double blue, and a single blush hyacinth 

 in bloom, and all named Charles Dickens. 

 Why is this?" Alas, we cannot answer 

 for this and other nonsensical duplicates 

 of names as given and retained by our 

 Holland friends But we mustn't throw 

 stones in glass houses, for our own old lists 

 of geraniums and some other flowers 

 would prove us guilty of a similar offense. 

 Now-a-days, however, we have a stand- 

 ing nomenclature commit tee of the Society 

 of American Florists, and some very 

 vigorous kickers, and an independent and 

 fearless press, so that there is little 

 danger of a recurrence of the evil here. 

 But we are powerless in the case of 

 Holland. 



Havingjust subscribed for Cahdkninc, 

 and getting the back numbers from Jan- 

 uary 1, I very much admire the way in 

 which vou answer all questions. They 

 are so plain that amateurs, of which I am 

 one, can fully understand them. 



Homer. N. Y. S. D. W. C. 



Dahlia Edaline is a perfect little 

 beauty. A few years ago our esteemed 

 friend Alderman Chas. L. Burr of Spring- 

 field, Mass,, sent us a root or two of this 

 lovely little pink gem, but without a 

 name. We grew it and seeing its value 

 multiplied it under the provisional name 

 of "Pink Beauty." Either planted out in 

 the garden or grown as a pot plant it 

 grew dense but freely and blossomed 

 lavishly, its flowers being very double 

 little pompons of a pleasing pink color 

 and borne on long stems. Writing to us 

 about it the other day Mr. Burr said: "I 

 imported Edaline from Germany. I like 

 it verj' much especially for cut flowers for 

 house decoration. Its beautifiil small 

 pink flowers always come double, and 

 they have such graceful stems, which is 

 something uncommon in dahlias; indeed 

 I regard Edaline as one of the finest of all 

 dahlias, and I have grown hundreds of 

 varieties." 



Spring Flowers. — The spring has come, 

 the grass has started to grow and the 

 lilac buds to swell, and crocuses are gay 

 in the grass and among the bushes. Now 

 step outside into your own garden and 

 see what you have got there. You may 

 have raked the manure dressing off of 

 the grass, torn down the old vines and 

 cleared them away, pruned up the trees 

 and bushes, and that work is past with 

 you for a season, and all is neat and trim, 

 and now you hope to rest for a few weeks 

 till it is time to plant out the geraniums 

 to fill up the summer beds. But that isn't 

 enough. This is the time of all seasons of 

 the year when we have got gardening on 

 the brain, and happily it is the time when 

 our gardens may be the most interesting. 

 Among shrubs we can have fragrant bush 

 honeysuckle, mezereon in full and fragrant 

 blossom, with forsythias and different 

 prunuses soon to follow; and snowdrops, 

 crocuses, Siberian squills, early bulbous 

 irises, early daffodils in full bloom, and a 

 host to follow between now and May 

 day, and all hardy, long lived and easy 

 to grow. 



More names than there are varie- 

 ties. — One of our readers bought a dozen 

 spirjeas, distinct kinds, having selected 

 them from a nurseryman's catalogue, 

 and now after growing and blooming 

 them he finds that instead of having 

 twelve distinct sorts he has got only lour, 

 the others being duplicates of this four, 

 and he complains bitterly of this sort of 

 multiplication of names, or way ot trap- 

 ping the unwary. But there are two 

 sides to every question, and before we lift 

 our quill shillelah-wise to smash the head 

 of the "rascally" nurseryman we want to 

 know what he has got to say for himself. 

 We have no favor for the nurseryman 

 who, knowingly, will sell one variety of 

 spiriea or any other plant under two dis- 

 tinct names. During the two years when 

 we were chairman of the nomenclature 

 committee of the Society of American 

 Florists, we gave this question of dupli- 

 cate names in catalogues a more search- 

 ing investigation than was ever given to 

 it before, and with a most gratifying 

 result, we found that very few of our nur- 

 serymen or florists countenanced it at all, 

 and no respectable one did, and on the 

 whole they were as anxiovis to have their 

 stock sent out under true names as were 

 their customers to get it rightly named. 

 Take this question of the nomenclature of 

 spiraeas for instance, it is muddled at the 

 best. Give us specific information and we 

 shall see what can be done. 



Fresh Vegetables.— It is the tenth ol 

 April and what have we got to eat? 

 True we can go down town to the market 

 and get a variety of stuff all fresh in and 

 ready for the pot, but the best of it is a 

 poor apology for the fresh crisp succcu- 

 leiit greens we should have in our own 

 garden. There is no reason why we 

 shouldn't have plenty crisp lettuces from 

 a hotbed, spinach from an all-winter cold 

 frame, rhubarb forced in the stable or 

 cellar, some chives from clumps we lifted 

 a month ago and planted in the lettuce 

 frame, dandelions from a frame over 

 which we put a sash a month ago, young 

 kale sprouts from stumps we saved from 

 December, celery from last fall's storing, 

 parsley from a box in the window or 

 cellar or a sash of it in a frame, besides 

 saved over root crops. Now how many 

 of us have these things? And if we don't 

 have them whose fault is it? Of course 

 these early vegetables require a little fore- 

 thought and labor, but they are worth 

 the trouble. Or take it in the summer 

 time. In the summer time there is no ex- 



