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: GARBKNINQ. 



The effect of the mid-April unseason- 

 ably warm weather has been very hard 

 upon our nurserymen, trees and shrubs 

 having advanced into growth and bloom 

 so rapidly digging and shipping plants 

 had to be discontinued much sooner than 

 was usual in spring. Under date of April 

 21 Mr. J. Meehan, of Philadelphia, writes 

 us that "pears, cherries and even apples 

 are in flower." 



Something new or rare is what many 

 of our people are after. "I will get some 



of those or any other odd thing 



that you may think I need, so long as it 



is something that my neighbor 



does not have" writes one of our subscrib- 

 ers. This isn't a matterof jealousy at all, 

 but one of "noble contention," and that 

 genial good feeling and happy rivalry 

 that should exist between all neighbors. 



Tarragon.— A. D. M. asked how to 

 propagate it. .4ns. By division. It may 

 be raised from seed, but wedonotalways 

 get fresh seed of it, besides the seeds are 

 sometimes refractor}-. It isn't a very 

 hardy plant at all and often gets killed 

 out in winter, but if well mulched it will 

 survive all right and make a good sod 

 of roots and spreading underground 

 stems. In spring we lift a clump, divide 

 it into three or more well rooted pieces 



and replant. Half a dozen plants usually 



_^,,_„„_„ give as much tarragon sprouts as one 



CONTENTS. jjpgjg j-yj. salading or flavoring. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Berberis Thunbergii (illus.) 241 ClERODENDRON BalfOURII.— C. E. asks 



How trees and shrubs has wintered 241 if jt will bloom out of doors. Ans. Yes, 



Trees and shrubs in flower ^M .,..,. , , , , ^ .. 



Damage to shade trees by caterpillars 242 providing it IS properly treated. Grow it 



The Norway spruce was winter-killed .... 242 in a pot, box or tub, and encourage it to 



Salix R^Tirea pen^d^uja^illu^)^^^^ 243 ^^.^^ ^|| ^^^ strong growths possible, 



Hardy plants in bloom April 20 . . '. 243 providing these are well ripened; keep it 



Garden notes . . 244 rather drv over winter, but do not sub- 



E|ard;1ripril!?89Sfinus.) .•.■.■.•.:::: l\ J<^ct it to a very low temperature and 



Roses and other new plants 24.5 never let frost touch it. Encourage this 



Spring flowering bulbs 216 dormant condition till towards spring, 



Ittt w^imam"'''' • ■ •.•.••.:::;:: 54I '"/act merely keep it plump and healthy 



Lijjjg 248 till planting out time, which may be the 



Spring 247 end of May, then set it out in moderately 



Heuchera. violets, roses _^^.^. 247 light soil and in asheltered, warm, suniiV 



The lawn - - '- 247 Spot. 



sowing grass seed .n^spnng^. 247 ^^^^^^^ Glazing.-A reader asks "Does 



Orchids for Maj- and June 247 double glazing hurt other plants as much 



Orchid notes .... ^-^^—^ ^47 ^^ ^.^jg^.^ j ^^^.^ ^ ^.^jj comer where 



Water lilies ....... 219 double glass helps maintain an even suf- 



Planting water lilies 249 ficientlv high temperature, and I would 



THE GREENHOUSE. hkc to coutinue its use in that place, this 



fu^nmerfreItaen1'rfrUas ! '. '. ! i l i ! ! 'm doubled portion amounts only to about 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. oiie-seveuth ot the eutirc spacc covcrcd by 



strawberries 2.50 glass." Ans. By all means use the double 



The fruit.garden 250 glazing as you suggest. Roses, moretlian 



Currant" and gooseberries'.'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '.'2,^ any other of our winter flowers, need all 



Blackberries 230 the stinshine available, but there should 



Old-time strawberrie.^...^ 2.50 be enough direct sunshine from the other 



Bie lapan chestnuts from seed J51 . ., r^i i • ^ ,, 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. six-scvcnths of thcglazing to allo w you to 



The vegetable garden in May 251 get pretty nice roses. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thousand-legged worms 251 RosA Grandiflora.— An Illinois reader 



A cheap and substantial trellis -a^ , . i_ • r^ ,c. 



Genista— Cytisus ... .254 having seen a note in Gardening (See 



— ' pages 293 and 32G, Vol. Ill) relative to 



,. „,,.= ,.,.= ,. this large, single white rose, ordered a 

 CflTfllOOUES RECEIVED. ^.„„p,^ of plants from the Shady Hill nur- 

 Kissena Nurseries, Flushing, N. Y., dcs- series and a couple from Europe, so that 

 criptive catalogue of hardy ornamental he might be sure of getting the true one. 

 trees, flowering shrubs and vines, rhodo- He writes: "Both shipments are now at 

 dendrons, magnolias, roses, etc. hand, the plants from Shady Hill are 

 Samuel C. Moon, Morrisville, Pa., bushy, thorny ones, with reddish stems; 

 ornamental trees, plants, shrubs and the imported ones have long, slender, 

 vines, fruit trees and plants. bright green stems, indicative ot^ the poly- 

 Sunset Seed and Plant Co., San Pran- antha class. This led me to hunt up the 

 Cisco, Cnl., spring catalogue of seeds, name in some rose catalogues and I 

 plants and bulbs, second edition. found it in that of Wm. Paul & Sons, of 

 D. Hill, Dundee Nursery, Dundee, 111., Waltham Cross, who list it under the 

 evergreens. heading of 'Hybrid and other climbing 

 C. S. Pratt, Sunnysidc Fruit Farms, roses,' where they give grandiflora as a 

 Reading, Mass., strawberries and other variety of Polyantha, with single white 

 small fruits. flowers produced in corymbs, succeeded 

 I. A. WooU, Elsie, Mich., strawberries by showy fruit, distinct and handsome. 

 and other small fruits. But this cannot be the rose >ou referred 



to in Gardening last July. You said it 

 wasn't a el mber and that it was a form 

 of the Scotch rose i^.spinos/ss/ma, known 

 as Altaica. In neither Parsons's nor 

 Ellwanger's books on roses do I find the 

 name grandiflora." [This is another un- 

 fortunate instance of using the same va- 

 rietal name for two distinct garden plants 

 of the same genus. The Shady Hill plant 

 answers the description of the one we re- 

 ferred to.— Ed.1 



SFRINO FLflNTINO. 



In the light, deep sandy land of Dosoris 

 we began planting trees just as soon as 

 the frost was out of the ground; it was 

 never a question of wet ground or dry 

 ground with us, for even the day after a 

 heavy rain the soil was in good enough 

 condition for us to work and plant trees 

 in. This gave us at least two months of 

 a planting season, and made work easy. 

 How different it is at Schenley Park, 

 where the soil is the most obdurate kind 

 of clay, retaining water for a long time 

 and to such an extent as to render plant- 

 ing in early spring impracticable. Two 

 weeks ago the cherry trees were in the 

 dormancy of winter; to-day (April 18) 

 they are in bloom, and on account of the 

 wetness and unworkableness of the clay 

 we have been unable to plant a tree or a 

 shrub till this week; and we have an 

 eight-acre spread of land on a rather steep 

 slope which we wish to convert into a 

 lawn, but it is still so wet that we shall 

 have to wait for a few days yet before we 

 can plow it. This is a most serious draw- 

 back, because grass sown here about the 

 25th of April cannot be expected to ger- 

 minate, strike root deep enough and take 

 sufficient hold of the land before summer 

 sets in to live through the hot weather. 

 This is a ver3' impressive lesson and 

 teaches us that we should use our utmost 

 endeavors to get all of this sort of work 

 done in fall that can be done. At that 

 time the soil is at least dry and pliable, 

 and the earlier it is done in fall the better. 



MY flOTBED-WflflT flILS IT? 



I have just begun my first attempt at 

 gardening, and as I see you answer all 

 f)uestions in you paper, to which I am a 

 subscriber, I would like to lay my first 

 great difficulty before you I have a hot- 

 bed frame sunk 20 inches below the level 

 of the ground, and raised eighteen inches 

 at the back and six inches at the front 

 above the ground level. Now this frame 

 keeps full of water in spite of all I can 

 do, and I am very anxious as to the safety 

 of my seedlings, which so far have come 

 on first rate. The frame is filled with 

 about 20 inches manure and about G 

 inches earth, and the seed boxes are set 

 on top of that. I have tried to draw ofi" 

 the water by digging a hole at the side of 

 the frame, but it keeps on filling up as fast 

 as I can empty it out. Will the water 

 harm the seedHngs anv? and if so, how 

 had I better remedy the evil? T. J. T. 



Hollywood, III. 



Your hotbed is all wrong. First find 

 out where the water comes from; if it 

 oozes up or in from the ground then your 

 frame needs bottom draining; if it runs in 

 from the surface then there is something 

 wrong above ground, and you must lead 

 the water away, so that it does not go 

 near your frame. If the manure in your 

 hotbed is water-soaked it is no more a 

 hotbed, but a very cold frame; six inches 

 of soil above the manure is too great a 

 depth and enough to suppress the heat, 

 so that there will be very little left for the 

 boxes set above the casing. In making a 



