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GARDENING. 



Oct, 15, 



e«0ENIM6 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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tlowers. gardens, greei 



The San Jose (Cal.) scale has ap- 

 peared in several places on Long Island, 

 and is causing quite a stir among some 

 of the fruit growers. Prof. Serrine of the 

 Long Island branch of the Geneva Exper- 

 iment Station is investigating the matter. 



The American Agriculturist used to be 

 a monthly journal, but now it has changed 

 to a weekly. Its bright and happy lace 

 is and has aKvaj'S been a welcome visitor 

 in our home. It is a carefully edited, well 

 filled, progressive, tntertaining and most 

 instructive paper, and we rejoice in its 

 prosperity. 



Cannas and Lilies.— a lady from Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., who was here the other day, 

 expressed herself as being thoroughly sat- 

 isfied with cannas in beds and masses in 

 the flower garden, also with lilies in rho- 

 dodendron beds. She grows lots of both 

 and nothing in the garden has given her 

 more pleasure, or less trouble. 



"Sacaline" is the common name given 

 to the new forage plant Polygonum 

 Sachalinense such a fuss is now being 

 made about. It is the giant of the family. 

 As an agricultural crop we have never 

 tested it, but as a hardy, herbaceous 

 perennial in the garden we grew it as 

 long as eighteen years ago. It is of most 

 vigorous proportions and perfectly hardy. 



^^ '^^ The Park Commissioners of the city 



CONTENTS. of New York need the services oi a first- 



AQuATics. class laudscapc gardener, and have in- 



My pond lilies and how I grow them (illus) ... 33 vited these professional gentlemen to 



Keeping hardy^pondime^sover^wmter 34 send in their testimonials so that they 



Magnolia umb'ella . . . ... 34 (the commissioners) can select a man to 



Trees and shrubs .'.'..'.'. '.Z^ suit them. Such a demand is an insult to 



SaMy%"raa\°m'Minnes°o?a^^^'^ 34 ^ "°'^'^ profession, but it shows the cal- 



Arapelopsis Veitchii!'pine'borers,' etc. . . '. '. 34 '^rc of the politicians at the head of the 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. parks. 



The flower garden .34 



New hardy pink Her Majesty (illus) '. '. '. '. ! 3.5 The COMMON "swaLLOW-TAIl" (Papy/fO 



WiMXTsl^"loomOct.3.- : : 3I ^"^,^™?' '^ ''^ T-^ ^Tf}^^^ butterfly. 



Spring flowering bulbs in Chicago parks'. ; '. SI and its larvjE are big, iat fellows, green, 

 My flower garden in Nebraska 37 and ringed with vellow and black. And, 



Ro°s?;'^peTnnTrs:'Srcissus. gladiolus ' ! " " " fs ^f "'* ^,^7 '"'I P^'''^'^^' i^^"" t^T^'i''"!!' 

 Field mice ate the lilies . . . ' i ! 38 they stick out a pair of orange-buiT, ill- 

 Growing bulbs in Washington state ..!.'!! .38 smelling horns to frighten vou awav. 



When to pot cannas. ^^.^^^ 38 Hand picking and kilhng it'is the only 



Roses, cannas. etc., in October 38 remedy against the ravages of this vora- 



Fall blooming hardy roses .'.'.' 38 cious caterpillar. 



Rosa Wichuraiana to cover a grave ! ! 38 



THE GREENHOUSE. • • • ■ Plant SOME Hardv Roses. and do it 



Th°e'gree'ih"ou'se-. ■•■•.;:.•:; 1 7^.- J^ P'^f'^S -^on't stand them 



Chrjsanthemums 40 straight up, but lean them on their sides 



Orchids . . " ' ' ^40 a little and all one wav; if in a row.all 



Bi'uTainvin?aT.ab"rr; ! ^o" ^}'^^S^^ ''"^ ^l?^ ^'l ^^^l" ^eeause on 



Scale on palms and ferns . '. '. ' '. '. '. ; '. .40 *^"^ approach of sharp frosty weather 



Three palms for house decoration ..... iO you can lay the plants flat on the ground 



<;iroM„»K«k ■ MtJSHRooMs. and coverthem with a fewinchesof earth, 



strange behavior of a mushroom crop 40 /-> ^.t • ^1 . ^ ,•»,-• , 



Growing mushrooms (illus) .... .'.■;;; 41 Common earth is the best kind of winter 



Maggots in the manure . '..!.!! 41 mulching for roses and it never harbors 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. luicC 



Concord grapes lailing to do well 42 



'Fi'g^trels'rn''wimlr'^'"*''''*'"^ ■*? Trees in bloom again.— The summer 



"r'liE'vEGETAni.E GARDEN ^^ wcathcr was exceedingly dry and the 



Vegetable garden questions 43 drouth was not broken till a few weeks 



VeKetable''i'ard'^en''nl'tes fi ^^°- '^ ^°°^\ ™^"^ ^'"'^'^^ ^"'^ shrubs 



ripened up their wood and the leaves be- 

 gan to fall off. We are now experiencing 

 SWEET PEflS-fl SIX-FLOWERED SPRflY. the effect of the September rains on them, 

 I beg to submit herewith the latest re- '" several cases the buds are bursting into 



suit of my efforts in sweet jiea culture, ''^•'''' ""'^ "" some pear trees, lilacs and 



being a stem of Eckford's Splendour with mountain ash, there is quite a growth of 



six blossoms. Many of my own produce young foliage and a sprinkling of blos- 



stems with elustersof four, hut this, it soms. 



seems to mc, out-Eckford's Eckford. I 



liresume it is only a sport, but it's just 



the s|)ort we would like to have Mr. Eck- 

 ford engage in witli practical results. If 



any of your renders can do better than 



this we would be pleased to hear from 



them. F. S. 



[The flowers were received as stated, 



namely, there were six blossoms on one 



the 



i.l; is 



lie It 



the better, especially with crocuses; they 

 should a'waj's be planted early. Plant 

 some tuHps and daffodils anyway. 



The Shaw Banquet, St. Louis.— The 

 fifth annual banquet to florists, nursery- 

 men and gardeners provided for in the 

 will of Henry Shaw, the founder of the 

 Missouri Botanical Gardens, will be given 

 at the Mercantile Club of St. Louis, No- 

 vember 5th. These yearlv gatherings are 

 happy meetings and bring togethernoted 

 horticulturists from all over the countrj- 

 who get acquainted with each other and 

 exchange ideas, and thus gardening is 

 broadened, ruts are levelled, and the 

 eountrj' improved. It is an impetus too 

 to the progress of the Botanical Garden, 

 for all the guests will surely visit it. 



Genista caterpillars.— Ever since 

 midsummer our potted plants of genista 

 I Cytisiis racemosus) have been infested 

 with a caterpill ir of a yellowish brown 

 color spotted with white and black, that 

 have preyed upon the leaves We also 

 find that the wild Genista tinctoria is in- 

 fested with it, but we don't find it on any 

 other plants, not even on Cytisus Scopa- 

 rius, the common broom. Dr. Lintner (to 

 whom we have sent specimens) fells us 

 "They are the larvJB of a Pyralid moth 

 with reddish or ferruginous colored wings 

 named Mecyna reversalis Guen^e." By 

 hand picking, or spraying with kerosene 

 emulsion or Paris green in water it is 

 easilv held in check. 



The Fruit Garden. 



CONCORD GRAPES FAILING TO DO WBLL. 



I have a grape arbor 70 feet long with 

 Concord vines 7 feet apart, planted on 

 one side. The vines are strong, about 15 

 years old, and cover the arbor thickly. 

 The soil is fairly good, with a little cla3' 

 about a foot beneath the surface. The 

 vines had been neglected, and when I took 

 possession five years ago I had to cut 

 them back greatly to bring them some- 

 what into shape. 1 had no grapes the 

 first year of course; the second year a good 

 many, but all went with the dry rot as 

 all grape vines here did then; third year 

 had fevi'er grapes, which mostly rotted 

 again; fourth year (last year) 1 pruned 

 the vine more closely leaving only one to 

 two buds on each shoot. Although I had 

 a pretty fair show of blossoms I got very 

 few and poor bunches. This year I cutoff 

 several of the old branches, "thinning out 

 the vines and left some strongshoots with 

 four or five buds Had a fair show of 

 blossoms, but only few scattered bunches 

 set with a few scattered berries on them. 

 Now when other grape vines about the 

 country are full I have nothing worth 

 gathering. Can you tell me the cause and 

 remedy? P. D. L. 



Plainfield.N.J. 



I confess to being somewhat puzzled 

 over your failure to raise Concord grapes 

 in abundance and under almost any of 

 the ordinary systems of pruning and 

 training. I have none on arbors but my 

 near neighbors have, and they seem to 

 thrive and bear immense crops. I have 

 one row of vines 150 feet Ion;, about 

 equal number of Hartford and Concord; 

 the vines are trained to stakes and the 

 main stems are from three to four feet 

 high. In pruning, all the previous sea- 

 son's canes are cut back to three or four 

 buds of the base; the new growth from 



