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• GARDENING. 



June /, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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An old fashioned cottage garden (lUus.) . . 



Notes on spring flowers 



Questions about narcissus 



The wild garden 



Flower garden notes 



Spurioi^s verbenas . . 



Degenerate cannas from seed 



trees and shrubs. 



Trees and shrubs in bloom 



American holly trees (2 illus.) 



Wistaria— Jessamines— Clematis 



Double.flowered mock orange 



Azalea mollis (illus.) 



Burr oak and green ash for dry climates . . 



Koelreuteria pauiculata ' ' 



The lilacs won't bloom 



ROSES. 



New or recently introduced roses 



A green rose 



the greenhouse. 



Poiusettias 



Sander's bougainvillea (illus.) 



THE fruit garden. 



Berries in June .... 



Peaches and cherries 



Pear blight . . 



miscellaneous. 

 Xanthoceras— Pink cherry blossoms— Cosmos . 

 Multiplier onions 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 



Wild Fire Pinks {Silene Virginica).— 

 Oh how lovely! Scattered hither and 

 thither, all over the almost perpendicular, 

 high rocky banks in Allegheny county we 

 beheld, from the railroad train windows, 

 the other day, these vivid beauties in all 

 their dazzling glory, and bigger and 

 brighter and lovelier than we ever saw 

 them before. And wonderful, there they 

 grew fastened between the laps of the 

 shale rock, exposed to sun and wind, and 

 where to any outward appearance no 

 soil or water could be within their reach. 

 But like all other true rock mountain 

 plants their roots penetrated several feet 

 back through the chinks in the rock, into 

 the cool hill side. The plants were in big 

 tufts, a foot and more high and across. 

 It is a perennial and a gem in the garden, 

 too. 



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 time they write an advertiser. It is only 

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A BOUQUET OF SHRUB BLOSSOMS.— On 



our side table is a bunch of the very dark 

 reddish purple flowers of Wergelia 

 LavalkS with plenty foliage and two 

 sprays of the double flowered Spirsca 

 Cantonensis {Reevesi) in the side of it; 

 the effect is very pleasing, especially with 

 lamp light, and the flowers last well. 



The White Stone Crop {Sedum terna- 

 (um).— Howprettyit is nowin our rocky 

 woods; it mats upon and overhangs the 

 ledges and runs upon the otherwise bare 

 surfaces; indeed, although a humble plant 

 it is one of our most noticeable seasona- 

 ble flowers. And like many another wild- 

 ling, the child ■ >( adverse natural condi- 

 tions, it is wonderful how readily it takes 

 to good ground and garden care. Get it, 

 —gather lots of it and plant it in your 

 rockeries. You will like it. 



Fancy Caladiums.-— Many of you may 

 remember a magnificent collection of 

 fancy-leaved caladiums thjit were grown 

 and exhibited at the World's Fair, from 

 Brazil. Scores of them were entirely new 

 to us and showed a distinctness in text- 

 ure and a delicacy and vividness in color- 

 ing that we had never before beheld in 

 the race. At the end of the fair these cal- 

 adiums passed into the hands ot Mr. 

 Fred. Kanst of South Park, Chicago, and 

 Mr. William Hamilton, Supt. of Parks, 

 Allegheny City, Pa., and these gentlemen 

 have kept them strictly to themselves 

 ever since. We called on Mr. Hamilton 

 the other day to see the caladiums, and 

 certainly they were very beautiful, and 

 he was very proud of them. 



The Deerberry or Squaw Huckle- 

 berry (Vaccinium stam/nciiml.— When 

 riding through our rocky woods a few 

 days ago we came upon a patch of this 

 little shrub in full bloom, and what a 

 sweetlv pretty little bush it is with myri- 

 ads of bell-shaped, silvery white, little 

 nodding blossoms hanging gracefully 

 from its branchlets. It is a showy and 

 elegant little plant of charming beauty, 

 and although not at all abundant in our 

 woods, it is by no means rare. But in 

 cultivation we never find it, great is the 

 pity. Nurserymen, so far as we know do 

 not keep it; collectors, however, can get 

 it for vou. If you come upon it in the 

 woods yourself, and wish to dig it up, be 

 sure you take the sod deep and wide and 

 unbroken, for the plant is impatient of 

 injury to its roots. 



Crat.sgus mollis— In the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle this tree is mentioned as being 

 in flower at Kew, and the earliest of all 

 the American thorns to burst into blos- 

 som there "some of the trees being masses 

 of bloom from the bottom to the top." 

 True it is a beauty both in the garden 

 and in a wild state, and we are delighted 

 to find it wild and intolerable abundance 

 in Schenley Park, where it grows on the 

 sides of the ravines, especially where there 

 is a little more moisture and good living 

 than its near relative C. coccinea gets. 

 The latter is very plentiful here growing 

 on bare, dry, sterile clay bill sides and 

 slopes; and although it is less floriferous 

 and less beautiful than mollis, for our 

 purpose it is by far the most useful of the 

 two, we want to use it in clothing our 

 great naked banks, and hillsides. 



The scarlet trumpet Honeysuckle. 

 —Riding through the mountain suburban 

 towns the other day in several old gar- 

 dens we observed large bushes of this vine 

 and also trellises heavily covered with it, 

 its flowers standingout in vivid brilliance 

 against the green foliage and neighboring 

 trees and shrubs. This honeysuckle 



(Lonicera sempervirens) is a common 

 wild vine in the thickets and margins of 

 woods, and also it is collected in the wilds 

 and cultivated in gardens, making a very 

 decorative plant. On Long Island, how- 

 ever (and it grows wild in abundance 

 there too), it used to become so much 

 infested with aphides in spring and early 

 summer that we got very little good of 

 its blossoms, how delightful it is now to 

 find it in its highland home in such flourish- 

 ing condition, without insect or blemish. 

 Down in our note book it goes for next 

 fall's planting "Lonicera sempervirens 

 and its variety fuchsioides," the latter is 

 more showy than the type. 



Preparing Shrubs for Winter Flow- 

 ers.— We shall use hundreds of shrubs for 

 forcing in the greenhouses in winter, and 

 now is the time to get them ready. These 

 shrubs consist of weigelias, spiraeas, flow- 

 ering currant, xanthoceras, deutzias, and 

 the like, and they are now 2 to 4 feet 

 high, bushy, and grown in nursery rows, 

 and far enough apart that they do not 

 touch each other. We have marked a lot 

 of the healthiest and stnckiestof them for 

 forcing, and we are now cutting out the 

 flower sprays from thtse so as to give the 

 young shoots a better chance to get 

 ripened and thereby become firmer and 

 better for next season's blooming; and 

 with a sharp spade we make a deep cut 

 around each plant, so as to sever far 

 wandering roots and thus cause the plants 

 to make fibrous roots closer to the bole 

 of the plant so that when lifted and 

 potted the shrubs suffer less from the op- 

 eration than they would were the long- 

 extended roots left unsevered. 



Forests vs. Parks.— Dr. Edward E. 

 Hale writing in the Pittsburg Dispatch, 

 May 31, says: "We have now a school 

 of hybrid landscape gardeners to whom 

 the first idea is, when a fine piece of God's 

 work is given into theircharge, that they 

 must drain it — and subdrain it — and skim 

 off the top of it, and substitute for ferns, 

 and grass, and moss and wild flowers, the 

 glories of asphalte and broken stone. 



* * Fortunately for us in America there 

 is an escape from all this folderol and 

 nonsense. You are only to say that you 

 are to have a 'forest' without any refer- 

 ence to the 'park' and you may give to 

 your people all the joy which the good 

 God gives in his open country, and you 

 need have none of the fuss and feathers 

 and red tape * * of the 'park' garden. 



* * In a forest you may leave the beau- 

 tiful lines which' nature and the God of 

 nature have been tracing these 33,333,- 

 333,333,456 years, seven months and 

 eight days since the day when the latest 

 geology teaches that the world began to 

 fly in a separate orbit. But if you have a 

 park you must shave ofi" this pretty bed 

 of anemones, you must fill in thathoUow, 

 and cover the trilliums in it, you must 

 cut down that clump of eteagnus no 

 matter if it be the only clump within 20 

 miles because an avenue runs that way 

 on the plan. But if you call your pleasure 

 ground a forest, why, the dear trees may 

 grow just where they were planted and 

 as they were planted." 



Now Don't. — The horticulturist at one 

 of the state experiment stations writes to 

 us to know what are the best bulbs to 

 force for market, which of certain cities 

 named we consider the best market, and 

 what firms in that city we would recom- 

 mend as being the most reliable to send 

 shipments to. This being a strictly com- 

 mercial question should have beeen sent 

 to the American Florist or the Florists' 

 Exchange, but as it has come our way 

 and we have pronounced ideas on such 



