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CONTENTS. 



THE FLOWER < 



Common flowers (illus ) 289 



Plants in bloom June 9 289 



Flower garden notes June 8 290 



A spring wild garden <!90 



Crambe cordifolia (illus.) 291 



My garden 291 



Mr. Byron I,. Smith's garden 292 



VioleU for spring bedding . . i'ii 



Bedding plants used at Washington 292 



Campanula persicsefolia var. Backhousei ... 293 

 Erect white clematis 293 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Japan tree lilac (illus.) 293 



Trees and shrubs in bloom JuneT 291 



Notes from the Arnold arboretum 294 



Street trees for southern California 295 



Syringa villosa 295 



Transplanting lilacs in summer 296 



Variegated sycamore maple . . " ' ' 296 



Vitis Coignetiic 296 



ROSES. 



Caring for roses in summer 296 



Crimson Rambler 296 



THE greenhouse. 



Hydrangeas for porch decoration 296 



MUSHROOMS. 



Mushrooms (illus.) 297 



ORCHIDS. 



Orchids 298 



Orchid notes ^99 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 299 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Not begonias 302 



Fine Chrysanthemims, how to get 

 THEM.— Mr. E. G. Hill of Richmond, Indi- 

 ana, our greatest chrysanthemum spe- 

 cialist, was here the other day, and told 

 us how he managed to get such fine big, 

 deep, substantial blossoms from his 

 plants. "I use good, well enriched, 

 fibrous, strong, loamy soil for them, with 

 a little bone meal and soot in it, and in 

 potting ram the soil as firm iti the pots as 

 a stick can beat it down. This is to firm 

 the wood, give short-jointed growth 

 and deep, long lasting blossoms. I plant 

 the chrysanthemums out on benches for 

 my finest exhibition cut flowers, and it is 

 here we can tread, beat down and other- 

 wise pack the soil down as hard as we 

 wish, and that's as hard as a country 

 road. Keep the plants a little on the dry 

 side rather than in any way damp. Use 

 tobacco everywhere as a prevention 

 id a])hid 

 ith Hon 

 as a preventive against leaf spot and mil- 

 dew." 



against thrips and aphides, and once 

 fortnight sjjray with Hordeau.x mixt 



A South Carolina Thistle,— J. S. R. T., 

 Spartanburg, S. C , describes and asks us 

 to name a thistle she found growing wild 

 there. Send us a plant by mail, as it is 

 not a safe thing to name jjlants from de- 

 scription. 



A many flowered tulip.— Messrs. 

 Barr & Son, the seedsmen and florists of 

 London, grew a tulip this spring that 

 had eight blossoms to a single stem! The 

 stem was asciated and Irora it arose a 

 central large perfect flower with seven 

 others bouquet-fashion clustered arotmd 

 it. 



Fringed Begonias —A year or two ago 

 we noted a break among tuberous-rooted 

 begoni IS and that we were getting fringed 

 and wavy edged flowers among their 

 blossoms. John Laing & Sons the bego- 

 nia specialists of London have perfected 

 this fringing enough to secure an award 

 of merit for one ol them that they exhib- 

 ited at a meeting of the Royal Hort. 

 Society a few days ago. We welcome the 

 fringing as a happy break from the even 

 edged ones. 



A new campanula.— Says the Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle" iA Alboft" has discovered in 

 the Caucasus a new species of campanula, 

 which, according to the report in Nature, 

 so much exceeds all known species of the 

 genusby its beauty, that M. Alboff' pro- 

 poses for it the name of C. regina, and 

 remarks that its general shape so much 

 diflTers from that of all other now living 

 campanulas, that it must be without 

 doubt a i-emainder from a foregone geo- 

 logical flora." 



Pansies.— No wonder they are favor- 

 ites; pluck them with their leafy stems 

 and what can be prettier or sweeter? 

 The old plants are seeding freely now, 

 save seeds from the best varieties; and if 

 you have picked out all the poor sorts 

 and thrown them away so that all of the 

 seeds tliat ripen and drop on the ground 

 may be of the good kinds, the spontane- 

 ous seedlings that will spring up by the 

 thousand next month will all be the 

 progeny of goo J parents and worth sav- 

 ing. 



EgANDALE is OPEN TO ALL READERS OF 



Gardening. — One of our readers writes 

 to Mr. Eganas follows, and Mr. E. kindly 

 replies as above: "I have read in Gar- 

 dening with much interest the many 

 articles about Egandale and its many 

 beautiful trees, shrubs and plants. This 

 has caused a very strong wish and desire 

 to visit and see the place, and I would 

 hereby ask your kind permission to do so, 

 that is, if visitors are admitted. I expect 

 to be in Chicago soon and will come to 

 Highland Park to see your place it your 

 consent is given, which I will appreciate 

 as a great favor." 



The American Columbines have long 

 spurs and the old world species have short 

 ones, but the former are by far the most 

 elegant and beautiful, indeed the true 

 Rocky Mountain blue columbine (Aquile- 

 gia ccerulea) is not only perhaps the most 

 beautiful of all columbines but one of the 

 loveliest of hardy flowers. Howmortify- 

 ing it is when we buy a lot of caerulea 

 seed and sow it and grow it and wait a 

 year for it to bloom to find that our 

 plants are a mongrel lot of long spurred 

 and short spurred, blues and purples, and 

 variegated! Who can send us some seeds 

 of the genuine ccerulea? 



TuLiPA Battalinl— Inourlast (Junel) 

 issue, page li7-4-, Mr. Eraser calls atten- 

 tion to this beautiful tulip as it liehaved 

 at Mountain Side Farm, N. J. In the 



London Garden just to hand is the fol- 

 lowing editorial note: "There is an exqui- 

 site beauty in the soft yellow flowers of 

 this species that all must admire. We 

 saw recently cut flowers at the Drill Hall 

 (th- hall in which the exhibitions ol the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, London, are 

 held) butassuch it is certainly notseenat 

 its best. Again at Dittonwesaw it grow- 

 ing among the thousands of tulips that 

 may be found there, the clear soft yellow 

 flowers showing thus to advantage." It 

 is a strikingly beautiful tulip and new 

 and rare, but to be had; if you value 

 superfine flowers, get some bulbs of it. 



The shining up of Horace Wells. — 

 One of our readers in Hartford, Con- 

 necticut, writes: "We are making a lot of 

 new parks here, but we have one little 

 gem of forty acres near our capitol, and 

 in it stands several statues, among them 

 one in bronze, of Horace Wells, a fine piece 

 of art. Lately it happened that in a fit 

 of cleaning up the park, the lamp posts 

 and bridge iron railings were painted a 

 very dark green, and poor Horace Wells 

 received a coat of varnish (!!), and thus 

 arrayed in painted glory his face shone 

 out in hideous gloss. This brought forth 

 such a storm from the press, that an 

 illustrious New York artist in bronze was 

 called in by the park authorities, and he 

 washed poor Horace with something 

 (turpentine, I believe) to remove the 

 lamentable varnish, and then he gave it 

 a coating of beeswax, but the last is 

 worse than the first." 



Children's Sunday at Church.— Yes- 

 terday, June 14-, was children's day at 

 church, and the little ones were as bright 

 and pretty as children could well be. The 

 church was nicely decorated with plants 

 and flowers and there was a bank of ger- 

 aniums in pots and everyone in bloom to 

 be given as presents to the children, each 

 little boy and every girl got one, and 

 they beamed with pleasure over their 

 prizes. But let us suggest two things. 

 Have plants enough and to spare, then 

 after you have supplied all the children 

 of your Sunday-school, look around 

 through the church to see if there are any 

 other children there, children that may 

 neither belong to your Sunday-school nor 

 to your church; don't you think a gera- 

 nium given to them would have a Chris- 

 tianizing power? Indeed it would. An- 

 other suggestion: Let every pot be 

 wrapped in clean white paper so that the 

 children may in their ecsiacy hug the 

 plants to their hearts without destroying 

 their Sunday clothes. 



Orchids. 



ORCHIDS. 



Many persons within the last two or 

 three years have got a small stock of 

 orchids by way of trial, and doubtless, as 

 in the many eases thathavecome directiv 

 under my own notice, they have purchased 

 the plants from closing out sales and got 

 many kinds that were not useful for the 

 purpose for which they were intended by 

 the purchaser, who is both disappointed 

 and dissatisfied with orchid culture. I 

 noticed some collections that contained 

 a majority of such plants as Stanhopea 

 Brassavola, Cypripediiim concolor, and 

 C niveum, many plants of Epidendrum 

 cochleatuni and I-! cillatiim and many 

 other such jilants that .ue well enough in 

 a largemixe(K()lkcti()ii,biit no good fora 

 choice small. These jilants may have been 



