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GARDENING. 



Nov. IS, 



rich shining yellowcolor. It has a strong 

 stem and fine foliage. 



2. Mrs. E. A. Wolcott.— A beautiful 

 incurved, ball shaj ed, light pink flower. 

 The habit is dwarf and robust and the 

 foliage is vigorous and healthy. 



3. Mrs. G. M. Pullman.— A Japanese, 

 reflexed large bloom of fine build with 

 long, drooping, broad petalsof an intense 

 golden yellow color. 



4. Golden Gate.— Of the regular Jap- 

 anese type, and it is a strong grower arid 

 has fine foliage. It has magnificent flow- 

 ers of a rich bronzy yellow color. 



5. Pitcher & Manda.— This is a 

 unique flower; the inner part is canary 

 yellow, and the other margin a broad 

 belt of pearly white 



6. Mrs. John H. Starin —This is one 

 of the finest of all pure white chrysanthe- 

 mums. The blossoms are large, of fine 

 build, and the petals of good substance. 

 The plant is of fine habit and the stems 

 are stiff" and erect 'and covered with fine 

 foliage. 



7. Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly.— 

 A perfectlydoubleflowerof large size with 

 beautifully incurved broad, substantial 

 petals, of a white color delicately shaded 

 with pink. For general purposes it is a 

 fine variety. 



8. Mrs. Archibald Rogers.— A large 

 substantial flower, deep rose inside and 

 silvery pink on the outside. It is a strong 

 healthy plant with stiff" erect stems and 

 vigorous fohage, but somewhat late in 

 blooming. 



9. Thomas Emerson.— This is a dwarf 

 sturdy variety with stiff" stems; the flow- 

 ers are large, the center petals incurved, 

 the outer ones refle.xed, and the color is 

 Indian red slightly shaded with orange 

 red. It is a fine addition to the dark col- 

 ored sorts. 



10. Mrs. George West.— A large, 

 bold, long lasting flower of fine form! 

 with broad substantial incurved petals of 

 a rich rose and pink color. It isof strong, 

 dwarf habit. 



11. Miss Georgienne Bramhall — .\ 

 finely shaped, incurved, large flower with 

 broad, neatly arranged petals; the color 

 is bright lemon yellow. The plant is of 

 fine habit and a free bloomer. 



12. Mrs. James B. Crane.— The flow- 

 ers are large and of fine form with broad 

 incurved petals of clear rose pink color. 

 It is of good habit and strong consti- 

 tution. F, L. Atkins. 



New Jersey. 



Orchids. 



ORCHIDS IN NOVEMBER. 



Cattleya lahiata will soon be out of 

 bloom and if the space is wanted forother 

 flowering plants, it can be placed in any 

 out of the way place where a temperature 

 of 50° at night and 55° to 58° by day can 

 be had. It must get very little"water at 

 r ot. If kept in a high temperature where 

 C. Triath-c. etc. arc being forced bv moist- 

 ure and heat into flower there" will be 

 danger of lahiata making a too earlv 

 start to grow. I should not fear keeping 

 this gorgeous species in a temperature of 

 45° at night, 50° to 58° bvdav, provided 

 it were not subjected to sudd"en fluctua- 

 tions of temperature as is sometimes the 

 case with houses that come under the 

 head ot "cool house." 



Cattleya Trianas willnowre(|uireatten- 

 tion by keeping up plentv of atmospheric 

 moisture, but water vcrvsparinglv in the 

 pot especially if any sphagnum is'used in 

 the potting material. About G0° at night 



and 65° to 70° by day will be right for itj 

 giving only a very light shading on the 

 roof. Arrange the plants so that thev 

 can receive all the light available and no"t 

 much water on the foliage except on verj- 

 fine days and then early in the moming. 

 C. Mossiaa will require looking over to 

 remove all the decayed matter in the pot- 

 ting material; also look well to the drain- 

 age and wash off all signs of insect pest. I 

 find that tobacco stems on the pipes are 

 a great preventive of insect pests, even 

 orchid scale. Replace them with f"resh 

 stems every three or four weeks, if this 

 plan is well k pt up there will be need of 

 very Uttle sponging and brushing for 

 scales. 



It is now time to select out from vour 

 stock of Dendrobium iiobile and D. Ward- 

 ianum such plants as are ripe and ready 

 for rest for which purpose place them ink 

 house at from 40° to 50°, giving verv Ht- 

 tle water and that only on very fine days. 

 After a few weeks rest they will show 

 signs of buds pushing from the nodes of 

 the stalk and when they have fairlj' broken 

 through the skin the plant may be placed 

 in heat and in from thirtv to forty days 

 will show a lovely blaze o"f flower. 



Cypripedium insigne and Ccelogyne 

 cristata will now enjoy all the light you 

 can give them and they too will sffon 

 return a blaze of bloom for kind treat- 

 ment. Laelias that are wanted for bloom 

 at the holidays will now require a nice 

 warm atmosphere with plenty of moist- 

 ure in the air and to be exposed to suffi- 

 cient light. Remove them to cool and dry 

 quarters when they get well out in bloom. 

 Odontoglossums that have their growth 

 well advanced will enjoy a careful and 

 weak watering of sheep and cow manure 

 about once a week till the bulb is well 

 finished; I find it helps to bring a strong 

 flower spike and good qualitv of flowers. 

 Utica, N. Y. vVm. Mathews. 



Aquatics. 



DENDROBIUM FHfllflENOFSIS SCflROE- 

 DtRlflNlM. 

 . This poor iiiisL-raljlc luuking orchid with 

 a name long enough to suit it to the 

 world's end, made its appearance in this 

 country about two years ago, and has 

 proven to be one of the surprises of this 

 age of floriculture. When we open an im- 

 ported case of it, the plants look dead, 

 and if received in the fall this opinion 

 holds good for six months. But when 

 warm summer weather comes, and the 

 plants are placed in genial buovant heat 

 with plenty of moisture, in fact a good 

 drenching twice a day, the progress they 

 will make in two or three months is sim- 

 ply marvellous, and the number of flow, r 

 spikes they will send out from both the 

 old and new growths, show this variety 

 to be in one of the most floriferous of 

 orchids. Because of this recuperative 

 nature our boys call it the "resurrection 

 orchid." Its flowers are lovely and rival 

 in beauty even those of the genus Pha- 

 Ixnopsis and range in color from delicate 

 pink and white to strong crimson and 

 shades of red; small plants not infre- 

 quently carry from thirtv to fifty blos- 

 soms. 



For this lovely orchid I should recom- 

 mend cool dry treatment in such a man- 

 ner as to preserve the roots in sound con- 

 dition during winter, sav 50° to 55° by 

 day or night, and keep up sufficient 

 atmospheric moisture to keep the plants 

 plump. In the way of orchids I look upon 

 this dendrobium as the grandest importa- 

 tion for many years. And let us hope 

 that it is not one of those kinds of Den- 

 drobium that dwindle away after a year 

 or two's artificial forcing. 



Utica, X. Y. Wm. Mathews. 



KEEPING fl BIG FROG OVER WINTER. 



A Penns3'lvania subscriber asks "How 

 can I keep a big frog overwinter? This is no 

 ordinary frog of which we have an abund- 

 ance, but a huge fellow given to my wife 

 by a friend who got it from Michigan. 

 He now makes his house in one of my out- 

 door lily ponds, and we are anxious to 

 have him next year. I am not afraid of a 

 little trouble. If you tell me to bringhim 

 into the greenhouse, don't omit to say 

 what to feed him on " 



We submitted the above to our veteran 

 friend Mr. William Saunders of the U. S, 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 who kindly replies as follows: 



"The best thing to do with the frog is 

 to let him alone in his pond. He will look 

 after himself Frogs hibernate in winter 

 and do not partake of much food during 

 that time. "To trv to nurse him in agreen- 

 house would probably kill him outright. 

 Toads can be kept in a greenhouse all the 

 vear round, but frogs are different, they 

 like mud for winter quarters." 



GREEN SCUM ON fl FOND. 

 M. N., Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 

 writes: ^'I have made a lily pond and 

 stocked it with native white pond lilies 

 and also Zanzibar lilies which grow and 

 bloom finely, but a green algae grows so 

 rapidly and in such quantities as to make 

 the pond very unsightly, the soil is com- 

 posed of black soil from the fields and 

 rotten barnyard manure, a mixture of cow 

 and horse manure. Is there any remedy? 

 The pond has been in use two summers." 



The only way to get rid of the green 

 alga: in ponds is to skim it out with a 

 scoop made for the purpose. Take a light 

 shallow box of convenient size, tack on 

 coarse wire nettingin placeof the bottom, 

 remove one end and with this it is not a 

 difficult matter to clean out a small pond 

 and if it is done several times early in 

 the season it will not usually grow 

 enough to be unsightly later on after the 

 foliage of the lilies cover the surface. The 

 common garden toad breeds in shallow 

 water and its tadpoles feed on the green 

 scum that forms on the surface earlv in 

 the season and which is the first stage of 

 the alg£e and it is a good plan to collect 

 as many of the toads as possible and put 

 them near the pond. They breed in 

 countless thousands in mv ponds and 

 usually eat up the algae as fast as it 

 grows. The common water snail also 

 feeds on it and should be encouraged to 

 breed in the water as much as possible. 

 The algiE is always worse in newly made 

 ponds, and does not usually grow enough 

 in old ponds to become unsightly. 



Dwight, Mass. L. W. Go'odell. 



Greenhouse and Window. 



T«E GREENHOUSE. 



Chrysanthemums are now in theirglory, 

 but before the month is out they will be 

 nearly over. What shall we fill up then 

 with? Carnations, callas, geraniums, 

 bouvardias, heliotrope, cyclamen, prim- 

 roses, begonias, main- bulbs, and so on. 

 With most of these' it is a case of more 

 room needed. 



.\t this season of the year much arti- 

 ficial heat in a greenhouse is prejudicial 



