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GARDENING. 



Nov. 15. 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



A glimpse of the ocean (illus.) 65 



the flower garden. 



The flower garden 66 



Crinum Kirkii . 67 



Evergreen hardy plants for graves . 67 



The Japanese variegated < 

 Planting a bare hill top . , 



Trees and shrubs 



Magnolias, yellow wood, € 

 Shrubs lor name 



chrysanthemums. 

 Some of the newer chrysanthemums (illus.) 



Wintering chrysanthemums 



Fine flowers at Chicago 



Amateurs and their chrysanthemums 



Chrysanthemums in the Brooklyn parks . . . 

 A dozen fine chrysanthemums . . . 



Early blooming chrysanthemums 



A dozen good chrysanthemums (»Ilus.) . . . . 



Keeping a big frog ov 



CNHOUSE and 1 



Can 



73 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Hardy and greenhouse grapes 75 



Pruning grape vines 75 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 75 



My garden in Nebraska 7.t 



Early hotbed lettuce ..... 76 



The white egg plant .... 76 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The beer plant 76 



Preparing bone fertilizers 76 



The golden alstromeria 76 



Variegated lily of the valley ' . . . ^ . 78 



Shade Trees —According to Bu?. 103, 

 New Jersey Ag. Col. Ex. Sta., the follow- 

 ing list of shade trees is arranged in the 

 order of least siisccptibilitv to insect 

 attack, thoii^'h iicme are entirely exempt: 

 Ailanthiis, Ciiiki^ci, tnli|i tree, sweet gum, 

 American linden, Ivnropenn linden, small- 

 leaved linden, cdltdiiwood poplar, liorse- 

 chestnnt. Oriental plane tree. American 

 plane tree, l)ox elder, oaks ot.-dl kinds, 

 maples of all kinds, willows of all kinds, 

 American elm, sliijpery elm, Scotch elm, 

 European elm, black locust, honey locust. 



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Green-flowered Chrysanthemums.— 

 Both in England and France the variety 

 Viviand-Morel has produced sports bear- 

 ing green flowers, and these sports have 

 been propagated from, giving green flow- 

 ered plants. Of course its only value is 

 as a euriositv. 



"CoRNus Tatarica Spathii" is the sub- 

 ject of a large and fine illustration in Gar- 

 dening World. It is a shrubby sort, with 

 reddish bark and good foliage much 

 variegated with yellow. The editor re- 

 marks it "is the best of the broad-leaved 

 variegated sorts." And so'it was befoie 

 we gotthe Cornus macrophylla variegata 

 from Japan, but itisn't sonow by agreat 

 deal. We have grown it at Dosoris for 

 several years, and the variegated wacro- 

 phylla (brachypoda) is not only better 

 than it but better in its wa\- than any 

 other variegated tree or shrub that is 

 hardy here. 



Flowers in favor.— While heliotrope, 

 mignonette, sweet peas, roses and carna- 

 tions are universal favorites, people are 

 becoming quitediscriminating in the vari- 

 eties, for instance dark heliotrope is pre- 

 ferred, the large Machet mij^nonette is far 

 better liked than the common form, in 

 sweet peas wdiite, scarlet, clear pink, and 

 black purple seem to lead in favor, in 

 roses dull pinks, purplish crimsons and 

 all washy shades are rejected, and so on. 

 Zinnias of all kinds appear to have lost 

 their friends. Single-flowered dahlias are 

 preferred to double ones as cut flowers, 

 on the other hand the double hollyhocks 

 are liked much better than the single ones. 



Dwarf single variegated flowered 

 Dahlias. — We raised a lot of seedlings of 

 the Jules Chretien strain, also a lot of the 

 d-wari hybrids striata and what a show 

 we had! In early summer they began 

 blooming nicely, during the V' ry hot 

 weather they stopped for a w bile bearing 

 perfect flowers, but as soon as the rains 

 came in September, tliey set to blossom- 

 ing in great profusion, and we cut more 

 blossoms from those single dahlias than 

 from all the old plants we raised from 

 kept over roots. The plants were quite 

 dwarf and bushy, and many of them had 

 prettily marked or variegated blossoms. 

 Dahlias are as easy to raise from seeds as 

 are marigolds and they always bloom the 

 first year. 



Chrysanthemum Duchess of York is 

 the sensational new variety of Europe 

 this year so far asw-e have yet heard, and 

 most of the English horticultural journals 

 give large illustrations of it. It is of the 

 narrow petalled, intertwisted Japanese 

 order, with very large, deep, full flowers 

 of a yellow color. It was raised in Scot- 

 land'from seed sent to a gentleman there 

 by a missionary in Tokio, Japan, and was 

 awarded a first-class certificate by the 

 National Chrj-santhemum Society of 

 Great Britain last month. The best 

 judges praise it unstintedly, and assert 

 "that it is a decided advance in the Jap- 

 anese section. The flower is 9 inches in 

 diameter and as much deep, and has not 

 a vestige of coarseness about it. Another 

 curious fact in connection with it is that 

 it is the first seedling ever raised in Scot- 

 land that has received a first-class certifi- 

 cate from the "National." 



Improvement in the Cultivation of 

 Chrysanthemums. — Nine and ten years 

 ago at the chrysanthemum shows of the 

 New York Horticultural Society one of 

 our neighbors was a large exhibiter and 

 took several leading premiums. Many of 

 his flowers were cut from open air plants 



that had no special care and others from 

 plants that had been lifted and potted 

 and brought into a cool grapery to save 

 them from the inclemency of the w eather. 

 The flowers were fair to look upon as 

 common flowers averaged tlien, but as 

 compared with the blossoms that have 

 been exhibited all over thecountry during 

 the past three or four j'ears, not one of 

 them would be admis.sible to an exhibi- 

 tion room. What splendid flowers our 

 florists and gardeners are now raising! 

 But it takes brains, ambition, attention 

 and persistence to do it. No slip shod 

 methods now a days, and that is right. 



Single Roses.— A breeze is blowing up 

 in their favor. What can be more beau- 

 tiful than the Cherokee rose in the south, 

 or the wild prairie rose in the north? The 

 creeping white-studded Japanese Wichur- 

 aiana is a gem in its wav. Wild single- 

 flowered pink roses, of home and exotic 

 kinds, are abundant. The blackberrj' or 

 multiHora roses would be very valuable 

 if the rose bugs didn't eat them all up. 

 One of the most charming of single roses 

 we had in bloom last summer was a pure 

 white one called Pissardii; it came into 

 blossom late and kept in flower for a long 

 time. There is nothing to surpass the 

 typical white rugosa rose with its de- 

 licious perfume and splendid foliage. In 

 Europe they have set to raising fine gar- 

 den forms of single roses, some of their 

 greatest achievements being Paul's single 

 white rose, and Paul's Carmine. A beau- 

 tiful colored plate of the last named ap- 

 peared in the London Garden, October 

 27. All that we have named, except the 

 Cherokee rose, are hardy at New York. 



A Public Sprayer.— In order to over- 

 come some of t e worst insect and fungus 

 pests that are ruinous to garden plants, 

 spraying with insecticides and fungicides 

 has become imperative. For instance, the 

 currant worm must be killed or it will de 

 foliate the bushes and in this way ruin 

 the crop, the potato bugs if unmolested 

 will kill the plants long before the tubers 

 are ripe, mildew will ruin both foliage 

 and fruit of the grape vines if unchecked, 

 but timely spraying is a rem dy for all 

 of these and many other evils. Now, 

 many of the owners of small gardens 

 haven't time for spraying, besides, they 

 look upon it as laborious, complicated, 

 troublesome, and dirty work, and would 

 rather let their crops go to ruin than 

 undertake the spraying themselves, but 

 they would gladly pay some one else to 

 come and do the spraying for them. To 

 a large extent we sj'nipathize with them, 

 for spraying is dirty work needing 

 thought, carefulness and thoroughness, 

 and it is our mission to make gardt ning 

 easy, attractive, pleasant and profitable, 

 and that is why we advocate a public 

 spraj'cr. This public sprayer could be a 

 florist, nurseryman, or jobbing gardener 

 of the village who would have a proper 

 outfit in the way of machinery and mate- 

 rials, and be always ready when called 

 upon to come and spray your on hard 

 trees, grape vin s, potatoes, or any other 

 crop, he to furnish everything and do all 

 the work, charging a moderate fee forthe 

 job. What a relief this would be to you. 

 The other day we attended a public exhi- 

 bition of both hand and horse spraying 

 machinery in operation at Jamaica, Long 

 Island, given by the L. I. branch of the 

 Geneva Experiment Station, to show 

 farmers, gardeners and others how to 

 spray, what to spray with, and How to 

 prepare the liquids for spraying and the 

 powders for dusting. It was dirty work, 

 and between fixing machinery and regu- 

 lating refractory nozzles it didn't impress 



