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GARDENING. 



Dec. /, 



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Gardening Is Kotten ui 

 Interest, and It behooves ' 

 liiterestlnK. If It does ri 

 please write and tell us 

 desire to help you. 



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ASK ANY QUESTIONS you please about plants, 

 flowers, fruits, vegetables or other practical Kardenlnx 

 matters. We will take pleasure In answering them. 



Send us Notes of your experience In gardening In 

 any line; tell us of your successes that others may be 

 enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures, 

 perhaps we can help you. 



Send rs Photographs or Sketches of your 

 flowers, gardens, greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or 

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This Country imported from Bermuda 

 last year lily bulbs, valued at $105,000, 

 cut flowers, $6,800, onions $299,000, 

 and potatoes $133,000. 



A VARIEGATED LEAVED Hypericum 

 Moserianuw is one of the novelties we 

 are about to get from the French. We 

 are told the leaves are much stained with 

 yellow, and suffused with red. 



Is THE Tomato a "fruit" or a "veg- 

 etable?"— The Gardeners' Chronicle says 

 "while the tomato is botanically a friiit 

 its use in gardening is almost that of a 

 'vegetable,' and hence it should, for gar- 

 den purposes, be so classed." That is 

 just what we do. 



Tomato "vi.xes."— The same learned 

 authority quotes from Professor Bailey's 

 Annals of Horticulture: "Tomatoes are 

 the fruit of the vine, just as are cucum- 

 bers, squashes, beans and peas. '(! I)' " 

 And comments, "It is very amusing to 

 see the use oi the 'vine' inttiis connection. 

 On this side (Europe) oi the Atlantic we 

 should never say that tomatoes or veg- 

 etable marrows grew on vines! Our 

 American cousins use the word vine in a 

 very broad sense to include all herbaceous 

 stems that are more or less trailing or 

 climbing." Bless you. Doctor, what 

 should we say? 



. ... . Dry ground in winter is a safeguard 



LO.\T/:.XTS. against winter killing. Wherever water 



the flower garden. lies on the ground by reason of rains, 



Flower gardening in Chicago (illus.) 81 thaw, orsurface drainage, plants growing 



mollrlfri.Tnoll''''' P there are more apt to suff-er than plant! 



A few good hardy perennials. '.'.'.■.■ ; .'.'.. S3 growing where water never lodges. On low 



Helianthus multiflorus fl. pi. (iilus.) i ! 83 wet land our plants do not get as much 



"'° 85 good of mulchings as thev do on dry 



„ . . chrysanthemums. ground. Indeed, having "our gardens 



Newcf,^lrnthe'^'u'msX"sT 85 thoroughly drained from surface moisture 



Chrysanthemums-Mostly new. '.'.'.'..'.' §6 >s ot primary importance, no matter what 



New chrysanthemums (illus ) . .'..'.... S7 crops we grow in them. 



Chrysanthemums at St Louis 87 



Hardy chrysanthemums at Washington ' 88 t t- 



RosEs "B'"°---»« Iris kcEMPFERi.-A correspondent wntes 



Propagating hardy roses : 88 "^ ^he London Garden: "In spite of nur- 



Roses in Memphis. . !!!''' 88 ?^"' catalogues no one should grow this 



Old fashioned roses .. \ \ .'.'.'.'...[ ". 88 '"s unless he can flood it with water dur- 



Mme°T™s?out™rose II ing the growing period." No, no. Were 



THE greenho !' ^^^* '"''^ ^^^^ "°^ °"^ person in a thou- 



How I grow Begonia rubra 7''' 88 ^^"'^.T'h" g''°^« this gorgeousiris to-day 



Hydrangeas for winter forcing (illus.) . .' . : ' 89 ^0"'° g^w it at all, and that would 



Agriculturist— greenhouse (,9 mean that the nurserymen and florists 



BooSnn';re?nJ;^% V ' ' ' ' ^^ ^""'^^ ^^P 't from their lists as being 



Kbulsontr^ifin^slxifrage ! 89 dead, unsalable stock. Why, Koempfer'l 



Carnations HO irises grow ranklj' and blossom beauti- 



. TREES and shrubs. fuHy iu our plain open gardens and fields 



Winter protection 91 under common cultivation. True, the 



The fruit gardJ"^ ""*"" garden. flood of water would improve them, but 



Renovating an old pear orchard 91 we can grow them well and enjoy them 



How to have lots of berries ".'!.'!. 92 without it. 



the VEGETABLE garden. 



The vegetable S-den • ^•^^._^^_;^ 92 DESECRATED RosES -At home when we 



Dosoris— chrysanthemums— roses 92 use roses Or Other flowers to decorate the 



Spawn and manure for mushroom beds 94 dinner table we arrange them in all their 



natural simplicity and beauty, if they are 



Disqualified.— .\n English gardener too short or weak stemmed to stand out 



had his chrj'santhemums disqufiiified at boldly on their leafy stalks, we shorten 



two of the e.xhibitions over there; then he the stems and stand the flowers in shal- 



took up his pen and gave vent to his lower vases or baskets. Theideaof stiflin- 



feelings in the press. In desperation he '"S the flower stems by wiring them or 



asks: "I should really be very glad to fastening them to pegs to keep their forms 



know from good authority what I had ^"^ heads erect is repugnant to refined 



better do under the circumstances." Let taste. A rose in a straight jacket of wire 



us prescribe the following from the and wood is a desecration of the queen of 



>4mer/(an F/or/st of a week or two ago: flowers. But on the public dinner table 



"iVIuCH Wisdom IN Few Words.— E.\hib- this .sacrilege is often perpetrated. Can 



ters and judges: Keep still and saw ^^ ^".i"y there what we would not toler- 



wood. This is my experience, niul I liave ^te at home? 

 entered in both classes." 



I ENjov your paper much, and think the 

 plans you have published of much beauty, 

 and fine as instructors; in fact I read it 

 from beginning toend. Mrs. S. B. F. 



Stark Co., Ohio. 



W'hat ails the Kew Magnolias? One 

 of the Kew staff writing about magnolias 

 in the London Garden says of M. parvi- 

 ffora: "The blossom was about 3 inches 

 in diameter, cupshapcd, with six or seven 

 incurved petals, creaniv white at first. 



afterwards changing to yellow. The 

 flower had a strong fruity perfume." At 

 Dosoris this gem among hardv shrubs 

 (see Gardening, page 3, September 15 

 last) doesn't behave in that waj' we are 

 glad to state, its blossoms are white as 

 milk and stay white till the rose bugs eat 

 them up. And instead of having one 

 blossom to report upon, there are scores 

 of them. But as compared with Af. Wat- 

 soni or M. bypoleuca it is not strong 

 scented. 



Winter protection.— The past summer 

 was exceptionally dry, and many trees, 

 shrubs, berry bushes and vines completed 

 and ripened their growth early in the 

 season. In September we got copious 

 rains, and the ground being warm and 

 moist many plants rushed into new 

 growth, and even blossomed out as if it 

 were spring. That was bad for the 

 plants, and the chances are that they will 

 suffer more this winter than if thej' had 

 not started to grow in the fall. Such 

 plants where practicable need extra pro- 

 tection. When it comes to raspberrj', 

 blackberry and rose bushes, grape vines 

 and the lesser shrubs we can give it in 

 mulchings, burying in earth or protecting 

 with temporarj' evergreen shelters, boxes 

 or barrels. And in the case of tall roses, 

 styrax shrubs and others that are not of 

 iron clad nature, strapping a few ever- 

 green branches around them, or a wrap 

 of long straw or sedge, or corn stalks, or 

 a piece of burlap, oiled muslin, or old mat- 

 ting or carpet, will be a great safeguard. 



Late-blooming Chrysanthemums. — 

 There seems to be far too great stress 

 laid upon attaining earliness in the chry- 

 santhemums. Commercial florists want 

 them early to catch the market, and to 

 have the flowers in good condition with 

 very little if any fireheat, at the flower 

 show season— early in November; and 

 they also want to get them cut and sold 

 and the plants cleared out of their green- 

 houses as soon as possible, so that their 

 benches may get filled up with some other 

 crop. Amateurs on the other hand wish 

 to prolong the season. We have now 

 lots of chrvsanthemums in good bloom 

 by the 10th of October, and a glut of 

 them between the 20th of October and 

 the 10th of November. After November 

 20th good flowers begin to get scarce, 

 and by December 1st there are few left. 

 Do we want them? Indeed we do, for at 

 this time of the year either window or 

 greenhouse flowers are comparatively 

 limited in quantity and variety. In fact, 

 aside from chrysanthemums the period 

 between the middle of November and 

 Christmas is the dullest time in the year 

 for flowers. Of course with greenhouses 

 we can have tea roses, carnations, mig- 

 nonette, violets, bouvardias, poinsettias, 

 and orchids, also forced Roman 

 hyacinths. Bermuda lilies and paper 

 white narcissus. But we feel keenly 

 the need of a few verj* late blooming 

 chrysanthemums that can be depended 

 upon to product a crop of fine flowers in 

 December, and also to preserve their foli- 

 age clean and healthy and free from mil- 

 dew, without extraordinary efibrt. 



D WITH our outside CHRYS- 

 ANTHEMUMS —When w." see the peddlers 

 on the streets selling finer blossoms at 5 

 cents a bloom or spray than we have in 

 our gardens at home notwithstanding 

 our rich soil, sunny yards, labor, love, 

 and attention, we are apt to feel dissatis- 

 fied. Years ago neighbors and friends, 

 nc.Tr and far, would i)e delighted with a 

 basketful of our garden flowers, and pro- 



