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GARDENING. 



Dec, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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COXTENTS. 

 aqc^tics. 



Lily pond at Fairmount Park (illus.) 97 



Getting rid of green scum on lily ponds . ... 98 



A poor fish pond, but a good lily pond ... .98 



the flower garden. 



Propagating gladioli .... 98 



Saw-buck, log and saw (illus.) 98 



Killing out sorrel 98 



Hybrid clematis from seed 99 



A garden of flowers 99 



The flower garden 100 



Variegated euphorbia— yellow morning glory . 100 

 chrysanthemums. 



An amateur's chrysanthemum show 100 



Single-stemmed plants in six-inch pots ... 100 

 Late blooming chrysanthemums (3 illus.) . 101 



How to grow fine blooms 101 



Crown buds of chrysanthemums 102 



New chrysanthemums 102 



ROSES. 



Planting roses 102 



La France as a hardy rose 102 



TREES and shrubs. 



Fine foliage in tall . 102 



A few desirable shrubs 102 



Some very hardy trees 103 



A California privet hedge 103 



Paulownia hardy in Ontario ... ... 103 



A trellis lor an akebia (illus ) 103 



orchids. 



Orchid Questions 103 



Cypripeaium insigne 103 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



The greenhouse 103 



Favorite plants for Christmas 104 



Flowers at Christmas .... .... 104 



Heating a small greenhouse 105 



Nephrolepis exaltata (illus ) 105 



THE FRUIT garden. 



Hardy grapes for beginners 10,5 



The Kieffer pear on Long Island 105 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



Tomatoes failing in winter 107 



The vegetable garden 107 



Freesias: How hardy are they?— 

 We grow some freesias planted out in 

 rows in a cold frame over winter for the 

 sake of the fine bulbs they make more 

 than for the flowers we may get from 

 them, protecting them in winter as we do 

 violets. And we have a lot there this 

 season too. Some nights ago wc had an 

 unusually cold snap, 15° of frost, and 

 those freesias had been left uncovered, but 

 it didn't hurt them, not a leaf has per- 

 ished. Had the frost penetrated to the 

 bulbs, howtver, and such hard freezing 

 continued for a few days it would, un- 

 doubtedly, have injured the freesias. It 

 often is not the intensity of the frost for 

 a short time so much as less frost for a 

 long time that injures plants. 



American Flower Stores.— Probably 

 nowhere else in the world are the first- 

 class retail florists' stores so attractively 

 and beautifully gotten up with plants 

 and flowers or so brilliantly lighted up in 

 the evening as they are in this country, 

 and notabl3' in New York. And not only 

 are the flowers the verv finest — even a 

 selection of the finest— that can be pro- 

 duced, but the exceedingly pretty, neat 

 and tasteful way in which they are put 

 up in boxes to be delivered to customers 

 makes the flowers appear doubly fresh 

 and choice; indeed, on opening the box 

 one often has a feeling that it is a pity to 

 disturb the blossoms, they look so sweet 

 and dainty nestling there. 



Calla Lilies.— a florist showed us a 

 large greenhouse filled with these planted 

 out in a bed on the center bench; one-half 

 of the bed had been planted with roots 

 that had been kept dry over summer, and 

 the other with roots that had been 

 planted out of doors all summer. In both 

 cases the plants were reduced to single 

 strong "bulbs," the "bulblets" being re- 

 moved. As thev appeared then (Decem- 

 ber 4) results were strongly in favor of 

 those that had been kept dry over sum- 

 mer. We grow them in both ways. In 

 the case of very strong plants and if we 

 want early flowers we dry them off in 

 summer; but in the ease of weak plants 

 we would plant them out over summer. 

 We lift them about the first of August, 

 pot them and stand them aside till Octo- 

 ber, hy which time they recover very well. 



Certificated CHRVSANTHEMUMS.—The 

 committees appointed by the American 

 Chrysanthemum Society to examine and 

 report on the new seedling chrvsanthe- 

 inums have recomr ended the following 

 varieties for the Society's Certificate: 

 Miss Gladys Spaulding, white, incurved 

 Chinese; Helen Bloodgood, clear pink, 

 incurved Japanese; Jeannie Falconer, yel- 

 low, incurved, Japanese; Miss Margaret 

 Newbold, pink, incurved, Japanese; Oak 

 Shade, purplish pink; Mrs. Edwdn H. 

 Trotter, white, reflexed, Japanese; Miss 

 Louise D. Black, bright yellow, incurved, 

 Chinese; Mrs. Wm.H. Rand, orange yel- 

 low, reflexed, Japanese; Fred Walz, lilac 

 pink, incurved, Japanese; New York, white 

 tinged with lemon, incurved, Japanese; 

 Francis B. Haj-es, rose pink, incurved. 

 Japanese; Gold Fever, yellow, incurved, 

 Chinese; Henry Rieman, deep yellow, 

 Chinese; Elma O. Farrell, rose pink, re- 

 flexed, Japanese; and Mrs. Wm. H. Kem- 

 ble, white, divided petals, Japanese. 



Anjou Pears.— We have received from 

 EUwanger & Barry of Rochester, N. Y., a 

 box of Anjou pears They are fine fruit 

 averaging half a pound each and in prime 

 condition for shipping and using. We 

 look upon this pear as the finest dessert 

 variety we have at this time of the year. 

 The tree is a capital grower and sure 

 bearer, and the fruit runs even and large. 

 Of course a loamy soil or one inclined to 

 be clayey is regarded as being the best 

 for pears, but here on the light soils of 

 Long Island the Anjou pear is one of the 

 most prolific and satisfactory sorts we 

 grow With us the fruit begins to ripen 

 about the first of November, and by keep- 

 ing it in a cool room or cellar on shelves 

 or in drawers and each specimen wrapped 

 in a piece of dry soft paper it may be kept 

 in fine form till Christmas or New Years. 

 The American Pomological Society classes 

 it as the fourth in the list of pears for 

 general cultivation. Bartlett is first, 

 Angouleme second, Seckel third, and Anjou 

 fourth. With us it is far better than 

 Angouleme, and on light land stands 



next to Bartlett among those named. A 

 dish of it, engraved from a photograph, 

 was shown in Gardening January 1, '93. 



Dean Hole Rose is a sport obtained 

 by J. H. Taylor, a florist of Bayside, L. I. 

 from Madame Caroline Testout. The 

 color is white tinted with a warm creamy 

 shade in the centre. It was introduced to 

 us at a dinner given in New York, Novem- 

 ber 14, to Dean Hole by a few of his hor- 

 ticultural friends, and "there named Dean 

 Hole in compliment to the honored guest. 

 Beyond that the blossom was a beautiful 

 one we can tell very little about this new 

 rose, but it comes of an excellent parent. 

 Madame C. Testout is a hybrid tea rose, 

 not hardy in the north, but now largely 

 grown in greenhouses for winter flowers. 

 Its color is a clear satiny rose and it is 

 quite double for its class, and highly fra 

 grant. A good many years ago a very 

 beautiful and brilliant H. P. rose was 

 named S. Reynolds Hole, but while it is 

 still one of the very best hardy roses in 

 Europe, it isn't satisfactorj' with us here. 

 It is not in roses alone that our florists 

 are honoring the Dean, we find they have 

 also named a beautiful new white chrys- 

 anthemum and a yellow carnation in 

 compliment to him. 



The Japanese Poison Ivy.— Undei the 

 name of Ampelopsis Japonica a corres- 

 pondent of the London Garden writes as 

 follows: "From the time the buds burst 

 in early summer until the leaves fall in 

 autumn the foliage of this is always 

 beautiful. Through the summer months 

 the leaves, which are trifoliate, present 

 many shades of green, and in autumn 

 they assume shades of yellow, orange and 

 carmine, manv being marked with all 

 three colors. 'The color is not so rich as 

 that o( A. Veitcbii, but is equally beauti- 

 ful. The two, however, do not come into 

 competition, for whereas A. Veitcbii re- 

 quires a wall to which to chng, the other 

 is a spreading deciduous shrub, and, as 

 a decorative hardy plant, possesses pos- 

 sibilities ot the highest order." Come 

 now, the truth of the matteris this: what 

 you call "Ampelopsis Japonica" is nothin j 

 inore or less than the Japanese form of 

 our vile but beautiful vine, the poison 

 ivy, Rhus Toxicodendron. What sane 

 man, the father of a family of children, 

 would plant that baneful pest around his 

 home? 



The Golden Mayberry, a new rasp- 

 berry, was introduced to us last spring 

 as a rare and valuable new fruit, at the 

 high price of $5 a plant. The dissemina- 

 tor claimed that it was a month earlier 

 than other raspberries, and that the ber- 

 ries were golden vellow, sweet and lus- 

 cious; also that the bushes are hardy, 

 vigorous and productive. .About the 

 middle of last June we saw the stock of it 

 growing in the field, and picked of the 

 fruit and ate it; this was betore we had a 

 ripe raspberry of any kind at home, and 

 reallv they were d'elightful. That the 

 plants are' thrifty is also sure enough, for 

 we were there again the other day and 

 saw them being dug up— thousands of 

 them. Of course before we can pass an 

 opinion on its general utility we want to 

 know how it behaves in different parts of 

 the country and under different cultural 

 eonditions,"but from what we have seen 

 of it we feel justified in regarding it quite 

 favorably. 



. Such a big price is practically prohib- 

 itory, and it is meant to be, but it gives 

 the vendor a year's time in advertising 

 and also an opportunity to increase his 

 stock to a degree when he can afford to 

 dispose of it at a reasonable figure. 



