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GARDENING. 



Peh. /, 



and one of our subscribers, planned and 

 laid out these beautiful grounds. And in 

 the following he tells us something about 

 the church itself: 



"St. Paul's Church, Glen Cove, was 

 built in 1884, upon the site of the old 

 church, erected in 1833. Henry Al. Cong- 

 don, architect, of New York City, drew 

 the plan under the advice and supervision 

 of the late Archdeacon John CaverlyMid- 

 dleton, D.D., S.T.D.,then Rector of the 

 Parish. The stvle of architecture is a 

 combination of Queen Anne and Colonial 

 without, but within it is purely Colonial. 

 The church is cruciform in shape, 115 feet 

 long, 100 feet wide at the transepts, and 

 100 feet front, over all. The chancel is 

 26 by 35 feet with additional space for the 

 large organ on the right, and vestry and 

 choir rooms on the left. The church will 

 seat about 400, and is thoroughly equip- 

 ped in every particular, and independently 

 of the organ by Rosevelt, the beautiful 

 baptistery' erected as a memorial to Mrs. 

 Olin, by her father, the late S. L. M. Bar- 

 low, the exquisite reredos in oak, which 

 was fashioned, carved and the panels 

 painted bv the distinguished artist and 

 donor, the Rev. Johannes Oertel, the altar, 

 rood screen, and other memorials, such as 

 windows, and furniture for chancel— cost 

 about 15,000 dollars. The building is 

 enclosed with a wainscoting of pine and 

 thence to the plates with California red- 

 wood shingles, and slate upon the roof. 

 The interior is wainscoted, trimmed, 

 floored and furnished throughout with 

 Indiana oak. 



"The church lotof about two acres, has 

 a frontage of 150 feet on Main street, and 

 commands a fine view of the village and 

 notwithstanding the base of the church 

 stands 40 feet above the street, 170 feet 

 distant, the winding driveways and walks 

 are so effectively planned with beautiful 

 terraces and slopes, that the approach to 

 the very steps of the church is made easy 

 for those on foot, or in vehicles." 



January 21, 1895. 



TO PROTECT THE LAKE SflORB BLUFF. 



Will you kindly advise me through 

 Gardening how to protect our lake shore 

 bluff from the action of the frosts and 

 rains. I want to cover it with a growth 

 of trees, shrubs, and grasses that will 

 hold the soil and prevent wasting. 



Benton Harbor, Mich. O. 0. W. 



If vour correspondent had given the 

 height of the bluff, the slope of the land, 

 and the quality of the soil his queries 

 could be answered understandingly, and 

 it would give me pleasure to answer it 

 fuUv. Let me give you a description of 

 our Lake Michigan bluffs, on which I have 

 resided over fifty years. 



They rest on a tenacious blue clay sub- 

 soil impervious to water, with a liberal 

 covering of rich loam on which stood 

 forests principally of oak intermi.xed with 

 walnut, hickories, ash, hard maple, red 

 maple and all the species adapted to this 

 cliniate. The slopes of these bluffs were 

 not inclined to wash until the timber was 

 cutoff. Bluffs forty to fifty feet high, 

 were covered on tlie steep slopes with 

 white pines, arbor vitass, etc., of large 

 sizes, which had apparently stood in that 

 condition for ages, with many steep 

 ravines well clothed with timber on their 

 sides carrying the surplus water to the 

 lake. The cutting off of the timber and 

 more or less cultivation of the land ap- 

 parently obstructed the natural channels 

 that carried the surplus water so that in 

 wet seasons the rains finding a passage 

 through the surface soil, ran on the sur- 



face of the subsoil until they reached the 

 edge of the bluff, and then rushed down, 

 carrying trees, roots and all, a landslide. 

 The'frost working on the bare bank dur- 

 ing winter caused them to break in further 

 when they thawed out in spring, but even 

 where entirely neglected nature has kept 

 steadily at work and brought them to a 

 proper slope and recovered them with 

 vegetation, 



If vour correspondent's land is wasting 

 away bv frosts he must prevent the watir 

 from" finding a channel on the edge of the 

 bluff. If the land is wet he can cut strong 

 willow cuttings, sharp them at the point 

 and with a maul drive them in deep. If 

 the object is only to hold the bank with- 

 out reference to oraament, willows and 

 European alders will hold it as well as 

 anvthing and the cost will be trifling. It 

 the land is not very wet the best grass he 

 can have is June' grass, Poa pratensis, 

 called blue grass in Kentucky, and June 

 grass in the west. If he is using it as a 

 part of his ornamental grounds, he should 

 plant osier willows, calledbasket willow, 

 and plant dwarf arbor vitsses, and moun- 

 tain pines, and strong rooting shrubs, 

 Hlacs, etc. Robert Douglas. 



Waukegan, 111. 



As to grasses, plant Ammopii/a arundi- 

 nacea, Calamagrostis longifolia, Agro- 

 pyrum repens. Plant also Salix longifolia 

 and red cedar, and in fact anything of 

 any size that is now abundant in those 

 places. Begin near the water's edge 

 where damp, and keep planting every 

 yearortwoto theleeward. W.J. Beai.. 



Michigan Agricultural College. 



OflRDENlNG POSSIBILITIES OF fl FIFTY FOOT 

 LOT. 



The statement is so often made by 

 owners of small places that they would 

 have a fine garden if they only had room, 

 that I am constrained to send to Gar- 

 dening the plan of a city lot fifty by one 

 hundred and twenty feet, belonging to a 

 flower-loving friend'. On this lot he grows 

 upwards of one hundred and fifty species 

 and varieties of plants and bulbs, and 

 some things in liberal quantities, such as 

 cannas, narcissi, tulips and gladioli. 

 Although there is such a variety of flow- 

 ers grown there is no appearance of over 

 crowding, and the effect produced is pleas- 

 ing and in good taste. The following is 

 a summary of shrubs and plants grown, 

 and well grown too, in spite of the shade 

 of his neighbors' houses and the depreda- 

 tions of their dogs and children. 



Three varieties of magnolias, one of 

 Japan maples, one of snowballs, three of 

 lilies, four of clematis, two of honey- 

 suckles, two of wistarias, three of ampe- 

 lopsis, one of dolichos, one of bignonia, 

 thirty-three of herbaceous plants and 

 alpines, thirty-six of hardy roses, thirty- 

 five of narcissi, twenty of tulips, including 

 a collection of one hundred named vari- 

 eties of late flowering sorts, thirty of 

 gladioli, and pretty much all of the better 

 sorts of the new French cannas lately 

 introduced. I wonder how many large 

 gardens there are that can show so inter- 

 esting a collection? Not many I think, 

 and in my city I know there is not a score. 

 So it would seem that a fine garden is not 

 so much a question of size, but more of 

 the desire and enthusiasm of the owner. 



Another plea for a poor garden or no 

 garden is lack of time, but the owner of 

 this garden is a busy and successful busi- 

 ness man, yet finds time to do all of the 

 work in his garden, and seems to think 

 that he is better able to take care of his 

 on account of it. 



My friend says he is getting tired of the 

 French cannas, despite their extremely 

 showy flowers, and speaks of planting 

 the borders about his front porch with 

 some graceful hardy plants or perhaps 

 tall nasturtiums instead. I quite agree 

 with him in this. The cannas are stiff 

 and ungraceful, and where a picturesque 

 effect is desired they do not meet the re- 

 quirement. Tall nasturtiums, which are 

 easily and cheaply grown from seed, have 

 more good qualities than most plants, no 

 matter how expensive or highly praised. 

 When allowed to grow naturally and to 

 cover considerable of the ground in front 

 of the support on which they climb, they 

 make an effect beautiful and picturesque 

 in the extreme. This is well shown by 

 the illustration on page 101 of Vol. 1 of 

 Gardening. 



explanation of plan. 



1. 1. 1. 1. Locust saplings eight 

 inches in diameter with branches short- 

 ened to five or six inches for clothes line 

 posts. These are covered with the follow- 

 ing vines: Clematis paniculata, trumpet 

 creeper, Hall's honeysuckle, one on each, 

 and golden honeysuckle and Jackman's 

 clematis together on one. 



2. Magnolia conspicua. 



3. Hardy roses with a narrow border 

 of narcissi and tulips. Gladioli are 

 planted among roses every spring. 



4. Herbaceous plants with 9-inch bor- 

 der of narcissi and tulips, which are car- 

 peted with moss pink (Pblox suhulata.) 



5. Magnolia Soulangeana. 



6. Japan snowball. 



7. Aristolochia sipho to cover kitchen 

 porch. 



8. Hall's honeysuckle to cover kitchen 

 ]>orch. 



9. Auratum, rubrum and album lilies. 



10. Tall growing common cannas to 

 screen back garden. 



11. Rockery planted with shade-loving 

 plants, such as hardy ferns, trilliums, 

 cypripediums, tiarella, etc This space is 

 extremely shady on account of proximity 

 of neighbor's house, making it iiupo^sible 

 to grow grass or anv plant requiring sun 

 light. 



12. Border of French cannas. 



13. Border of French cannas. 



14. Blood-leaved Japan maple. 



15. Magnolia stellaia. 



16. Four Carolina poplars, to be cut 

 out as soon as pin oaks are of a good 

 size. TheseCarolina poplars, which have 

 been planted only four years and two years 

 old when plante'd, are now eight inches 

 in diameter one foot from the gromid.. 

 They have no permanent value, but where 

 a quick growing tree is needed for tem- 

 porary effect they are useful. 



17. Pin oaks. 



18. California privet hedge. 



In addition to the planting shown on 

 the plan Hall's honeysuckle is planted to 

 screen the front porc'h, except the circular 

 part, where three varieties of clematis 

 are planted. Ampelopsis Veitchii is 

 planted to cover all walls, which are ot 

 brick, and a Chinese wistaria is planted 

 at one corner of the house and trained up 

 a single wire and carried along the eaves 

 of the house. J. Wilkinson Elliott. 



Pittsburg, Pa. 



The Flower Garden. 



PROPflOflTlNO PLftNTS FROM CUTTINGS. 



So earlv as this striking plants from 

 cuttings should be done in the greenhouse 

 or windows; a hotbed is too damp, time 



