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GARDENING. 



Feb. /, 



eMDENIMS 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Aden Cove church (illus.) H5 



To protect the lake shore bluff 146 



Gardening possibilities of a 50 fl. lot (with plan) 146 



Propagating plants from cuttings 146 



Raising plants from seed 148 



Flower garden questions 148 



Lilies in pots for summer use 149 



When to order plants 149 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



The Japanese Benthamia (illus.) 149 



Trees 150 



Pruning an arbor-\'it£e hedge 150 



Evergreen windbreak-Chestnut trees 1.50 



The finest holly tree 150 



Cattleyas (illus) , . " 150 



Greenhouse and vitndow. 



Azaleas ■ • ■ 151 



The greenhouse 151 



Not a hoya , . 152 



Canna leaves diseased 152 



Rubber plant is sick 152 



Linum trigynum 152 



Begonia 152 



roses. 



Blind wood on roses 152 



Rose Mrs. Pierpont Morgan (illus.) 162 



AQUATICS. 



Three water lilies for tubs 152 



THE vegetable GARDEN. 



bed. 



The vegetable garden . . 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Books on mushrooms ... 



152 



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Another New Gardening Paper?— It 

 is rumored that Mr. Van Deman, late of 

 the U. S. Agricultural Department, is con- 

 templating starting a new horticultural 

 magazine. We are sorry to hear it, for 

 we like Mr. Van Deman and appreciate 

 his pomological knowledge. If he does, 

 lio" ever, he shall have our friendship and 

 good will. 



Mrs. Ei,ias A. Long.— It will be with 

 genuine regret that many and many a 

 horticulturist will read of the death ot 

 .Mrs. Long of LaSalle, near Buffalo. Her 

 husband was the editor of Popular Gar- 

 ilening. They had a beautiful country 

 liome, filled and planted as an extensive 

 experiment garden. But the happiest 

 nicmor\' we have of the place is the kind, 

 and motherly, and hospitable lady who 

 has gone before us. We extend our warm- 

 est sympathies to her husband and 

 amily. 



How OUR advertisers do business.— 

 It is just as pleasing to the editor of this 

 journal as it must be to the business man- 

 ager to know that our advertisers give 

 our subscribers perfect satisfaction. Under 

 date of January 17 one of our readers 

 writes us: "I owe Gardening a debt of 

 gratitude for introducing me through its 



advertising columns to . He 



filled quite a large order— for an arnateur 

 of limited means— for me and a friend of 

 mine, and so far everything has been very 

 satisfactory. It usually happens when 

 prices are reasonable one not only buys 

 more but spends more, you have a sense 

 you are getting the worth of your money, 

 "and that makes you feel like getting all 

 you can of a good thing. I i hank you 

 also for your very kind replies to my 

 queries." 



Nursery agents are usually called tree 

 peddlers. We can not join in the general 

 hue and cry raised against these men. 

 Some are bad and will lie like all pos- 

 sessed, but others are honest in their rep- 

 resentations and dea;lings. Thoroughly 

 trustworthy nurseries won't allow their 

 agents to misrepresent their trees and 

 other stock, any more than our first- 

 class dry goods' stores will allow their 

 salesmeti to misrepresent their wares. 

 But as many of our readers may have so 

 little to do with nurseries as to be unable 

 to tell which are the worthy and which 

 the unworthy concerns we will try to 

 advise them in a general way. The gar- 

 den business is divided up into s veral 

 branches, such as seeds, florists' flowers 

 or greenhouse plants, aquatics, hardy 

 perennials, roses, fruit trees and small 

 fruits, and trees and shrubs; and there are 

 several large firms that deal in all of these 

 things. The best of these firms advertise 

 ill Gardening. The shady concerns and 

 those who employ unprincipled lying 

 agents don't like our looks, they prefer a 

 class of people more easily humbugged 

 and swindled than are the readers of this 

 journal. Now. if you want anything in 

 the nursery line write direct to the nur- 

 seryman for it; don't buy it of any agent. 

 You will be booked as a private customer 

 and get the best stock in the field A.t 

 Dosoris we do this— send directly to the 

 nurseries for what we want. But first 

 send to the nurserymen for their cata- 

 logues and see what they have got. 



Sweet Scented Flowers and Fra- 

 grant Leaves, by Donald McDonald, 

 with introduction by William Robinson, 

 is the name of a dainty volume of some 

 two hundred pages, that comes to us 

 from Sampson Low, Mai'ston & Co., 

 London. The publisher's name is a guar- 

 antee that the liook is good. Mr. Robin- 

 son's name insures its excellence, and the 

 author has hmdled the subject in a com- 

 prehensive, systematic and delightful 

 way. It is a symposium of prose and 

 poetry and specific accuracy. The 

 author's literary scope, elegant diction, 

 facile and expressive pen, and charming 

 familiarity with the plants of all countries 

 win our confidence at the beginning, and 

 we wade through its pages with unceas- 

 ing pleasure. Some fifty pages are de- 

 voted to an historical sketch of the fra- 

 grance of flowers, and over one hundred 

 and thirty pages to an alphabetically ar- 

 ranged list of popular plants with brief 

 descriptions of them and information 

 about the fragrance of their flowers or 

 the odors of their leaves and the usesthey 

 serve. The most popular plants, for in- 

 stance narcissus, iris, lilies, carnations, 

 violets, primroses, and the like, receive 

 particular attention, the article on roses 

 is extra good, and even orchids come in 



for considerablenotice. Trees and shrubs 

 are also included. In the case of tulips, 

 begonias, phloxes and many other genera 

 not generally characterized for fragrance, 

 we are told what are the- fragrant species 

 among them, and in the case of the rose 

 whose name is almost synonymous with 

 fragrance, several varieties are specified 

 as having no fragrance. In some cases, 

 for instance Datura, Habrothamnus and 

 CJerodendron, when the plants have fra- 

 grant blossoms but malodorous foliage 

 we wish the author had been more em- 

 phatic in his denunciation of the latter. 

 And we believe if the gems of history, 

 odors and other interesting points were 

 indexed the book would be greatly im- 

 proved. It al.so contains sixteen colored 

 plates— of daphne, lily of the valley, 

 mignonette, sweet sultan, etc. 



Flower Gardening in the Chicago 

 Parks.- On the front page of Gardening, 

 December 1, '94, we gave an illustration 

 of some flower bed designs in South Park, 

 Chicago. The article accompanying it 

 told how the thing was done — the designs 

 made, filled, and tended, etc. It was one 

 of the most matter-of-fact, instructive 

 and pointed articles of the kind ever 

 written. We instructed our correspondent 

 to give us the naked facts only,andavoid 

 any comment on the merits or demerits 

 of the design, or the good or evil of that 

 style of gardening. This was because 

 when we visited the Chicago parks we 

 were informed that to see that sort of 

 thing brought thousands and thousands 

 of a certain class of people out into the 

 parks on Sundays who could not be in- 

 duced by any system of mild gardening 

 to exchange the glare of the saloon or the 

 sweltering atmosphere of the crowded 

 tenement for the refining influence, quiet 

 repose and fresh air of the open parks. It 

 requires heroic features to bring such peo- 

 ple out, and these startling beds occupy 

 only a little nook among the hundreds of 

 acres of gardened grounds where the mul- 

 titude can spread itself, play and picnic. 

 The outing does them good" and makes 

 them better citizens. They bring their 

 wives and children, and friends and vis- 

 itors out with them; and they wash up 

 and dress up to come out, and they be- 

 have themselves. Our friends in England 

 didn't view it in that light, however, and 

 the London Garden has gone for us with 

 hammer and tongs. We read in it: 



"We see in Mr. Falconer's very pretty 

 little paper, Gardening, published in 

 Chicago, a horrible example of carpet 

 gardening, in which large vases, bandaged 

 over with black and white lines, are made 

 to spring up from the ground, and in the 

 middle of all a fearful representation of 

 the globe, belted round with dark lines. 

 * * This is the sort of thing that makes 

 flower gardening ridiculous in the eyes of 

 all educated and artistic people. No 

 human being could find so ugly a thing 

 to draw among natural and artistic 

 things, and the utmost that can be said 

 for such rubbish is, that it may go along 

 with the minor work of the so-called dec- 

 orative artist, wall paper men, pastry 

 cooks, and other folk who call themselves 

 artists while doing mostly ugly things. 

 We regret to see public gardening in 

 America, where there have been such 

 good gardens and parks made by Mr. 

 Olmsted, degraded by a wholly needless 

 and inartistic mode of setting out plants, 

 unnatural and contemptible in every 

 wav." 



When you write to any of the advertis- 

 ers in this paper please say that you saw 

 the advertisement in Gardening. 



