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DWARF PEAR TREE 



used. But bear in mind the small shift is 

 always the sate one. If a plant is slow- 

 growing like a daphne, or ip delicate 

 health, or rather poorly rooted be sure 

 you don"t overpot it. Vigorous grow- 

 ers and gross feeders as callas, marguer- 

 ites, cinerarias, stevias. chrvsanthemutns 

 and so on, if in good condition, may get 

 a two sizes larger shift, that is from a 

 4-inch to a 6-inch pot. But there is no 

 rigid rule. 



the two wires and make a trellis to train 

 the lopezia on. W'm. Fitz\villi.\m. 



Orange, N.J. 



Copper colored crist 

 .\. M. D.— Please send us 

 on which it is growing. 



DN POTS. Mrs. 

 bit of the pot 



Aquatics. 



LOFEZIfl CORONflTfl. 



This is a perpetual blooming, s^lender, 

 buthushy and vigorous little plant from 

 Mexico, that is very useful for hanging 

 baskets, window bo.xes and brackets, as 

 well as for window or greenhouse pot 

 plants. Its flowers are small, rose purple, 

 exceedingly numerous and produced 

 abundantly in winter, but are of no use 

 for cutting. In form the blooms looks 

 like a motquilo, hence it is commonly 

 called "mosquito plant." [By right of 

 priority that name belongs to Vincetoxi- 

 cum acuminatum, a hardy herbaceous 

 perennial from Japan. — Ed.] We raise 

 fresh plants from cuttings every year; for 

 furnishing baskets and window boxes in 

 spring we strike the cuttings in January. 

 For pot plants for next winter's bloom- 

 ing we root the cuttings in March, pot 

 them and keep shifting them into larger 

 pots as they require it till a 7 inch size is 

 reached, which is big enough for them to 

 bloom in. In summer we plunge the pots 

 in a bed of coal ashts, taking care toturn 

 the pot occasionally to break the roots 

 that may be pushing through the hole 

 into the ground beneath. Keep it pinched 

 back during summer, then take a piece of 

 stout wire four feet long, and double it 

 like an inverted U, put this in the pot 

 over the plant, and with fine wire or 

 string run back and forth across between 



GOOD TENDER WATER LILIES. 



.\mong tender water lilies Nympbiva 

 Devoniensis is a very free bloomer, so is 

 .V. dentata. but I find dentata wants 

 more room to do well, and Zanzibarensis 

 rosea and azurea are very free blooming 

 and do well in tubs, .\11 of these varieties 

 are in bloom here every week in the sum- 

 mer. Nymphxa Mexicana is a verv rich 

 yellow and a free bloomer if confined; it 

 must be root bound to get the best results 

 in flowers. I have a new seedling from 

 Washington, a light pink night bloomer, 

 that is doing fine. By the way the tender 

 lilies must not be put out until i he last 

 week in May, and if they are strong 

 growing bulbs the first week in June is 

 good time. Joh.n McElverv. 



Flatlnish. L. I. 



The Fruit Garden. 



DWARF FEAR TREES. 

 While standard pear trees bear the 



of fruit dv 



u-eful for small gardens and to plant in 

 borders in large ones. Our experience 

 with dwarf pear trees has been so favor- 

 able that we have no hesitation in recom- 



mending them to our readers. Our illus- 

 tration, which is engraved from a photo- 

 graph taken at Dosoris early last Octo- 

 ber, shows a dwarf tree of Bosc (Beurre 

 Rose) in full fi-uit. We would havepicked 

 the fruit beforethenhad thephotographer 

 got here sooner to take the [)ielure, so a 

 good many of the pears had fallen off 

 liefore that time; enough are left, how- 

 i \ cr, to show what a dwarf tree can do. 



Pear trees love good ground, if a little 

 inclined to clayey so much the better, but 

 any fair garden soil will suit them. This 

 .•i|)plies to both standards and d wharfs. 

 I lon't consider that dwarfing a tree is an 

 excuse for crowding a lot of them into a 

 NHiall space, for overcrowding is very in- 

 jurious to them. Nine or ten feet apart is 

 elose enough to set them. 



We can not do better than repeat the 

 ^election we gave May 1 last, page 277, 

 ii.imele, Margaret, Gift'ard, Clapp's Fay- 

 iirite, 'Bartlett, Seckel, Hardy, Sheldon, 

 llosc, Anjou. All are Al pears and do 

 well as dwarfs. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The "Biggie Berry Book" published by 

 the Farm Journal, Philadelphia, is some- 

 thing like that paper itself— a symposium 

 of condensed facts. As regards straw- 

 berries it give the following "brief analy- 

 sis of varieties." 



L.iRGE FRUITED VARIETIES.— Sharplcss, 



• ".reenville, Belmont, Saunders, Crawford, 

 Edgar Queen, Bubach, Jucunda Im- 

 proved, Gandy, Leader, Jessie, Brandy- 

 wine, Felton, Mary, Iowa Beauty and 

 Wm. Belt. 



Early.— Leader, Beder Wood, Crescent, 

 Michel's Early, Meek's Early, Dayton and 

 Haverland. 



Late.— Gandy, Eureka, Glendale. Par- 

 ker Earle, Windsor, Equinox and Tira- 

 brell. 



Flne quality.— Pearl, Banquet, Cum- 

 berland, Crawford, Belmont, Dayton, 

 Meek's Early and Iowa Beauty. 



For Market.— Pearl, Gandy, Haver- 

 land, Saunders, Bubach, Crescent, Green- 

 ville, Parker Earle, Warfield, Leader, 

 Muskingum, Lovett and 1 



Pear trees cost morethan apple trees, 

 hence, says one of our western readers, 

 the pear tree is a comparatively neglected 

 fruit. He cries give us more pears, plant 

 more pear trees. Pear trees commence 

 bearing earlier than do apple trees, and 

 they have no oft' year; they bear full even,- 

 year. The pear is a delightful fruit, and 

 with a few trees of different sorts we can 

 have pears on our table every day in the 

 vear from Julv till Christmas, beginning 

 with Dovenne' d'Ete and finishing with 

 Anjou, or with a little pains prolong the 

 supply with other varieties. 



The Keiffer pear tree in Iowa.— .\ 

 reader in Iowa writes us that he planted 

 a Keifi'er in 188G, and it is now 20 feet 

 high with a stem G inches in diameter, 

 and it bears lots of fruit. It began Iiear- 

 ing the third year after being planted, and 

 the tree is both ornamental and healthy 

 and quite hardy. 



Cut blooms of the new rose Mrs. Pier- 

 pont Morgan were sent from New Jersey 

 to England last month and exhibited 

 before the Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London. Considering their trans-Atlaiitic 

 vovage the roses were in good condition 

 and retained their tea fragrance to a 

 remarkable degree. They were awarded 

 a first-class certificate. 



