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GARDENING. 



Mai 



William Falconer, Editor. 



[ OF EACH Mont 



THE GARDENING COMPANY, 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. 



Professor Henslow saysthere are one 

 hundred and twenty plants mentioned in 

 the Bible. 



The Dwarf Campanula (Patvcodon) 

 GRANDiFLORA. — European papers have 

 had something to say about the piimila 

 variety, which is represented as growing 

 9 to 12 inches high and bearing flowers 

 in size and color just like the type. Well, 

 isn't it the Mariesi that we have been 

 growing in our gardens for years? Easily 

 raised Ironi seed. 



subscription Pf,f«;,^^°^ »Jfp''„7,^t'}J^''«"- ■*"'■«'- OlD DEAD MOSS IN ORCHID POTS.— Fresll, 



Entered at Chicago postolHce as second-class matter. green, clean picked sphagnum moss is 



Copsxight, iSH, by Th e Gardening Co. sweet and orchid roots take to it kindly; 



All communications relating to subscriptions, adver- as soon as it dies and begins to decay, 



tisements and other business matters should be Iinwpvpr it <;niir'5 ^nd nrrllid roots Jivoid 



addressed to The Gardening Company. Monon Build- "°^ -rWl ,1 ^ orcniQ roois a\ oio 



Ing. Chicago, and all matters pertaining to the editorial it, or, if it be kept wet, often rot m it. In 



fe^ofG^RDE^^iS-o': GllXveVr''"''"' '^ "" looking over your orchids in repotting 



them trv and get rid of as much of this 



intoSt.^andTtbeh°oOTe8"yo'u,''on"S^^^ old. sour, rotten moss as you can with- 



Interesting. If It does not exactly suit your case. out injuring the roots, and replace with 



please write and tell us what you want. It Is our ^ , ■ ° .- ^ ' 



desire to help you. fresh moss or tern root. 



ASK ANV QUESTIOXS you please about plants, 



flowers, fruits, vegetables or other practical gardening The WINTER IN THE SOt'TH. — Mr. 



matters. We wllT take pleasure In answering them gtewart, who has been in the nursery 



SE.vi) US Notes of your experience In gardening In,. .-.^ i-r r ^ 



any line; tell us of your successes that others may be business at Memphis for over forty years 



Mr^a^^ecaSlielpTo™^""' '""^ °* ^""'' "'"'"'''^' writes us: "I do not recollect that in 



SEND us PHOTOGRAPHS OR SKETCHES of your thcSC pHTtS, WC CVCT had SUch a SCVerC 



flowers, gardens, greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or winter as this is, vet its coming so season- 



^°a'^edforG'A^^EN?N-c'''""'°'''' ''"''''""'""■ ably, that is while plants are in their 



- most dormant state, has saved our trees, 



CONTENTS. shrubs and roses. So far, February 5 



TREES AND SHRUBS. out tig ttccs, fragrant olive. Magnolia 



Picea excelsa var. elata (illus.) 177 fuscata, tea roses, and other coinpara- 



Shra^sfor 'malf "''°''''.*° ^""'' ^.\' ! .' .' ! .' . 178 ^I'-'^^i' tf".der plants, don't show the least 



Finer holly trees ........... 178 sign of injury from the weather." 



Evergreen's for windbreak 178 



Pruning an arbor-vitae hedge 178 "Our Field OF AsTERS" in Cannell & 



Ei'calypTiLllobulus ^■ ! l ! l '. ] i i l : : l Its Sons' (of England) catalogue shows a 



A book about shrubs ... 178 field of China asters in tine bloom and 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. growu in loiig widc-aoart driils as wc do 



f^luc^suiS.lr^ho'iise .' : l [ y. . ] ] .m 't m AmericI; the house and barns too 



Vines for summer house . . . ! ' ' ! ' ' 180 are American, ave, and the whole picture 



The twelve best cannas 180 has a familiar look. Henry Cannell, you 



Bolton°raudlavatera ''.'.'.' '.'y.: W m 1^"°^ that isn't "our (your) field" of 



Cannas got frozen ' " ..'.'.'.'.'.'. 181 asters" at all, but an American picture, 



Propagate bedding plants now 181 jroin an old American catalogue, and 



wfnU?U^n''drS™ng .• ! ! . ' ! ! Ill showing an American field of China 



Bulb beds '.''.'...'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 181 asters. Next time when you use that cut 



„ ,-.., J"" GREENHOUSE. bc Candid enough to skv "A field of 



R%ou"u|a^/a"eaT^^.-.- ' ' : I I I [ '. \ I [ [Z '-^^ters" and not "0«r field of asters." 



The greenhouse ... - 182 



. ROSES. A PiGMV Sweet Pea — Among the 



orcing "^^^ J°^°.J^^^'IJ^jj™j^j.j;g novelties promised us for next year is a 



Chr>santhemums for amateurs . 182 ver\' dwarf sweet pea tO be named Cupid 



„ .. , . AQUATICS. It may be seen this coming summer grow- 



Egypt.an lolus^as_^a^tub plant_^^^^ 183 ;„„ ^^ Fordhook Farm, Pa , at Indian 



Select apples and pears for Long Island .. . 183 Orchard, Mass., in Mr. \V. T. Hutchin's 



A dozen choice apples 183 garden, and at Santa Clara, California, 



TheBous.oc^k^pear(,llusj^^^^^^^^ 183 «„ ^^e farm of Mr. C. C. Morse. The 



Musk melons (illus.) 18d introducers say of it: "This wonder 



Hotbeds 185 among flowers is ' * ' areallv dwarf 



Catalogues. . "'^^'^^'-^^'^o'^^; ^^^ sweet pea that grows but five inches high 



Gauze wire pots ....... ....... 1S8 and blooms so freely for months that it 



appears a perfect mass of white, the leaves 



\s Unfortunate Mistake. — Some being quite hidden from view. The flow- 

 weeks ago we sent two front page pict- ers, of fine form and large size, are of the 

 ures to Chicago; one. Parsons' elata most perfect white, and the plants remain 

 spruce, was meant for our issue of Feb- in full bloom two inonthslonger than any 

 ruary 15; the other, the pendulous form other sweet pea." 

 of the European silver fir, to be used 



March 1. By some unfortunate oversight Overdoing Gardeni.\g.— "I went to 



the jirintcrchanged theillustrationswith- stay at a very grand and beautiful place 



out also changing the text accompanying in the country where the grounds are said 



them. This is exceedingly mortifying to to belaid out with consummate taste, 



us. If our readers will please erase the For the first three or four days I was 



name Parsons' elata spruce, from the enchanted. It seemed so much better than 



front page picture in last issue, page 161, nature, that I began to wish the earth 



and wrjte instead "Pendulous European had been laid out according to the 



Silver Fir (/l/;/c.s pect/nata var. penc/r;/a)" latest principles of improvement. In 



for text see page 178, and on the next three day's time I was tired to death; a 



jjage (162), beside the heading "The thistle, a heap of dead bushes, anything 



lillata Norway Spruce" write "for illus- that wore the ap])earance of accident and 



tration sec page 177," that is the front want of intention was (piite a relief. I 



jiage of this issue, the matter will be made used to escape from the made grounds 



])Iaiii in case of any reference to it in and walk upon the adjacent goose coni- 



I'liture. nion, where the cart ruts, gravel pits. 



bumps, coarse ungentleman-like grass 

 and all the varieties produced by neglect 

 were a thousand times more gratifying." 

 —Sydney Smith.. 



Named Hollvhocks and the Disease. 

 — In Europe the finer varieties of holly- 

 hock are named and propagated from 

 slips or stem sprout cuttings; in this 

 country we seldom bother raising holly- 

 hocks in that way, we content ourselves 

 with getting them from seed. There is 

 a general impression that seedlings are 

 less liable to be attacked by the hollyhock 

 disease than are plants raised from cut- 

 tings. A successful grower of these plants 

 states, in the Journal of Horticulture, "in 

 my experience the named sorts withstand 

 the attacks of disease in exactly the same 

 degree that seedlings do; if the fungus 

 comes in contact with either they will 

 take the contagion, if not they will keep 

 clean." 



Our answers to ouestions are candid, 

 the voice of actual experience, and the 

 plain practical truth; there is no guessing 

 at or evading a point. And it is very 

 gratifj'ing to'us to know that our readers 

 appreciate them. The following from H. 

 R. G., Dayton, Ohio, is onh- one among 

 the many pleasant notes we get from our 

 readers: "Please accept my thanks for 

 the very satisfactory reply to my letter 

 on rhododendrons in your last number of 

 Gardening, it has been greatly enjoyed 

 by all your subscribers of my acquaint- 

 ance in our cit\-. I was so struck with 

 the plant while abroad that I made up 

 my mind to try a bed at home. I think 

 that the matter of lime in soil can be 

 overcome by the bed being properly pre- 

 pared. Again thanking you for your 

 valuable information I am. etc." 



New Orleans after the Freeze.— 

 "Alas, for the city of palms," writes Mr. 

 C. R. Panter, "Jack Frost brought his 

 mantle of snow and spread it over us, 

 then breathed 15° of his blizzard breath 

 upon us. In consequence, the mighty 

 specimens of Phanixreclinata, P.Caaari- 

 ensis and others of the genus are lying 

 low. Corypha australis looks as if a fire 

 had been built under it, and it is very 

 doubtful, if there is anylife left in it. The 

 magnificent specimens of Wasliingtonia 

 rohusta and iilifera are a thing of the 

 past. All the Livistona Chinensis are I 

 think killed, and about all the palms we 

 have left are Cocos australisand Chamw- 

 rops ftum/y/s. Bedding plants in the gardens 

 have nearly all been kilkd but this is a 

 small loss we soon can replace. The rose 

 bushes have suffered a little but the injury 

 to their tops is fully compensated by the 

 rest it will give to their roots. Hearing 

 so much about the orange trees being 

 destroyed I asked a few of the orange 

 growers down here about it. but they are 

 not ready to admit that their trees will 



Cockroaches. — The big brovv-n fellows 

 that inlest greenhouses should be killed, 

 for now that the orchids are beginning to 

 ]5usli out fresh roots, the roaches are apt 

 to bite the points off of them. The 

 roaches are easily destroyed, however. 

 Take a little sweet cake and break it into 

 small crumbs, then sprinkle it all over 

 with Paris green and lay this where they 

 can get it, say on a shallow tray under 

 the hot water pipes near the boiler, for 

 they congregate most there. Midnight is 

 their (biaging time. They will also eat 

 jjoisinicd brown sugar. Trying to kill 

 llicni by dusting an_y kind of pyretlirum 

 or insect powder into their haunts is all 



