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GARDENING. 



April 75, 



i3ELF-BLANCHING AND OTHER CELERY. — 



K. H., Seattle, Wash., disapproves of the 

 general cultivation of sel f-blanching celery 

 of any kind because of its inferior flavor 

 compared with that of Sandringhara, 

 Dwarf White and other nutty sorts. The 

 self-blanching kinds because of the little 

 trouble needed in growingthem have been 

 largely cultivated during the past ten 

 years, but Mr. H. insists that people who 

 used to buy a half dozen heads of the nutty 

 flavored kinds to put on the table to eat 

 now content themselves with a couole of 

 heads of the self-blanched sorts more as a 

 table decoration than as an article of 

 food. 



The Vaughan Potato.— We spent a few 

 weeks last August on a farm at Kittle- 

 hill, Arkville, in the Catskills, and had 

 Vaughan potatoes every day at dinner. 

 They were grown on the farm and dug 

 each day as required for use. Boiled and 

 served whole or mashed they were, with- 

 out any exception, the best eating pota- 

 toes I have tasted in many a year— they 

 were so dry and mealy. New potatoes 

 generally don't mash well, they are too 

 pasty, but these Vaughanswere drv from 

 the first. J. G. F. 



Miscellaneous. 



STARTING IN TAB SEED BUSINESS. 



An Ohio subscriber writes: "I am 

 about starting in the seed business, gro n - 

 ing certain kinds of farm, vegetable and 

 flower seeds as specialties, and shall issue 

 a small, unassuming but tasty catalogue, 

 and sell direct to the consumers. I wish 

 to make specialties of asters, poppies, 

 morning glories, nasturtiums, coreopsis, 

 I hummond phlox, sweet peas and cosmos; 

 the last two I will have grown in Cali- 

 fornia by specialists. While I have had 

 considerable experience as an amateur in 

 growing these seeds I have had none in 

 marketing them, and come to you for 

 advice." 



Be careful. Don't build any castles in 

 the air. The road to success is long, 

 weary, rough and rocky. There are three 

 ways of dealing with flower seeds; first, 

 growing on contract for seedsmen; sec- 

 ondly, growing a few specialties in whole- 

 sale quantity and selling to the seedsmen; 

 and thirdly, dealing as you propose 

 directly with the consumers. This last 

 is the only one we shall now consider: 



Handle popular seeds only. Make up 

 your mind now about how liiuch of a list 

 you intend to catalogue. As you your- 

 self can not grow all the varieties neces- 

 sary even in a very modest list, note those 

 you can grow, and make arrangements 

 with some other Al seed firm to supply 

 you with the balance, it to be the freshest 

 and finest seed obtainable. Don't have 

 sweet peas, cosmos or anything else 

 grown in California or elsewhere specially 

 for you to begin with; you can buy the 

 same thing from other houses just as 

 good as you could have it grown for 

 yourself, and, probably, for less money. 

 (Set up a nice catalogue, using good (but 

 not fancy ) paper and have it nicely 

 printed. In describing the flowers tell 

 the candid truth about them, and exclude 

 everything that you can not say well of 

 Illustrations speak louder than words, 

 but original engravings mean great ex- 

 ])(.nse; if you have to use "stock" cuts 

 choose truthful ones only. There arc sev- 

 eral printers who make a specialty of 

 horticultural catalogues, keeping "cuts" 

 in stock; as a rule they do such work 

 [concluded on page 238.] 



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Subscribers to GARDENING 



who have not received a copj of our Catalogue, and will inform us 

 of the fact, enclosinj? four cents in stamps for one=half the postage, 

 will receive a copy postpaid. 



THE CALIFORNIA. 



Mammoth New Violet. Floral 



Wonder of the Century. Blooms 

 cover a silver dollar; stems 12 to 14 in. 

 long; color deep violet-purple(does not 

 fade); fragrance intense; several hundred 

 flowers from a single plant; blooms dur- 

 ing seven months in the year. 

 :e, 2SC. each; $2.50 per dozen; $15 per 100. 



CULTURE. 



"The California Violet" is hardy 

 and should be grown exactly the same 

 as Marie Louise or other Violets, either 

 in cold frames or violet houses; or, if 

 planted in the open ground will bloom 

 in the early fall and spring 



Pitcher & Manda, <•" > Short Hills, N. J. 



THREE $ 



CRIMSON 



RAHBLERS 



or ONE DOLLAR we will sriid bv mail, postpaid, llirce plants of 

 CRIMSON RAMBLER ROSE, the best and most remarkable 

 x novelly of recent yea'S, for verandas, pillar, walls, etc. 300 

 3ms on a single shoot. Everybody should have it. 



ELLWANGER & BARRY, 



lount Hope Nurseries, ROCHESTER, N. V. 



■■Uetelve'l < rliiisi.ii Hamblers. Tliey arrived in most beautiful order, 

 o^slble til be better. . San Anselmo, Cal." 



HOW TO GROW 



Pine=Apples. 



One of the most profitable industries. Send 

 10 cts. in stamps lor pamphlet giving full 

 particulars 



JOHN ASPINWALL, Eau Gallie. Fla. 



t and supervision requ 



best of recommendations. 



.U2, Little Falls. New Jo 



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ANTED-A good 

 and outside; must be of Kood character and 

 . smart. Interested In his business, and with some 

 I about him; wa^es $6U a month 



or other perquisites; 



personal Interview ri 



F P, Gardening Office, Glen Cove. L. I.. N. Y, 



of my place on Long Island ; 



onlh.wlthh( 

 wife could 



to take charge 



garden ; wages $oU 

 vegetables, etc.; 

 which would be «H 



When you write an 

 advertiser please state 

 that you saw the adv. 

 in Gardening. 



ORCHIDS , m 



12 Best free srowing and profuse flow- 

 ering Orchids for amateurs, for |10.00. 

 Wn. MATHEWS, Utica, N. Y. 



ORNAHENTAL TREES 

 and SHRUBS . . . 



Specimen Plants for Lawns and Cem- 

 eteries. Send for Catalogue. 

 SAHUEL C. MOON, 



• • Morrisville, Bucks Co., Pa. 



Native Ornamentals. 



Specially adapted to cemetery work, covering 

 screens and large massing at low cost. Free whole- 

 sale list of collected and Seedling Trees, Shrubs. 

 F^tunts and Cuttings. Large planters and nursery- 

 men wupplkni. (ioixl plants. Low prices. 



WM. H. HARRISON & SONS, 



LEBANON SPRINGS, N. V., U. S. A 



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