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GARDENING. 



May /, 



SARDENIM 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



241 



Treatment of old hyacinth bulbs 241 



The flower garden 242 



Arrangement of plants in beds 242 



Single hollyhocks 243 



Tractability of cannas 243 



Daffodils .^ 243 



trees and SHR013S. 



Japan weeping rose flowered cherry (illus.) . . 243 



Trees and shrubs lor the seaside 243 



Trees and shrubs ... 244 



Daphne odora hardy at Washington . . . . 244 

 Hardy trees and shrubs in bloom 244 



KOSES. 



Roses. . . 244 



Rose Belle Siebrecht (illus.) . ....... 245 



Roses— wood ashes— mildew 245 



Orchids 245 



the greenhouse. 



Heating a greenhouse (illus.) 246 



Window garden questions 2)6 



Volkanieria-CIerodendcn 246 



the fruit garden. 



The fruit garden 246 



My home garden 247 



Strawberries 247 



247 



Look out for bugs . . 218 



THE vegetable GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 249 



Second crop potatoes 249 



Potatoes 249 



Lettuces— okra 249 



yuestions about mushrooms . . 2i0 



Will tomatoes mix ... 2i0 



Growing bunch yams . . . 250 



miscellaneous. 

 Fungous diseases of ornamental plants . 252 



Musk melons and water melons 254 



Pears 254 



Watering newly planted trees.— 

 The earlier in the season trees are trans- 

 planted the less need there is of watering 

 them; but as the season gets late and the 

 weather warm and dry it is unsafe to 

 transplant trees without first wetting 

 their roots or watering them as soon as 

 they are planted. Deciduous trees and 

 shrubs can be handled with tolerable cer- 

 tainty, the later and drier the season is 

 when they are planted the harder we cut 

 in their tops. But we cannot very well do 

 this with evergreens. Instead, we sprinkle 

 them overhead with water twice a day 

 for a few days after planting, then once a 

 day till we are suretheplantshave "taken 

 to the soil." 



Is Hypericum Moserianum Hardy?— 

 At Dosoris we should say yes. Notwith- 

 standing the unusual severity ot the past 

 winter our plants, even those that were 

 not covered up or mulched, are alive and 

 starting to grow. But all have had their 

 tops killed back to the ground or mulch 

 line. 



Mammoth Verbenas —P. H. complains 

 that he cannot get a good strain from 

 the seed he buys, and asks where he can 

 get the best seed. We cannot tell. But 

 as the true mammoth verbena is a very 

 poor seeder, and it would take a great 

 deal of seed to supply the demand for it, 

 we don't think the genuine article is very 

 plentiful. 



Berried shrubs.- .\mong shrubs still 

 (April 24) retaining a good crop of last 

 3'ear's berries are Thunberg's barberry, 

 red; Ibota privet, black, and Japanese 

 creeping rose {Rosa Wichuraiana), dark 

 red or crimson. But the barberry now 

 taking on its coat of new leaves, and 

 studded all over with the brilliant berries 

 is very conspicuous. 



To GET good pansy SEED, takethefincst 

 varieties you havenowinbloom,lift them 

 carefully with good balls of earth and 

 plant them in some cool, moist, sheltered 

 place by themselves, and there let them 

 bloom and ripen seed. You may gather 

 the seed as it ripens or let it drop on the 

 ground, when it will come up itself next 

 July or August and give fine plants for 

 keeping over winter. In the everyday 

 pansy bed we are apt to pluck the finest 

 pansies to use as cut flowers, leaving the 

 indifferent ones onlv to go to seed. That 

 must deteriorate the strain. Selection 

 improves it. 



Improved Illustrations l\ Cata- 

 logues. — We are pleased to note that 

 some of our foremost nurserymen are 

 illustrating their catalogues in whole or 

 part with beautiful half-tone engravings 

 like what we use in Gardening. Such 

 pictures as a rule are engraved from pho- 

 tographs, and therefore are no exaggera- 

 tions at all, they are the plain truth. And 

 how much more natural and beautiful 

 the subject appears; a tyro can see it. 

 This inspires confidence. In the catalogue 

 of the Framingham (Mass.) Nursery 

 Company just to hand every illustration 

 is of this sort. Messrs. Ellwanger & 

 Barry, Pitcher & Manda, Wm. Tricker 

 and some others are also using half-tone 

 engravings. 



Catch that mole.— If there is a mole 

 in your garden, catch it and kill it, this is 

 the only way in which to get rid of it; 

 don't bother with "mole plants," castor 

 beans, or anything of that sort, but get a 

 couple of traps, and set them twice a day 

 till you get rid of every mole on or about 

 your place. Among the several traps we 

 have here and have seen at work else- 

 where the Reddick is far and away the best. 

 It is easy and safe to set, sensitive to the 

 touch, and sure death to the mole. The 

 prongs ot those first made were a little 

 too long, but in the ones now made this 

 has been remedied, and the trap now 

 stands perfection among mole traps. We 

 have six traps and not one mole on 

 Dosoris island. But every now and again 

 the moles come in, they cross the bridge 

 from the mainland or come in in loam 

 carted in from outside fields. 



Globe Artichokes.— One of our sub- 

 scribers who is a commercial gardener 

 had an order for some globe artichokes 

 the other day, but he didn't grow them 

 himself and he didn't know where he 



could get them, and he grieved over hav- 

 ing to disappoint his customer. When 

 Gardening (.Vpril 15) arrived and he was 

 examining it he came to "artichokes," 

 and his heart was gad, and he exclaimed 

 "Dosoris, to be sure, I'll get them there," 

 and off to it he sends, and by return, with 

 our compliments and delighted to let him 

 have them, he got all he wanted. This is 

 simply one case in po nt showing the con- 

 fidence of our readers in our notes; those 

 who know Dosoris know that these notes 

 are the voice of actual practical experi- 

 ence in the field, and never the scurrying 

 of the imagination nor fudge from books, 

 catalogues or other writings. But while 

 much is grown nothing is sold at Dosoris 



Bermuda Lilies.— In answer to J. C. 

 A.: Don't worry. If we nevergot another 

 bulb from Bermuda there wouldn't be a 

 lily famine. But so long as the Bermuda 

 people grow good bulbs and sell them to 

 us for less money than we can buy them 

 anywhere else, so long we shall continue 

 to patronize them. If California, Caro- 

 lina, the Levant or any other place goes 

 into the lily growing business and pro- 

 duces a better and cheaper article than we 

 now get of course it will get the trade 

 now monopolized by Bermuda. Claiming 

 to be able to do it isn't everything, why 

 don't they go ahead and do it? We be- 

 lieve in works. "Lily trust!" If rival 

 concerns, those "in" and those "not in," 

 influenced by business jealousy, raise a 

 tempest in a teapot, what need we care? 

 Let them pick their o au chestnuts out of 

 the fire. True, they have got the lily dis- 

 ease in Bermuda, and we have got it 

 here, and we don't know of anyplace else 

 where they haven't gotit. "Should Con- 

 gress pass a law prohibiting the impor- 

 tation of Harrisii bulbs from Bermuda 

 into this country?" We don't see why it 

 should. 



Insects. 



LOOK OUT FOR BUGS. 



In nian\- orchards and some gardens it 

 would seem that bugs are much the most 

 successful crop; and what remedy is there 

 except early, active and repeated washing 

 and spraying? A knapsack sprayer 

 answers very well to scatter the insecti- 

 cides in grounds of moderate size. For 

 somewhat large ones a half-barrel size on 

 a wheelbarrow answers well, especially 

 for currants and gooseberries, as well as 

 for potatoes. But on any considerable 

 scale a standard sprayer is essential. 



Let me call attention strongly to the 

 importance of going over all fruit trees 

 and destroying all cocoons of hibernat- 

 ing grubs a tach d to the branches. It 

 saves much trouble and injury, later on. 

 These cocoons are easily seen before the 

 leaves come out. Afterwards, you will 

 have difficulty in detecting the worm until 

 his ravages have been far too extensive. 



There are a number of small insects, 

 mostly scale insects, which can only be 

 fought during the few days after hatching 

 while they are spreading themselves over 

 the new growth. Pretty strong soap suds, 

 rubbed on with a swab, will kill most of 

 these; but be careful not to kill the "lady 

 bugs" which feed upon them, and yet are 

 often mistaken for the injurious class. 

 Washing with soap-suds, applied with a 

 cloth and moderate rubbing to the limbs, 

 will destroy not only insects, but also the 

 parasitic mosses which supply hiding 

 places for insects. T. H. H. 



Newport, Vt. 



