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GARDENING. 



May /J, 



6«DENIM6 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Japanese crab-apple in bloom (illus.) 257 



A hedge by the seaside . 258 



Box hedge- Roses— Book on flower garden 258 

 A few desirable shrubs for Florida 2.58 



Hardy flowers (illus.) 258 



Lilies lor Che garden 258 



Ampelopsis Veitchii— Clematis 260 



Ahardycactus 260 



The tree morning glory 260 



roses. 

 Climbing roses for New Jersey 280 



Plan for grounds of twenty acres (illus.) . . 260 



THE greenhouse. 



questions about greenhouse plants 260 



Summer treatment of winter flowering plants 262 



Orchids '.' 262 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The Japanese wineberry (illus.) 262 



Spraying fruit trees ■ ■ • 263 



INSECTS. 



\ bad scale on currant bushes 263 



The currant aphis 263 



1,00k out for bugs 263 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 265, 266, 268 



The Sixth Annual Report of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden has just been 

 received. It is a nicely bound volume 

 9' 2X6V2 inches, 134 pa^es, and 56 page 

 plates of botanical subjects, and several 

 jiage pictures of views in the greenhouses 

 or outdoor garden. The scientific papers 

 contained in it are: Revision of the North 

 American species of Sagittaria and Lo- 

 photocarpus, LeitneriaFloridana; Studies 

 in the dissemination and leaf reflexion of 

 Yucca aloifolia and other species; Notes 

 and observations on new and little known 

 species; and Notes on the Mound Flora of 

 Atchison County, Missouri. These Re- 

 ports are welcome and interesting vol- 

 umes that we are always glad to get, and 

 Director Trelease deserves much credit for 

 the original research and scientific inform- 

 ation given in them. 



Turnips. — Thin out those already sown 

 to 2 to 4 inches apart in the row. And 

 when it is time to hoe one sowing it is 

 time to put in another. At this time of 

 year we should sow a little and often if 

 we are working ior sweet solid juicy 

 roots; when a little old thev get bitter 

 and toggy. 



The "Daughtrev" Begonla is spoken 

 of in a southern contemporary as "quite 

 an acquisition to any greenhouse or 

 private collection," and we are told that 

 "it has not yet been catalogued." Come, 

 come now, the thing has been grown and 

 catalogued for years under its proper 

 name, that of Paul Bruant. We have 

 them, from original sources, growing side 

 by side. 



Out in the Woods we now find any 

 quantity of hepatica, adder's tongue, rue 

 and common anemones, spring beauty, 

 trilliums of several kinds, columbine, 

 white, blue and yellow violets, star flow- 

 ers, bellwort (I'vularia), bunch berry 

 and other pretty little wild flowers. If 

 these grow so nicely in the wood and add 

 so great a charm to it we should try to 

 naturalize them in our home grounds. All 

 are very amenable to garden cultivation. 

 If we have no wood to spread them into, 

 a rockery or fernery in a slightly shaded 

 spot would make an excellent home for 

 them. 



Child's "Rain-maker" Nozzle is 

 something that we hail with delight. The 

 manufacturers sent us a couple for trial 

 some weeks ago, and not only have we 

 tried them, but our young men never do 

 any hosing now without using them. 

 They are strong, handsomeh' finished and 

 made to fit aS^-inch hose, or with a coup- 

 ling, any other size. At the end running 

 out from the hole is a spoOn shaped blade 

 that distributes the flow of water into an 

 even broad spreading spray, and that 

 too without in the least stopping the full 

 flow of water or arresting it so as to lash 

 the plants. It is cUan to use, very handy, 

 and being supplied with a leather or rub- 

 ber washer, it doesn't leak a drop at the 

 joint. We unqualifiedly recommend this 

 nozzle as being the best thing of the kind 

 we have ever used; it is just what we 

 need, and now we have got it we use it 

 daily, and cannot afford to be without it. 



Rubber hosk v. Iron pipe.— If a^i+'inch 

 first quality rubber hose costs 15 or 1(5 

 cents a foot and galvanized iron 1-inch 

 pipe costs 514 or 6 cents a foot don't you 

 think it is much better to lay more iron 

 pipes for water about your place, and do 

 less hauling about of the hose? Hoses 

 wear out, but iron is practically imper- 

 ishable. And how handy it is to ha\-e a 

 water faucet here and there about your 

 garden. With such a convenience you 

 would likely do more and better garden- 

 ing, and be better satisfied with the re- 

 sults, than when you are hampered by 

 meagre facilities for watering. But don't 

 fall into the mistake of putting in too 

 small an iron pipe. If you run a -'i-inch 

 hose you want an inch pipe; if you are 

 apt to run two faucets at one time you 

 want 114-inch pipe, which will costYVL' to 

 9 cents a foot; if you want a large supply 

 of water you may need a IV2 or 2-inch 

 pipe, the last size costs only I2V2 to 14 

 cents a foot, and even it is cheaper than 

 a % rubber hose. Get water and lots of 

 it and enjoy life. 



Carpet the Shrubbery Bed.— Many 

 people in planting shrubberies wish to 

 have the ground between the bushes hid- 

 den by a living green carpet of creeping 

 vines or other plants. It is a tasteful and 

 laudable ambition, and too a deterrant 

 from too close planting of the shrubs. 

 We have a good many nice plants suitable 

 for this purpose. Among them are peri- 

 winkle or "myrtle" as we also call it 

 ( Vinca minor), it delights in such a place; 

 Japanese honeysuckle, also well fitted, 

 fast growing and almost evergreen there; 



the common European ivy, especially the 

 vine-leaved variety,, which bugs the 

 ground as close as a carpet; hypericum 

 (H. calyciauni) which does well in the 

 shade but isn't a fast traveler; Creeping 

 Jenny or moneywort (I-j'Sinjac/iia) which 

 does better under the shade of trees than 

 under dense bushes; the creeping euony- 

 raus, which does fine near the edges; and 

 the trailing Japan rose, Rosa Wichurai- 

 ana, which if planted near the outside will 

 send its arms into the beds for thirty feet. 

 Virginia creeper would also spread there, 

 but it might get up into the bushes as well. 



The American Chrysanthemum An- 

 nual, 1895, by M.Barker.gardeneratthe 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., has come to hand. It is a book of 

 44 pages, TVbxlO inches, and bound in 

 stiff" paper covers. It contains a number 

 of articles on chrysanthemums by differ- 

 end writers as well as notes by the author, 

 also illustrations of Ezeta, J. H. Troy, 

 Latest Fad, Miss M. M. Johnson, Mrs. 

 Wm. H. Rand, Olympus, and Philadel- 

 phia varieties; likewise portraits - of 

 Thorpe, Lonsdale, Fewkes, Manda, Hat- 

 field, Wood, Hill, May and Smith, men 

 well known as associated with chrysan- 

 themum growing. But the thing that 

 would interest us most, namely, a full 

 list of all the varieties in common culti- 

 vation to-day we cannot find; this omis- 

 sion, however, we hope the author will 

 remedy in future issues. We would also 

 suggest that an index be given. To make 

 it a popular book it should be a ready 

 reference book. We are glad to find that 

 the genial and familiar face of John 

 Thorpe is given the place of honor in front 

 of the book. It was John Thorpe who 

 gave chrysanthemum culture in America 

 its popular boom. 



BUYING DUTCH BULBS. 

 One of our readers writes. "I am about 

 placing my order for bulbs and am anx- 

 ious to get from only reliable growers. 

 Can you give me any information about 

 a certain firm (naming it) in Holland?" 



We cannot. Now we buy a good many 

 bulbs every year for forcing in winter and 

 some for outdoors too. We have im- 

 ported them directly from Holland, and 

 also have purchased them from our home 

 dealers, and we franklj' admit that we 

 can do better herethan in Holland. When 

 buying at home there is no such a thing 

 as cheating us. for we won't deal with 

 slippery people, and we have no ocean 

 freights, brokerage, wharfage and other 

 "ages" to pay, which are sure accom- 

 paniments of every Holland bill, neither 

 have we "box and packing;" the dealer 

 has all the bother and all the risk; our 

 bulbs are the best, and the price is 

 no greater than the Hollander wants. 

 Some may ask how can that be, that the 

 dealers here can sell as cheaply as the 

 firms from which they buy would sell to 

 us, and take risks, and still make a living 

 profit? Because of the large quantity 

 they buy they get bottom prices that we 

 would not. 



MOLES AND TRAPS. 



Catch that mole.— C. F. B., Conn., 

 writes: 1. In G.\rdening, May 1, you 

 say "Catch that mole." This is just 

 what I want to do— not that one but a 

 hundred or so. 



.4ns. Get 3'our traps — have two or 

 three— you can set and attend them most 

 as easily as one, and you make much 

 (luicker work of the moles, and be sure to 



