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• • GARDEN-ING. 



June /, 



GftlDENire 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Douhle-flowered apple trees (illus.) 273 



Hedge of hydrangeas 274 



Trees and shrubs 274 



Trees and shrubs in bloom at Rochester ... 274 

 Purple beech— Prunus Pissardii 27.5 



ROSES. 



Margaret Dickson rose (illus.) 275 



the flower garden. 



The flower garden 276 



The 



the greenhouse. 



Some winter flowering plants 276 



A cheap greenhouse 1^6 



Begonias (illus.) 277 



■The greenhouse (illus.) . . . . 277 



Summer culture of chrysanthemums . . 278 



Cacti 278 



the fruit garden. 



My berries 279 



Strawberries 279 



ORCHIDS. 



Phaiusgrandifolius 279 



The vegetable garden .... 

 The mushroom business . . 

 Baled manure for mushrooms 

 Bi^ mushrooms 





MEOUS. 



Cow manure . . 281 



Planting out amaryllis in summer 2S2 



Sacaline .... 282 



Hail insurance 282 



Cytisus Andreanus 282 



Care of berry bushes .... 284 



The Japanese hop . ... 284 



Wav down in Georgia.— Under date of 

 May 20, Mr. A. W. Smith, of Americus, 

 Ga., writes us: "A cold winter with late 

 spring. But since the March freeze there 

 has been no frost, and we have had the 

 best gardening season I haveeverknown. 

 There will be fine crops of pears and 

 j)eaches with other fruits, and many who 

 invested in peach orchards will get back 

 this year what they paid for land, trees, 

 and all expenses with profit in addition. 

 Now that some northern men such as 

 Hale and others have invested, the North 

 will believe what we always knew, that 

 southwest Georgia possesses more of the 

 g.jod, and as little of the evil, than any 

 part of the U. S. Any working young 

 man with farm sense and sobriety 

 can get rich if he will, and he need not 

 grow cotton either. Lettuce, spinach, 

 asparagus, spring turnips, and radishes 

 are past, and we are now enjoj-ing to the 

 full Irish potatoes. English peas, beets, 

 new onions, and wax beans, with squash 

 and cucumbers, and hardhead cabbage in 

 sight the last of the week." 



"We thank God for the Lilac" is 

 how the editor of The Islam! expresses 

 himself when commenting on the beauty, 

 fragrance, and popularity of this univer- 

 sally grown shrub, "the most generous 

 oflcring of the floral' season." - And so do 

 we. 



Dr. T. H. Hoskins of Vermont, the pro- 

 prietor of the Memphremagog fruit and 

 seed (arms, has resigned from the editor- 

 ship of the Vermont Farmer's Advocate, 

 to attend more closely to his fruit grow- 

 ing business. The veteran doctor is one 

 of the brightest, soundest and most expe- 

 rienced pomologists in the land, and from 

 its beginning he has been a staunch friend 

 of Gardening. 



Double Scarlet Thorn. — We have re- 

 ceived some spraysof bloom of this lovely 

 little tree by mail from Mrs. R. N., but 

 no word either in the package or by letter 

 about them, and there was no legible 

 postmark on the box. Hawthorns are 

 very beautiful with us just now; while 

 the double flowered ones may appeal to 

 the eye they are scentless, on the other 

 hand the single flowered ones are quite 

 fragrant. 



Eight Tons of Mushrooms.— The Lans- 

 dale Mushroom Company of Pennsyl- 

 vania have several very large span-roofed, 

 above-ground, wooden houses built ex- 

 pressly for growing mushrooms in. Both 

 top and sides have a foot of insulation of 

 sawdust to steady the temperature. How 

 successful this company is may be appre- 

 ciated from the fact that they have grown 

 and shioped nearly eight tons of mush- 

 rooms this season. 



Are variegated leaved plants, par- 

 ticularly trees and shrubs, more tender as 

 regards cold, than the typical green- 

 leaved forms? We do not believe they are. 

 Certainly no variegated leaved tree or 

 shrub at Dosoris has shown itself to be a 

 whit more tender that the type; on the 

 other hand the golden yew is a marked 

 example of the variegated plant being 

 hardier than the green leaved one. But 

 the foliage of variegated leaved trees and 

 shrubs is often apt to suffer in summer. 



From New Mexico. — The following 

 letter from a little girl in New Mexico 

 who loves flowers and wants to know 

 the plain truth about them and how to 

 grow them, is particularly gratifying to 

 us. She writes: " I am a little girl eleven 

 years old and can only count my money 

 in nickels and dimes but I save them up 

 to pay for my subscription. I like my 

 Gardening paper and have found out 

 whole lots about caring for my plants 

 and flowers from it." C.L. B. 



Gallup, New Mexico. 



Disastrous Spring Frost.— Dosoris is 

 particularly well favored as regards free- 

 dom from late spring frosts and early fall 

 frosts, this is because it is surrounded by 

 salt water, and having faith in our im- 

 munity we usually plant out tender stock 

 earlier than we would do did we live 

 much inland from the sea. But the frost 

 caught us this year. On the morning of 

 the 17th of May we had a gray frost that 

 blackened the strawberry flowers that 

 were open and singed tomatoes, beans, 

 heliotropes, vincas, white day lilies, and 

 some other things, but altogether our loss 

 is slight. The noticeable thing about it 

 is, that during twelve years at least pre- 

 ceding this one we have had no frost as 

 late as the middle of May. Inland from 

 the seaside the frost was harder and pro- 

 portionately more destructive. The chief 

 lesson it teaches us is not to be in too 

 great a hurry to set out tender plants. 



Lilacs.— We have a large number of the 

 new lilacs several years old and in good 

 bloom, but it doesn't take an expert to 

 pick out the favorite flowers, any child 

 will point to Marie L,egraye as the finest 

 white and Ludwig Spaeth as the best 

 dark purple one. The great majority of 

 lilacs have lilac or bluish tinted blossoms, 

 but for cut flowers nobody wants them 

 when they can get those above named; 

 and the bluer the flower is the more posi- 

 tivelj' is it rejected. Some years ago when 

 these new lilacs were first disseminated 

 most of them were grafted plants; we are 

 now suffering from this, for the stems are 

 riddled with borers and some of the kinds 

 are enervated or killed, and we have 

 nothing left but the root and as many 

 suckers as we care to let grow, but these 

 root sprouts are all of the common lilac. 

 In buying lilacs now insist upon getting 

 the varieties on their own roots, then if 

 the borers do destroy a few stems there 

 will be enough left, for every sucker is 

 identical with the parent. 



Encourage the children.— What a 

 pleasure it is to a father or mother who 

 is fond of flowers and gardening to 

 have their children take an in- 

 terest in Flora's treasures. How de- 

 lightful it is to walk in the gar- 

 den in the cool of the evening with a 

 warm, soft little hand in yours, leading 

 you to where the favorites grow, a pair 

 of interested and laughing eyes flitting 

 between yours and the blossoms, and a 

 sweet little voice piling you with ques- 

 tions and comments about the pansies, 

 the roses, the poppies and the flowers. 

 While all children love flowers, some are 

 more emphatic than others in their fond- 

 ness for them, for the love is stronger. At 

 Dosoris many children come to us for 

 flowers, they want a few for the 

 church, or the school, or some par- 

 ticular friend, or a funeral, or not 

 infrequently for themselves, for they 

 love them. And they all get some. 

 Be they rich or poor, young or 

 old, stylish or in tatters, act|uaint- 

 ances or strangers, it is immaterial to us, 

 they get some flowers. The other day 

 we came upon a ten or eleven year old 

 boy down on his hands and knees smell- 

 ing the pansies in the borders, he vi'as all 

 alone, and a stranger to us. Upon in- 

 (|uiry we found he lived some three miles 

 away and came here after school hours 

 alone and a-purpose, to see the flowers. 

 Such children should be encouraged. 



Familiar flowers of field and gar- 

 den is the name of a book written by F. 

 Schuyler Mathews and published by D. 

 Appleton & Co., New York The book is 

 5V4 by 7y2 inches and contains 308 pages, 

 and over two hundred illustrations. Mr. 

 Mathews is an artist by profession, and 

 he loves flowers, knows them and grows 

 them, and has the happy faculty of com- 

 municating to others, with pen and pen- 

 cil, the knowledge he possesses of Flora's 

 realm. As regards properly naming and 

 describing the true colors of flowers we 

 have for years looked upon him as our 

 foremost authority. Two hundred and 

 forty pages of the book are devoted to a 

 description of wild flowers and common 

 garden flowers, and these are arranged 

 according to their season of blooming, 

 beginning with the mayflowcr of our 

 woods and the snowdrops of ourgardens, 

 and passing on with the diflisrent common 

 flowers of spring, summer and autumn, 

 ending with the chrysanthemum. Over 

 fifty pages are devoted to "a systematical 

 index of the names, colors and localities 

 of familiar flowers of the United States 



