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GARDENING. 



June I, 



not so much could be used without 

 causing injury to the roots of the plant, 

 or what is termed "burning off.' If the 

 chips which are poorer in nitrogen are 

 used a greater amount could be used with 

 the potting soil without furnishing an 

 unhealthy amount of nitrogen. This 

 would result in producing a better physi- 

 cal condition of the soil than if a less 

 amount of the rich cow manure was 

 used." 



vStable-saved Cow Manure.— It may 

 interest some of our readers to know how 

 we save it. We have eight or nine milch 

 cows, Jerseys, and turn them out to pas- 

 ture the second or third week of May, 

 leaving them out day and night till about 

 the middle of October, there being a 

 shelter and milking shed and running 

 water in the field where they are. Then 

 we bring them home, where they have a 

 warm stable and a warm sunny yard. 

 They are fed good hay, corn stalks, man- 

 gels, carrots, bran and "oats and com" 

 Iced. We have no manure shed. But the 

 stable is cleaned out even,- day and the 

 manure carted to a manure yard, where 

 it is piled compactly into a 4- to 5 feet 

 deep square heap. We save it with as 

 little straw as possible. Sometime in 

 summer, when we get a chance, we make 

 up a compost heap consisting of two- 

 thirds in bulk of sod loam and one-third 

 of this clean cow manure. The loam dries 

 up the manure and in a few months this 

 makes a splendid heap of soil for potting 

 or most any purpose where rich earth is 

 needed. It should be turned to mix it 

 well together before winter. The rest of 

 the manure we turn over and save clean, 

 making a square pile of it, and cover it 

 with a coating of loam to save it from 

 sun, wind and rain. If extra manure is 

 needed we take it out of this heap, and 

 here also we get the manure for top dress- 

 ing and liquid stimulants, and for our 

 sweet peas. In November the ground to 

 be used for sweet peas the next season is 

 dressed four inches deep with cow manure, 

 which is dug two spits deep into the soil. 

 One knows by the peas that there is 

 something unusually good within their 

 reach. This takes about all of the stable 

 saved manure. That which accumulates 

 in the yard we use for corn or vegetables. 

 If the hay one uses is clean a compost of 

 cow manure makes an exctUent dressing 

 for a lawn, especially for a worn-out one. 

 The grass seed passes through the 

 animals uninjured, and although piled in 

 the heap of moist manure for several 

 months it remains unhurt, and comes up 

 in spring quite thick. The heating of 

 horse manure kills much of the grass seed 



tulips, but set out a row of them as you 

 would a row of leeks to get good growth 

 and fine bulbs. After a long rest next 

 winter they will probably bloom quite 

 full when planted out the following sum- 

 mer. 



PLflNTlNO OUT flMflRYLLIS IN SUMMER. 



F. H. P., New York, writes: "1 have 

 about SO amaryllis bulbs — in I suppose 20 

 or more varieties— now I find I shall not 

 be able to give up the room in my dwell- 

 ing house windows for them next winter, 

 so I write to ask if they can be treated in 

 the same manner as gladiolus bulbs 

 (planted out in the summer and kept 

 dormant and dry during the winter); will 

 they be as apt to bloom?" 



Yes, you can plant them out in your 

 garden in summer and lift them in fall 

 and winter them in a warm cellar, keep- 

 ing the bulbs in dn* earth, sand.cocoanut 

 fibre or such like material. They will 

 bloom nicely in summer when so treated, 



Sacaline, the new forage plant, botan- 

 ically known as Polygonum Sacbalineiise 

 was grown by us as long ago as 1877, 

 and it is enumerated in our Catalogue of 

 the Plants Cultivated in the Botanic 

 Garden of Harvard University, in 1879. 

 We know nothing about its value as a 

 fodder plant, but many years' practical 

 experience with it as cultivated in the 

 garden have surely given us some insight 

 into its character and behavior. It is the 

 rankest growing member of the genus so 

 faras we know. As an ornamental plant, 

 while far more gigantic than P. cuspida- 

 tum, it is not as handsome as the latter spe- 

 cies; on the other hand it isn't any thinglike 

 such a pestiferous runner at the root as 

 that kind is. Apart from being species of 

 unusual robustness they are very distinct 

 from each other. At Dosoriswefind that 

 they thrive by the seaside, where the salt 

 water occasionally laves their roots, 

 about as well as asparagus does. And 

 this is an important discovery. But 

 di-iving windstorms lashing them with 

 salt spray will defoliate them and ruin 

 their appearance above ground, their 

 roots, however, don't seem to mind it. 



Tritomas that we left out over winter 

 where they grew last year and mulched 

 heavily have survived perfectly. All of 

 the old leaves died, and when we n moved 

 the mulching in spring we cut off the 

 leaves close to the ground, and now a 

 crop of young leaves has come upf|uite 

 as fresh and vigorous as on the plants we 



wintered in cold frames and planted out 

 in spring. The rows are 2V2 feet apart, 

 and plants 2 feet asunder in the row, and 

 we have a thick row of gladioli planted 

 in the middle between the rows of tri- 

 tomas. In about a month from now the 

 tritoma leaves will grow enough to meet 

 each other, but we cut them back a little 

 so that they do not touch the gladioli 

 and in this way we prolong the show of 

 flowers without hurting the plants. 



Hail Insurance.— Some years ago the 

 florists of America started a Hail Associa- 

 tion, that is an association to insure 

 florists against damage to their green- 

 houses caused by hail. It has now 574 

 members and carries insurance on 6,653,- 

 695 square feet of glass. Success has 

 attended it from its inception and it has 

 proven a blessing to many a florist. Fol- 

 lowingourlead, England has just gotten 

 up a somewhat similar association. It is 

 called "The Nurserymen, Market Garden- 

 ers', and General Hailstorm Insurance 

 Corporation, Ltd." Capital tlOO,000. 



Cytisus Andreanis, a very beautiful 

 and distinct variety of the "yellow 

 broom," and which has received a good 

 deal of notice (deservedly too) during the 

 last few years, was killed to the snow 

 line last winter. It may be hardy from 

 Philadelphia southward, but it isn't 

 reliably hardy at Dosoris. Hut wherever 

 it proves hardy it should be included 

 among small garden shrubs, for it is 

 a beauty. 



If you like Gardening 

 please recommend it to 

 your friends. 



but perhaps not as well or as brilliantly 

 ,-is if flowered in a window or greenhouse 

 in early spring. Plant them out now, not 

 with the view of filling n flower bed with 

 them as vou would with hv.-icinths or 



Three 



Crimson 



Ramblers 



r ONE DOLLAK we will nend by mall, postpaid, three plants of the CRIMSON 

 A « ItLKK Kii>K, the beat and must remarkable Rose norolty of recent years, 

 r verandas, pillar, walls, etc, :«10 blooms on a slnule shoot Everybody should have 

 The plants are KH I wint.' In pots and can be successfully planted any tlmeln.lune. 



ELLWANGER & BARRY, Mt. Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 



