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GARDENING. 



June IS, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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readers and In their 



Pour score years.— "Although four 

 scores have been written on the dial of 

 life, love for trees, flowers and fruit know 

 little abatement. 



Thv cordial friend, Isaac Hicks." 



So writes our esteemed neighbor the 

 veteran nurseryman of Westbury. What 

 a pure and beautiful, and deep-seated love 

 that is. Aye, and we admire, and honor, 

 and love the four-score veterans. 



Green-flowered Narcissis.— Cart/en- 

 I'ng World tells us that the blossoms of 

 the double-flowered Narcissus poeticus 

 recurvus are being tinttd green by artifi- 

 cial means, and there is a craze for such 

 monstrosities. Our esteemed contempor- 

 ary condemns the practice, however, and 

 rightly asserts that "coloring of thiskind 

 should be left to the manufactures of 

 artificial flowers." 



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 Notes of your experience I 

 ' your successes that 



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Clematises as Pot Plants.— .\t the 

 leading spring flower shows in Europe, 

 pot grown clematises of the early large 

 flowered kinds are quite a feature. They 

 are generally grown trained around some 

 wooden or wire stakes or a balloon 

 trellis, and they force easily, bloom nicely 

 and are quite showy. Trained in a less 

 formal way these clematis are also 

 CONTENTS. esteemed for greenhouse decoration. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. HYBRinS OF ClEMATIS COCCINEA.— 



?r\°i'aSd shrubs'in Wo,S,n""' •■.■.•• "l l ^0 Messrs. Jackman & Son of clematis fame, 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia from seed iiX) exhibited some striking hybrids of C. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. coccinca, the othcr day. The male parent 



Half hardy tritomai 290 was Clematis Star of India. The seed- 



H^dyTerbaceo^'uk spiraeas (illus.) ! ! ! ' ' m lings in habit, blooming, and hardiness 



Notes and comments ou cannas 291 somewhat resemble coccinea. The best 



Vines for trellises (illus.) '^j of them were Duchess of York, pale blush; 



cfee1,?og'ch1rlie .^ ." .' . ..•.;•. ... '. ". ' ^2 Sir Trevor Lawrence, deep crimson red; 



Kosgs Countess of Onslow; paler than the last; 



Roses under glass 292 Duchess of Albany, rose purple; Grace 



Roses in the greenhouse 292 Darling, rosy carmine, and Crimson 



Hardy garden roses 29d r,._„tv 



Single rose ^ ceauty. 



M'^lchTn?r"<i«^i'nsun'tuer •.■.■.■.■.■■.:: 2^ SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.-The Lon- 



kosa grandiflora _2»<i don Garden has a colored plate of Miss 



The rose bug [•^J Rose and Mary Anderson, both blush 



Rose^suckers "'^ . ' '. . •.•.:::•.:::■ m colored very pretty varieties. Of course 



Salt water bad for roses 291 they are beautiful, and as a rule the 



Soil lor roses 2114 plants are healthy and exceedingly 



■ ignes'Emi'irclrman rose ; '. '. '. '. ". '. '. '. '. ' 2^)4 copious, but the people won't take them. 



Rosaiugosa 294 Some years ago hearty efforts were made 



THE GREENHOUSE. to boom and popularize them in this 



The greenhouse in summer . . . . 294 country, but no amount of bolstering 



L'smrtlfnmak?r-pfn? n%idles .' ! l l i l #', would sustain it The people have decided 



window plants 29.') very emphatically in favor of douljle 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. chrvsanthcmums. 



The vegetable garden 297 ^^^ HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN 



Elementary Schools' Bill introduced 



fl MYSTERIOUS CROP. ji^j^ ^^^ House of Commons, England, is 



"Novice," Oconotnowoc, Wis, writes: according to the Gardeners' Magazine, 

 "Last fall my neighbor, the celebrated "intended to provide in publicelementary 

 amateur gardener, H.H.Shufeldt, planted schools of horticultural subjects. * * 

 out a lot of bottles, all kinds, soda pop. The following are the subjects for instruc- 

 Icmon pop, etc. I don't know what he tion: Fruit, flower, and vegetable grow- 

 expects to raise from them— probably his ing; poultry, bee, and pig-keeping, bud- 

 brother-in-law, Mr. W. C. Egan, does— ding, pruning, planting and propagat- 

 but what I'd like to know is whether ing; rotation of garden crops; nature and 

 spring or fall is the best time to start properties of soils; useof manures; knowl- 

 them. Mr. John Thorpe, who has been edge and choice of seeds; structure and 

 at work on the place, does not seem to be life of plants; action of birds and insects 

 posted on the subject." on crops; choice and use of simple tools; 



Undoubtedly that fall planting was packing fruit, vegetables, etc., for mar- 

 just before Thanksgiving. With equal ket." We pity the children, 

 consideration your neighbor has, proba- i^cARViLLEADELAVAVi,a new tuberous 

 bly, planted another set now, hoping th.it ^^ herbaceous perennial from China, 

 you and his relative may dine and rejoice ^^^ exhibited recentlv in London, when 

 with him on the glorious I^oiirth. On .^ attracted much attention and was 

 the morning following even a Novice j^„,^.,„,^d a first-class certificate. The 

 may appreci ate a soothing sod.-i. 3^^,^^^ ^^^ ,^^g^ showy, Dignonia-Iike, 

 and bright rose in color, with yellow 



Magnolia PAR viFLORA.-What a beauty throat. Two years ago it was sent out 



it is, and so far, in the case of ten or as a seedsman's novelty. It is not at 



twelve year ohl jilants it shows no sign Dosoris, so we cannot speak of it from 



of t.iking the Japanese die back. personal experience. But its near relative 



Incarvillea Olgse from Turkestan, also a 

 hardy herbaceous perennial, is perfectly 

 at home with us, and has lived in the 

 same spot entirely unprotected in winter 

 for a dozen years. Still as an ornamental 

 plant we do not regard it as first-class. 



Deutzia scabra is in full bloom at Do- 

 soris just now (June 10), and has been 

 since the first of the month, and a prettier 

 little bush it is hard to imagine. The 

 flowers are small, white, wide open, starry 

 in appearance and borne in short panicles 

 of twenty to fifty spirEea-like blossoms. 

 Last year the plant was between four and 

 five feet high, but unfortunately it isn't 

 very hardy, and it got cut down by the 

 winter to" about two feet. In gardens 

 and catalogues Deutzia crenata is often 

 called I>. scabra, but in leaf, flower, habit 

 and time of blooming thej' are very dis- 

 tinct species. Even in Nicholson's Dic- 

 tionary of Gardening D. scabra is given 

 as a syn. of D. crenata. But when Mr. 

 Nicholson was here two years ago and 

 saw the gehuine scabra he admitted its 

 identity, and has since written for cut- 

 tings of it. 



Jadoo Fibre is something new in the 

 way of potting soil. We are told that it 

 is peat moss that has been boiled with 

 certain chemicals, and then fermented 

 after being boiled. We got a bag of it on 

 trial the other day. It looked to us ex- 

 actly like well broken up and moistened 

 German peat moss, such as we use several 

 tons of a year for bedding the horses with- 

 in box stalls. It is spongy in texture, free 

 from smell, light in weight compared 

 with the same bulkof loam,anditdoesn't 

 soil the fingers but very little in handling 

 it. Of its practical value we cannot speak 

 from experience, for although we have 

 many plants now growing in it by way 

 of experiment, and looking thrifty, we 

 have not had it long enough to be able to 

 speak positively as regards its merits. 

 But we think well of it. People who live 

 in cities, especially in thickly populated 

 parts, often have difficulty in getting soil 

 for their potted plants, and some are 

 deterred from increasing the number of 

 plants they grow in their rooms and win- 

 dows because they have no good soil to 

 pot them in. Jadoo fibre is meant to sup- 

 ply this want. It is simply a prepared 

 potting soil and is used as such. 



The Horticulturist's Rule-Book.— 

 We have received from the publishers, 

 Macmillan & Co , New York, the third 

 edition of this handy little book. It eon- 

 tains about .300 pages, 7x.5 inches, and 

 costs 75 cents. There are no illustrations 

 in it. Its author is Prof L. H. Bailey of 

 Cornell University. It contains a great 

 deal of useful information, given in a con- 

 cise, orderly way, and also a good index, 

 which makes the book a valuable one for 

 reference. Among the subjects it includes 

 are insects and the best known means of 

 destroying or repelling them, plant dis- 

 eases with preventives and remedies, how 

 to prevent rabbits and mice from injuring 

 trees; how to make and use grafting wax; 

 how to make and use protective com- 

 pounds for various purposes, also paints 

 and glues, and seed and computation 

 tables. Some attention is given to green- 

 house and window garden work; the 

 keeping and storing of fruits and vegeta- 

 bles, and the like, together with seed and 

 planting tables, and certain rules as re- 

 gards horticultural subjects. The weather, 

 garden literature, analyses, etc., also re- 

 ceive attention. Altogether it is a valua- 

 ble and desirable book, containing a 

 great deal of everyday pertinent informa- 

 tion. 



