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GARDENING. 



July /, 



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CONTENTS. 



THK FLOWER GARDEN. 



Hardy flowers (illus.) ... 



My garden as it is now. June 20 . . . 

 The jessamine clematis . . 

 A yellow flowered Canada columbine 



Geums 



The hoary pea 



^ landscape gardening. 

 Plan for a four-acre place (illus.) 



TREES AND SHRDES. 



Trees and shrubs in bloom at Rochester 

 Questions from Mingo. W. Va. 



Magnolias . . 



Hardiness of escollonia ... 



How some shrubs wintered at Chicago . 



Roses in Jackson Park, Chicago, (illus.) . 



Notes on roses 



Charming but uncommon roses 



New hybrid sweet briais 



Standard roses 



Rose bushes don't flourish 



Hose the roses . . 



ORCHIDS. 



About my orchids . . 



A wild white cypripedium 



Various questions 



Otaheite orange ... 



Why don't the orange trees bloom . . . 

 Some pretty greenhouse plants . . . . 

 Forcing Spanish ii is . . . 



Seedling chrysanthemums 



Violets ... . . . 



THE FKtriT GARDEN. 



Strawberries and roses 



Strawberries ... 



Stiinng the soil better than mulchiug . . 



Frozen grape vines ... . . 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



Asparagus 



Planting celery 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A rose leaf eating insect 318 



The golden oak scale 318 



Get Yoi'R Roses Properly Labelled. 

 —Much of tlie enjoyment in having flow- 

 ers is in knowing their names. Now while 

 the ros s are slill fresh in your memory, 

 and before all the flowers are gone, look 

 over their labels, and get these verified 

 and secure for another year. 



Poison Ivy. — No one will deny its beauty 

 as a woody vine or its brilliant coloring 

 in I'all, and no sane person will deny that 

 it is a very bad thing to have growing 

 about the house, especially where there 

 are voung children. Root outevery bitof 

 it tlial is in or about your garden; don't 



A TRICOLOR- LEAVED form oi Hypericum 

 Moserianum was one of the novelties 

 recently exhibited in London. Another 

 was 



Carpenteria Californica with pure 

 white flowers and lor which a silver Bank- 

 sian medal was awarded. The Carpen- 

 teria isn't hardy at Dosoris, great is the 

 pity, for it is a splendid yellow blossomed 

 vigorous shrub. 



KcEMPFER'sIrISESON dry LAND.— Don't 

 become possessed of the idea that because 

 you haven't a water puddle or tank in 

 your garden you cannot grow these gor- 

 geous Japanese flowers. Vou can grow 

 them firstrate in any good, deep, inclined 

 to moist, garden ground. They arc now 

 in their heyday. 



If the Earl of Dufferin is the best 

 crimson rose we have got and the most 

 to be desired for our American gardens, 

 why does it mildew at Dosoris worse 

 than any other H. R. rose now in bloom? 

 Yes, it flowered well and is growing well, 

 and now every plant of it is touched 

 with mildew, while many other kinds 

 beside it are clean. 



Three New Hardy Water Lilies.— 

 In the Revue Horticole is a colored plate 

 of three new hybrid nymphaas raised by 

 that most successful enthusiast, M. 

 Latour-Marliac, who has already en- 

 riched us marvellously in the same direc- 

 tion. These new ones consist of N. Sieg- 

 noureti, orange; N. Laydekeri lilacea, 

 carmine; and TV. Laydekeri fulgens. light 



SpiR.fiA Anthony Waterer is a new 

 variety of S. Buwalda, with corymbs of 

 deeper rosy crimson blossoms, but a 

 writer in the Garden fails to find "much 

 difference between it and a kind I have 

 grOAfn two years as Spinea Bumalda 

 ruberrima." He notes that in the case of 

 Anthony Waterer there is a tendency to 

 variegation in every plant. This ten- 

 dency is natural to the species. 



Her M.vjesty is a whiter and finer 

 hardy pink than Mrs. Simpkins; both 

 grow well and bloom well, and seem to 

 be perfectly hardy, and both burst their 

 calyx. It is so easy to propagate these 

 hardy pinks that we wonder more of them 

 are not grown. Early in April we lift 

 them, tear the clumps apart, keeping 

 some roots to each division, and plant 

 them again and at once, making an edg- 

 ing of them 

 ■ Pruning trees in summer has a ten- 

 dency to produce flowers, henci; fruitful- 

 ness, whereas pruning in winter is apt to 

 induce the production of wood. Wounds 

 made in summer, if cut smooth, heal easy, 

 and there is very little "bleeding" at the 

 wounds made Therefore dont be afraid 

 to do a little pruning in summer, keep the 

 trees well balanced and symmetrical. But 

 always remember hard pruning, if it can 

 at all be avoided, should never be prac- 

 ticed. 



Talk of fancy trellises or rustic 

 supports for climbing roses and hardy 

 vines all you please, but when w^e look up 

 the rose arbor at Dosoris made of plain 

 posts and an iron bow, and cannot see 

 anything but solid arches of rose leaves 

 and blossoms we do not think that any 

 fancy trellis on earth could do better 

 work. .\nd when we look upon that 

 solid column 14 feet high of the wild 

 prairie rose, a pillar of lovely blossoms 

 from the ground up, we are not ])iepared 

 to ailinit lliat the hickory pole that su])- 

 D'liis it coulil be surpassed for its jmrpose 



Magnolia PARVIFLORA.-What a beauty 

 it is, and so far, in the ease of ten or 

 twelve year old plants it shows no sign 

 of taking the Japanese die-back. During 

 the fortnight preceding the 2nd inst it 

 was full of spotless showy blossoms, but 

 then the rose bugs came and they seek it 

 more than any other flowerinthe garden. 

 Many of the blossoms are semi-double. 

 On the same plant some of the flo tiers 

 have nine petals, and others have 12, 15, 

 18, 21, or 24. 



Viburnum tomentosum is the ".single" 

 flowered form of the Japanese snowball, 

 V. pUcatum. Writing about it the other 

 day Mr. E. L. Beard, of Boston, says: 

 "1 suppose you are familiar with it, and 

 therefore it would be superfluous for me 

 to speak of its great beauty. * * This 

 is certainly one of the best things ever in- 

 troduced from a strictly high standpoint 

 of horticulture." A very beautiful clean- 

 appearing shrub. It has bloomed at 

 Dosoris for some years. 



Let the water flow if you want to 

 get succulent vegetables and beautiful 

 flowers this summer. Many of you com- 

 plain that your peonies don't bloom well 

 and wonder why they don't. We are con- 

 vinced that drouth in summer, especially 

 in early summer, has much to do with it. 

 Let the water penetrate to their lower- 

 most roots and encourage them to make 

 a strong healthy growth now, and prob- 

 ably there will be nothing amiss with the 

 crop of blossoms next spring. 



Rhododendrons — Pick the old blos- 

 soms and newly formed seed pods oft' of 

 them, and the same with azaleas. It isn't 

 absolutely necessary at all, but as we all 

 know the main effort of the plants are 

 now directed towards perfectirg and 

 ripening the seed which is useless to us, 

 we should nip out the seed pods and in- 

 duce the plants to direct their energies to 

 perfecting the wood and foliage and lay- 

 ing the foundation of a good crop of blos- 

 soms next year. It is for their flowers 

 and not for their seeds we keep them. 



SuNSCALD ON PLANTS. Some folks don't 

 admit that there is such a thing. But 

 when we look upon that handsome mass 

 of variegated Funkia ovata and seethe 

 leaves all scalded as if boiling water had 

 been thrown over them, and then turn 

 around and view that Carolina hemlock 

 with its young shoots completely 

 destroyed, and remember the dripping 

 foggy morning followed by the scorching 

 hot sunshine of the day when it happened 

 it is hard to convince us that we are the 

 duffer because we believe our own eyes 

 that such a thing could happen. 



Cytisus .\ndreanus, the beautiful partly 

 crimson flowered form of the European 

 broom, is said to be hardier when raised 

 from seed than when grafted on labur- 

 num, the stock commonly used for it. A 

 correspondent of the London Garden tells 

 that he raised a lot of plants of it from 

 seed, and some came true to the parent, 

 but the majority reverted to the plain yel- 

 low broom However, he planted them 

 all out together, and now they are in 

 bloom and flourishing, the Andreanus as 

 well as the other. On the other hand 

 every gralted plant of it is pretty gener- 

 ally killed all over the country. 



English Irises.— By this we mean the 

 bulbous rooted ones generally soltJ and 

 grown under this name, but which in 

 reality are indigenous in the mountains 

 of Spain and not in England at all. They 

 are now (June 24) in full bloom at Dosoris 

 and lovelv flowers thcv are too. bold and 



