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GARDENING. 



July 15^ 



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William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Bedofcrotons (illus ) .321 



Chrysanthemum black aphis 3H1 



Shaay corners 32;1 



Carpet bedding 322 



Kloweisat Egandale July 4 322 



A vine clad windmill den ick (illus.). . 323 



Primula farinosa at home .32;* 



Sweet willtams 324 



Sweet peas .... 324 



trees and shrdbs. 

 Purple beach and plum, lilacs, tree peonies . .324 



Fillmg in around trees 321 



Spiraea shrubs— how to propagate . . . . 324 

 Rubus delicio--us (illus.) . . . .321 



Trees and shrubs in bloom at Rochester 325 



Lilacs, Other shrubs and perennials 32,5 



Xanlhoceias sorbifolia 323 



ROSES. 



Questions about roses 326 



My roses .... . . 326 



Notes on the culture of roses 326 



Boston roses 327 



I.a France roses 327 



Crimson Rambler rose .327 



Marechal Niel rose . Si? 



orchids. 

 Orchid notes 327 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Our greenhouse . . 329 



Nitralcof soda for palms 32» 



Cyanophyllum magniBcum . . .... 329 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The fruit garden 329 



The Marshall strawberry 330 



Chestnut trees S» 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden :i:«) 



Trees and shrubs of New England (illus.) 332 

 Ferns and evergreens of New England .... 'XXI 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Culture of ginseng (illus.) 332 



KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA.— We wish 



our readers could see a specimen of this 

 yellow-flowered Chinese tree now in bloom 

 at Dosoris. It is magnificent beyond des- 

 cription, and certainly the finest thinfj in 

 the way of a yellow-flowering tree of any 

 kind that we have ever seen. An illustra- 

 tion of it was given in Gardening July 

 1.''., '',)4, but the tree is finer now than it 

 was then, or ever before. It is a small- 

 sized tree, plentiful in nurseries, cheap, 

 hardy, and of the easiest cultivation. As 

 seen in gardens it is generally crowded 

 into a shrubbery or among other trees, 

 and is misshapen or enervated by starva- 

 tion. Thcspecinicn now referred to stands 

 alone on the lawn, and it is .1 handsome 

 tree as well as a gltMious Hoi.il leature. 



Big Flowers. — The pears of California 

 are remarkable for their size, and so are 

 the apples of Kansas, but both pale be- 

 fore the wild flowers of Wisconsin. In 

 the July Mayflower a correspondent in 

 telling about the wild flowers of Wiscon- 

 sin writes: "Of trilliums we have three 

 varieties, T. granditioniw, with flowers 

 eight inches across." My, my! 



Hybrid Poppies— There is no such a 

 THING.— Such is the opinion of W. Wilks 

 of England given in a recent Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. Than Mr. Wilks no man 

 knows poppies better, he having made a 

 special study of them practically for 

 about twenty vears. 



Ii- THE Fire Blight has attacked your 

 pear trees don't let the blackened limbs 

 stand there before you all summer prop- 

 agating the spores of disease for further 

 dissemination, but cut out all diseased 

 parts back into healthy wood, and burn 

 what is cut out. 



Canterbury Bells.— It is time these 

 were sown for next summer's flowers. 

 The calycanthema varieties are preferred. 



LiLiUM Harrisii that was forced in the 

 winter of '93-'94, and planted outside 

 last summer, was left in the ground over 

 winter, and slightly mulched, and is now 

 in fine bloom. 



LiLiUM canadense is now in bloom in 

 the meadows, and L. superbiim will soon 

 be in the swamps and other places. After 

 they come into bloom, and you needn't 

 wait till they ripen up, you can cut down 

 the stems, dig up the bulbs, and transfer 

 them to your garden. Even if the bulbs 

 are a foot deep in the woods and meadows 

 don't you plant them as deep as that in 

 your garden if you ever hope to see them 

 again. Plant them in deeply worked 

 ground, and 3 to 5 inches deep, according 

 to their size, and mulch the ground in 

 winter. 



Lettuces in Summer. — There is no let- 

 tuce grown that won't run to flower in 

 hot dry weather in summer, but some 

 varieties run soon that they are worthless 

 for summer use. Our best lettuces now 

 (July 10) are Thorburn's Market 

 Gardener's Private Stock— after the style 

 of Salamander, Yellow-seeded Butter, 

 Perfect Gem, and Deacon. The last named 

 is included because of itsgood form, tend- 

 ency to head, and slowness to "bolt", 

 and not for its fine quality, for really it 

 isn't firstrate in that direction. The first 

 named matures a little earlier than the 

 others, but all are fit for use inside of 

 eight weeks from the time of sowing the 

 seed. 



The O'Mara Water Lily.— A year 

 or two ago Mr. Peter Bissett of Wash- 

 ington raised a new hybrid tropical nym- 

 ph;ea and named it in compliment to Mr. 

 P. O'Mara of New York. It has a fine, 

 sturdy constitution, and produces large, 

 showy, red flowers with the greatest free- 

 dom. Mr. John McElvery of Flatbush, 

 who has had it in constant bloom for 

 nearly a year, and with whom we saw it 

 in fine form last winter, regards it ;is one 

 of the best nymphasas extant. 



Shrubs that bear second crops of 

 flowers are qtiite desirable. Among these 

 are American and Chinese wistarias, but 

 not the Japanese; rose acacias, magnolia 

 cordata, Lenne and parviffora, rugosa 

 and many other roses. 



The oak trees have started to grow 

 again; the warm dry weatherof May ami 

 liiiie, succieiied by" the copious i.iiiis 



recently have promoted quite a vigorous 

 second growth. But don't fear for your 

 j'oung oaks, this second growth will ripen 

 up perfectly before winter, indeed, should 

 a third growth start there is no need of 

 being alarmed, for our oaks are verv 

 hardy. 



The singlk-ii.owered Prairie Rose 

 (Rosa setigera). If you haven't got it 

 this fall, and plant it in good ground, 

 and next spring tie it up to a stout stake. 

 Now that the June roses are all past, and 

 the double-flowered prairie roses are done 

 this wildling is in full beauty. A j'ear or 

 two ago General J. B. Pearsall of this 

 village, at our suggestion got a couple of 

 plants, and he planted them in hisgarden 

 in good ground near the street. To-day 

 (July 10) they are perfectly lovely and the 

 admiration of every one who passes by. 



Greenhouse Plants planted out.— 

 If the carnations are running to bloom 

 cut them down, you want stocky plants. 

 Strip off the runners from the violets, and 

 confine the strength of the plant to one 

 crown. If they are diseased the spots 

 will appear this month or next, pick off 

 and remove ev, rj' leaf having round 

 white spots on it. Shorten back the 

 young shoots of bouvardias. Pinch the 

 solanums (Jerusalem cherry) into shape. 

 By keeping them clean and well hoed en- 

 couraged growth in the libonias. It is 

 quite safe yet to pinch in chrysanthemums 

 as much as desired, but better stop it 

 after this month. 



Cinerarias and Calceolarias.— It is 

 time to sow these now. Sow them in 

 pots, pans, or flats, well drained, and 

 filled with light soil, and keep them in a 

 cool window cold frame or greenhouse; 

 away from draughts, and shaded from 

 sunshine. Don't let them get dry, but 

 avoid drenching them. A later sowing 

 may be put in in August or early Septem- 

 ber. A pane of glass laid over the pot 

 but tilted up on one side li-inch will 

 greatlj' help to preserve the moisture in 

 the soil, paint one side of the glass with 

 clear linseed oil to dull it. The seed is so 

 fine it should be covered only very little. 



I ENCLOSE check for $2 for renewal of 

 my subscription to Gardening, which I 

 find indispensable. Since my first brief 

 glimpse of a few copies of the journal in 

 the home of a friend, and which led to my 

 immediately becoming a subscriber, I 

 have seen no cause to change my original 

 enthusiastic estima e of the paper. It is 

 very readable, practical and "up to date" 

 in all respects. W. Hamilton Gibson. 



Washington, Conn., June 22, '95. 



The above comes to us from the pub- 

 lisher with the following note: This is 

 the distinguished artist and illustrator 

 who does a lot of work for Harper's 

 Magazine. Doubtless you have read his 

 articles on wild flowers and insects, illus- 

 trated with a feeling equal to Alfred Par- 

 sons. His praise is certainly a very high 

 compliment. 



What can we raise from seed now to 

 replenish our gardens later on as the sum- 

 mer plants die out?is acjuestionthatmay 

 concern some of our readers. Now we 

 haven't many, for it often happens that 

 seeds sown now remain dormant in the 

 soil till after the ground gets agood soak- 

 ing rain, and then the young plants 

 plump up to keep over winter for spring 

 blooming rather than exert themselves to 

 bloom this year. Some hours before sow- 

 ing the seed soak the ground well, and 

 after sowing, shade it till the seeds germi- 



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