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GARDENING. 



Atig. 



Eliif f Ifll^^ To Decorate the Banks of a Lily 



W Mlnir PoND.-We went to Clifton, N. J., the 



i li^lI^^S other day to see Wra. Tricker & Co.'s 



pond lilies. The ponds are in a swamp 



~^ I ITT by the side of the public road and have 



WILLIAM Falconer . Editor. -^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ form irregular 



, ^r~^ „■.„.,.„ iu„v,T.n pools. Their banks are wide or narrow 



PUBLISHED THK isTAND 15TH OP EACH MONTH 1^^^^ thicklv planted with perennial plants, 



THE GARDENING COMPANY scrubs a,,d^vin^es,_a^^^ ^^.^ 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. ^.j^^g ^^ ^j,^. X\X\ffi, to admire them The 



I „. „ ^ , , principal furnishing of these banks is 



subscription 12^J«,^,»3''„J»''otoNumber8. Adver- ^^^^^^^^ ^^ |.^^_ ^^1^^^ ^^^^^ ^^;,^ ^^^^^^^ 



Kntered at Chicago postoffice as second-class matter. bonestt thoroughwort, iron weed, sweet 



copyright. 18W. by Th e Gardening Co. fl^^g ^3^ ^^j, fj^g^ Jq^ pjg ^^^A^ ground 



All communlcatlonB relating to subscriptions, adver- nut [Apios tuherosa), blue lobelia, and 



adreStS°The°G«den'inrcomSk'nTMon'^^^^^ such other bold swamp plants. The 



Ing.Chlcago.andallmatterspertalnlngtotheedltorlai climbing hemp weed {Mikania scandens] 



&"ofGA';yE\-irG': Glen^cive'Nl'T"'"'''"'' *" '"" was also a favorite vine in the thickets. 



— — ,. ^ ., ,h„,,. Arrow heads, pickerel weeds and the like 



in?eres"\''n??tt1.1Tes"?o'u.'o?elnd"al I't^' make u grew in the margins of the ponds; and the 



'"iS^e and\e'iru°whiryou''w™iV''iri8Tur Carolina azolla and parrot's feather 



Sesfre to help you. (Myriophyllum proserpinacoides) float- 



AsK ANY QUESTIONS you please about plants. ing in the water had, we were informed, 



?u°aX™.''we wi1f?kfe'pie°a'sureTnKiX'^^^^^^^ lived there unprotected for years. A year 



SEND us NOTES of your experience In gardening In or two ago they made a couple of new 



any line; tell us of your successes that others may be po„ds on higher ground for the Victoria 



enlightened and encouraged, and ot your failures, r* , fe . fe 



perhaps we can help you. re^a and tropical nvmphEeas, and how 



SEND us PHOTOGRAPHS OB SKETCHES Of your to get Up 3 ciuick growth of bold shcltcr- 



b:;SuSfappiSrces''thafwl may' h\%'l fh'em-en'- ing plants gave them some concern. So 



graved for oakiiening. they hitched up a team and repaired to a 



- -" — neighboring swamp and there cut enough 



CONTENTS df ep big sods to line the banks all around 



TREES AND SHRUBS. thc ponds, and hauled them home and 



The mammoth tree of California (lUus.) . .>.« „i^,,torl +V,om YVIipn cr,rincr time rnmp 



Trees and shrubs in bloom at Rochester . . Si8 planted them. V\ nen spring time carne 



Golden oak scale :«K the sods began to grow, throwing up the 



Rhododeudrons-Kalmias -'iSg boldest kind of a thicket of wild asters, 

 Mv garden in northe^J'lndfana^mus ) 3!9 go'^en rod, eupatoriums and the like, a 

 Flowers at Egandale July .;o . . . 310 most appropriate setting, gay and beau- 

 Klower garden questions . . . •*^*'' i^J? tiful. Banana plants, Egyptian paper 

 Wafel-^'anUiSrt'ub''^ ^" ^ ^* ' ' '. ' B41 ^'^'^'^' ^""^ °ther tender plants are also . 

 An elnpty'flower bed . ''.'.'..'.. ! :il2 used here and there, but the main de- 

 Hardy perennials for June . 3J2 pendence is placed upon the wild growth. 



Fall sowing of sweet peas . . :il2 



Perennial phloxe'^—Auralum lilies . . «l3 The SwaMPV UPLAND FOR PLANTS.— 



''fanSm°° g''^°<^"l°''''"~«>'P<^"'^"" '^"^^"''sjS While most plants love moisture in the 



wm'ing'oflemonverbena when cut '.'.'. ' 318 ground in the summer, and much moist- 



RosEs. ure causes luxuriant growth, these very 



The Davvson rose 343 pia„ts dislike stagnant moisture. We 



Pr°o'pagrtin?lfardy hybrid roses . .:.;.' 3H couldn't help noticing how marked was 



Mildew on roses — Propagating . . 344 this point at the Clifton lily ponds, where 



THE GREENHOUSE. ^^^ scvcral plants, such as Arundo Donax 



Ea?if daffodilfiu pots :.''.....'.'.. ^ and the trumpet creeper that were grow- 



Disa grandiflora 315 ing on the banks or plats between the 



Get your bulbs^at^home ^ .^^^^^^. . . .345 ponds, were not nearly as vigorous as 



The fruit garden ...... 345 plants of the same kind grown on moist 



strawberries at Jauesville. Wis. . . . . .345 but well drained upland. 



Berry plants 345 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. The Black Aphis was giviug them a 



Bottom heat-Asparagus beetles 347 g^gat deal of trouble, infesting the parts 



The pels don%^devllop .■ ■.'.■. '. '. '. '. '. '. . .347 of the leaves above water and inaccessi- 



Truck garden, best soil for 317 ble to the fishes. Washing them off with 



. . . . , MUSHROOMS. brush or sponge or hosing them oft" was 



Failed with niushrooms^^^^^^.^^ 347 ^,^^ ^^,y :x,eans of getting rid ot them; in- 



The use of common names of plants 347 secticides could not be used On account c f 



The beer plant, . . 348 the fishes. 



Ventilating an ice house 34S . 



Thecellartoohot. . . 350 How ABOUT MOSQUITOS m these ponds? 



we asked. "We have no trouble at all, 



Pronino.— Locust borers are hard at they can't breed here," wewere infomied. 

 work and the treesare full of little broken "The fishes eat up every wriggling creat 

 branches, the result of their depredations; ure." The fishes used are sunfish and 

 cut them oft". There is no practicable help perch. 



for the locusts against the borers. Also The specimen of the Mammoth Tree 



. cut out other dead wood in any trees. of California shown on our front page 

 On account of the copious rains that we is about twenty years planted, and we 

 have had recently trees, especially young should think about 25 or 30 years old 

 ones, are making an unusually heavy from the seed. It is 28 feet 9 inches in 

 growth, and by reason of their own height, sharply pyramidal in form and 

 wcightof growing wood and leaves many clad with branches from the ground to 

 limbs arc bending. As we generally have the tip. The girth of the trunk a foot 

 one or two severe rain and wind storms from the ground is 481 2 inches, and unlike 

 in late summer or early fall, we had bet- that of most other trees the trunk tapers 

 ter shorten back these branches or cut gradually and most regularly from the 

 them in enough to lighten them, else they ground up. Why this specimen has done 

 iii.'iy i;ot lirokcn, and the specimen dis- so well we cannot tell. Professor Mtehan, 

 ti-iiKil. \\<. nulls made now, if shaved page 338, tells us it is a swamp-loving 

 siiK.oi li. In :iU.isy. Paint them with good tree, but this one is on dry sandy land, 

 liii-Mciliiil |i.inil , lirushingit well in, to ex- we must admit, however, that it is the 

 cliuk- air .iiid wet, induce healing, and only one out of several that were planted 

 ])rcvciil (lic.iy. at Dosoris, near together too, that has 



survived. But its lower branches on the 

 north side are beginning to fail. Where 

 it is growingis a strip of unkempt ground 

 around the barn yard, filled up with 

 locusts and other trees. At the Mount 

 Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., is a 

 group of seven sequoia trees much larger 

 than the Dosoris one, but the}' have lost 

 their lower limbs. They are the finest 

 trees we know of in cultivation in the 

 east. Apropos of Prof. Meehan's refer- 

 ence to the great age of the California 

 giants we may say that some authorities 

 claim that some of the larger trees are 

 as much as 4,000 years old, while most 

 all admit they are about 2,000 years. 

 They run in height about 250 feet or a 

 little over and from 25 to 27 feet in diam- 

 eter; some trees were even bigger than 

 these figures indicate. 



Editorial Rhubarb.— The people of 

 Springfield in Massachusetts are real nice 

 folks. So we forgive the editor of Ama- 

 teur Gardening iov his editorial article on 

 "Rhubarb Raising for Market" in hislast 

 (July 1895) issue, and which had been 

 copied, body and bones, from Gardening, 

 February 1, 1894, page 153 and 154 and 

 without a shadow of acknowledgement. 

 The Nomenclature Co.mmittee of the 

 Society of American Florists desires infor- 

 mation as to any cases of misnaming or 

 confusion of names in American decor .- 

 tive plants, as well as any other matters 

 coming within the line of duty of the 

 Committee. Communications should be 

 addressed to the Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee. Professor William Trelease, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



A CURIOUS development.— Mrs. Stuart 

 Patterson of Philadelphia sends us a rose 

 sprig with several well developed leaves 

 and a red flower bud at the end, but out 

 of this bud came a notch the sepal and 

 petals from which were arranged at dis- 

 tances of nearly an inch apart along the 

 branch below the blossom bud. The same 

 day a still more curious one of a similar 

 nature was shown to us by Mr. John 

 McElv ry of Flatbush, L. L " In this case 

 It was a rose branchlet with no flower 

 bud at all on it, but arranged along it on 

 the internodes between the leaf joints 

 were full-sized well formed bright red 

 flower petals. 



The double sweet Peas. — What 

 about them? Who has got them? We 

 bought seed of three varieties, sowed 

 them, and have raised from them a nice 

 lot of plants that are now in bloom, but 

 not one blossom in double or even semi- 

 double. Aside from not being double, 

 however, the varieties are true to name. 

 But the failure of the varieties to produce 

 double flowers may be no fault of the in- 

 troducers, for we must remember how the 

 American Belle acted when she was sent 

 out; at Dosoris at anj-rate she absolutely 

 refused to do a stripe at all, she had prob- 

 ably been "sent out" too soon, that is be- 

 fore her character had been, by selection 

 and perpetuation, positively fixed. 



A head of Giant Knotweed— At Mr. 

 John McElvery's at Flatbush, Brooklyn, 

 the other da_v we noticed a belt of Poly- 

 gonum cuspidatum growing alongside of 

 a part of the fence between his garden 

 and the main street in verj' rich ground. 

 It was ten feet high, and the stout stems 

 came up together so close a rabbit could 

 hardly run through between them. He 

 doesn't regard it as a pest at all; while it 

 suckers considerably, and would spread 

 out two of three yards if permitted, by 

 pulling out these wandering sprouts a 

 couple of times in spring or carlv summer 

 he has no further trouble with it. And 



