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GARDENING. 



Aug. IS, 



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CONTENTS. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



A cottage garden (li illus.) 354 



the flower GARDEN. 



Flowers in bloom at Keandale 354 



Raising moonflowers from seed 3>.5 



Questions about bulbs . 356 



The flower garden ... 3.56 



Salvia -Zinnias-China asters 3-56 



Yucca filamentosa . . .... 3.56 



Double flowered sweet peas 356 



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: peas . . 3,57 



Plants f?om Jackson, Mich. . . a57 



The African hihi-cus ... .... 357 



trees and shrdbs. 

 Hydrangea paniculatagrandiflora (illus ) . . 3.57 

 Trees and shrubs in bloom at Rocheiler . ,357 



Azalea Indica alba 358 



A blue-flowered Hydrangea rosea 358 



Purple beech and Pissard's plum 3.58 



Root pruning 3-58 



Vine for derrick 3.58 



Rose acacia 358 



While althaea .... 358 



roses. 



Roses at Chicago 3.58 



Roses in Nebraska 3.59 



Rose slug . . ■ • . . . . \V0 



A fragrant climbing rose for Ontario .... .360 



the greenhouse. 



The greenhouse 360 



Freesias not blooming . . . 360 



the fruit garden. 



About apples 361 



Gravenstein apples (illus.) 361 



Best flavored strawberries 361 



orchids. 



Sobralias 361 



the vegetable garden. 



The vegetable garden 863 



Lettuces in summer .364 



insects. 



A pugnacious caterpi la r 364 



An insect attack on maples 364 



Blister beetles 361 



An insect gall 366 



The fig eater b-etle . 366 



Black Beauty Cannas — .\ prominent 

 landscape gardener from Pennsylvania 

 when here the other day, as soon as he 

 saw this canna e.xclaimcd: "Why, what 

 is that? Where did you get it? Of whom 

 can I get it? Now that is something I 

 should like to get for use in subtropical 

 work." We told him it originated in the 

 U. S. Botanical Garden in Washington, 

 and we got it from there. It never was 

 "sent out," but several florists have got a 

 few pl.-ints of it and no doubt in a year or 

 so it will be included in their catalogues. 

 It is the darkest leaved canna extant. Its 

 flowers are poor and should he kept cut 

 ofl", but the plant is bold, + to .') feet high, 

 and has fine persistently dark fo iage 

 about the color of the leaves of River's- 

 purple beech in June. 



"A Red Marechal Niel Rose," says 

 Gardening World, "has been produced in 

 Germany by Dr. Mueller, who crossid 

 Marechal Niel with Gen. Jaiqueminot. 

 The habit of the plant is that of the seid 

 parent, but the flowers are red." 



Perennials the landscape garden- 

 ers don't WANT are those like Maximil- 

 ians and orgyalis sunflowers and the 

 like that grow to be so tall and slender 

 that without artificial support they break 

 down or fall over. They prefer plants 

 that will stand up in iace of w ind or rain. 



Ari-: Cacti as popular now as they 

 were some years ago? One of our largest 

 florists who does a general mail trade, 

 and who for some years pushed the sale 

 of cacti quite hard, says, "It is almost im- 

 possible to sell a cactus nowadays." We 

 are sorry for this, for there is t eauty and 

 interest in the family, and many of the 

 plants are so easy to grow. 



Californian PELARGONiUMS.--We have 

 received the "Report on Seedling Pelargo- 

 niums" bv a committee of the "California 

 State Floral Society." The seedlings 

 reported on are named Mrs. W.Childs, 

 Mrs. L. Strienning, Inoeente, Purity, 

 Anita, Katie lis, Alexander Craw, J. H. 

 Sievers. Mrs. S. P. Hart, Mr. Worthing- 

 ton, F. S. Brush, La Belle, and Miss E.G. 

 Britton. 



( '.ilciirist's Perennial Aster is a white 

 flowered form of our common New Eng- 

 land aster. Aster None .4D^/;a", and called 

 Gilchristii. It is a wild variety lateh' dis- 

 covered by Mr. A. Gilchrist of West To- 

 ronto Junction Ontario, who writes us: 

 "It will make a good hardy white flower- 

 ing plant. Last fall a clump of it in my 

 grounds showed up as good as Pyreth- 

 rutn uliginosuw." 



Hydrangea paniculata grandifloka 

 will be in fine form towards the end of 

 this ( August) month. A very pretty 

 "single" form has been in blooni with us 

 since the middle of July; and a late vari- 

 ety, almost the counterpart of the early 

 one, will come into bloom about the time 

 grandiflora is nearly past. You want 

 the three of them. Get them and j'ou 

 will have hydrangea flowers from July 

 till October.' 



Tuberous begonias planted out in beds 

 in the flower garden are not as a rule as 

 great a success this summer about New 

 York as they had been for some years 

 previous. Ever since the latter part of 

 June we have hadcopious rains, just such 

 weather as one would think these plants 

 would enjoy, but no, while they love 

 plenty of moisture in the ground, and a 

 mulching to keep their roots cool, they 

 dislike being doused overhead. 



Siebold's Plantain Lily {Funkia Sie- 

 boldiana) is the largest and noblest ap- 

 pearing m mber of the genus in cultiva- 

 tion, and although not at all a new or 

 rare plant it i& scarce in nurseries, and 

 mostly because it is often misnamed there. 

 Strong isolated clumps grow to be 6 feet 

 across, and the leaves, which are glau- 

 cous grien, have blades 12 to 18 inches 

 long by 9 to 13 inches wide. It has pale 

 lilac flowers in early summer, but they 

 are not showy, and it ripens seeds freely. 

 It is propagated by division or by seeds. 

 \ landscape gardener who saw it here the 

 oth r day said he would use it largely in 

 his plantings if he could only get it, but 

 he has failed to find a stock of it any- 

 where he has tried The use of this bold 

 funkia is certainly to be commended. But 

 when he told us that 



The single-flowered hollyhock 



was the noblest herbaceous plant grown 

 we refused to coincide with him. He has 

 a perfect right to his opinion though, and 

 certain it is that besides him, Olmstead, 

 and some other of our leading landscape 

 architects use it in most all of the places 

 they lay out and plant. 



One of the most gorgeous displays 

 OF flowers to be found anywhere may 

 now be seen at Floral Park, where a mil- 

 lion gladioli are in blossom. Although 

 thousands of spikes from these fields are 

 sent to the New York market every week 

 day the newer and choicer varieties are 

 not cut at all, and there are acres upon 

 acres of them Floral Park is on Long 

 Island, about 15 miles from New York, 

 and easily reached from New York or 

 Brooklyn, and a hundred acres of flower 

 fields are immediately around the R. R. 

 station, and everyone is welcome to see 

 them. 



The Purple Loose-strife (Lytbrum 

 Salicaria) and its finer forms named 

 superbum and roseum are very showy, 

 vigorous, hardy perennials in bloom in 

 July and August. They seem equally at 

 home in the garden border or naturalized 

 by the side of a ditch. But observe what 

 a diflicult plant it is to use with other 

 subjects; its mass of rose-purple spikes 3 

 to 4 feet high, bright and showy in them- 

 selves harmonize with scarcely anything 

 else except white. We have a lot of it, 

 and the summer hyacinth (//. candicans) 

 growing together and the combination is 

 realh' pleasing, and enhanced by a green 

 back ground. It is useful only for garden 

 decoration, for cutflowers its "color is ob- 

 jectionable. We find the same huein some 

 petunias and Drummond phlox, but it 

 isn't a desirable one in either. 



The double golden RUDBECKU.-Some 

 months ago we called our readeis' atten- 

 tion to the fact that a very beautiful full- 

 double flowered rudbeckia had been 

 secured and was in the propagator's 

 hands. In this month's Horticultural 

 Trade Journal we read "A large, double- 

 flowering, gold n-yellow rudbeckia will 

 be a leading plant novelty next year." 

 We are glad of it, for it is a good thing 

 and more elegant and beautiful tha i the 

 double flowered sunflower {Heliantbus 

 multiflorus fl.pl.). We got a little plant 

 of it last winter, and in spring planted it 

 out in the garden in good soil; it is now 

 () feet high, much branched, the branches 

 inclining upward, and in bloom. We hail 

 it with delight as being one of the most 

 distinct and beautiful, large growing, 

 hardy perennials that have been intro- 

 duced for years. 



The Annual Yinca ( Vinca rosea) is 

 something that isn't made as much of as 

 might be done with advantage. Thereare 

 three varieties, namely, the type, which 

 has rose purple flowers, one with pure 

 white Ho ^ers, and another having white 

 flowers with a red eye. Except in the 

 color of their flowers all are identical, and 

 the one is as easily raised as the other. 

 They are of neat bushy habit, 1>S inches 

 or so high, and bloom uninterruptedly 

 from June till frost. They are fine for cut- 

 ting for table flowers, and in the beds 

 have not got the formal appearance that 

 bedding plants generally have. We sow 

 them early in spring — say February in a 

 warm greenhouse, for coming as they do 

 from Madagascar they like warmth. 

 They ripen seeds abundantly with us and 

 selfsown seedlings come up ireely in June 

 where theold plants weregrown, but they 

 are too late to do much good. Better 

 raise them indoors and early. 



