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GARDENING. 



Sept. /, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



How I made my garden (3 iUus.) 370 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



I,awn and flower garden queries 37 j 



A bed of hardy lilies 371 



Auratum lilies j7l 



Jacobean lily g^ 



Platycodon granditiorum 



The phloxes' jjageant 



A truSs of hardy phlox (illus.) 



China aster root lice 



Hardy pinks 



A yellow canna 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Filling in about 



Pin 



i for wi 



A pond for aquatics. . 



Greenhouse questions,. . . 



Cacti (illus.) 



The greenhouse 



Bulbs for winter flowers. 

 Begonia disease. 



ORCHIDS 



Orchid notes :- 



Book on orchids 



THE FRUIT GARDEN 



An orchard of pears and plums 



Young plum trees don't fruit 

 The Japanese wineberry. 

 Planting fruit trees for market 



Ciather the fruit 



California Burbank berries 

 The Timbrell strawberry 



THE FLORISTS 



Society of American Florists 

 President Lonsdale's address 



Chrysanthemums 



Selected hardy perennials 

 Latest facts about roses. . 

 Carnation diseases 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Egg plant fruit 



Watering plants out of doors 

 Opening a heavy soil 



fl flUMOROUS FflFER. 



J. W. Elliott, Pittsburg, I'a., writes: 

 "Gardening is getting to be quite a hum- 

 orous paper. The 'monument' story in 

 the last issu; (page .34-7) is as funny as 

 anything I have read for some time." 



Glad you appreciated it. It was the 

 "free adv." dodge over again, but rather 

 unique in device. Oh, the wiles and ways 

 of some folk in tr^ ing for a free ad v. ! But 

 Gakdf.ning is ahard paper tosqueezeinto 

 except openly by the front door of legiti- 

 mate business and truth. And then we 

 believe as you yourself, from your own 

 experience, have written us, that it is the 

 most substantial and profitable adver- 



LiliumWallacei is one of the real good 

 things too few people grow. It is now in 

 bloom. It is a dwarf lily with clear ap- 

 ricot colored flowers of'the elcgans type. 

 More than that it keeps healthy, and is 

 not as subject to disease as are many 

 bolder species and varieties. 



The SIXTH annual banquet to florists, 

 nurserymen and gardeners provided for 

 in the will of the late Henry Shaw of St. 

 Louis is to be given at the University 

 Club, St. Louis, Saturday evening, 14th 

 inst. The name of Henry Shaw is known 

 among horticulturists the world over as 

 the donor to St. Louis of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, which he also muni- 

 ficently endowed. 



American Pomological Society.— We 

 haveieceived just as we were going to 

 press the proceedings of the twenty-fourth 

 session of this society, held in Sacramento, 

 California, Januan.' 16-18, 1895. It is a 

 book 9x6 inches, and contains "212 pages. 

 What a grand society this is! And what 

 a power for good it is throughout the 

 land. Its proceedinus are full of solid 

 truth about our fruits and all that con- 

 cerns them— what they are or ought to 

 be, what to grow and how togrowthem, 

 how to market them, and how to combat 

 the pests that prey up them. All men 

 interested in fruit growingshould become 

 members of this society. 



The Journal oi- the Kew Guild for 

 1895ison ourtable. Three years ago the 

 gardeners present and past employed in 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, formed 

 themselves into a society called the Kew 

 Guild . and they publish an annual journal, 

 the one novi' before us being the third. It 

 gives a list of the Kew men past and 

 present and their a-ddresses so far as they 

 are known. In the first /ourna/the num- 

 ber ot men whose present addresses were 

 unknown was a surprise to us, in fact we 

 couldn't help thinking that but little 

 effort was made to find them. And even 

 now in this the third Journal improve- 

 ment in finding these unknown addresses 

 is scarcely diseernable. Why is this? 



Hardy Blue Primroses are among the 

 recent achievements of European garden- 

 ers. They belong to the same set of 

 which the wild yellow primrose is the 

 type. They were raised by Mr. G. F. 

 Wilson, an enthusiastic and discrimi- 

 nating amateur of Weybridge, England. 

 The flowers are of fine form and substance, 

 and run in color from soft pale blue to 

 deep violet blue with yellow eye. They 

 have been exhibited at several of the 

 meetings of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society of London, and where six of the 

 varieties received an award of merit. 

 These were Covenanter, G. F. Wilson, 

 James Nimmo, Mary Erskine, Oakwood 

 Blue and Red Gauntlet. They have now 

 passed from the hands of the raiser into 

 that of the florist, and are offered this 

 fall at the rate of $2 a plant for named 

 varieties, and $1.2") for unnamed seed- 

 lings. 



A fruit grower from Boston was 

 here the other day, he was particularly in- 

 terested in pears. Around theHub where 

 the land is inclined to clayey is a noted 

 pear country, but he never saw Clapp's 

 Favorite in such perfection as at Dosoris, 

 in enriched sandy land, and our Kirt- 

 laiids, like golden Sheldons, were a won- 

 der to him and more so when he ate of 

 them. On the other hand he said our 

 Angouleme, Diel and Lawrence were not 

 as good as his. He admired the size and 

 beauty of our Louise Bonne de Jersey, 

 but was surprised when told they were 



worthless to us because of the unusual 

 astringencyof theirskin. Flemish Beauty, 

 next in quality to the Seckel, was with 

 him as with us a failure on account of 

 .skin disease and cracking. OurSuperfines 

 were fully as fine appearing as his, but 

 much poorer in quality. This shows that 

 many varieties behave difl'erently in differ- 

 ent places. 



That little cottage garden.— We 

 appreciate the following letter which we 

 have received from one of our most criti- 

 cal subscribers, himself the owner of one 

 of the best filled and most beautiful gar- 

 dens in the country: 



"What an elegant number the last 

 Gardening (August 15) is. How it will 

 warm up the heart of Mr. Robinson when 

 he sees it. What a charming scene you 

 reproduce in the frontispiece, where nature 

 is turned loose to ramble at pleasure, 

 fearless of the shears or pruning knife? 

 How bold some of the blossoms have be- 

 come, climbing up upon the thatch of the 

 cottage for more light or is it to get an 

 unbroken viewof theirpleasantsurround- 

 ing? Were I within thirty miles of that 

 scene I would steal in there some moon- 

 light night, even at the risk of ghouls and 

 goblins, in order to get a peep at it. Oh 

 for more lovers of Nature as she wants to 

 be instead of admirers of her mutilated. 

 .\11 honor to the designerof thatgarden." 



Mr. Benjamin G. Smith of Cambridge, 

 Mass., has fully recovered from a long 

 and serious illness which confined him to 

 the house for four months. This good 

 news will be hailed with delight by horti- 

 culturists all over the countiy. Mr. 

 Smith is a retired Boston business man, 

 the president of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Club, and an enthusiastic ama- 

 teur gardener, and one of the kindest, 

 most genial and lovable gentlemen one 

 can know. In Gardening, October 1, 

 1892, page 17, illustrations of his resi- 

 dence and garden are given, and our good 

 friend himself may be seen there at rest on 

 the settee in front of his piazza. But the 

 following extract from a letter we had 

 from him the other day will be read with 

 pleasure by his many friends everywhere. 

 "Up to my late illness I did not know 

 anything personally about the infirmities 

 of age. Indeed, during my travel [Last 

 winter he accompanied the American 

 Pomological Society to the Pacific Coast 

 to attend its biennial meeting, which was 

 held in Sacramento.— Ed.] my associates 

 said I was the j'oungest and oldest man 

 of the party, I was everywhere on our 

 journey when off the cars able to tramp 

 about with the youngest of them sight 

 seeing. After 1-t years treasurer of the 

 American Pomological Society I felt it 

 my duty to resign and our excellent friend 

 [Mr. Prosper J. Berckmans of Augusta, 

 Georgia.— Ed ] re(|uested me to name a 

 successor. I gave him the name of Mr. 

 Chas. E. Richardson, who is also treas- 

 urer of the Mass. Hort Soeietj' and he 

 has been appointed in my place. I regret 

 you could not have accompanied us to 

 the Pacific Coast, we were the recipients 

 of elegant and unbounded hospitalities 

 from Boards of Trade, mayors of cities 

 and governors of states, nothing was left 

 undone to make our joy complete. When 

 we remember territorially California is 

 about the size of the Repuljlic of France, 

 with some 37,000,000 of inhabitants- 

 its future possibilities are great. I believe 

 the world has never seen such material 

 prosperity as has been developed there 

 since the discovery of gold, 1849. It has 

 contributed of gold alone $1,500,000, 000, 

 and its capacity for the production of 

 fruits, grain, etc., are incalculable. C.ili- 



