GARDENING. 



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CONTENTS. 

 trees and shrubs. 

 The Chinese cedrela (iltus ) 

 Notes on trees and shrubs . . . 

 lapanese maples {illus ) 





splanting a large horse chestr 

 ■ iiony, Madeira and Manetti: 



Klowers iu bloom at Egandale, August 2n 

 Bedding in Washington Paik, Chicago (illus.) . 

 Flower garden notes . . ... 



Old gold and pink flowered cannas 



small city p irks (illus.) 



the greenhouse. 



Chrysanthemums . . . . 



Window plants 



Bulbs for winter flowers ... . . . 



P. ants from seed , . . 



cold frames. 

 The cold frames 



THE vegetable GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 



A scale insect on Osage orange hedge . 

 To kill red ants in the house . . . 



\Vorms in the lawn .... 



Thrips iu a vinery 



The Japanese 



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Teas' weeping Mulberry tree for an 

 ARBOR.— A correspondent has an arbor he 

 wishes covered with trees or shrubs, and 

 has used Loinbardy poplars for the pur- 

 pose, planting them on either side of the 

 walk and training them over to form an 

 arch. This has done very well where the 

 trees kept healthy, but as several of them 

 took fungous disease and died^or were so 

 sickly looking that they had to be cut 

 out, he asked us to suggest something 

 that might answer better. We suggested 

 Teas' weeping mulberry. He writes "I 

 fear it would notreach theheightrequired 

 to pass over ray out house.' The misera- 

 ble low umbrella headed things we see in 

 catalogues give rise to this idea, plants 

 grown as indicated in such pictures are 

 hideous abortions, and a libel on this 

 striking if not elegant tree. The Dosoris 

 plants are on their own roots and 20 feet 

 high and still going up, with heavily 

 leaved Ijranches drooping to the ground. 



Rosa Luci.b is now the proper name of 

 what we have been callin; Rosa Wichur- 

 aiana. 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia.— This year's 

 crop of seed is now ripe, and we have sent 

 some of it to all of our friends who have 

 asked for afew. If we have forgotten any 

 of them, however, and they will please 

 drop us a note reminding us of the fact, 

 we shall be glad to send them a few seed 

 so far as the supply goes. 



The fellows of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, London. A question: 

 Why don't you remove your secretary, 

 W. Wilks, and as an officer forever more 

 deny him admission in your body? 

 Wouldn't this do you good, restore har- 

 mony in your ranks and inspire the con- 

 fidence of the horticulturists of the world 

 in your work? Isn't that Barron affair 

 a "disgrace to you? To the hidden hand 

 in that business are vou blind? 



Hemerocallis aurantivca var. m.^ior 

 is the name of a new and very fine day 

 lily recently discovered in and imported 

 from Japan. ThefioAers are said to be 

 six inches across and of a clear bright 

 orange yellow color. It was named b\- 

 Mr. Baker of Kew, and exhibited before 

 the Royal Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don July last, when it was awarded a 

 first-class certificate. These two tests 

 are recommendation enough for most any 

 plant. 



Potato Bugs and PETUNiAS.-The other 

 day when at Queens. L. I., we called on 

 our good old friend Nicholas Hallock. All 

 manner of crops had been good, except 

 potatoes, tomatoes and egg plants, he 

 had a hard fighttrying to save them from 

 the potato bugs, which are exceedingly 

 numerous on Long Island this year. Still 

 he was jubilant, for he had made a dis- 

 covery. After the bugs had eaten up 

 everything in their legitimate line of food 

 they tackled his petunias eating the skin 

 of the stems and branches more than the 

 leaves, and it killed them. There they lay 

 dead under the petunias in thousands. 

 The food first stupefies them and they 

 fall down and lay over on their back and 

 kick and after a little whlie die. On return- 

 ing home we eSamincd our own petunias 

 but there were no bugs on or about them, 

 this may have been because we had lots 

 of other food for them if they cared to eat 

 it, and too, lots of Paris green if they 

 dared to. 



Our this year's seedling cannas are 

 now in bloom and how fine and beautiful 

 they are. Among them there are pure 

 Mine. Crozys, glowing crimsons, hand- 

 somely spotted yellows, broad brilliant 

 blossoms, and massive trusses. Surely 

 we can name some of these, they are so 

 sturdy, so free, so fine, so gay? Indeed we 

 cannot, no, not one, for no matter how 

 beautiful they are, there are already bet- 

 ter varieties in cultivation than the best 

 of our seedlings, and we may as well own 

 up to it at once, than name a few and 

 "send them out" and have the mortifica- 

 tion of the public pitching them into the 

 rot pile after the first year's trial. Let us 

 be more discriminating in saving from 

 our seedlings. 



Sparrows eating spinach seed.— 

 From the middle of August through Sep- 

 tember we have a good deal of trouble 

 with the European sparrow eating our 

 seeds, especially spinach seed. But we 

 get ahead of them in this wa : Before 

 sowing the seed we put it into a bowl, 

 let a few drops of linseed oil fall on the 

 seed to make them, when well stirred to- 

 gether, a little sticky but not wet, then 



sprinkle some red lead or metallic over it 

 and stir again. A very little will do, just 

 enough so that every grain of seed gets a 

 little. Then sow and cover the seeds as 

 usual. The sparrows find the seed right 

 away and commence to pick it out, but 

 finding it doesn't agree with their stom- 

 achs they soon leave it in disgust and go 

 to feeding on crab grass seed on the 

 lawns, a diet we like them to indulge in. 



"Floral Emblems." — The editor of 

 The Independent went to Boston with 

 the Christian Endeavorers some weeks 

 ago, and was charmed with the insignia 

 and mottos of the society reproduced in 

 flower beds on a lawn. He writes: 

 "Every visitor to Boston during the late 

 meeting of that societj- visited the Public 

 Garden and saw these beds, prepared 

 with great skill, and which certainly gave 

 pleasure to ninety-nine out of a hundred 

 of those who sauntered along the broad 

 walk, on either side of which they were 

 displayed." And he adds: "But we are 

 told that we ought not to like to see 

 them, that they are unnatural, 'horticul- 

 tural abominations,' 'vulgar' examples of 

 'bad taste.' " And remarks: "Perhaps 

 so, * * but we wou'd like to know 

 why. The common taste approves them, 

 the taste of common people for whom 

 they were made, the people who pay the 

 taxes. * * This ought to be some 

 reason for providing them. It is true they 

 are not naturalistic; but what art is? 

 What is a Bon Silene rose but a brier 

 made unnatural? What is more un- 

 natural than the specimen chrysanthe- 

 mum? * * People like it, and always 

 will like these effects; and it is of no use 

 to fight against their taste, which is not 

 false, even if there be a higher taste. * * 

 The Boston Public Garden is a small, 

 level plot, admirably adapted along the 

 sides of its straight, wide, central walk, 

 -for the most formal and elaborate effects; 

 and after seeing the beds prepared to 

 please the Christian Endeavorers we de- 

 clare that they werepleasingto a catholic 

 taste that is cultivated enough also (the 

 italics are ours.— Ed.) to appreciate the 

 style of the .\rboretum; and we are sure 

 that the visitors will long remember the 

 little Public Garden and its floral em- 

 blems and mottoes with justifiable 

 pleasure." 



CROWING MUSflROOMS IN EARNEST. 



}Jr. W. H. P. Barley of Detroit is one 

 of the most energetic, progressive and 

 business-meaning mushroom growers in 

 the country, and he makes it pay. In 

 fact he assures us that he can make money 

 growing mushrooms at 25 cents a pound. 

 Not only has he a large mushroom grow- 

 ing establishment a few miles from De- 

 troit, but a year ago he started another 

 plant on Long Island. His Long Island 

 houses are wooden above-ground struct- 

 ures, 50 feet long, 12 feet wide, 7 feet 

 high, with tiers of beds, one above the 

 other. Last winter he had only seven of 

 these houses near New York, but so well 

 have they served him that he has just 

 completed his twentieth one. His Detroit 

 houses are sunk 4- feet under ground level. 

 Not only will he continue to run both 

 establishments, but he is considering 

 erecting a plant at one or two other large 

 distant cities. While manure is easily 

 obtained in New York, being handled so 

 systematically by manure agents, it costs 

 riiore than it does at Detroit or some 

 other large cities, where the gardener 

 buys it direct from the stable and haulsit 

 home himself .\nd in the east buildings 

 cost far more than in the west; the price 



