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GARDENING. 



Oct. /. 



GARDENING 



William Falconer, Editor. 



PUBLIBHID THK 1ST A^fD 15TH OP EACH MONTH 



THE GARDENING COMPANY. 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. 



Vick's white branching aster is one 

 of" the largest and finest blooming of all 

 China asters. A pink flowering variety of 

 it has now been secured. 



A White Crimson Rambler Rose.— A 

 prominent British tiorist visiting here the 

 other day told us about a white variety 

 of the Crimson Kamblerthat is nowbeing 

 "worked up" on the quiet. He was very 

 pronounced in his praise of Crimson 

 Rambler itself. 



gubscrlptlon Price, K.OO a Tear-24 Numbers. Adver- Twi- Daht us i onK- bah— MrWm F 



tlBlnK rates on apullcatlon. 1 HE UAHLI.\S I-OOK BAD — ivir. \v ni. r. 



Kntored at ChlcaRo postotBce as second^jiass matter. Bassett of Hammonton, N. J , quite a 



copyright, I8W. by Th e Gardening Co. dahlia fancier, writing to us September 



All communications relating to subscriptions, adver- 22, savs: "It is very dry and e.xcessivel v 



add?e™ed trThe°oSrtem?g C«%?a"5?Monon"Bulld^ hot here-98° in the'shade yesterday and 



Ing, Chicago, and all matters pertaining w the editorial 970 to-day. I never knew dahlias look 



a"o?GV.i5ENiSo':Giln°civeVy '' so bad before. The American Dahlia So- 



GAHDEN.NO is gotten il^r Its readers and In their piety's coinmittee at their last meeting 



Interest and It behooves you. one and all. to make It decided not to hold a regular exhibition 



interesting If It ."iop'po' exactly suit your case because there was likely to be so little to 



please write and tell us what you want. 11 is our , ,, 



desire to help you. ^ , ^ snow. 



ASK ANY OrESTioNS you please about plants, 



rre'?s.'™^?'^1ftr*p1^7u'rn'k^n%";'e^Wlm'^^ ^. An EXHIBITION OK CANNAS was held in 



SEN!) us NOTES Of jour experience In gardening In \ew \ ork September 23. But on account 

 SSii°tlied"aSd "e'nSSragedftnd'of' youf faTu're*^ of the protracted drouth and the exceed- 

 perhaps we can help you. inglv hot weather at the time of and for 

 f^^r. gTrd^s"Te"niro"ules';''frSK^^y?|eU'.es^°Sf some days immediately preceding the 

 horticultural appliances that we may have them en- exhibition, the exhibits were not as many 



graved for Ga rdening. or as varied as would have besn the case 



f-nrjTFNT'i \\3.d. the weather been cooler. In fact on 



ENHODSE ^^^^ account some of our most enthusias- 



An amateur so?c"h!d?'(flhrs')°° ' 17 tic canna raisers were unable to make 



Thegreenhouse j8 any exhibit. 



Keeping Musa ensete over winter • • i° ^ ,, „ ^ „ 



Carnations in winter . . . 18 The English Flower Garden.— Sev- 



Keeping carnations over winter 18 eral of our subscribers have written to US 



Fancy leaved cajadmms^^^^^^^^^ asking for this book. Our publisher's 



The Bower basket at Egandale (illus.) 19 stock of it has been sold out, but he has 



English and Spanish irises 20 g^j^j ^^ London for a further supply, and 



R^m'°fcr'firises " ^" . , . ' ' 20 in a few days expects to beable to Supply 



Sw^et'p^as . 20 it to all who want it. The price here. 



Vines for a north facing piazza. . |1 post paid, is $6. It is the best book on 



B'i?f«perienc°e"'*". '.'...:.''. -a the subject in the English language, right 



Renewing an old weedy lawn 22 up to date, lavishly illustrated, and by 



The flower garden _ ..... , ■ *5 the greatest master in the art of decora- 



Winter protection^for ^-^'^^Jf^^y plants .22 ^^^.^^^^^^^^^^ !;,,;„„ 



Questions about trees and shrubs ig 



Bad year for trees in New Jersey 23 COLUMBIA, the champion canna 01 the 



Camperdown elms _ '23 World's Fair, and still regarded as one 



rfothX'^l'ant""' •:..:...:■ S of the (if not the) best crimson cannas in 



ROSES. commerce has disappointed us. It is 



Roses in Wisconsin '23 dwarf and produces immense branched 



|?ris°oVRambteTrose . '. '. ■.■.■... ^ '. '^\ 24 heads of large blossoms, but among fifty 



Winter mulching for roses 24 varieties of nevv' cannas now in full 



AgnATics. growth and bloom at Dosoris, it is the 



Aquatics . ^.^.^ .^^^^^. ^^-gjjg^; poorest grower. This may be the fault of 



Some of the Japan plums . . 24 the individual plant that we have how- 



The fruit garden . . • . ... 24 ever, rather than of the varietv. Anvwav 



PrCa1a^fnVbe":^^"u?res''"""'.■.■ . ! ' : : ' 25 there are among scarlets and crimsons 



Hale's paper shell hickorj- '25 several whose vivid colors are more 



CACTI. pleasing. 



Cacti: how to grow them . - 



ThevegetabTI'garfeT''"''''"'^.'"""'' '27 I'"OR ASTER SEED.-One of our sub- 

 Raising muskmelons '27 scribers asks us to tell her where she can 



get good seed and true to name, what 



HvMENOCALLis (Ismene) calathinum she has had this year has been poor, and 



is a crinum-like bulbous plant with beau- wrongly named, and she" won'tstand it." 



tiful, white, very fragrant flowers, a We all "know that the China aster seed 



native of Brazil. But it is one of the crop of '94 was a failure, hence there was 



easiest of plants to grow— plant it out in very little good seed on the market this 



the garden in Mav, and lift the bulbs in veaV, but be it good or bad we should see 



October and keep them dry over winter to it that it is true to name. About the 



as one would a gladiolus. At Mr. Me- best seed to be had this year was what 



Elvery's at Flatbush the other day we vi-as left over from last year's sales; that 



saw alongrowofitin hisgarden. "Well, is the crop of 1S93. But the prospects 



I'll tell vou how I came tohavesomany," are bright for good seed and plenty of it, 



he remarked. "Some years ago I got a next spring. 



verv large bulb of it and planted out in „ ^ at t u 



mv'garden, in the fall I dug it up with a More Chrysanthemums.— Mr. T. H. 



fork but not thinking it was so deep in Spaulding of Orange, N. J, many of 



the ground broke the bulb at the base. I whose new chrysanthemums we dlus- 



was sorry enough, but I dried the wound trated in Gardening last fall, has gone 



and buried the bulb in drv soil in a pot in into the cultivation of this beautiful 



the house It kept plump and nice and in flower more extensively than ever. He 



serine showed signs of buds at the base. has just completed a new greenhouse 100 



I nlanted it out as before, and that sum- feet long by 25 feet wide for them, and 



mer got sixteen ofi'sets from it. And for has in course of erection other three 



cutting the flowers are much better than greenhouses of the same dimensions for 



crinums, they last so much longer." the same purpose, besides one equally 



large for carnations. No doubt Mr. 

 Spaulding is encouraged in this bj' the 

 satisfactory progress of a host of new 

 seedlings of chrysanthemums he has 

 raised this year, both from home saved 

 pedigree seeds and a special selection of 

 seed from Japan. From among both of 

 them he expects something new, distinct 

 and pretty nice. He sent some of the 

 seeds of both to Dosoris last spring and 

 we have a very promising lot of plants 

 from them. That is one of the good 

 things in chrysanthemums, we can raise 

 them from seed and bloom them the same 

 year. 



Golden Glow is to be the name of the 

 new double flowering form of Rudbeckia 

 laciniata that is going to be sent out as a 

 novelty among hardy herbaceous plants 

 next year. We saw it in bloom in the 

 summer of 1894-, and were not only par- 

 ticularly well pleased with it as a vigor- 

 ous decorative plant, butamazed because 

 we had never before seen or heard 

 of a double-flowered rudbeckia. Last 

 spring a plant of it was sent to Dosoris 

 for trial. We planted it out in the open 

 garden where it has grown strongly and 

 blossomed lavishly and most beautifully 

 and for several weeks. Among the pro- 

 minent horticulturists who have gone 

 into ecstacies over it as seen at Dosoris 

 were Wm. R. Smith, of the U. S. Botani- 

 cal Garden, Washington, Wm. L. Swan 

 of Ovster Bay, and John McElverv of 

 Flatbush. The flower stems rise 5 to 7 

 feet high and are very branching and 

 carry sheaves of large, showy, pure, deep 

 yellow, full-double blossoms, far more 

 beautiful and elegant than those of any 

 sunflower, and they last well when cut. 

 Not only has this plant great value for 

 garden decoration, but for cut flowers it 

 IS going to be invaluable. There is no 

 green or dark eye whatever to it, it is 

 quite double, and without any of the 

 stirt'ness peculiar to Heliantbus mvlti- 

 florus or any other sunflower. In fact we 

 look upon it as the most desirable addi- 

 tion to our hardy plants since Clematis 

 paniculata was introduced. 



Poisoning by nightshade {Solanum 

 nigrum).— A little girl between two and 

 three years of age, in Glen Cove, was out 

 picking and eating grapes when she came 

 upon one of these nightshade vines full ot 

 its black berries, and thinking they too 

 must be good to eat she picked and swal 

 lowed some of them. ,She became very 

 sick, going into convulsions and showing 

 every symptom ot Belladonna poisoning. 

 A phj'sician was immediately on hand 

 and after considerable work succeeded in 

 saving thechild. The black ben-ies ejected 

 by the little sufferer were identified as 

 those of Solanum nigrum. This solanum 

 is a bushy, sprawling, common weed, a 

 naturalized plant from Europe and fre- 

 quent in moist waste places, as by road- 

 sides, hedgerows rubbish dump places iu 

 gardens and the like. It will spread flat 

 along the ground or rise up among other 

 bushes, but it is not a climbing plant. Its 

 leaves are ovate and deep green, and its 

 flowers quite small, white, potato like, 

 and in small clusters, soon succeeded by 

 small round green berries that change to 

 black when ripe, .\lthough large children 

 and grown people are not apt to eat ot 

 this fruit, they are tempting enou.h to 

 young children who usually look upon all 

 kinds of berries as something meant to 

 be eaten. And as they are neither ill 

 tasting nor ill smelling they ofler nothing 

 repugnant to voung children. We would 

 therefore urge our readers who notice this 

 vile plant growing on or about their 

 premises to pull it up and destroy it. The 



