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GARDENING. 



Oct. 13, 



msDENwe 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



A rock garden (illus.) 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Merits and defects of a few hardy plants 

 Plants in bloom at Egandale 



How to winter canna roots 



Hardy narcissus 



Yellow cosmos— BoUonias 



Polygonum crispum 



Hardy aster and adlumia 



Is the Madeira vine hardy 



Fall planting oftrees and shrubs . . 



The Carolina poplar (illus.) 



Rhododendrons, azaleas, etc 



Clematis— privet, how to propagate 

 Ivy in Germany and fuchsias in Ireland 



A deutzia record 



Hale's paper shell hickory 



Chrysanthemums 



AQUATICS. 



Aquatics 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Building a g.eenhouse 



How I grow cacti {'i illus ) . . . . 



The greenhouse 



Firing a small greenhouse 



Bulbs for winter flowers . , ... 

 Double floweied nasturtmms 



ORCHIDS. 

 THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The fruit garden . . 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 



MUSHROOMS. 



Maggots in mushrooms . . ... 



Oat sprouts iu mushroom beds . . 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



How I grow cannas 



Garden Albums.— Several oi our sub- 

 scribers have a happy and interesting 

 way of noting the progress of their gar- 

 den year by year; they have the trees, 

 shrubs, flower borders, vines about the 

 house, and views and landscape effects 

 photographed each year and these pict- 

 ures arranged in an album. Not only is 

 this album a delightful memory of the 

 progress and development of the garden 

 and home surroundings, but exceedingly 

 useful in suggesting how, why, and where 

 to make further rean-angements and 

 pl,i'itinL;s I'nr the best effect. Photogra- 

 |ili\ 1^ in' liMiycr one of the mysterious 

 ^iiis, Mow.iil.nsit is one of the pleasant 

 n;i>iinn .uioiii iilishments of most refined 



Dry weather in Philadelphia.— A 

 nurseryman near there wrote us theother 

 day: "Our nursery is in a terrible condi- 

 tion, scarcely any rain since July 4. Trees 

 and shrubs are suffering on the hills, and 

 digging is almost impracticable." 



The Bean Mildew.— In the garden of 

 one of our subscribers in the neighbor- 

 hood of Flushing, L. I., this serious fun- 

 gous disease has made its appearance on 

 the Lima beans, attacking the pods; it 

 has also appeared on the Limas in the 

 market gardens there. 



SiiURDAN Homes,— "I wish I could 

 induce the th usands of young men in 

 our country in easy pecuniary circum- 

 stances, to build up pleasant suburban 

 homes. It wotild be the means of im- 

 proving their morals and health," so 

 writes the veteran, Mr. Benjamin (7. 

 Smith of Cambridge, Mass. 



The variegated form of Heknium 

 aiiturnnale, known as striatum, a vigor- 

 ous growing hardy perennial, blooming 

 in late summer, is just now getting a 

 good deal of praise, and it deserves it. It 

 belongs to the sunflower family, grows 5 

 to 6 feet high, and is very proliferous of 

 small flowers, dull red striped with yel- 

 low. 



Big prices for orchids —At the auc- 

 tion sale of a private collection of orchids 

 in England last month a plant of Cattkya 

 speciosissima Sanderx brought $378; C. 

 aurea Hardyana, $325; C. Mossiiv 

 Reineckiana. $200; Cypr/ped;um Winifred 

 Hollington, $350; and Dendrobium Lee- 

 anum, $200. Manv plants realized be- 

 tween $50 and $100 each. 



Tl'BEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS as a rule 

 have been a complete failure as bedding 

 plants in the vicinity of New York this 

 year, no matter how good the plants 

 were when planted out they seemed to 

 take leaf and stem disease, from which 

 they never recovered. Even Vernon 

 wasn't as good as it used to be. Torenia 

 Fournieri and portulacca were planted 

 among them to replace them, and soon 

 made a good effect. 



Fifty cents for the tree and a dol- 

 lar for the hole to plant it in is good 

 sound sense. Be very particular to pre- 

 pare big wide holes well filled with good 

 loamy soil to plant your trees in. Give 

 them a good start in life, and a few years 

 hence when you look upon the vigorous, 

 healthy, happy trees so treated, and then 

 at some that may have been set out in the 

 little basins scooped out of the hard soil 

 and only big enough to barely hold the 

 roots at the time, you will quickly seethe 

 wisdom of properly preparing the holes 

 at planting time. 



AsTiLiiE Lkmoinei.— According to the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle this is a new plant, 

 a hybrid between Astilbe Thunbergii and 

 S. astilboides Uorihunda. Its foliage 

 rises to about 19 inches high, and its 

 flowers are white with a rosy shade. It 

 "is absolutel}' hardy, and as well adapted 

 for forcing, as is A.'japonica, which it e.\- 

 cels from every point of view." It will be 

 remembered that A. Japonica, commonly 

 called Spirxa (or Hoteia) Japonica is "a 

 common hardy summer blooming peren- 

 nial and also much used as a pot plant 

 for forcing in winter or early spring. 



Alth.ea or Rose of Sharon, which? 

 In our note, page 2, September 15, we 

 gave the preference to Althtea, but one of 

 our readers suggests that Rose of Sharon 

 is the proper name. So we open our bible 

 and turn to The Song of Soloman II and 

 I and read "1 am the rose of Sharon, and 



the lily of the valleys." Then we ponder 

 did that mean the althaea? No, accord- 

 ing to Royle, Balfour, and other eminent 

 bible scholars the rose of Sharon there 

 referred to was Narcissus Tazetta, com- 

 monly called the polyanthus narcissus, 

 and which abounds in the meadows of 

 the level tract of c .untry between Mount 

 Carrael and Caesarea, known as the rich 

 plain of Sharon. 



SULPHIR PREVENTS SCAB OF POTATOES. 



—The New Jersey College tixperiment 

 Station has found that in planting pota- 

 toes if the freshly cut seed be rolled in 

 sulphur, and when planted in the rows if 

 sulphur at the rate of 300 pounds per 

 acre be dusted along in the drills, the scab 

 of Irish potatoes and the soil rot of sweet 

 potatoes are almost completely done 

 away w,th. In a trial of rolling the seed 

 in sulphur and also dusting sulphur in the 

 drill, only one per cent, of potatoes were 

 scabby at digging time; in one where the 

 seed was rolled in sulphur but no fui-ther 

 sulphur was used in the rows, only five 

 per cent, were scabby; in another where 

 no sulphur at all was used the potatoes 

 were all with rare exceptions, scabby and 

 unmarketable. 



Cactus Dahlias.— Last spring Mr. W. 

 J. Buttfield of New Jersey sent some fine 

 new varieties to Dosoris for trial. The 

 roots were small when we planted them 

 out, but we gave them good ground and 

 turned the hose on them, and they have 

 grown and blossomed a good deal better 

 than our old sorts whose crowns we 

 simply divided in May before setting 

 them out. Last week a noted European 

 horticulturist was here and advised us if 

 we wanted fine flowers and lots of them 

 to plant old, whole crowns in spring and 

 not to divide them. Now while that ad- 

 vice may be all right in his case it is 

 erroneous in ours, in fact, we would far 

 rather have sturdy young plants raised 

 from cuttings in spring to set out in sum- 

 mer, than old roots orevencloselv divided 

 old. 



Transplanting large trees.— We pre- 

 fer doing this in spring, and would pre- 

 pare for it now. If you want to move a 

 moderately large tree, say -1-, 5 or even 

 inches in diameter of trunk, next spring, 

 liead in its top now all you think ought 

 to be done at planting time, then mark a 

 ring on the ground around and 4, 5, G or 

 more feet away from the stem, the dis- 

 tance away depending on the size of the 

 tree. Now along but outside of this ring 

 mark dig a narrow trench say 3 feet 

 deep, the object being to cut away all 

 roots projecting beyond it, and fill up the 

 trench at once with the same soil that 

 came out of it. By spring the tree will 

 have fairly recovered from the shock 

 caused by cutting in root and top, ami 

 may be dug up and transjilanted with 

 fair chances of success. 



A manure pile A-FiKK.— The Journal 0/ 

 Horticulture tells us about a big pile of 

 ordinary horse stable manure 21 feet 

 long, 12 feet wide, and 12 feet high in a 

 London market garden that caught a-fire 

 by spontaneous combustion, buri iug 

 with an intense heat. It took the fire 

 department to drown it out. This 

 manure was what was hauled home from 

 the London stables by the returning 

 market « agons, and was not first soaked 

 with water as our manure agents in New 

 Vork deliver it out into the country by 

 railroad or sail boat, hence it was more 

 apt to dry out and burn. But what 

 astonishes us is the fact, that any san,- 

 gardener would pile up in height such a 



