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CONTENTS. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



How I planted my place (2 illus.) 49 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Desirable hardy shrubs for effect in fall .'JO 



Aphides on the roots of young trees -A 



Deutzias and althaeas hard at Chicago . ... 51 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia .... .51 



Diseased mkples ....... . . 51 



Transplanting the weeping purple beech .... .51 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



51 



Clematis Mme. Baronne Viellard . . . 



Bedding plants in Chicago 



Lilium auratum illus.) 



The flower garden 



GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW. 



The valiegated rubber plant . . 



Our big geranium . 



The green house . ........... 



Tobacco dust as a mulch for violets . . . 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Chrysanthemums . • • • 



Chrysanthemum Day Dawn (illus.) . . . 

 A new chrysanthemum 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



My cool grape house 55 



Care of berry plants. . . . . • • • 'S 

 The best pears for home use (illus.) 5b 



THE VEGET.'VBLE GARDEN. 



The vegetable garden 56 



A LAUDABLE LOVE AND PURPOSE.— Mr. 



F. P. Livingston, of Pittsburg, Pa., 

 writes; "I have a great love for plants 

 and flowers and would be pleased to do 

 anything I can to impart to others what 

 little knowledge I have picked up while 

 working among my flowers." 



The double flowered rudbeckia for 

 cut flowers is going to be one of the most 

 useful plants lor amateurs. As we have, 

 however, received several inquiries about 

 it from commercial florists we would re- 

 mind them that the florists' flowers in 

 demand in summer, as a rule, are white 

 ones, and that yellow is seldom called lor. 

 Bearing this in mind, if you wish to try 

 it all right. 



Planting Bulbs in the Flower gar- 

 den is still in order. Indeed, many of us 

 have not vet been able to get our bulbs 

 planted because the ground had not been 

 emptied of summer plants earlier. But 

 finish up the planting of hyacinths, tulips 

 and narcissi as soon as possible. Don't 

 mulch the beds as soon as you plant them, 

 wait till there is a good crust of frost on 

 the ground first. 



Magnolias are Fruiting unusually 

 well this year, more especially the hybrids 

 as Sou/angeana, Norbertii, speciosa and 

 the like. And too many of the species have 

 borne fruit more plentifully this season 

 than they do generally, glauca, Kohus, 

 and the lovely stellata have had cjuite a 

 crop, but neither parv/^ora, Watson/, nor 

 hypoleiwa has yet fruited with us 

 although they all bloom abundantly and 

 each of the Ji is considerable of specimen. 



The .\nnual Wallflower.— Some of 

 our seedsmen since a year or tw-o have 

 made a good deal of fuss about this plant, 

 but the majority of the firms haven't cat- 

 alogued it at all. Now we grow it and 

 esteem it highly. It acts as an annual in 

 this way: Plants raised from seed sown 

 in spring bloom more or less all summer 

 long, and in fall they take a second spurt 

 and bloom more than ever, and the flovi;- 

 ers have the same favorite color and deli- 

 cious fragrance of the wallflowers of our 

 childhood. But it is not a plant that 

 makes a big show !it any time. 



A CORNER IN Bugs.— Dosoris has got a 

 corner devoted to the propagation of 

 Allorhina nitida, the fig eater or green 

 'June" buj of the south. For two years 

 we have been watching the strange ap- 

 pearance and behaviorof this bug among 

 us, and now, in one corner of the island, 

 and nowhere else on it, the larva; of this 

 insect occurs in thousands upon thou- 

 sands. While a very common bug in the 

 south, its breeding in quantity in New 

 York state has not before now, so far as 

 we know, been recorded. In fact common 

 as it is in the south, very little indeed is 

 known about its life habits. 



Long Island Astonished him.— One 

 of our subscribers in Madison, Conn., 

 right across the Sound from Long Island 

 came over here the other day and had had 

 his eyes opened. Rewrites: "I want to 

 let you know (as far as ink and papercan 

 be made to express my feelings) the 

 pleasure of my trip on the Island. Ever 

 since I can remember anything I can 

 remember looking across to the distant 

 shore of Long Island which is not always 

 visible to the naked eye from this shore, 

 and only the higher parts of it at any 

 time, and thinking of it as sand banks. 

 Of course in later years I have heard 

 something of its reputation for fine pota- 

 toes, cabbages, etc., but until I took this 

 trip, realized very little of its teauty, and 

 richness in everything that goes to make 

 life good." 



Late China Asters.— We put in a large 

 sowing in a cold frame June 10 last, and 

 when they were large enough trans- 

 planted them into one foot apart rows in 

 the garden. They were all done bloom- 

 ing by ttie middle of October. On July 3 

 we put in another large sowing in a cold 

 frame, transplanting them to the open 

 garden in due time. They began to bloom 

 in the second week of October, and have 

 been ever since and are now in fine bloom, 

 but they are short stemmed. Of course 

 frost injures them, but the afternoon be- 

 fore the night when we had the first sharp 

 frost we got a lot of shallow boxes, or 

 flats, and dug up the aster plants, retain- 

 ing a small ball of earth to each, and 

 packed them close together into the flats. 

 We took them into the greenhous-e over 

 night, and placed them outdoors in the 

 day time, and by this means are keeping 

 up a nice lot of bright blossoms for cut 

 flowers. 



Don't be hasty in covering up your 

 outdoor plants for winter, be they shrubs, 

 roses, vines, perennials or vegetables. If a 



plant is hardy enough to survive, even 

 under a mulching, out of doors over win- 

 ter it should be perfectly able to undergo 

 with impunity whatever weather we may 

 have before December. The winter-killing 

 time lor plants is towards spring, say 

 after February. A short spell of intense 

 cold weather does not do as much mis- 

 chief in our gardens as does a long period 

 of less intensity, and when the winter is 

 waning and the light is brighter, and the 

 buds swelling and the sap moving more 

 rapidly than in early winter, the plants 

 are far more susceptible to injury from 

 frost. Inuring them to a little more cold 

 in fall toughens them rather than renders 

 them more tender. 



Don't mulch your strawberry bed or 

 spinach patch or pansy bed before there 

 is a good crust of frost on the ground; 

 and don't wrap up the rose bushes till 

 towards or into December. Another dis- 

 advantage of early covering is the 

 attraction it is to field mice. We like to 

 get the garden cleaned up of all surface 

 rubbish and raked off' clean before we do 

 any covering just in order to do away 

 with every hiding place for these little 

 animals. When the ground is hard frozen 

 tliey cannot tunnel it and do the mischief 

 they will when it is soft. Strawy or rank 

 litterv stuff" of any kind harbors them, 

 but they don't like ground mulched with 

 well broken up or fine rot;ed manure. 



OUTDOOR PLANTS IN BLOOM. 



It is now the 2Sth of October and we 

 have had two or three quite sharp frosts 

 enough to kill down dahlias, morning 

 glories and tender plants t enerally, still 

 there is quite a lot of flowers in the 

 garden. The sweet alyssum is fine, and 

 there is a good deal ol mignonette, peren- 

 nial gaillardias are quite plentiful, so are 

 pot marigolds; there are hundreds of July 

 self sown pansies in blossom, lots ot sin- 

 gle fragrant violets and a fair scattering 

 of large single Indian pinks. There are 

 lots of flowers on the verbena beds and 

 the greenhouse carnations that we didn't 

 need for lifting and bringing indoors are 

 bearing lots i f nice flowers. The little 

 Siebold's sedum is in full bloom and cjuite 

 pretty. Aster Tartaricus, although big 

 and coarse is in fine bloom just now and 

 very welcome. Snapdragons, campanulas, 

 esciischoltzia, wallflowers and autumnal 

 stocks have scattering flowers on them, 

 and in the way of second crops we have 

 the small (cucumeritoUus) sunflowers, red 

 and white valerian, bicolor rudbeckia, 

 etc. Petunias here and there are bright 

 and pretty yet, and even nasturtiums 

 that have escaped in among the bushes 

 have escaped the frost. In open places 

 both cosmos and chrysanthemums have 

 been hurt, but in warm sheltered nooks 

 both are quite nice though late. Both tea 

 and H. P. roses are giving us a few flow- 

 ers, but both are now of rather poor 

 quality. Coba;a, maurandya and Sola- 

 tium jasminoides (generally called white 

 potato vine) where sheltered, have a 

 good many perfect blossoms on yet. And 

 one of the prettiest of all our border 

 blossoms is the everblooming little 

 lychnis {seniperHorens plenissima) so 

 much has been made of since a year or 

 two. 



Shelter. — Now while it might be a 

 difficult matter to insure a full supply of 

 any of these outdoor flowers so late as 

 this by a little forethought we can have a 

 liberal number. Shelter is of first impor- 

 tance. Wherever the plants have got into 

 warji sheltered spots there the flowers 

 have to a large extent escaped the trost 

 and the blossoms are the most numerous. 



