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GARDENING. 



Nov. 75, 



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Mr. C. F. Bavse, an eminent florist, died 

 in Eng;land last month. He it was who 

 raised the first batch < f golden-varie- 

 gated coleus — that was thirty years ago. 

 In 1866 six of his seedlings were sold at 

 auction in London for $1250. He was 

 also a raiser of many other new plants, 

 notably fancy-leaved caladiums, dra- 

 cajnas, dieftenbachias, and ferns. 



Camellias —In answer to "Amateur," 

 Chicago: These evergreen shrubs, na- 

 tive of Japan, love cool treatment, mod- 

 erately moist atmosphere, fair moisture 

 at the root, and never any dryness, and 

 thin shade from hot sunshine in summer. 

 As pot plants, keep them at the coolest 

 end of the greenhouse; but they thrive 

 best when planted out in a bed in a cool 

 conservatory. Use good loam mixed 

 with leaf mould, and moderately small 

 well drained pots, and pack the soil 

 firir.ly in the pots. Try Parsons & Co., 

 Flushing, N. Y. They grow quite an as- 

 sortment of camellias. 



bothers may be -. ,, t ,i 



eiillghtened and encouraged, and of your failures. NymPH.EA MarlIACEA IGNEA.— In the 



'"&''E5rurPHS?o''G'RAPHs OR SKETCHES Of your Garden October 26, there is a colored 



flowers, gardens, greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or plate OI this new and verv beautilul hardv 



^"a'^'e'i"foYGA''RDEN?5G.'''" "* "''' "*''* """" ^°' PO"d lily. It was raised by M. Latour- 



- Marliac of France, and has bloomed in 



CONTENTS. M""- Robinson's garden during the past 



HOUSE AND WINDOW GARDEN. summcr. Tlic platc shows the deepest red 



A veranda decorated with plants (illus.) ... 6.5 blossom yet secured on a water lily. Mr. 



Plants for veranda decoration ■ ■ • ■ !i2 Robinson writes: "Not a very large kind 



House plants— Questions about them bb i ^ i • i j i i i --^ % t\. 



Mouse piauis vi^^ GREENHOUSE. but of Hch aud lovcly color. The 



An amateur's greenhouse (2 illus.) . . . . 67 effect of the red water lilies is quite dis- 



The greenhouse in November 68 tinct from that of the large white, prim- 



?inda,^us'veiKh'° . '. ' '. '. '. . '. '. .^ rose and flesh-colored kinds; they seem to 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. comc from a different species, flower 



Iris • • ■ , !i2 freelf, and have a distinct growth." 



The flowar garden ... 6« ' ^ 



Achillea-Desm^odmms-Vinesjor pillars . 69 ^^^^ ^AST MoRNING GloRY of the sea- 

 Chrysanthemum October Queen (illus.) .... 69 son is Ipomoea Learii, a tropical peren- 



My first chrysanthemums 69 „;ai species from Cevlon, and common in 



New chrysanthemum^^.^.^^.^ -0 cultivation here. Its outer leaves got 



Orchid notes . 70 blackened by frost a fortnight ago, but 



Orchids for winter 70 the recent mild weather has set it to 



Hardy shrubs, acr'fo*Tnl3w border. . . 71 blooming again, and to-day (Nov. 9) 



Kalmias 71 there are manv open blossoms on it, as 



Oak trees with beautiful foliage 71 jt grows on a' high wire trellis out of 



A°fin°e wistlria''^'"'' "'''.^"' '. '. '. ' '. '^ doors. 01 course the blooms are small 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. and inferior to what the flowers were a 



English gooseberries 72 couple of months ago, but they give to 



Pear tree scale^ vegetable garden'. ' ^- Learii the distinction of being the only 



Leeks 72 ipouKta of any kind, hardy or tender, 



Watercresses-Celery 72 annual or perennial, now in bloom out of 



The bean mildew (UlusO^.^^^.^ 72 ^^^^^ 



Mushroom beds 73 . ^ ^ , „ 



Had poor success 73 A CaNDID FaCT AboCT ChrVSANTHE- 



The new mushroom 73 MUMS,— We may rave Over the beauties 



Baltimore Cactus Jouinar^' 73 ^nd usefulness of the little pompon or 

 American Gardens and Gardening . .'.'.'.' 13 hardy chrysanthemums and against the 

 Insects and Insecticides 7,3 coarseness of the big fluffv balls or mop- 

 Wayside and woodland^ mo_^oms -3 j^^^^^ of those in vogue t6-day, but there 



Editorial notes . ....... 71 is no gainsaying the fact these big 



The editor visits Boston II 7.5 blossoms are the people's favorites and 



Grandma's sha gbaik ,8 the grower's ambition. Take a bunch of 



,. r> . ^„ A the little pompons and a bunch of the full 

 Hardy perenn als in California.-A ^ J ^. ^ greenhouses; 

 subscriber m Oakland wnes: "Here we „i„etv-ninelut of the hundred people will 

 have great natura advantages for grow- ^j,^^-^ ^^^ ^ blossoms. To a certain 

 ing hardy perennials, in our climate many ^. .^ | ; ^^^ ^^^^ ,i^^,^ A^^^,.^ 

 perennials keep on growing out of doors beautiful, "and the plants are far 

 ^11 winter. I am engaged ■" raising cut j^ ^j / of doors than are the large- 

 flowers to sell, and I find that showy ^^^^^^^ -^ ^^^t they and some "of 

 perennials that will grow outside the best , ^.^^. varieties are the only ones 

 and most salable things that I can grow, ^^.^ ^^ ^^^. ^t all hardv. 

 as I have no greenhouse. '^ 



Streptocarpi'ses as Bedding Plants. Outdoor Flowers in Bloom at 



—A writer in the Journal ot Horticulture DosoRis.-^It is now the 9th of Novem- 



says: "Grown strong!)- under quite cool ber, and remarkably mild lor this time of 



conditions in the spring, a full crop of the year, indeed since a week we have 



bloom may be had from them during the had lovely weather. We have over fifty 



summer. For filling bare places on the varieties of chrj'santhemums in bloom, 



rockery too they will be useful." Prob- Gloriosum the finest of all, but of course 



ably so, but here we had better treat none so good as greenhouse grown 



them about the same as we would Rex flowers. Cosmos is fair and plentiful, but 



begonias, at least we have found that we have better indoors. The same with 



they are of little use in full sunshine. carnations. Pansies arc plentiful, so arc 



single violets. Double violets are in 

 bloom in frames, but none in the open air. 

 Nasturtiums in warm sheltered spots are 

 plentiful China asters that escaped the 

 frosts of a fortnight ago are bright and 

 pretty and in quantity. Pot marigolds 

 are fine, and there are lots of annual and 

 perennial gaillardias, a few sweet scabios, 

 verbenas, petunias and mignonette, and 

 a sprinkling ofsnapdragon.and the sweet 

 alyssum is as good as it has been at any- 

 time this fall. 



A LARGE Carrion Flower or Toad 

 Cactus (Stapelia gigantea) is in fine 

 bloom at Kew. It is growing in a pot 

 suspended from the roof in a hot, moist 

 greenhouse; the fleshy four-angled stems 

 grow out over the sides of the pot, hiding 

 it from view. The plant has had seven- 

 teen flowers and buds. The blossomsare 

 star-shaped, a foot across, creamy j'ellow 

 dotted with brown and spread over with 

 soft, white, silky hairs. It is the most 

 striking and showy species of the genus 

 and as disgustingly malodorous as any. 

 Like all other stapelias it is a native of 

 South Africa. We used to grow manv 

 kinds of stapelias and found that they 

 luxuriated in summer when planted out 

 of doors in porous but moistish soil. And 

 instead of the frizzling treatment gener- 

 ally accorded to them, cacti, and other 

 fleshy plants, being good for them, we 

 found that they delighted in moderate 

 warmth and moisture, and a thin shade; 

 in fact the same kind of treatment best 

 adapted for the epiphyllum or lobster- 

 claw cactus answers admirably for the 

 "toad cactus." 



Deutzia Lemoinei is a new and very 

 valuable ornamental shrub, a hybrid ob 

 tained by the Lemoines of Nancy, France, 

 between the common D. gracilis and the 

 equally hardy D. parriHora. Deutzia 

 gracilis, from the mountains of Japan, is 

 a very common and beautiful small shrub 

 in our gardens Although D. parriilora, 

 a Chinese plant, is still rare in gardens, 

 there is no reason why it should be, for it 

 is an exceedingly neat and floriferous 

 shrub, and hardy, and blooms at exactly 

 the same time as does D. gracilis, but 

 with its umbels of white flowers ranged 

 along its last year's shoots it has more 

 the general look of a spiraea than a 

 deutzia. We have grown it for eighteen 

 consecutive years, and have no fault to 

 find with it. The habit of Z). Lewonei is 

 said to be intermediate between that of 

 its parents, and its flower clusters are 

 upright panicles of about twenty, one 

 inch wide, open flowers, and arranged 

 along the branches with more regularitj' 

 than are the umbels of parviHora. It 

 was first exhibited and brought to public 

 notice at a meeting of the Sociele 

 Nationale d'Horticulturede France, April 

 12, '94. 



The Chinese Golden Larch.— (Pseu- 

 dolarix Koetnpferi. ) This is one of the 

 most beautiful of our hardy trees. It is 

 not a tall habited tree like a Norway 

 spruce or European larch; on the con- 

 trary, in cultivation at auy rate, its 

 height seems to be medium or under, but 

 its spread of branches from the ground 

 up is wide-reaching and massive, but not 

 at all stiff or formal like those of the 

 Lebanon cedar. The finest specimen in 

 America is at the old Parsons place at 

 Flushing, L. I., aud the next, so far as 

 we know, is at Dosoris, where there are 

 two fine trees. The better one is 21 feet 

 high, o9 feet in diameter of spread of 

 branches, and the trunk is 3 feet 6 inches 

 in circumference. The branches spread out 

 flat on the ground for 29 feet from the 



