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GARDENING. 



Dec. 



«EDENIM6 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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Seueca Park, Rochester, N. Y. (illus. 



TREES AND SHRDBS. 



Rhododendrons 



Trees and shrubs 



The English holly lillus.) 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Lilies— Ampelopsis— Honeysuckle 84 



A pretty annual vine . . . . 84 



Clematis paniculata seed 84 



Hardy vines as cut flowers 84 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Display at Albany parks 84 



Chrysanthemums out of doors 8.5 



Chrysanthemum Mrs. W. C. Egan (illus ) . , .85 



Chrysanthemums for cut flowers 85 



Chrysanthemums— Pot plants . 85 



Chrysanthemum Gretchen Buettner (illus.) . . 86 

 roses. 



Roses 86 



Rose bugs 86 



GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW. 



Some winter blooming plants . 

 Nerine—Lycoris— Spider lily . 

 Azaleas as house plants . . 



Stephanotis . . 



The dove flower 



Lemon oil as an insecticide . . 



Our cool grape house ...... 



Grow more berries 



Painting a greenhouse— Grapes 



Our vegetable 



George S. Conover Chrysanthemum.— 

 On Wednesday, Nov. 13, we received a 

 box of flowers of this chrysanthemum 

 from Vick & Hill, of Rochester, N. Y. We 

 at once placed them in a vase filled with 

 water on a table in our sanctum, and 

 there they are yet (Nov. 25), some of 

 them, notwithstanding their 400 miles 

 journey by express, are more perfect than 

 they were on their arrival, and others 

 only beginning to show a little the worse 

 for wear. Every bloom stands erect on a 

 stem as st'ff as a poker. The flowers are 

 41/2 inches in diameter, and full double, 

 perfect globes of a clear, pure yellow 

 color. They are splendid blossoms, and 

 we are glad so good a flower has been 

 selected to commemorate the name of so 

 distinguished a gentleman as Mr. G. S. 

 Conover, of Geneva. 



The HArav Chrysanthemums are losing 

 favor. We do not find as many of thern 

 in private gardens nor upon our e.\hibi- 

 tion tables as we did in the past four or 

 five years. Still they are very beautiful. 



Chrysanthemum Philadelphia. -Not- 

 withstanding all the honors conferred on 

 this variety at home and abroad, we be- 

 lieve it is disappointing. Although a fine, 

 full, big flower, it is neither white noryel- 

 low. Perhaps extraordinary cultivation 

 may improve its appearance, "but as grown 

 under ordinary care the buttery smeared 

 tint of the petals in daylight is not at- 

 tractive. 



Mrs. John Laing rose is what we call 

 a hardy remontant, or hardy perpetual 

 rose. It is hardy, a good grower, and a 

 free bloomer; its flowers are large, beauti- 

 fully formed, soft pink in color, and quite 

 fragrant. As late as the middle of No- 

 vember we have a scattering of blooms 

 among our hardy roses, but of course 

 they are inferior flowers. On Wednesday, 

 the" 20th ult., the night before the hard 

 freeze, wegathered some blossoms of Mrs. 

 John Laing that would be passably good 

 "for summer blossoms, and they were 

 much the best out-door roses of their time 

 in the garden. 



Mr. W.A. Stiles, editor of Garden and 

 Forest, has been appointed one of the 

 Commissioners of Parks in the city of 

 New York, for five years. This is a happy 

 selection, and made because of the man's 

 fitness for the position, and entirely be- 

 yond the pale of politics. Mr. Stiles is a 

 gentleman of practical and refined horti- 

 cultural taste, and he has always been 

 deeply interested in the preservation and 

 improvement of our parks, and in making 

 them attractive to the multitude without 

 in the least degree infringing upon their 

 artistic landscape effect and beauty. Just 

 now, when the Botanical Garden is under 

 way, and a large acreage of new park 

 grounds has to be designed and improved, 

 to have men of the efficiency and calibre 

 of Mr. Stiles at the head of the Park De- 

 partment is a credit and an honor to the 

 city of New York. 



Anjou Pears.— Messrs. Ellwanger & 

 Barry of Rochester, N. \'., have sent us a 

 box of these superfine pears to show us 

 what an excellent fruit it is, and how 

 good to grow for either home use or 

 market purposes. The pears are clean- 

 skinned, even in size, just ripe, but in a 

 cool place they may be kept in perfect 

 condition for a considerable time yet, and 

 they average eight ounces each. The 

 trees are healthy, vigorous, early and sure 

 bearers every year, and adapted for gen- 

 eral cultivation over most all the country. 

 At Dosoris we have many trees of it, and 

 all behave well and bear fine fruit. Be- 

 sides being our best seasonable dessert 

 pear, it is also our best fruit now for stew- 

 ing. As ripe fruit we have been using it 

 since the middle of October, and we hope 

 to have it in fine eating condition till the 

 holidays. There is both pleasure and 

 money in a pear like this. 



Poisoning by Tulip Bulbs.— Our atten- 

 tion was recently called by some of the 

 workmen in a large seed and florisis' 

 store to the condition of their fingers, the 

 tips of which under the nails were cracked 

 and "in raw flesh," caused, they told us, 

 by handling tulip bulbs. Every year at 

 bulb time the same thing occurs, and in a 

 much more painful degree when they han- 

 dle the home grown bulbs than when 

 they are at work with the Dutch grown 

 stock; of course these men handle tens of 



thousands of tulips. In a cursory exam- 

 ination of the wounds we could not tell 

 what was the real cause of the trouble, 

 but on examining the tulip bulbs we are 

 inclined to believe it is caused by the fluff 

 or hairs so plentiful under the brown outer 

 skin, and we are strengthened in this opin- 

 ion by the fact that the brown skin of the 

 home grown bulbs is much more broken 

 than is that of the imported ones, hence the 

 fluff has a greater opportunity of escape. 

 The men now protect their hands with 

 rubber finger-tip shields. 



Mushroom Culture— Peeping Tom.— 

 A word with yot;: Some of our largest, 

 oldest and most money-making mush- 

 room-growers guard their methods of 

 cultivation with the utmost secrecy; they 

 have a perfect right to do this, they urge 

 their methods upon no one, they inter- 

 fere with no one. If you wish to know 

 these secrets, and see the mushrooms 

 growing, go to the grower openly and 

 manfully state your business and place 

 yourself in his hands. If he doesnot care 

 to show you his mushrooms nor explain 

 his methods of cultivation to you, he 

 will tell you so and treat you civilly. 

 Sneaking around into this corner, that 

 corner, and the other, where you have no 

 right or permission to be, hiding as it 

 were from the proprietor, and attempt- 

 ing to obtain information surreptitiously 

 from the hired men at work, are dishon- 

 orable methods, that no self respecting 

 manly man would condescend to. And 

 meaner still when that same fellow goes 

 around to growers who open their doors 

 to any interested person and boasts to 

 them of the ignominious way in which he 

 sneaked within the gates of their more 

 secret neighbor. 



Chrysanthemums in the Brooklyn 

 Park. — One of the large greenhouses in 

 Prospect Park has, during the past month, 

 been completely filled with bright and 

 beautiful chrysanthemums grown in pots, 

 and the public was invited to come to see 

 them. Among the handsomest flowers 

 were Golden Wedding, Mrs. Chas. Lanier, 

 W. Brown, Mrs. F. L. Ames, Mrs. J. G. 

 Whilldin, and Gloriosum,all yellow; Mrs. 

 W. P. Henszey, crimson, reverse gold; 

 Cullingfordii, glowing crimson ; Jeanne 

 Delaux, dark crimson maroon; Val d'An- 

 dorre, red, striped j'ellow; Ivory and Mrs. 

 L. Canning, white, and Good Gracious, 

 Viviand-Morel, and Waban, pink, and 

 scores of others equally good were there. 

 But the largest plant by far,— broad, 

 stocky, and full of leaves to the ground 

 and a snow mound of flowers, was a 7- 

 foot wide specimen of the single white- 

 flowered sort called Daisy. After the 

 chrysanthemums are past this greenhouse 

 is filled with other seasonable blooming 

 plants, and its floral fullness and gaiety 

 maintained all the winter and spring, and 

 it is filled with tender aquatics in sum- 

 mer. Adjoining ranges of greenhouses 

 are devoted to palms, cacti, ferns, orchids, 

 etc., and all are freely open to the people. 

 This is as it should be, and as vie hope to 

 see it in the parks of every city in the 

 country. 



Supt. Egerton, of the Albany parks, 

 tells us about how it is done in his city; 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., and Chicago also have 

 spacious greenhouse gardens teeming 

 with floral beauty and tropical luxuri- 

 ance as much for the benefit and pleasure 

 of the public in winter as are the outdoor 

 flower beds and rose gardens in summer. 



Poisonous Wild Plants in and around 

 New York.— Dr. Henry H. Rusby deliv- 

 ered a lecture in New York a few nights 

 ago on this subject. Among plants more 



