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GARDENING. 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM MARION CLEVELAND. 



spread among or over boulders in a rock 

 garden in good soil. It is nothing like as 

 good a garden vine for us as are the Jap- 

 anese climbing hydrangea and the schizo- 

 phragma, both of which grow freely and 

 l)l(iom nicelv here. 



PflNSIES, MILDEW IN SUMMER. 



1 had very fine German pansies till 

 about the first of July, when they began 

 to mildew, and in a few weeks they were 

 entirely ruined. Can Gardening give me 

 a jjreventive or a remedy? My garden is 

 in the mountains of Eastern Oregon, 

 3,500 feet attitude. Heretofore pansies 

 have grown in the greatest perfection 

 for me. Some were on dr\- ground, some 

 on moist; all were irrigated and all mil- 

 dewed alike. W. C. C. 



Inion, Oregon. 



It is more surprising to us that the pan- 

 sies used to do so well with you after 

 July 1, than that they began to fail at 

 that time this year. Here, after June sets 

 in our pansies are apt to get too small to 

 he worth anything, but last spring on 

 account of cool weatherandplentymoist- 

 ure up till midsummer we had fair pansies 

 till near the end of June; and then again, 

 sclfsown seedlings began blooming in 

 August, and from the middle of September 

 till into November we had quite nice pan- 

 sies out of doors. But up in the moun- 

 tains we would look for a longer season 

 for them. As pansies loves a cool moist 

 atmosphere as well as moisture at the 

 root, if the ground had to be irrigated to 

 moisten it we should think the atmos- 

 phere was pretty dry for good pansies. 

 Pansies are strictly fall, winter, and 

 spring blooming plants, the latter more 

 particularly. Take them in the Boston 

 Public Garden, for instance, where in com- 

 pany with polyanthuses, forget-me-nots, 

 silene, daisies, and other spring blooming 

 plants they are used in thousands for 

 spring gardening, bj- midsummer they 

 are so enervated that the gardener gener- 

 ally clears them away in June and 

 replaces them with something else. Or 

 take it in England where fine pansies are 

 a specialty, the English people admit that 

 they cannot grow as fine pansies as are 

 raised in Scotland where the temperature 

 is lower. In both countries pansies are 

 spring flowers only, that is they are not 

 required to do duty at midsummer; when 

 mildew attacks pansies in summer out of 

 doors it is a good sign that pansy time is 

 over for a season. We know ol no pre- 

 ventive. Even should we, by the use of 

 fungicides, destroy the mildew, we could 

 not restore the plants to spring-time 

 energy nor cause them to bear big flowers. 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM DAYBREAK. 



GLADIOLUS Wn« THIRTEEN PETALS. 



.A normal flower of the gladiolus has 

 si.\ petals, a few years ago I grew one 

 with ten petals, this year I had a spike of 

 a fine white seedling that bore nineteen 

 flower buds. The lowest or first flower 

 had ten petals, the second eight, the third 

 and fourth were normal, then came two 

 flowers growing side by side, with eight 

 petals,cach,the seventh was again norm 1, 

 then came a flower bearing thirteen 

 petals above this the spike carried double 

 buds, that is twogr jwing side by side the 

 same as the fifth and sixth. The stamens 

 varied about the same as the petals, the 

 stigma of the first, third, fourth, fifthand 

 si.\th flower were normal and all had 

 fertilized ovaries and bore seeds. The 

 styles of the second and eight flowers 

 were double and stigmas infertile, pro 

 ducing no seeds. I hand fertilized with 



