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GARDENING. 



Dec 15. 



e«DENIM6 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Mr. Barr's chrysanthemums (illus) 97 



An amateur's chrysanthemums 98 



New chrysanthemums (illus) 98 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Chinese matrimony vine 98 



Ampelopsis Veitchii ..... 99 



IRDEN. 



A bulb garden , . .... 



Clematis disease— Sulphate 



Some flower garden questions 



Clematis— Rose— Decumaria 



Pansies mildew in summer. 

 Gladiolus with thirteen petals . . 



Dahlias 



greenhouse and window. 

 Greenhouse— Azaleas— Carnations— Ros 

 Vines for a palm house. 



A flue-heated greenhouse 



landscape gardening. 

 Two small places treated as one (plan). 

 orchids. 



Exhibition roses 



Rosa nibrifolia 



Mulching with pasty manure 



Peach and plum trees lor Bath, Me. . . 



Not a Seckel pear ... . 



miscellaneous. 

 Interesting plants from New South Wales . 



The gunshot plant 



A thistle-like plant 



A PURE WHITE TIGER LILY 



ally found growing wild in Japan, but it 

 is considered very rare. So says Garden- 



ing 



World. 



The FRONT PAGE 1LLU.STRAT10N in Gar- 

 dening of November 15 is too grand to 

 pass by without notice. It takes every 

 effort on the part of those of 1 aste to 

 bring so tasteful an embellishment to the 

 front. I have long advocated just such a 

 decoration about our suburban homes, 

 and I am glad to see that you and your 

 correspondents lean so strongly in the 

 same way. Wherever you find these 

 beautiful home adornments, plants, vines, 

 arbors and the like, there also will you 

 find the gem of the human race. 



James Stewart. 



Elmwood Nursery, Memphis. 



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 ing to advertisers. 



Pepper for melons, etc— A corres- 

 pondent of the Journal of Horticulture 

 says; "For years I have preferred pepper 

 to sugar for melons and strawberries. A 

 little caj'enne pepper mixed with the 

 pounded loaf sugar brings out the flavor 

 of the strawbeiry wonderfully. Black 

 pepper with bananas is also well worth 

 trying." 



Sweet Corn.— In the Report of the 

 Maine State College, just at hand, we 

 find that ttc following varieties of corn 

 were sown May 27, and ripened fit for 

 use as follows: Early Cory, Aug. 14; 

 Dreer's Extra Early, August 15, Marble- 

 head, August 15; Early Minnesota, 

 August 25; Narragansett, August 25; 

 Perry's Hybrid, August 28, Crosby, 

 September i , Moore's Concord, September 

 8, Nonesuch, September 19; Stabler 

 Pedigree, September 19. 



A New Variegated leaved Celery is 

 one of the "good" things reported from 

 Europe. Well, we don't want it. It may 

 be variegated enough; the potato was 

 variegated, and we have seen variegated- 

 leaved turnips and other vegetables, but 

 what on earth are they good for? As 

 food plants are they any better than the 

 green-leaved sorts? As ornamental plants 

 ■who wants them? Now we believe in 

 novelties, and we uphold the persistent 

 efforts of nurserymen and florists in ob- 

 taining them, but we draw the line at 

 humbug. 



A New Departure in Horticulture 

 in London is announced in a cable des- 

 patch to the New York Sun, December 7. 

 It says "the solution of the problem of 

 how to produce flowers out of season has 

 been found, not in the process of forcing, 

 but in just the opposite direction, by 

 retarding natural growth. This is ac- 

 complished by the simple and inexpensive 

 process of refrigeration. It is especially 

 successful with lily of the valley, and also 

 works well with deutzias, Spinea Japon- 

 ica, the ordinary lilac, and Ghent azaleas" 

 and so on. But the correspondent admits 

 "I have a suspicion that the secret is not 

 unknown to the best American horticult- 

 urist." In this he is right. All through 

 the World's Fair at Chicago there was an 

 exhibition of lily of the valley in bloom in 

 the New York greenhouse, that was not 

 natural or forced growth, it was retarded 

 growth. This refrigeration process is 

 better understood and more widespread 

 than it is in Europe, in fact our opportun- 

 ities of practicing it here are as a rule, 

 better than are those of the florists of the 

 Old World. 



Tropical frogs in greenhouses.— We 

 learn from the Gardeners' Chronicle that 

 some tropical tree frogs (Hylodes Mar- 

 tinicensis), a small species irdigenous in 

 the West Indies, have been accidentally 

 introduced into the warm greenhouses at 

 Kew, England, where they are thriving 

 and multiplying. Dr. Gunther says: "It 

 does not spawn in water, but deposits 

 from fifteen to thirty ova on leaves in 

 damp places. After a fortnight the young 

 frogs are hatched in a perfect form, hav- 

 ing passed through the metamorphosis 

 within the egg, thus escaping the viscissi- 

 tudes and dangers to which they would 

 have been exposed during the process of 

 the usual Batrachian metamorphosis. 

 This instance of the acclimatisation in 

 Kew Gardens of the 'Coqui' (as the frog 

 is called in Porto Rico) is unique in Batra- 

 chian life at present. I trust that the 

 little guest may long flourish where it has 

 f und .such a congenial home, and where 



it usually aids in the destruction of plant 

 eating insects and wood lice, of which I 

 found great numbers in the stomach of a 

 specimen." Why can't we have some of 

 these piping "Cociui" in our big green 

 houses too? 



Snow on Evergreens.— Snow is a 

 capital mulch or protection to bulbs, 

 hardy perennials, pegged down roses, 

 berry canes and vines that have been 

 buried over winter, and also over the 

 roots of trees, shrubs and vines. When 

 it gathers in heavy masses over the tops 

 or branches of evergreens it is apt to do 

 mischief. In the case of firs, spruces and 

 pines the branches are apt to bend with 

 the weight of the snow on them and let 

 the snow fall off without hurting them. 

 At the same time, in the case of fine gar- 

 den young trees it is well to take a long 

 bean pole, wooden rake or something of 

 that sort and immediately after a heavy 

 fall of snow and while it is still fresh and 

 soft, go out to the trees and shake the 

 branches to remove the heaviest of the 

 snow. This is a safeguard against the 

 branches being broken, or misshapen by 

 being weighted down so long by the 

 snow. In the case of such evergreens as 

 yews, junipers, arbor vita^, retinosporas 

 and box that are pretty densely branched 

 a heavy fall of snow is apt to lodge on 

 them, spread their branches apart, mav 

 be break them, and injure them perma- 

 nently, for branches so spread apart and 

 kept in that way for some days seldom 

 return to their former symmetry. Antici- 

 pating this, before the winter set in we 

 should have taken some stout cord as 

 rope yam and tied the main or inner 

 branches in place so that a snowfall could 

 not displace them. If this has been 

 neglected, do it now, for most of the win- 

 ter is ahead of us jet. But tying is not 

 enough, whenever a fall of snow comes be 

 sure you shake it off of these evergreen 

 bushes, lest it do them harm. The same 

 with thickly branched rhododendrons. 



Childs' GLADiOLi.-The London Garden 

 of November 30 has a colored plate, true 

 to life (as everyone of Tlie Garden's plates 

 are) of Mrs Henry Ward Beecher and 

 Ben Hur varieties of the Cliildsii section of 

 gladiolus. The bulbs of these and several 

 other varieties had been sent to Mr. 

 Robinson, the editor, to grow and test, 

 and the plate is of the flowers of Mr. R's 

 own grown plants. He speaks in high 

 praise of them. And they deserve it, for 

 the named varieties of them are grand. 

 This reminds us of a bitter disappoint- 

 ment we had this fall. When his gladioli 

 were at their best Mr. Childs sent us 1(54 

 spikes of his finest named varieties, and 

 some that are still unnamed. Their size 

 of blossom and substance, and the bril- 

 liance, purity and softness of color in the 

 varieties were extraordinary. The}' were 

 too many and beautiful to hide upon the 

 table of our sanctum, so we arranged 

 them according to kind and color exhibi- 

 tion fashion in a room in the old farm 

 house (see its picture in Gardening, Sep- 

 tember 1, 1893) and invited ourneighbors 

 to see the display. And we had the flow- 

 ers photographed for Gardening, but un- 

 fortunately when the negatives were being 

 taken to New Y'ork they got broken. 

 Among the visitors who saw them here 

 was Mr. G. W. Oliver, of the U.S. Botani- 

 cal Garden, Washington, who stopped 

 over here on his way home from a tour 

 of the great gardens of Europe, and he 

 frankly admitted that neither in Europe 

 nor in this country had he ever before 

 seen gladiolus to equal them. In com- 

 menting upon these flowers several ladies 



