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GARDENING. 



July 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Natural gardening (illus.) . . .Wfy 



Cypripediuras pubescens and .spectabile .... :i06 



Red spider on sweet peas and poppies . 

 Lillum candiduni losing its leaves . . 



Centaurea dealbata . 



Aquilegia seed 



Hardy phlox 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Retinosporas 



Rhododendrons . . 



The Capitol grounds, Washineton . . . 



Hardy shrubs in bloom June 23 



Propagation of hardy heaths 



Trumpet creeper on clo.hes post .... 



A mock orange ... 



The European linden . 



TlK 



: garden. Jacks 



■ bugs don't eat poppies . 

 tering roses . 



nulch for roses . 



Crimson Ramble 



: GREENHOUSE. 



Chinese primrose seed 

 A new fern (illus.) . . 

 The sword fern ... 

 Violets in pots for spring . 



Japan persimmons . 

 A pretly blue flower . 



Vegetables 



LovEi.v Blue Columuinks — A. Ii I'., 

 Schenectady, N. Y., writes: "I have just 

 been reading thejune 15 number of delight- 

 ful (iARi)ENiNG, and I notice this remark 

 about Ai{ui\eg\a ctvrulea 'How mortifying 

 it is when we buy a lot of cncrulca seeds 

 ^ tofindourplantsareamongrellotof 

 short spurred and long spurred, etc. Who 

 can send us some seeds of the genuine 

 c(i.ru'ca?' 1 have grown the ccvrulea for 

 years with unvarying success. My gar- 

 den is not very large but lovely beyond 

 words, and thecnchantingdelicate beauty 

 of the ccLTuIea columbine is never absent 

 from it. The tufts arc about a foot and 

 a half across with the profusion of rigid 

 stems and immense blue and white flow- 

 ers rising finely above them. 1 got the 

 seed from K, and J. Fanjuharof T 



"Fifty varieties of Columbines" are 

 what one of our readers finds in a leading 

 (jerman catalogue, and among them 

 civriilea. A\as, we have, time and time 

 again, waded in the mire of catalogue 

 multitude, and in the field of experience 

 become sceptical. It isn't what a host of 

 loveliness a list like that inspires within 

 us, but what an array of rubbish, even 

 from that source get a packet of coltuIch, 

 sow it, and grow it, and see what you 

 get. Also send to Boulder, Colorado, as 

 you likewise suggest for seed of ccerulen 

 and grow it. from there you will proba- 

 bly get something you will esteem. 



The Swket Briars. Out in the woods 

 bej'ond Homestead, the other day, we 

 came upon lots of the genuine fragrant 

 briar btishes. and how delightful was 

 their sweetness. I'ponthe crests of the 

 steep clay bluff's they were too, evidently 

 escapes from cultivation. Because ol 

 their thrift in that position, and their 

 sweetness and old associations we quickly 

 decided that Schenley Park was the proper 

 place for them. No matter how small 

 your garden may be find a place for a 

 sweet briar bush in it, for its young 

 shoots and leaves are always sweet, and 

 a bunch of them when you cannot get 

 blossoirs will always fill your rooms 

 with a delightful jjerfnme. 



The Wild H vdrani-.ea (A. arborescens). 

 —This is the most showy shrub in all our 

 woods just now — the middle of June — for 

 it is everywhere, its large flat cymes of 

 whitish blossoms being conspicuous on 

 every hand. In a garden sense we gener- 

 ally associate the name hydrangea with 

 a deep rich earth and much moisture, but 

 in the woods we find this species growing 

 from the chinks and fissures of steep, 

 rocky cliffs and ravines, often in full 

 sunny exposure, and often in the shade of 

 trees, and always at home. So we have 

 noted it as one of the indispensable shrubs 

 for I ur steep rocky lands in Schenley 

 Park In its wild state, however, we 

 note that while it thrives admirably in 

 exposed places it must have had shade in 

 its infant days, given either by neighbor- 

 ing bushes or near at hand trees. 



The crass is too thick. — By subsoil 

 plowing heavy manuring and fining we 

 prepared a good many acres of lawn this 

 spring, but the land was heavy and 

 claj'ey, and wet lor so long in the early 

 part of the season that we did not get the 

 grass sown on it till May. .\s the last 

 two summers were exceedingly dry we 

 prepared for moderate drouth this sum- 

 mer, too, so sowed thick, but so far the 

 weather has continued wet and the grass 

 has grown immensely, it would seem that 

 not a seed had missed growing, and now 

 our lawn is too thick. When it is so 

 thick thegrassis weakerand niorespindly 

 and less able to withstand drouth than a 

 thinner sole; and if we leave it a little 

 long before cutting it it is apt to bleach 

 or rot at theground. Roll it occasionally, 

 and cut it before it gets inimoderateiy 

 long, are about all we can do for it. 



Wild Flowers for Winter Blooming. 

 — We have many beautiful wild flowers 

 that are particularly adapted for window 

 or greenhouse cultivation in winter, for 

 instance r>ur several cyjiripediums, trilli- 

 ums and bloodroot, and now is the time 

 to secure them. In a little while their 

 tops will die down and the wherea- 

 bouts of the plants become hidden, and 

 then we can find the plants only with 

 difficulty. Now, however, we can find 

 them easily, and as soon as their leaves 

 show signs of turning yellow, cut over 

 the stems, and dig up the plants and 



bring them home and plant them in 

 boxes, flats, or pots, and keep them cool 

 and somewhat moist and shaded till late 

 fall, then mulch them or put thein in a 

 cold frame to protect them from severe 

 frost, let them rest well, and towards late 

 winter bring them into warmer ((uarters 

 to start them into early growth and 

 bloom. 



Till) New Malta Pu.mpkin.— In our 

 issue of December 15 last, page 105, Mr. 

 W. H. S. Wood of New York, illustrated 

 and described a new kind of pumpkin he 

 discovered and secured seeds of in Malta, 

 and he kindly gave these seeds, so long as 

 the supply lasted, freely to our readers on 

 condition thatthey would grow them and 

 report results. Mr. Wood now writes to 

 us: "It may interest you to know that 

 of the seed of that new pumpkin I illus- 

 trated in your journal last winter and 

 offered free to applicants I mailed over 

 seven hundred packages to parties all 

 over the continent. We shall hear from 

 it next fall." He continues: "I have 



"A LOT OF new things, fioweis and 

 vegetables, growing and may find some 

 valuable novelties. If I do I will let you 

 know and shall scatter them free and 

 freely when the time comes. A peculiar 

 Lima bean has just been sent to me trom 

 North China." 



Plants and Flowers beloved by the 

 .\ncients — Calvalieri Giacomo Boni, a 

 distinguished Roman a rchitcet and archa'- 

 ologist, says the Gardeners' Magazine, 

 has found depicted in the frescoes at 

 Pompeii and the Villa Livia, near Rome, 

 the following plants: Abies alba, Aca- 

 cia vera, Acanthus mollis, Agrostemma 

 githago. Aloe vulgaris, Althiea rosea, 

 Amrgdalus communis, A. pcrsica, Arbu- 

 tus unedo, Arundo Pliniana, Aster amel- 

 lus, Buxus sempervirens.Castanea vesca. 

 Chrysanthemum segetum. Citrus medica. 

 Convolvulus arvensis, Cornus, Cupressus 

 scmpervirens, Ficus carica. Gladiolus 

 segetum, Hedera helix. Iris dorentina, I. 

 Germanica, Laurus nobilis, Lilium can- 

 didum, Myrtus communis, Narcissus 

 poeticus, N- pseudo narcissus, Neriuni 

 Oleander, Olea Eunipxa, Pancratium, 

 Papavcr rliueas, P. somnileruni. Phoenix 

 dactylifcra, Pinus halepensis, P. Pinca 

 Platamis orientalis, Prunus cerasus, 

 Punicn granatum, Pyrus communis, P. 

 cydonia, P. Mahis, Ouercus cerris, Q. 

 Ilex, O. Robur, rosa, Ruscus hypopbyl- 

 lum, Scolopendrium vulgare, Smilax 

 aspersa and Vitis vinilera. 



The New Gardener.— We read this in 

 the London Garden. "Thefollowin^story 

 comes to us from Nottinghamshire: A 

 new gardener, who probably had the 

 benefit of some railway experience, had 

 just been placed in charge of a place, the 

 owners leaving for a visit shortly after- 

 wards. At one side of the flower garden 

 was a rough slope, full of wild strawber- 

 ries and violets. On the owners return- 

 ing they found the new man had been 

 busy, and among other changes the bank 

 was smoothed up, with an inscription of 

 one of Solomon's proverbs nicely set out 

 in double daisies in large letters." And 

 all that in England I With such glaring 

 desecration at home to work upon, how 

 can our English missionary friends find 

 timcor excuse to lash their Yankee breth- 

 ren into good taste in decorative garden- 

 ing? Now, John, you got ten talents, we 

 got onlv one, but as we understand it 

 the mote in that Nottingham man's eye 

 is quite as big as the beam in Chi- 

 cago's eye. Had that Nottingham man 

 had only one-tenth of the gardening 

 knowledge of the Atnerican he would 



