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CONTENTS. 



trees and shrubs. 



Silver fir trees lillus.) 113 



Trees, shrubs and vines hardy at Egandale . . 114 



Trees and shrubs from the woods 115 



The Japan allsoice 115 



Hall's Japan honeysuckle UB 



Under the mulberry tree nothing grows. . .116 



Magnolia fuscata Ill) 



A pretty hedge plant 116 



the flower garden. 



Tropseolum speciosum . . 116 



Heaven'ty Blue morning glory . . 116 



The many flowered torch lily (illus.) . . 117 



Hibiscus— Cannas 117 



Five months of carnations 117 



How to grow gladioli 118 



PotentiUas 118 



Cupid sweet pea CHlus.) 118 



Globe artichoke 118 



Clematis— Red spider 118 



Pink colored perennial poppies 118 



My chrysanthemums 



Chrysanthemums from cuttings . 

 Chrysanthemums for the border . 

 roses. 



Freesias 



Colocasia 

 Begonia ' 



Mushrooms in the basement . . 



Whitloof . . 



Keeping sweet potatoes in winter 

 miscellaneous. 



A letter from Memphis 



Supports for greenhouse carnations . 

 Clerodendion trichotomura 



Till-: Blue Potato Vine (Solanuw Sea- 

 forthianum, and catalogued b\' several 

 as S. azureum) has shown itselt here in a 

 new role this year. In addition to being 

 a pretty bluish-flowered vine in the green- 

 house as well as planted out of doors, in 

 both instances it has borne a heavy crop 

 of scarlet berries in clusters not at all un- 

 like those of the bitter-sweet (,S. Dulca- 

 mara), and which hangs on to the vines 

 for a long time, giving them a highly or- 

 namental effect. But it isn't at all hardy. 

 From Washington southward, however, 

 we believe it could be treated as an an- 

 nual; indeed we thing it will grow and 

 fruit quick enough to self-sow itself there. 



A HYBRID Silver Fir. — A hybrid firtree 

 obtained by crossing Abies Pinsapo (the 

 female) with Abies Cephalonica (the 

 male) was recently shown in England. In 

 a general way it resemljles the male 

 parent, but in the stiffness of its branches 

 and thickness of its leaves it leans to the 

 female. The resin canal differing from 

 that in either of its parents is technical 

 evidence of distinctness from either. 



A Picture of Sweet Peas.— Messrs. 

 .Atlee Burpee & Co. of Philadelphia have 

 sent us a framed copy of their new and 

 beautiful painting of sweet peas by the 

 artist M. Paul de Longpre. The flowers 

 are of natural size and painted in the liv- 

 ing, vivid hues of nature. Longpre is a 

 talented French artist, a specialist in 

 flower painting, and this picture was pre- 

 pared by him at Fordhook Farm last 

 summer, from life, for he had there every 

 new and prominent variety in cultivation 

 to choose from. 



Foreign Grapes in the American 

 Market.— Quite a business is done here 

 in imported hothouse grapes from Europe. 

 Indeed such quantities have been un- 

 loaded upon our markets in recent years 

 that several gardeners who used to make 

 a specialty of growing Hamburgh and 

 Muscat grapes in greenhouses for the 

 winter market have rooted out their vines 

 and turned their attention to tomatoes, 

 claiming there is more money for them in 

 the latter. At the same time many excel- 

 lent growers still stick to their grapes. 

 They can sell all they can raise, but at a 

 lower price than in former years. 



Idyllists of the Country Side is a 

 dainty little book of 263 pages published 

 by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. Its 

 author is George H. Ellwanger, familiar 

 to us all by his delightful "The Garden's 

 Storj'" and other works. The contents 

 of the book are "The wand of Walton," 

 "Gilbert White's pastoral," "The land- 

 scape of Thomas Hardy," "Afield with 

 Jeffries," "The sphere of Thoreau," and 

 "A ramble with Burroughs." The same 

 broad love of and familiarity with nature 

 that characterizes Mr. EUwanger's other 

 works are also evident here, and too the 

 same elegant diction and refined literary 

 grace. 



Flowers at R. R. Stations. — Reference 

 has been made in Gardening to the at- 

 tractive flower beds around the stations 

 of the Michigan Central railway. A sim- 

 ilar display is to be seen along the Grand 

 Trunk, and it is largely due to the efforts 

 of Mr. Jemmison, an enthusiastic ama- 

 teur of Port Huron. Mr. Jemmison freely 

 provides flower seeds for the pump men 

 at all the watering tanks along the line, 

 and offers encouragement in every line of 

 gardening. He is especially interested in 

 dahlias, sweet peas, asters and pansies. 

 To him is due much of the increased in- 

 terest in gardening through his section of 

 Michigan. 



Blue and Yellow in Flowers.— A 

 correspondent of the Garden in writing 

 of the rareness of yellow and blue flowers 

 "in the same class of plants," mentions 

 "there are yellow and blue columbines, 

 yellow and blue lupines, and yellow and 

 blue polyanthuses." Another writes: 

 "Pansies are the only instance I can re- 

 call where the two colors are found." We 

 would remind them that there are yellow 

 and blue anemones, yellow and blue cle- 

 matis, yellow and bluenymphjeas, yellow 

 and blue delphiniums, yellow and blue 

 crocuses, yellow and blue irises, yellow 

 and blue flax, yell w and blue hyacinths, 

 also salvias, asters, scabios, ipomoeas, 



An Early Wallflower, — There is a 

 good deal of talk just now about an 

 "early" wallflower called "Earliest of all 

 Wallflowers," and of which Sutton & 

 Sons of England, who hold the stock of 

 it, are sending blooms to the various 

 editors. Plants raised from seed sown 

 last May began to flower in September. 

 Good, but is that any better than the 

 "annual" wallflower that wehave grown 

 for two orthree years and which has been 

 listed in some of our seedsmen's cata- 

 logues for two years? It blooms in as 

 short a time and keeps it up too. But 

 everything that theSuttons handle is apt 

 to be g Jod. 



The Old Fashioned Garden is the 

 name of a little book of poems by Pro- 

 fessor John Russell Hayes of Swarthmore 

 College, and published by John C. Win- 

 ston & Co., Philadelphia. Size 7x41/2 

 inches, pages 101, price 75 cents. Pro- 

 fessor Hayes is a great lover of nature, 

 and has given vent to his feelings in poetic 

 note. The book contains sonnets, mis- 

 cellaneous pieces, verses on flowers and 

 fairies, and some translations, and withal 

 it is a book that will be perused with 

 much pleasure by those who love wild 

 flowers, and popular flowers, old fash- 

 ioned gardens, and nature generally. 



Rust in Begonias.— The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle tells us: "Mr. Michael, the 

 authority on the Acarina;, informs us 

 that the disease is caused by a mite, a 

 species of Tarsonjmus, which is so small 

 and so translucent that it requires a 

 trained ej-e to detect it. Its habits of life 

 also tend to conceal it. The creatures are 

 most destructive to healthy plants, bur- 

 rowing between the two surfaces of the 

 leaf, and eating out its substance, * * 

 They are most difficult to destroy, but 

 frequent spraj'ing with insecticides may 

 be beneficial. * * All badly affected 

 plants should be destroyed by fire." 

 Fumigation is also mentioned as being 

 efficacious. 



Rust on Carnations.— C. W. Ward of 

 Uueens, N. Y. is one of the largest and 

 most successful carnation growers in the 

 country. We asked him the other day 

 what he did to destroy rust on carna- 

 tions. He replied: "Whenever I find a 

 plant on my place that has got rust on it 

 I pull it up, no matter howgood, or new, 

 or valuable or many of it there may be, 

 open the furnace door and chuck it or 

 them into the fire. I don't keep a hospital, 

 I grow carnations for a living and can't 

 afford to have one rusty plant on my 

 place. Further, I can't afford to throw 

 the rusty plants out on the rot or com- 

 post heap, where the fungus might live 

 and the spores spread; fire is the perfect 

 destroyer." 



Testing trees and shrubs before 

 selling them.— An eminent nurseryman 

 writes us "We have need to have patience 

 and charity, for we so often are hum- 

 bugged sometimes innocently, as manv 

 nurserymen do not test their trees or 

 plants but put them out through others, 

 descriptions, often erroneous, and so the 

 error is continued from one nurseryman 

 to another, and the poor purchaser is the 

 victim." Reputable nurserymen, seeds- 

 men and florists are just as anxious to 

 know the inside facts, the merits and 

 demerits, of the new plants they sell as 

 are the general public. But as new plants 

 are generallv profound secrets till very 

 shortly before they are sent out, all firms 

 try to'get a share of the stock as soon as 



