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 Uowers. gardens, greenhouses, fruits, 

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Mr. O. D. Munu's terrace garden (lUus) . 



A pleasing cotubination 



trees and shrubs. 

 Rosa rugosa— Wiegelias-Audromedas . . 



Holly trees . . 



Questions about trees . . 



the flower GARDEN. 



Centaurea Marguerite (lUus) . . 

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Clematis disease 1J( 



the greenhouse. 



Greenhouse plants in bloom . . 148 



Window and parlor gardening (2 illus) . . US 



The newer Rex begonias 1J8 



Chrysanthemums and dahlias from seed H8 



The greenhouse 149 



Greenhouse questions 149 



Asparagus Sprengeri 149 



Ferns 150 



Hot bed pit 150 



Seeds from New South Wales 150 



ORCHIDS. 



Notes on orchids 150 



chrysanthemums. 

 Chrysanthemum Wm. Simpson (illus) 151 



Pruning of greenhouse roses 151 



Rose seed . . 151 



the fruit garden. 



Origin of the Baldwin apple 151 



The fruit garden 151! 



Graftingchestnut and walnut trees 152 



Greenhouse grapevines 152 



the vegetable garden. 



Forced vegetables 152 



The vegetable garden . . 152 



•-orcing rhubarb . . . _ 152 



Forcing tomatoes in winter 132 



Pumpkins— Squashes 153 



Globe artichokes .... 153 



Sea kale 153 



mushrooms. 



Shot ho'es in mushrooms 153 



Questions about mushrooms 153 



Mushrooms in the greenhouse 1-53 



Mr.A.W. Bennett.— It was with much 

 sorrow that we learned of the decease 

 from typhoid fever on tiie 16 ult. of Mr. 

 Bennett, Superintendent of Parks, Pitts 

 burg, Pa. He was 31 years of age, the 

 son of an eminent florist (the late Wm. 

 Bennett of Flatbush, L. I.), had been 

 engage I in horticulture all his lite time, 

 and for the last two and a half years had 

 been connected with the Pittsburg Parks. 

 Here he had a splendid opportunity to 

 exercise his executive ability and profes- 

 sional talent, and he made the most of it, 

 rendering the parks ond conservatories 

 so attractive that tens of thousands of 

 people have visited the greenhouses in one 

 day. He w .s a frequent visitor to 

 Dosoris, a warm personal friend of our 

 own, and an admirer of and contributor 

 to Oakdhning. 



Cold Storage.— W. M. B., a produce 

 and fruit dealer in Canada writes "for 

 information concerning the matter of 

 cold storage, etc." Ans. There isa news- 

 paper in Chicago called Ice and Refrigera- 

 tion. It is right in your line an i can give 

 you a great deal more information on 

 this matter than we can. Write to it. 



Crotons out of doors in summer. Mr. 

 P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Georgia, 

 writes us: "For the last 2 years wehave 

 had remarkable success with crotons 

 bedded out in full sunshine. The broad 

 leaved varieties are the coming plants for 

 that purpose, and I am satisfied that ere 

 long they will be largely used everywhere. 

 The more sun you can give them the be - 

 ter they show their colors." 



Aristolochia gigas sturtevantii is 

 the "goose flower" vine that made such a 

 sensation at the World's Fair in 189,3. It 

 is a tropical relative of our common pipe 

 vine. It has very odd shaped blossoms 

 16 to 18 inches in width, and over 20 

 inches long with a long narrow tail 2 to 

 3 feet long. Like all members, tropical 

 and temperate of the aristolochia genus 

 it luxuriates out of doors in our warm 

 summer weather. In the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle just at hand is a fine picture of 

 it as it appeared last j'ear. in full growth 

 and bloom, on the fence of the President's 

 garden at the White House, Washington. 



Protect Your Hardy Plants.— Now 

 is the time when - our plants are likely to 

 sufter. When the days get a little warmer 

 at noon and we are apt to have some 

 mild spells, buds swell, sap moves faster, 

 and growth begins to start; all of this is 

 natural. The danger lies in the sudden 

 coming of a cold spell after it; this is very 

 injuriuus to many things. See to it tliat 

 whatever covering, as mulching, over 

 strawberries, globe artichokes, lily beds 

 or the like, that you had put on in Novem- 

 ber or December, is still in place, that the 

 shelter belts and screens are in good 

 order, and that the fig trees, grape vines, 

 blackberry bushes and other things lay- 

 ered and covered with earth over winter 

 are nowhere bare and exposed to sun- 

 shine or wind. 



No Fences.— A subscriber from Mary- 

 land writes: "There was much more 

 interest taken in flowers here before the 

 fences were taken down, but since then the 

 dogs have been very discouraging." 

 That's the key to the whole matter. We 

 admit that wide, well kept streets with 

 no fences on either side, but instead open 

 smoothly shaven lawns between the resi- 

 dences and the side walk, are very impos- 

 ing, and beautiful, aristocratic, and park 

 like if you will. But if we want lots of 

 flowers, and more especially handsome 

 evergreens we must plant them back of 

 our houses where we can fence them away 

 from the dogs that pass along the street. 

 If we could have no dogs with our no 

 fences, then the floral and shrubbery effect 

 of our front gardens would be splendid, 

 but while the dogs run at will our hearts 

 bleed for the ruffled beds and burnt ever- 

 greens. 



Begonia Frcebelii incomparabilis is a 

 new begonia, a hybrid between B. Froe- 

 helii, a species from Ecuador, and B. poly- 

 petala, one from Peru, and now making 

 quite a stir in Europe. It is of vigorous, but 

 low unbranched habit, with large foliage, 

 and from the center throws up spikes two 

 feet high of vivid orange scarlet flowers 

 about two inches in diameter Its value 

 is as a glowing free-flowering winter 

 blooming plant, coming in while the ordi- 



nary tuberous rooted kinds are in their 

 beauty, and lasting well into winter. 

 Many of our readers may remtmber how 

 much Begonia Froebeliiv/as grown about 

 20 years ago for its floral brightness in 

 winter, and how especially fine they were 

 grown at the Such greenhouses. South 

 Amboy, N.J. Unfortunately i ow days 

 they are not nearly so common. They 

 are tuberous rooted with an inclination 

 to rest in summer and grow and bloom 

 in winter. 



To FOR.M A Floral Society.- One of 

 our subscribers wishes to get up a Floral 

 Society; and asks how to set about it. 

 Better write to the secretary of the 

 Amateur Horticultural Society, Spring- 

 field, Mass.; Mr. K. Manning, secretary', 

 Mass. Hort. Society, Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston; and to Mr. C. E. Kemp, secre^;ary 

 Horticultural Society, Frederick, Mary- 

 land or secretaries of any other similar 

 societies asking them for copies of the 

 constitution and by-laws of their respect- 

 ive societies. These by-laws will be sug- 

 gestive to j'ou when you are framing 

 by-laws to suit your case; then get your 

 floral friends together and talk the mat- 

 ter over, and agree to form such a society. 

 When you have drawn up a Constitution 

 and By-laws, let all sign them who wish 

 to become members, and pay their dues, 

 then elect your officers, and j'Ou are a 

 Floral Society, It is a laudable purpose, 

 and there should be a society of the kind 

 in every town in the country. 



Dwarf Japanese cherry plants.— A 

 reader writes us: "I have just flowered 

 some dwarf Japanese cherries, how beau- 

 tiful and fragrant they are! Why don't 

 our people grow more of them? Two or 

 three weeks forcing brings them into 

 flower, even single branches cut oft and 

 placed in water in a warm roomorgrecn- 

 house expand their buds in a few days. 

 They are grand." The tree referred to is 

 Prunus Muwe, the most commonly culti- 

 vated ornamental tree in Japan. Although 

 it attains arboreal proportions and is 

 often planted as a shade tree along the 

 road sides in Corea and Japan, it is also 

 the most common of all pot plants there. 

 There are single and double flowered 

 forms, and varieties with red, white and 

 pink blossoms, and the plants are often 

 grafted, contorted and dwarfed as per the 

 usual pot plant methods in Japan. 

 Prunus Muwe comes into bloom very 

 early in spring, before the leaves appear 

 and is really a very beauiful plant. It is 

 perfectly hardy out of doors at Dosoris. 



Raising Seedlings.— We have found 

 February to be the best month in the year 

 for raising seedlings in the greenhouse; we 

 can keep the house at a more equable 

 temperature, and the seeds germinate 

 more evenly and show less inclination to 

 damp off than in any other month. This 

 applies particularly to begonias, gloxin- 

 ias, gesneras, streptocarpus and other 

 very fine seed, as well as to vincas, ver- 

 benas, n erembergia and the like that 

 require to be sown extra early to have 

 fine plants of in May. Mimulus, lobelia 

 and torenia also do well sown this month 

 and can be kept within bounds before 

 planting out time. Wigandi i, ferdinanda 

 and fine leaved solanums used for out- 

 door summer gardening should be raised 

 from seed as soon as practicable; : nd we 

 always make it a point to sow euca- 

 l}'ptus,grevillea and Schinus mollein Feb- 

 ruary. But March is soon enough to sow 

 the average run of summer g rden annu- 

 als, as marigolds, asters, zinnias, coreop- 

 sis, etc. In sowing seeds that you wish 

 to germinate as soon as practicable, a 



