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GARDENING. 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 

 aquatics. 



Aquatics (illus.) . . 337 



An outdoor lily pond (illus.) 338 



landscape gardening. 



Egandale QUus ) 338 



The wild garden 340 



Ju )ge Mellon's residence, Pittsburg (illus.) . . 3J0 



Book on landscape gardening 340 



trees and shrubs. 



Trees and shrubs in bloom and fruit 310 



Notes on trees and shrubs ... 312 



Trees and shrubs for South Dakota . ... 312 



American bladder nut 342 



Familiar trees and their leaves (3 illus ) .... 342 



Japan maples in Illinois .343 



A hedge plant 313 



the flower garden. 



The flower garden 343 



Flower garden notes . 314 



Notes from an Iowa garden 344 



Diseased China astern 344 



Notes on garden annuals 315 



Decorative plants for rough places 315 



THE greenhouse. 



The fuchsia as a window plant (illus ) . . . . 317 



The greenhouse ... .347 



Under the benches 318 



Geraniums and begonias ailing 348 



the vegetable garden. 



The vegetable garden 318 



The corn worm 3.50 



Cut flowers in the house.— I have 

 just picked the flowers for Sunday. We 

 always have flowers in the house, but 

 Sunday is a special day. For fun I've 

 just counted the vases filled with flowers 

 and find there are twenty-six in all. Last 

 year we were away at Oconomowoc four 

 days. During our absence the flowers 

 had wilted and were thrown out. When 

 we returned even the children remarked, 

 "How bare ih house looks!" So writes 

 one of our subscribers. 



Mountain Fringe or Allegheny 

 Vine.— Dr. Adolph Koenig, a physician 

 and earnest botanist ot Pittsburg writes: 

 "Enclosed please find some seeds of /Irf/u- 

 mi.-j cirrhosa Irom wild-growing plants 

 found on a rich, moist hillside, with 

 northern exposure, bordering on Pine 

 Creek, about one mile north of Etna. It 

 is the only station at which it is known 

 to grovv in the county (Allegheny 

 County)." Thank you for the seed. 

 They were at once handed to ournursery 

 foreman, who has sown them. 



The Wet Weather.— This is by far 

 the wettest summer we have ever known, 

 at no time since last winter have we had 

 the least drouth; rain falls most every 

 day, and often in torrents. 



Vecetahle crops are growing rankly, 

 and in the case of com, beans and peas 

 are fine; root crops also have been good; 

 tomatoes are slow to ripen, and so are 

 melons. Root crops, as beets and tur- 

 nips, however, when they get a little old 

 are apt to rot 



Bedding plants are not as good as 

 they are in drier weather; while the 

 growth of geraniums is very rank the 

 flowers are destroyed by the rains; can- 

 nas are not growing or blooming as 

 freely as they would did we have more 

 sunshine; coleusand alternantheras never 

 grew faster, but they are not bright as 

 usual, and where the groimd keeps soak- 

 ing wet thev are dying. All white-leaved 

 plants such as centaurea, santolina and 

 leucophyton are suffering, and in many 

 cases dj'ing, but variegated stevia and 

 variegated abutilons are standing the wet 

 pretty well, and, curious enough, so are 

 the yell w-lcaved Mesembryanthemum 

 cordithlium and the variegated Sedum 

 carneum. The wet is killing the house- 

 leeks I Sewpervivuw ) but the echeverias 

 are keeping up well. Cacti, agaves, aloes, 

 fleshy euphorbias and stout succulents of 

 that' nature were planted on mounds 

 that allow the water ready escape look 

 well, but those on level ground don't look 

 happy, and neither are making good 

 roots. Dahlias enjoy it, and while gladi- 

 oli grow rank they don't seem to bloom 

 as well as usual. We never before appre- 

 ciated good drainage so much as we have 

 done this year. In ; n ordinary season 

 these level beds on a level piece of clay 

 land would ha\e been all right, but in a 

 wet year they are all wrong, and when 

 we change our ground plan ample drain- 

 age shall be a first consideration. Now 

 we know why the outer row of the hya- 

 cinths and tulips we had there last spring 

 were poorer than those in the middle of 

 the bed. 



Trees are growing well. Many of the 

 old trees although they leafed out all 

 right were so enervated from the drouth 

 of the past two years as to be unable to 

 keep up and are dying, but others again 

 have recovered splendidiy. Young trees 

 are doing far better than old ones. Con- 

 ifers never looked better. They are gen- 

 erally grown on hilly or sloping land and 

 the drainage about them being good they 

 thoroughly appreciate this wet weather. 



The Swamp Rose Mallow from Seed. 

 —Our nursery foreman got a lot of seed 

 of this plant last year and sowed it in 

 drills out of doors, the summer was very 

 dry, and although germination was 

 tardy and growth slow, a large number 

 of plants were secured and in early fall 

 were planted out in nursery rows. They 

 wintered well, and have grown well and 

 are now in bloom. What an attractive 

 showy plant it is, and how easy to grow, 

 and it is long-lived. Along the Atlantic 

 coast where it abounds its commonness 

 detracts from its value; in the West, how- 

 ever, where it is not a native, but thrives 

 well, it is a great desideratum. 



Sandwich Island Morning Glories.— 

 B. F. E., Kirksville, Mo., sends us some 

 seeds, and writes: "Enclosed please find 

 some seeds that were brought to me from 

 the Sandwich Islands; all my friend could 

 tell about them was that he believed 

 they were some kind of a vine. I planted 

 part of them in pots in the greenhouse, 

 and yet after waiting three months, not 

 one of the seeds has germinated." .Ins. 



The seeds are of some morning glory 

 (Ipomcea) but which species we cannot 

 tell till we see the plants and flowers. 

 Thej' would have a better opportunity 

 to germinate if sown in the open ground 

 than if sown in pots. 



Water Lilies.— A few wrecks ago (May 

 15, page 267) we published an illustra- 

 tion of an aquatic pond, but there was 

 no text to it and several of our readers 

 have written to us about it. It was a 

 printer's mistake, he used the illustration 

 ahead of time. The picture was engraved 

 from a photograph taken by Mr. Mayer 

 of Beaver Falls, Pa., of one of his outdoor 

 lily ponds, for Gardening; and now on 

 p'ge 337 of this issue Mr. Mayer kindly 

 tells us about his lilies and how he grows 

 them. A happy feature of Mr. Mayer's 

 garden and lily growing is that Mrs. 

 Mayer and the other members of their 

 famih' are as deeply interested in flowers 

 and growing them as he is. 



Our open lawn picture, page 339, 

 gives a very beautiful and apt garden 

 landscape, the trees are spread to the 

 outskirts, and shrubbery and other lesser 

 plants are grouped along the front mar- 

 gins of the tree plantations and the sides 

 of the lawn; but not a speck, or a bush, 

 or a walk mars the beauty of the central 

 body of the lawn. A tyro even cannot 

 fail to appreciate the correctness of the 

 object lesson shown in this picture; no 

 sane person would dare run a walk any- 

 where on or about that lawn nor plant a 

 tree near the middle of it. On the same 

 principle our gardens appeal to us in the 

 same way as this picture shown us. But 

 there is one point even in this pretty pict- 

 ure that jars on us, it is the bed or circle 

 of plants at the right; no matter what 

 they are, unless for economic reasons, we 

 would remove them and replace them 

 with a piece of planting as suggested on 

 the left hand side. 



Recreation and Health in Botaniz- 

 ing. — "All work and no play makes Jack 

 a dull boy," and physicians prescribe 

 against overwork, they send their pa- 

 tients to Europe, to the mountains or to 

 the seas de. in fact anywhere that is far 

 enough off' to get them away from their 

 daily avocation, and give them a rest and 

 a change of scene and air. Some of them 

 take their own medicine, but others don't. 

 Dr. Kijenig believes in practicing the doc- 

 trine he preaches, and in botany he finds 

 recreation and relief from worldly cares. 

 He has set all Thursday afternoons aside 

 for field botany. On those afternoons he 

 slings his tin specimen caseoverhis shoul- 

 der and with a genial companion or two, 

 betakes himself to the woods and fields. 

 Ever3' step is interesting to him every 

 plant is a familiar friend, and whenever a 

 wild plant not known before to be indig- 

 enous in the county is first discovered in 

 it, the find is of scientific value. Only a 

 person with botany in his heart as the 

 Doctor has it can appreciate the intense 

 pleasure to be had in these outings. Dr. 

 Kajnig is preparing a handbook of the 

 plants found wild in this county. 



THE GOOD OLD ELDERBBRRY BUSfl. 



If you want a little shade in your hen 

 yard, try it. The chickens enjoy itsshade 

 and it grows nicely in the yard. In the 

 Zoological garden here in Schenley Park 

 there are a large number of small yards 

 fenced off for pheasants and other birds, 

 and in them are planted several kinds of 

 shrubs, but iheelderberry and the alth.ca 

 are the thriftiest; and the former is much 

 better than the latter because of the more 

 spreading and shade-giving habit of its 



