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HUNTINGTON FALLS IN GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO 



Cove, and the new one Glen Cove. The 

 new one is a few hundred yards farther 

 east— on the same hne— than the old one, 

 and is a beautiful and commodious struc- 

 ture, surrounded by a very lovely, undu- 

 lated country- The main approach to 

 the station is 100 leet wide, thus afford- 

 ing ample sidewalk and carriage room, 

 and plenty of shade, a very essential 

 foresight, for all that part of the country 

 is being rapidly occupied by substantial 

 residences. Good roads and beautiful 

 surroundings about a railroad station 

 are a great inducement to home-seekers 

 to come and settle in the neighborhood. 

 So patent was this to some of the prop- 

 erty owners near Glen Cove that they 

 subscribed the means to build the new 

 station, and gave the land and money for 

 the roads and park, and they furtlier em- 

 phasized their foresight by calling in a 

 good landscape gardener to plan the 

 grounds rather than try it themselves 

 and make a botch of it. The plan gave 

 most excellent satisfaction to the railroad 

 officials and property owners, and too, 

 to the architect of the station building. 



OflRDENING IS flPPRECIflTED. 



1 am a very new subscriber to CtARDHn- 

 INO, mv first number having just come to 

 nie, and I find that in various depart- 

 ments it is what I have wanted for a long 

 time. For instance, your answer to the 

 chickweed query fills a long felt want 

 with me, and your whole paper appears 



to be more practical and really useful to 

 an amateur that any periodical on the 

 subj'ct I have yet met with. 



Referring to a paragraph on Aquilegia 

 Cfcrulea the enclosed cut may be of in- 

 terest to you. The seed is highly recom- 

 mended by the firm. You may possibly 

 not know them, but to an Englishman 

 their name is in itself a guarantee where 

 flowers are concerned. F. H. J. R. 



St. John, N. B., July 30, '96. 



[We know the seed firm you name well, 

 in fact are personally acquainted with 

 the senior member of it.— Ed.] 



flUNTINOTON WATER FALLS IN GOLDEN GATE 

 PARK, SAN FRANCrSCO. 



Our illustration is a fine example of 

 artificial naturalness in gardening. Look 

 upon this magnificent waterfall dashing 

 over the rocks, and with a setting of trees 

 and rocks on either side as if it were at 

 the head of a gorge in the mountains, and 

 still it is only an artificial waterfall. 

 What wouldn't we give for such a water- 

 fall in Schenley Park! We read in the 

 report of the park commissioners of San 

 Francisco: "The park does not have its 

 river running through its midst like Fair- 

 mount Park, Philadelphia, but it has its 

 beautiful artificial lake and its magnifi- 

 cent waterfall— the only artificial water- 

 fall in a public park on the continent— 

 which excites the wonder and admiration 

 of strangers and citizens alike." 



Stopping Hill Slides' or] Slips.— In 

 Schenley Park are some very deep ravines 

 with steep banks between 200 and 300 

 feet high; the land is very tough, soapy, 

 red clay, and shale rock, and it is uneven 

 and springy. Roads have been cut and 

 graded about the middle along the face 

 of some of these banks, and at the top on 

 otiiers, but we are having a great deal of 

 trouble with landslides; sometimes apiece 

 of the hillside will slip down from the top 

 or from near the top, big trees and all 

 moving down with it. These slips don't 

 slide right from the top down into the 

 bottom of the ravine, simply a slice of the 

 hillside slips down the hill a piece, but road, 

 trees, .ind all go with it. The first thing 

 to find out is what causes this slipping, 

 and the next is an effectualmeansof stop- 

 ping it. Water causes it; drainage alone 

 will stop it. 



Gkape Rot.— J. H. L., Canonsburg, 

 I'a., writes: "The grapes in this section, 

 especially the Concord, are rotting 

 on the vines. They first si'ow a 

 delicate brown spot, then half the 

 grapes on a bunch will turn brown 

 over. Is it because of the continued 

 wet weather?" Ans. It is one ol the 

 grape rots and no doubt aggravated by 

 the excessively wet weather we have had 

 all this summer. For this sea.son the 

 grapes are past all recovery, the rot will 

 run its course, nothing that would not 

 destroy the grapes would destroy it. Cut 

 off, gather and bum upthe diseased fruit. 

 Begin early next year, and spray the 

 vines with Bordeaux mixture even before 

 the leaf buds burst, and spray again 

 several times during the summer. This 

 acts as a preventive of rot, not a cure for 

 it. Also bag your grape clusters just as 

 soon as the flowers begin to drop; this 

 also is a partial preventive. 



GREENHOUSE GRAPES. 



We began cutting ripe grapes July 24 

 from vines started March 1 last. The 

 first to ripen was Black Hamburgh; 

 Madresfield Court Muscat is ripe now, 

 and Muscat of Alexandria will be fit to 

 cut in about a week from this; late keep- 

 ing varieties, such as Alicante and Lady 

 Downes, won't be ripe till nearthe end of 

 September. The vines were all started 

 into growth at the same time, and the 

 house containing the Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria and late varieties was kept the 

 warmest. 



About syringing: I only syringe the 

 vines after they are done flowering, and 

 this is to wash off the old flowers. 



About ventilation: All summer the ven- 

 tilators were shut up close at night, 

 shutting early in the afternoon to save 

 all the sun heat possible, it is better than 

 fire heat, but every bright morning I 

 opened the top ventilators a little at five 

 o'clock and a little more about seven 

 o'clock, opening a little at a time liketbis 

 at four distinct intervals before the venti- 

 lation is full on. When the sun comes 

 out warm in the morning and the green- 

 house is allowed to get pretty hot before 

 ventilation is given, and then the venti- 

 lators are thrown wide open to cool the 

 temperature and admit fresh air, mildew 

 is sure to enter and all the evil of shank- 

 ing, scorching, and mildew; nowdon'tdo 

 that, in ventilating open early and a little 

 at a time, and shut up early and a little 

 at a time. [Bad ventilating, like bad 

 watering, is very injurious to greenhouse 

 grapes and other indoor plants. Had 

 Mr. McWilliam neglected his ventilating 

 he never would have won, as he did, the 

 gold medal for grapes at Boston.— Ed.] 



