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A Floral Plow.— At a recent flower 

 exhibition in Cleveland we saw a plow— 

 full-.size — made of flowers, also an um- 

 brella and other flower-lined mon- 

 strosities. But they were woefully 

 out of place. Instead of beinir spread 

 before the eyes of the Society of .\merican 

 Florists, it' is out in a field to scare the 

 crows they should have been set. 



AyuATic Pla.nts. — Look over your 

 ponds and tanks and carefully note how 

 you areofl for the different kinds of plants, 

 and label each kind distinctly and securely. 

 See that you have some seed pods secured 

 of Nymphsea Zanzibarensis and any oth- 

 ers you wish to save; a good way to save 

 the "seed is to tie the heads in thin muslin 

 or mosquito netting bags so that when 

 the heads open and distribute -he seed it 

 will be retained in the bags instead of 

 scattered abroad over the surface of the 

 water. 



AflK AVY OUESTIONS you please about planW 

 Bowers frultsrvegetables or other practical gardening 

 mailers. We will take pleasure In 



SEND ca Notes of your experie 



u gardening 

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euMghtened and encouraged, and of your 

 perhaps we can help you. 



send D8 PHOTOGKAPHS OB SKETCHES Of 



Bowers gardens, greenhouses, fruits, - • 

 horticultural applVances that -"" "■" 

 graved for oakdbning. 





Lift and pot vock wi.nter plants.— 

 There is nothing whatever gained by let- 

 ting our winter-blooming plants that are 

 still planted out of doors stay there any 

 longer, get them lifted and potted or 

 planted out in greenhouse benches as the 

 case may be. Among these plants may 

 be mentioned carnations, libonias, eupa- 

 toriuni, stevia, Solaimm capsicastrum, 

 CONTENTS. bouvardia, cbrvsanthemum, begonia, ces- 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. trum, and the fike. 



Miss Eshleman's residence. Fresno Cat (lUus) 369 

 Walks and drives in private grounds . . . ,S70 Lift and POT VOIR CACTL— We have 



Books on landscape gardening 370 always had the best success with cacti 



TREES AND SHRUBS. whcu wc planted them out of doors in 



R«t"1'rJ« foJ^«'?eet'pi'anting. ...:::: sV" summer, and lifted and potted them early 



Hardy vines for small gardens -372 ;„ September, before there was danger ot 



Good shrubs-for small gardens . ^..—-"^ the cold nights and rains doing them any 

 T„d« best evergreen shrubs for -outhern^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^S ,.^^,^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^^. ^^^^_ 



California white fir (illus.) 37.3 miliaria, etc., I are far more easily spotted 



Pruning shrubs 373 by rain, and damp cold nights than the 



%t^l o*fCus?. ^I'^'V ... .;;::. 37^ others and we had better begin with it. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. Get thcm uudcr cover, be this a frame or 



Summer outdoor plants . 374 a stoop, or in a greenhouse. Before pot- 



^;?d'y'?Lfnn1Ifs for theYow?r garden ! : i lit ting thern look out for mealy bugs about 



KulalmWonica (illus.) . . ... 374 their roots, and if YOU find any be sure to 



Mignonette, asters and geraniums 37o clean them a wav. In the greenhouse this 



Wintering hydrangeasland hibisais . ■ • ■ "? pest is athome everywhere, but on inside 



SSd'sweet'pea"'"' . •. . ■. '. •- '. ■. : l : l •. 375 plants it prefers the "root. 



The rose house in September :!7tj XHE NEW MaLTA SqlASH which was 



Ashes and soot on roses 37t) illustrated and described in Gardening, 



,u ^"■*^'^^^™^'«°«^- .„B pagelOS, December 15. '95, and of which 



Chrysanthemums^.^ .^^^^.^^^^^^ We got seed for trial from Mr. Wood is 



Summer indoor planu 376 now in vigorous growth; we have it in 



The conservatory in summer . . 377 j^^j.^ ^.la^ ggji where it is allowed to 



Watering succulents in i-ummer .i,7 ^^^^^^ j^^^. ^^ ^^^ ground, and in good 



Water lilies. . ^^''."'" 377 soil where we have trained it to cover an 



MusHKooMs. old apple tree, but in neither case has it 



Mushrooms growing in a cold cellar (illus.) . . 37S set a good crop of fruit, and it is SO late 



Mushrooms in thf cellar . 3,,) that none of the (ruit it has set can ripen 



Hruit trees for an amat''eur-'^s''ga''rden 379 with US before frost. It evidently rc- 



Kruit trees for Toronto 380 quires a more southern chmate. 



The lawn •'^S'^ LET THE ALTH.«AS RUN LOOSE.— In 



Gordon Park the other day we noticed a 

 lot of althfeas in bloom in front of belts 

 and groups of trees, they had been cut in 

 hard last winter and are now thick 

 headed specimens. Now this is all right 

 in the garden or in some cases in shrub- 

 berv, but out in a broad park and form- 

 ing" the marginal planting in front of 

 graceful trees the stiff'ness of clipping 

 marred the effect; had the plants been 

 left unpruned and to assume a long, wav- 

 ing contour, the efiect would have been in 

 keeping with the environment. But 

 althaeas are hard things to use in natural 

 plantings in parks anywhere. 



Beddinc. PLANTS have increased greatly 

 in good looks since a week because we 

 have had dry weather; all of the plants 

 are growing better and blooming better, 

 and the foliage plants are coloring better 

 than they were during the wet weather. 

 Get in cuttings of everything you wish to 

 save stock of, there is nothing gained by 

 delaying this work any longer; try to 

 have well rooted plants before winter 

 sets in. Geraniums of all bedding kinds, 

 coleus, iresines, altemantheras, stevia, 

 heliotrope, ageratum, double feverfew, 

 and the like will strike freely now. If we 

 get up a good stock of young plants 

 there will be no need of lifting and saving 

 a lot of the old ones from the beds, and 

 having a full stock of young plants on 

 hand and under cover' early is a good 

 precaution against early frosts. 



Vines about the house.— Look at our 

 front page picture, isn't it suggestive? 

 Ten vears ago that house was built on a 

 sterile sand bed, behold it to-day. What 

 a cheerful, homey, happy feeling its lu.xii- 



riance of vines inspires. We needn't credit 

 this to the glorious climate of California, 

 we can go to Boston, Pittsburg or 

 Chicago and get the same effect. Virginia 

 creeper, akebia, actinidia, fragrant grape 

 pine, wistaria, trumpet creeper and pipe 

 pine will climlj as high here and in as 

 short a time as is shown on that building, 

 then why don't we have more of it? 

 Every vins here mentioned is hardy. 

 Make good preparation for their roots, 

 and plant the vines, and give them sup- 

 ports to climb on. and help them a little, 

 and they will do the rest themselves. 

 Pure laziness is the key to the external 

 nakedness of our homes we would all 

 like to have the ,"nes if thev'dgrow up of 

 themselves and in a night like Jonah's 

 gourd, but we ■. an't be bothered to either 

 plant them or care forthem should others 

 set them out. Now step out of your half- 

 hearted efforts and get a move on, and do 

 something to make your homes the pride 

 of your children and your neighbors and 

 attractive to the humming birds. 



What is crab gra.ss?— W. C. Egan of 

 Chicago asks. "What is the botanical 

 name of the crab-grass, as known in this 

 country? At the World's Fair, in the 

 e.vhibition of pestiferous weeds crab-grass 

 was labeled Panicuw sanguinale. In a 

 dictionary of English names of plants by 

 Wm. Miller, 'crab-grass' or crab weed is 

 given as Polygonum Aviculare. A writer 

 in a recent number of a paper devoted to 

 floriculture speaks of 'Scutch grass' or 

 'Bermuda grass' under the name of Cyno- 

 don dactylon, the habits of which as he 

 described" them are similar to that grass 

 which I understand is known as crab- 

 grass " The crab-grass of your garden, 

 this park, and elsewhere in North Amer- 

 ica is what you found at the World's Fair 

 and the na'me there given is the proper 

 name of it. 



Mushrooms. 



MUSHROOM GROWING IN ft COLD CBLLflR. 



There is nothing to hinder the amateur 

 who has a cellar under his barn or out- 

 house to grow a few mushrooms in it 

 for his family, providing the cellar is dry 

 and that the temperature does not fall 

 below 24°. I grew a fine crop of mush- 

 rooms in such a cellar last winter. Out 

 of a bed twenty-three long by four feet 

 wide I picked" between 90 and 100 

 ])Ounds of the finest mushrooms, weighing 

 them alter the stems were cut off. The 

 bed was made up on the 27th of Novem- 

 ber and spawned eight days later, and 

 the first mushrooms were cut on the 11th 

 of February, and at that time the tempera- 

 ture of the house was 28°, and it went 

 often down as low as 22°, but by a little 

 extra covering a good crop was raised. 

 To the amateur who would like to trv 

 and grow a few mushrooms I will tell 

 him how I made up that bed and took 

 care of it. 



1 went to the manure pile and got a lot 

 of long strawy manure which was i|uitc 

 wet and threw it all together into a pile 

 in much the same way as one would get 

 a lot of hot bed manure together; after 1 

 had enough I turned it over every other 

 day till the rank heat had left it, then it 

 was ready for the bed. Also in the morn- 

 ings I went into the horse stable and got 

 a lot of pure horse manure, shaking out 

 most of the long straw. This 1 gathered 

 until I had enough to put a layer four 

 inches deep over the strawy manure. In 



