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GARDENING. 



Feb. JS, 



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CONTENTS. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN 



Clematis paniculata (illus.) .... 

 The Margueiite centaurea . . . . 

 The New England aster . . . 

 Clematis brevicaudata . . . 



Vines for veranda boxes ..... 

 Ellelson's new begonia (illus) .. 

 How 1 winter gladioli 

 Verbenas and i.iliput zinnias . . 

 trees and shrubs. 

 Symplocos crat£egoides 

 Untimely trimming of shrubs . . . 



Planting a privet hedge 



Forsyth ia Fortune! 



Transplanting old rose bushes .... 



Mosella rose 



the greenhouse. 



Azaleas 



Heating a greenhouse 



Crinum Kirkii 



A greenhouse fernery ('llu- ) 



Greenhouse plants in bloom . . 

 Greenhouse construction and heating 



Asparagus Sprengeri (illus.) 



Zamia 



Begonias not thriving 



THE fruit garden. 



Strawberries 



Figs in a cold grapery . ... 



Spraying Iruit trees 



Berry growing . 



- strawberries . 



The Japan quince 

 the V) 

 Lettuce in the grei 

 Cabbage . 

 A list of vegetable 

 Blanching celery 

 Greenhouse lettuc 

 Tomatoes , . . 



EuLALiA gracillima of the catalogues 

 is properly Miscanthus sinensis and 

 when it has a white midrib of considera- 

 ble prominence, of it is the variety 

 anivittatus; as its name infers it is a 

 native ot China. 



The Catalogues now begin to pour in 

 upon us, and right welcome they are; 

 they are the pulse of horticulture. Every- 

 thing that is new, interesting and desira- 

 ble in their lines is noted in these lists. 

 They are an emphatic reminder that spring 

 will soon be hire and that we must pre- 

 pare for it by getting our flower and vege- 

 table seeds, fruit trees and vines and berry 

 bushes, roses and ornamental shrubbery, 

 and some window and greenhouse plants. 

 These catalogues cost you only one cent 

 each, that is, a postal card asking for a 

 catalogue and addressed to the seedsman 

 or nurserymen will bring it to you. Send 

 them. 



About Bees— A. D. C, Grenada, Miss, 

 writes: "Please give us some articles on 

 the management of bees, remembering 

 that we do not know even the a-b-c of 

 the business." We have a few hives at 

 Dosoris, but candidly, must admit that 

 we are far from experts in bee manage- 

 ment. You should send to the publisher 

 of Gardening at our Chicago ofiice for 

 "Bees and Honey," price $1; Quinby's 

 New Bee Keeping^ price $1.50; or Root's 

 ABC of Bee Culture, price $1.25, all ex- 

 cellent works on this subject. 



With a large grain of salt.— Mr. 

 Alfred Outram, who made several visits 

 to this country as a drummer for a Lon- 

 don nursery firm, in a lecture on "The 

 Progress of Horticul ure in the United 

 States" given before the Devon and E.xeter 

 Gardeners' Society in England, according 

 to the Gardeners' Magazine, told his 

 audience "Though many undoubtedly 

 good things had come from horticultural 

 America, a rather large grain of salt had 

 to be taken with descriptions of their in- 

 troductions." This is a genuine case of 

 reciprocity. 



Home-made Mushroom Spawn.— In 

 last issue of Gardening, page 156, Wil- 

 liam Forbes, Riverside, R. I., advertises a 

 mushroom spawn of his own manufact- 

 ure. We are glad of this, for there is no 

 reason why the home-made article 

 shouldn't be as good as any imported 

 from foreign lands But we have proof 

 of the potency of Mr. Forbes' spawn. 

 Some years ago the Farquhar Brothers, 

 seedsmen, Boston, sent us a sample of 

 Mr. Forbes' spawn for trial; we planted 

 it and found it full of life, quick and very 

 prolific, giving us excellent mushrooms. 

 The only trouble with the home-made 

 article so far as we have seen it is that 

 the bricks are not so smooth and of even 

 size as the English bricks, hence not so 

 attractive to the public eye, but this is no 

 fault at all in the eye of experts who care 

 nothing for looks but all for life, freshness 

 and potency. 



Novelties.- All progressive nursery- 

 men, seedsmen and florists use their ut- 

 most endeavors every year to get up a 

 fair list of new plants or novelties, these 

 may be new species, new varieties or im- 

 proved strains of old varieties. The pub- 

 lic demand this. Take flower seeds for 

 instance. When we get hold of a cata- 

 Ibgue about the first thing we look for is 

 the novelties; if it has none, we conclude 

 he is a pretty backward seedsman and we 

 soon transfer our attention to the lists of 

 more enterprising firms. The goodness 

 or poorness of a novelty has got to be 

 tested and it is soon enough for us to 

 speak evil of them when we have found, 

 by actual experiment, that they are 

 worthless; take nothing for granted, test 

 the things before you give a definite 

 opinion of them. At Dosoris we test 

 most of the novelties offered each year 

 and a good many of them a year or two 

 before they are catalogued and find it ex- 

 ceedingly interesting work. 



Fortunes in Celery.— A correspon- 

 dent of an agricultural contemporary 

 grew 5000 celery plants in four square 

 rods of land and sold them at 21/2 to 5 

 cents a bunch, realizing over $50 for them. 

 And he tells us "something like 85,000 

 plants per acre can be grown in this way, 

 and at the regular wholesale price of 2V2 

 cents, would amount to over $8,000." 

 And still the farmers call out that "farm- 

 ing don't pay," and truck gardeners 

 declare they're barely making a living. 

 Why, what's the matter with them? .\t 



that rate a gold mine in Venezuela, or a 

 diamond digging in South Africa is poor 

 property compared to a celery farm. Now 

 the fact of the matter is no man is mak- 

 ing $2,000 an acre from celery, and no 

 amount of argument, or figures, or the- 

 oretical talk or writing will convince us 

 that it can be done. No, no, it will take 

 proof of actual, accomplished results by 

 the acre to inflate our hardened heart, 

 our hair has not turned gray, and our 

 head bald growing vegetables to swallow 

 a $2,000 an acre gulp of any outdoor 

 vegetable crop. But there is no need of 

 being envious, those who tell us how to 

 obtain these wonderful profits never get 

 them themselves. 



More Vegetable Matter.— C. D. J., 

 a grower of vegetables for market, Jack- 

 sonville, 111,, writes: "Your answers on 

 vegetables are always to the point; I 

 wish all of the paper, or half of it, were 

 devoted to vegetables," Thank you. At 

 Dosoris we grow a larger assortment of 

 vegetables than is grown on any other 

 place we know of outside of a trial 

 ground, and to meet a large and very pos- 

 itive demand; it isn't a matter of fun or 

 indifference withus— if they grow well, all 

 right; if they don't, then there is nothing 

 amiss at all— it is imperative, earnest 

 work on our part. The quality must be 

 Al, and the supply continuous. Writing 

 from such a field is how we can talk 

 pointedly enough to meet the approval of 

 even a market gardener. As regards giv- 

 ing more space to vegetables, we fear we 

 cannot. We try to cover the whole field 

 of useful information in amateur garden- 

 ing, delving a little deeper sometimes, as 

 the pressure bears on it, under one head- 

 ing than under another. But every ques- 

 tion asked, no matter under what head- 

 ing it may be, is answered to the best of 

 our ability, and when we are crowded in 

 the paper, this is done by mail. We don't 

 give you snips of answers either; if you 

 ask a question we take it for granted that 

 you want a full and intelligible reply, and 

 it is our mission to serve you. 



A Private Gardener is a man practi- 

 callj' conversant with every detail of gar- 

 dening, such as fi-uit and vegetable grow- 

 ing, outdoor decorative and greenhouse 

 gardening, and he should also have a fair 

 knowledge of farming and stock. Now 

 our young men cannot learn all this in a 

 commercial florists' establishment, and it 

 is a pit}' that such places have so great a 

 fascination for those who intend follow- 

 ing the business of private gardener. 

 Gentlemeti seeking gardeners often stipu- 

 late against the florist-trained men, and 

 all because these gardeners lack in a 

 knowledge of the detail required about a 

 private garden. There is a great deal in 

 this, and we would strongly urge young 

 men training as gardeners that all the 

 essentials of success are not centered 

 inside of a greenhouse. Itis very important 

 to know and be able to grow orchids and 

 all seasonable, useful and desirable plants, 

 and so it is too to be able to keep up a full 

 and unbroken lineof young vegetables the 

 whole year round. The competent gar- 

 dener can do this with as much certainty 

 as the florist can grow Bride or American 

 Beauty roses. He should be able to pro- 

 vide a'full supply of the best of fruit in its 

 season, and fruit and vegetables from 

 greenhouses at any season; he should 

 also be able to maintain an unin- 

 terrupted supply of outdoor flowers 

 from snow in spring till snow in fall, 

 not only for garden decoration, but 

 in quantity for cut flowers, and not from 

 l)atches inthe field as the florist sets out 

 iiis carnations and gladioli, but from 



