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GARDENING. 



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plants in the garden set out with a view 

 to garden decoration as well as to a cut 

 flower supply. He should know trees 

 and shrubs intinialily and Imw to ar- 

 range them tastefully and tlfcclivelyboth 

 for their own good and the beauty of the 

 garden, and he should be more familiar 

 with hardy plants than with bedding 

 plants. Many gardeners look upon cows, 

 liorses, pigs and chickens with repug- 

 nance, asbeingbeneath theirdignity; now 

 this is foolish; most gentlemen want a 

 gardener who is perfectly competent to 

 undertake the management of all things 

 out of doors about his country home, 

 and gardeners should educate themselves 

 accordingly, for such places are generally 

 the most pleasant, permanent and remun- 

 erative. A gardener to command the 

 respect of his employer must respect him- 

 self. He must be proficient in his calling, 

 intellectual, vigorous, earnest in his em- 

 ployer's interest, and without a stain, 

 and he must keep himself and his family 

 distinctly apart from his employer's 

 household. 



Thk New York Gardeners' Society 

 will hold its monthly meetings at 8 p. m. 

 of the second Saturday in each month at 

 the Mott Memorial Hall, 64 Madison 

 avenue. New York City. All gardeners 

 are invited to attend, and they are also 

 invited to bring any flowers, fruits, veg- 

 etables or other produce of their gardens 

 to show to their neighbors, and to give 

 information about these exhibits. Ques- 

 tions and information on every horteult- 

 ural topic are asked for. 



John A. Pettigrew, Superintendent 

 of Parks, Milwaukee, and formerly Super- 

 intendent of Lincoln Park, Chicago, has 

 been appointed Superintendent of Parks, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. We heartily congratu- 

 late the City of Churches on this appoint- 

 ment. Mr. Pettigrew is a clean man and 

 has had vast experience in the manage- 

 ment of parks; he is a man of force, appli- 

 cation, persistence and execution, and 

 better still his heart is in this work. 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn one of the most 

 beautifully designed parks of .\merica, 

 has long needed such a man. 



CftTflLOOUES. 



Burpee's Farm Annual, Philadelphia, 

 1K5 pages, full, comprehensive and reli- 

 able, containing many novelties in flower, 

 vegetable and other seeds. 



Ellwanger & Barry, Moimt Hope Nurs- 

 eries, Rochester, N. Y., 152 pages; full, 

 well illustrated and reliable work on trees, 

 shrubs, roses and hardy perennials. 

 Right up to date in everything of this 

 kind. 



Vaughan's seed store, Chicago, also 26 

 Barclay street. New York, 116 pages, 

 full of all manner of flower and vegetable 

 seeds and plants, including all the leading 

 novelties in these branches. 



A. Blanc & Co., 314 and 316 N. Eleventh 

 street, Philadelphia. Novelties and spec- 

 ialties in plants, bulbs and fruits, dis- 

 tinctly a catalogue of novelties. Also a 

 catalogue of foreign bulbs containing 

 many rare things. He likewise sends us 

 an illustrated catalogue of rare cacti; he 

 has a very fine collection of these curious 

 plants and knows more about them than 

 does any other flotist or nurseryman in 

 thebusiness. His "Hintson cacti "is a prac- 

 tical text book on the subject as well as 

 a catalogue. He charges 10 cents for it 

 from non-customers, but if you arc inter- 

 ested in cacti at all send 10 cents to him 

 and get the book, you won't get as much 

 ])lain, practical, condensed sense about 

 these plants in any other book that we 

 know of. 



Johnson & Stokes, 217-219 Market 

 street, Philadelphia; garden and farm 

 manual, 96 pages, finely illustrated from 

 photographs, many novelties. 



J. Wilkinson Elliott, 341 Sixth avenue, 

 Pittsburg, Pa ; trees, shrubs, roses, 

 lilies, gladiolus, etc. Mr. Elliott is a buy- 

 er's agent and no matter what you need 

 in a horticultural line he can supply it or 

 get it for vou. 



Siebreclit & Wadley, 409 Fifth avenue. 

 New York. A splendidly gotten up and 

 illustrated catalogue of palms, orchids, 

 ferns and all manner of greenhouse plants, 

 hardy plants, etc. 



D. Landreth & Sons, 21-23 S. .Sixth 

 street, Philadelphia; flower and vegetable 

 seeds. Firm 111 vears old. 



E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio; every- 

 thing for the fruit grower, that is all 

 manner of berrv, bush and tree fruits. 



L. L. May & Co., St. Paul, Minn.; a 

 showy catalogue of flower and vegetable 

 seeds, roses, greenhouse plants, etc. 



W. F. Allen, Jr., Salisbury, Md.; choice 

 strawberry plants. 



Frank Ford & Sons, Ravenna, Ohio; 

 flower, vegetable and farm seeds, small 

 fruits, etc. 



Bowker Fertilizer Co., Boston and New 

 York; the Stockbridge artificial manures; 

 ((uite an instructive catalogue. 



Bradley Fertilizer Co.. 92 State street, 

 Boston; artificial fertilizers for garden 

 and farm, with testimonials of results; 

 worth reading. 



The Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 

 flower, vegetable, farm seeds, plants, 102 

 pages. 



Alfred Bridgeman, 37 East 19th street. 

 New York; all kinds of garden seeds; 

 established in 1824. 



L. L. Olds, CHnton, Rock county, Wis- 

 consin; farm and vegetable seeds, pota- 

 toes a specialty. 



G. L. Taber, Glen St. Mary, Florida; 

 fruit trees, roses, shrubs, etc.; adapted for 

 the south. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, Dey street. New 

 York. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co , South Market 

 street, Boston. 



John L. Childs, Floral Park, New York. 



Wm. Rennie, Toronto, Ontario. 



O. H. White & Son, Miller Comers, 

 New York. 



Wm. H. Maule, Philadelphia. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 



E. M. Merkel, Philadelphia. 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Market street, 

 Boston. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 



T. H. Spaulding, Orange, New Jersey. 



A. W. Livingston's Sons, Columbus, O. 



C. E. Whittens, Bridgman, Mich. 



John Gardiner & Co., 631 Market 

 street, Philadelphia. 



E. M. Coles, Pella, Iowa. 



A. E Baldwin, Bridgman, Mich. 



Aug. Rolker & Sons, New York. 



K. M. Kellogg, Ionia, Mich. 



Ben Hains Co., New Albany, Ind. 



Weeber & Don, Chambers' street, New 

 York . 



H H. Grofr, Simcoe, Ont. 



James Veitch & Sons, King's Road, 

 Chelsea, London. 



W. Thompson, Ipswich, England, 



W. Piercy, 89 Breadnell Road, Forest 

 Hill, London. 



Frederick Roemer, Ouedlenburg, (ier- 



L. Spath, Rixdorf, Berlin, Germany. 



Van Meerbrek & Co., Hillegom, Haar- 

 lem, Holland. 



Anthonj- Waterer, W'oking, England. 



Pape & Bergmann, Quedlinburg, Ger- 

 many. 



V. IvCmoine & Sons, Nancy, France. 



WHOLESALE CATALOGUES. 



E. G. Hill & Co., Richmond, Ind. 



J. N. May, Summit, N. J. 



Harlan P. Kelsey, Kawana, N. C. 



A. W. Livingston's Sons, Columbus, O. 



flow TO FROFflOflTE BITTERSWEET. 



Please tell me the trick, if there is one, 

 in propagating the bittersweet. Will its 

 seed germinate and can it be grown from 

 cuttings? I have planted seed several 

 times but without results. J. B. G. 



Flushing. 



I find it is easily grown from seed. The 

 seed should be planted or stratified in 

 sand as soon as it is washed out of the 

 pulp; if kept in sand and sown under glass 

 during February and March it ought to 

 come up in three or four weeks. Sow it 

 in boxes of sandy soil, well drained, and 

 cover it one-fourth inch in depth, and 

 keep it moist but not too wet as the 

 young seedlings damp ofl" easily. If sown 

 out of doors as soon as gathered in the 

 autumn they come up the following 

 spring; if the seeds are allowed to get 

 thoroughly dry they will not come up till 

 the second season. It is also easily prop- 

 agated from root cuttings cut in lengths 

 a couple of inches long, and put into boxes 

 of sandy soil and treated in the same way 

 as are other root cuttings. 



Jackson Dawson. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



The Vegetable Garden. 



LETTUCE IN THE OREENflOUSE. 



An Illinois reader asks: 



1. Can lettuces be grown well in a 

 greenhouse? 



Ans. Yes, very; in fact the finest let- 

 tuces sent to our markets in winter were 

 grown in greenhouses, and there are vil- 

 lages of glass houses devoted to this crop 

 by our market gardeners. Long, low- 

 roofed houses are best. 



2. The best temperature? 



Ans. At night 45^ with artificial heat, 

 10° to 15° higher in the day time. With 

 sun heat, having fire heat shut oft" a little 

 higher will not hurt the crop. 



3. The soil and how to prepare it? 

 Ans. Any good rich garden soil, dry 



and mellow enough for working. Have 

 lots of fine rotted manure in it. 



4. How often and when to water the 

 plants? 



Ans. Never let them get dry; water in 

 the morning and give a good watering 

 when you do give any. If practicable 

 ventilate rather freely after watering; you 

 want to dry the plants and the surface of 

 the ground before dark sets in, as a pre- 

 ventive of rot and downy mildew. 



5. Liquid manure, how often do you 

 spray it on or put it on the plants? 



.4ns. Never spray it over the plants. 

 By making the soil rich enough before the 

 lettuces are planted in it there will be no 

 need of using liquid manure at all. 

 Should you wish to give an extra stimu- 

 lant get a little quick artificial like nitrate 

 of soda and dust it very thinly between 

 the rows; the watering will bring it down 

 to the roots. 



6. Get rid of aphis? 



-Ins. When the lettuces get infested 

 with this they are a prettj' poor crop, no 

 matter what cure is used. Get some fresh 

 tobacco stems, ones that will make you 

 sneeze when you tinpack them, and chop 

 them up fine, into pieces say 3 inches long, 



