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GARDENING. 



Oct. /, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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Double yellow flowered Nastur- 

 tiums. — "I was in New Haven, a year 

 ago, and I saw a plant of it in a lady's 

 garden, and I begged a few cuttings of it 

 from her and that's how I came to have 

 it and all I know about it," remarked 

 Mr. Dean of Brooklyn to us the other day, 

 as we noted a profusion of this nastur- 

 tium in his garden. The flowers arelarge, 

 full-double, fragrant, beautiful, and stand 

 up stiff on strong stems. It is really a 

 desirable plant, but it must be grown 

 from cuttings. 



Propagating the Pineapple. — Not- 

 ing a vigorous young pineapple plant 

 growing outside in a gardener's yard 

 some days ago we asked about it. "Well, 

 I came by that innocently enough," he 

 replied, "A friend brought me the crown 

 from a pineapple fruit one day early in 

 the summer, and asked me if I could 

 propagate that. I took it, and just here 

 where we stood I set it on the ground 

 giving it a good squeeze into the earth 

 with the heel of my boot, and there it is, 

 that's all I ever did to it." 



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enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures, POT UP TOUR LILIES.— James Dean of 



perhaps we can help you. B av Ridge, Brooklyn, is one of our largest 



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flowers, gardens, greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or growers ot iiamsn lilies in tile country . 

 horticultural appliances that we may have them en- We called on him the other day and found 

 graved for Gardening. that he had a j, of h ; g u]ies already p 0tted 



and set out of doors, close together, on 



CONTENTS. top of ground in an open cold frame, 



the greenhouse. with a little hay spread over the pots. 



Dipladenias_ (2 iltas.) 18 A[1 were there> both those requ i rec ] f or 



Sa^gVungtenana plants'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 18 Christmas and for Easter flowers. Those 



Hyacinths and ixias 18 required for earlv use will soon be brought 



How to propagate gloxinias 19 j ndoors to warmth, and those for late 



Ferneiy at Chicago (Ulus ) 19 ^ < 



ORCHIDS. J 



Vanda ccerulea 20 A DWARF FORM 0F VICTORIA REGIA — A 



T ^? F '- ow , E:R garden. diminutive form of the Amazon royal 



The Boston Public Garden 20 . . ,. J 



Questions about flowers 21 water lily was one of the curious things 



Monster auratum lily bulbs 22 we saw in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the 



A golden glory coreopsis 22 otner day. Its leaves were perfect Vic- 



vi'nes^gainst'a board fence' '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. 22 toria leaves but only about 2 feet wide, 



Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (illus ) 23 but its flower buds were a puzzle, thev 



Potash makes begonias bloom 23 were SO mewhat different from those of 



Rockv Mountain blue columbine 23 , u*~ir . ■ t»i- i i 



Porch decoration 2:! the big \ ictoria. The plant when we saw 



Meadow beauty 24 it was in full foliage and had flower buds 



Centaurea Americana . . 24 but no open blossoms, and it was grow- 



trees and shrubs. ; n g j n a tank Wlt h } ts D jg namesake. Mr. 



sfasofable ornamental shrubs'. '.'. '.'.'. ! \ \ » Pettigrew got it from Mr. Tricker. 



Questions about trees and shrubs 21 



Crataegus slugs— Aphis 25 Is.N T IT AWFUL, remarked a neighbor 



clerodendron fceudutn 25 to us one day as we stood by a field hip- 



. ., ,,.,. AQD .£ TI r S ;, os high with ragweed, white weed, fox tail, 



Planting pond I.Iks, n the fall 25 b £ d k ^ ' d other weed ..^ 



EDITORIAL. , , T , ,, , ,. ' 



Notes 26 what can 1 do, the owner doesn t care a 



John Chinaman as a gardener (illus.) 27 cent how it looks, he is simplv holding on 



Young lady gardeners in bloomers 28 to the ground knowing its appreciation 



Roses-Clematis . . . ^ 28 in vaIue and our , a wns have ^ to suffer 



How I grow greenhous*e UI melous 28 from infestment from those seeds." Some 



mushrooms. days afterthat we again met him; 'Well, 



Growing mushrooms in summer 28 I couldn't stand it any longer so I hired a 



miscellaneous. reaping machine and mowed down the 



American Dahlia Society 30 weeds in that pest field; it was the easiest 



way out of the difficulty." 



Peanuts at Home.— At Mr. Dean's we 

 were also interested in a patch of peanuts 

 in his garden. They looked no: unlike 

 some rows of dwarf snap beans. After 

 flowering, the pods as soon as they begin 

 to form reach down to the ground and 

 bury theyselves in the earth and assume 

 a tuber-like behavior. Getting a fork he 

 dug up some plants for us, and they were 

 well laden with solid "nuts." 



That is a Frauenheim (a home of a 

 woman). — When I removed the wrapper 

 from Gardening of September 1, and saw 

 the front page picture, and before I read 

 anything I exclaimed. "That is a Frauen- 

 heim!" and truly I was not mistaken, and 

 there she sits on the balcony too. It is 

 my ideal of a home creation. 



Mrs. Wilhelmina Seliger. 



Hartford, Conn. 



Flower-bed designs. — We may decry 

 formal flower bedding all we wish to, but 

 in popular public gardens, more or less of 

 it has got to be done, therefore let us do 

 it as neatly and prettily as we can. It 

 will help us greatly another year if we 

 make designs ot the beds we now have, 

 no matter how crudely these tracings 

 may be and note the materials with 

 which they are filled, and the fitness or 

 unfitness of the several plants used in 

 their make-up. Also note your neighbors' 

 beds and the behavior of the plants in 

 them. The memory is treacherous, better 

 trust to your note book. 



The "single-flowered" hvdrangea 

 paniculata was the most showy and 

 conspicuous shrub in bloom in the Boston 

 gardens when we were there Sept. 18-19. 

 The "double" grandiflora form was fast 



fading, but this "single" one was in its 

 prime, and really a more elegant flower 

 than its bigger and stiffer "double" form. 

 Of course this "single" one is the typical 

 or wild form, but that doesn't detract 

 from its merits. There are two forms of 

 it however, one that blooms and is nearly 

 over before the "double" one comes in, 

 and this other that succeeds the "double" 

 one. Be sure you get all three. 



Raising Nvmph.eas from seed. — Near 

 the margins of the water lily ponds in 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn, we noticed sev- 

 eral flower pots filled with soil, and sunk 

 almost to their brim in the water, with a 

 pane of glass over them. "What have 

 you got there?" we asked Mr. Pettigrew. 

 "Oh, those are our seedling nympha^as," 

 he replied. "We save seed from some 

 of the earliest flowers, and sow it at 

 once, and sow it in this way, and 

 the seedlings come up right away and 

 we get a good start with them be- 

 fore the winter sets in. We can keep 

 them in small space over winter, pot them 

 off singly in spring and get fine flowering 

 stock for next year." 



Brains at a Discount. — The editor of 

 Gardening World suggests that no doubt 

 the name "Ice King" as applied to a cer- 

 tain low-growing, large, white flowered 

 rEiiothera or "evening primrose" was 

 originally a mistake or misspelling of the 

 word "evening" by the label writer; or it 

 might have been due to a slip of memory 

 after once having heard the name." After 

 laying awake for a whole blessed night 

 trying to think of a good catchy English 

 name for that little Oenothera, and decid- 

 ing on "Ice King," and then have 3'ouget 

 up and tell us it must have been an acci- 

 dent is more than one of our leading flo- 

 rists is likely to appreciate. No, indeed, 

 "Ice King" was a well studied "accident" 

 for profit. 



The Tree Iw (Hedera Helix var. ar- 

 horescens) is the common tree ivy of 

 Europe. While the common ivy clings 

 close to the trees or walls to which it at- 

 taches itself, its tree form throws out 

 stout woody branches in fact not unlike 

 the way in which our poison ivy branches 

 out. Of course these branches are leafy 

 and evergreen. It is not as a clinging ivy 

 that we value this plant but as an ever- 

 green dwarf shrub, and although it is 

 slow growing it is very pretty, and it 

 bears a profusion of greenish yellow flow- 

 ers late in summer, and as these raise well 

 above the foliage and are quite numerous 

 the heads are quite showy. There is a 

 growing demand for this ivy for park 

 purposes, and some "wide-awake" flor- 

 ists are pushing its propagation. 



Drip in greenhouses. — Noteitnowand 

 have it attended to. Rain drip is bad 

 enough but it is nothing like so injurious 

 as ice drip. It is most apt to occur along 

 muntings, and crossbars, and the valleys 

 in the roof, and especially along the under 

 line of the ventilators. This drip drop- 

 ping day after day on a plant will destroy 

 the sturdiest ironclad in cultivation. It 

 has perforated holes in our Victoria leaves, 

 rotted the crowns of tree ferns, spotted 

 the palms, and so on; it is a hidden and 

 often unsuspected foe, but never an inno- 

 cent one. See that the glazing is tight, 

 that proper channels are prepared for the 

 ready escape down the sashbars cf the 

 drip, and that galvanized gutters are 

 fixed up under the valleys; in lact do any- 

 thing that your ingenuity can suggest to 

 stop the evil. 



The Boston Fern, or as some people 

 call it, the Boston Sword fern, is one of 

 the best, most vigorous and satisfactory 



