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GARDENING. 



Oct. 15, 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 



LANDSCAPE gardening. 



My homeatTarrytown. N. Y. .illus.) 34 



A garden at Oconomowoc (illus.) 34 



Fine plants in North Carolina 34 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Hamamelis virginica 35 



Reliable nursery stock •» 



A tree-arch over gateway . . ...... 30 



Deutzia crenata var. Pride of Rochester .... 36 



Scorpion senna (illus.) . . . .... • ■ 38 



Golden Chinese arbor- vitse at Dosoris (illus.) . . 6H 

 the flower garden. 



Flower garden notes 36 



Bulbs and bulb planting 3b 



Clematises in the garden (illus.) . . . . j» 



Hardy perennials in Fairmount Park (illus.) . . dM 

 Fine foliage plants in the flower garden .... 39 



Notes from Springfield. Mass. 40 



The rose purple cone-flower (illus.) 4U 



ro^es. 



Hardy roses f> 



My favorite hardy roses . . ... . 41 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Chrysanthemums *J3 



Newer chrysanthemums ... . . *| 

 Chrysanthemums for amateurs 4A 



VEGETABLES. 



Storing vegetables for winter . 44 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Wild senna 4B 



Torch Lily, or flame flower, or fiery- 

 poker (Tritoma or Kniphofia) is now 

 grand in the park nursery where we have 

 a large bed of it containing hundreds of 

 torches all afire. There is nothing else 

 indoors or outside in the way of flowers 

 to compare with this mass of floral fire, 

 and continuing now after frost has come 

 and destroyed the other pretentious flow- 

 ers makes it doubly valuable. These tri- 

 tomas, either from seed or plants, are 

 within the reach of everyone, and they 

 are easily grown, then why should any 

 of you be without them? They are not 

 particularly hardy, however, but under a 

 heavy mulching they live over winter all 

 right; or they may be lifted and heeled in 

 in a cold frame or pit over winter, or 

 stored in a cold cellar, but they mustn't 

 be kept dry at the root. 



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The wild garden. — We have to thank 

 our esteemed friend Mr. William Robinson 

 of London, lor a magnificently gotten up 

 copy of his excellent work The Wild 

 Garden, and we feel particularly grati- 

 fied to find that the edi-or of Gardening 

 was one of the chosen few who have been 

 presented with these handsome copies. 

 The book teaches, and that too vigor- 

 ously, pointedly and convincingly by pen 

 and pencil how, how to make wild places 

 beautiful. 



Crotalaria retusa — Mr. A. Iilanc of 

 Philadelphia sends us a bunch of cut 

 flowers of this pretty pea bloom. The 

 sprays are fourteen inches long and each 

 is terminated by a raceme; spikes seven 

 to eight inches in length thickly clothed 

 with large handsome yellow flowers. 

 Really it is very beautifi 1 When we first 

 opened the box the spravs struck us as 

 having a likeness of Thermopsis Carolin- 

 iana, but they are prettier and more 

 graceful. It can be raised from seed. 



Scabiosa caucasica, the Caucasian 

 scabios, is one of the gems of October. 

 Sharp frost has come and destroyed our 

 bedding plants, most of our other hardy 

 plants have spoiled by drenching rains or 

 frost, but this blue-flowered beauty shows 

 no harm from any cause. It has been in 

 bloom all summer and is fuller and pret- 

 tier now than at any previous period; 

 but it never makes a bigshow. It can be 

 easily gotten up from seed, but as seeds 

 are not over plentiful at anytime, it isn't 

 a plant one is apt to get overstocked 

 with. Try it anyway, and grow it on 

 thoroughly drained but not very dry soil. 



A bushel basket is an illegal measure 

 in England. A London market gardener 

 sold a bushel of peas to a customer, using 

 a bushel basket as the measure. This was 

 common custom and the customer was 

 perfectly well satisfied. But an inspector 

 of weight s and measures happened to see 

 the transaction and prosecuted the gar- 

 dener for having in his possession, for use 

 in trade, an unstamped bushel measure, 

 and the gardener was fined $5 and costs. 

 Were a basket of peas bought the Act 

 would not apply, for a basket is not a 

 fixed measure any more than a cup of tea 

 is a fixed quantity; but when a bushel of 

 peas is bought, it must be served in a pro- 

 perly stamped and denominated measure. 

 The law is "All measures of capacity must 

 be stamped and denominated, and their 

 measure plainly marked on the outside," 

 and "no local or customary measures, nor 

 those used as heap measures, shall be 

 lawful." Were this thelaw here we won- 

 der what would become of the man who 

 sold us strawberries by the "quart" all 

 last summer. 



"The Chinese Chestnut" is the Eng- 

 lish name Mr. W. Go dringot London sug- 

 gests for that beautiful little tree, Xan- 

 thoceras sorbifolia, in the Garden, be- 

 cause its flowers look like those of the 

 horse chestnut, and botanically it is a 

 near relative of the horse chestnut. No. 

 no, don't use that name. Speaking of 

 chestnuts generically we always mean 

 sweet chestnuts, and surely neither in 

 flower, fruit, appearance, now family has 

 the xanthoceras any affinity or resem- 

 blance to the sweet chestnut. Besides we 

 have European chestnuts, American chest- 

 nuts, and all are sweet chestnuts, and one 

 ol these days we may have a true and dis- 

 stinct species of sweet chestnut from 

 China, then what would become of your 

 proposed name for the xanthoceras? It 

 would be abandoned. Splendid pictures 

 from life of this tree, its fruit, and flowers 



from Dosoris, were published in Garden- 

 ing, May 15, 1884-; and another picture 

 of an exceptionally fine plant of it in 

 bloom in Philadelphia, appeared in Gar- 

 dening, June 15, 1895. 



The Nut Culturist is the name of a 

 new and important work that comes to 

 us from The Orange Judd Co., New York. 

 It is a book 7%x5 inches, contains 290 

 pages, and over a hundred illustrations, 

 and costs $1 50. The author is our 

 lamented fri nd the late Andrew S. Fuller, 

 of Ridgewood, N.J. Mr. Fuller was a 

 professional arboriculturist of great expe- 

 rience, and had a beautiful country home 

 at Ridg wood where he gathered together 

 for love and experiin nt a vast collection 

 of trets and shrubs ornamental and usc- 

 tul. Nut-bearing trees and nut cultu e 

 were a hobby of his, and this his last lit- 

 erary work — he was the author of several 

 other books on fruits, trees etc. — he used 

 to regard as his crowning effort, it was 

 his pet subject, he was master of it by in- 

 timate practical experience, and he had 

 the field all to himself. How hopefully he 

 used to write to us of its progress every 

 now and again; he lived to finish it but 

 not to see it published. The book deals 

 in detail with every kind of nut tree hardy 

 in this country, for instance almond, wal- 

 nut, hickory, chestnut, hazel, etc., and 

 tells us how to propagate them, grow 

 them, and gather the nuts and make 

 money out of them. And it describes 

 every other kind of nut known anywhere. 

 In fine it is a reliable text book on the 

 subject, and we heartily recommend it to 

 our readers. 



Variegated Plants in Landscape 

 Gardening. — In company with a gentle- 

 man ot keen perception and horticultural 

 taste we were examining the plants in 

 the park nursery the other day and came 

 upon a fine block of Primus Pissardi in 

 deepest crimson hue, and a patch of 

 Spath's cornus in its golden dress. "Yes, 

 they are very beautiful in their way and 

 striking," we answered, "but we cannot 

 plant them in the park except in the 

 neighborhood of buildings and artificial 

 gardens. We cannot use them out in the 

 park proper." "Why?" he asked in as- 

 tonishment. "Because of their unnatural 

 coloring, and except in very deeply stud- 

 ied groupings their use would be incon- 

 gruous in modern landscape art." Fid- 

 dlesticks! ' ' he exclaimed. "Bless you, man , 

 the most gorgeous colored plants in 

 nature are our loresttreesin theirautumn 

 glory, they are far more brilliant than 

 your garden colored trees, and all man- 

 kind raves over theirappropriatenessand 

 beauty; and if we accept the one, by what 

 consistent law can we reject the other? 

 No sir, never; we want those colored 

 trees and we must have them." Oh that 

 Fred Law Olmstead had been there, or 

 Professor Sargent had been within ear- 

 shot of our respected friend! But time 

 will mellow his enthusiasm. In Schenley 

 Park we hope to have every variegated 

 leaved tree and shrub that is hardy here 

 represented, using them in the gardened 

 part of the park, not so much for land- 

 scape as for educational effect, making a 

 feature of them nowhere; but in the 

 broad a r res of wood, raviie, and setting 

 to the lawns and vistas, purer nature 

 must prevail, and we shall strive after 

 her greatest glory in flower and fruit and 

 vivid autumn foliage. 



The English Flower Garden —We 

 have repeatedly called your attention to 

 this book and told you that it is the best 

 work on ornamental gardening extant. 

 That's what we used to say of each and 



