GARDENING. 



Noi 



William Falcomer, Editor. 



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CONTENTS. 

 trees and shrubs. 

 The Chinese golden larch (illus.) . . 



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 .52 



Autumn tinted foliage 

 Iron-clad evergreens 

 Trees for street planting (illus.) 

 An autumn ramble ... 



the flower garden. 



The Peruvian lily (illus.) 52 



Classes and varieties of asters (illus.) 52 



My flower garden in winter 53 



Annual vines coveringa chimney (illus.) . . . . 54 



Preparing for winter and spring 54 



Some prettv wild asters 55 



Scroll flower bed (illus ) o5 



The partridge berry vine 55 



Hardy perennials for cut flowers 55 



Naturalizing bulbs in the grass 56 



the greenhouse. 



Forcing lily of the valley (2 illus ) 56 



Winter-blooming plants 56 



Our greenhouses to-day . . 57 



The cold- frames . . 57 



chrysanthemums. 



Early chrysanthemums 59 



ro^es. 



Temperature for rose houses 59 



Wintering monthly roses 59 



orchids. 

 Orchids 60 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



60 



Nut culture 



eally, I must devote my attention to get- 

 ting up planting plans, and designing 

 arrangements and work for next year; 

 this takes deep, far-reaching thought and 

 most careful study noton'y forimmediate 

 effect, but for landscape beauty, interest, 

 and utility in the future My best work 

 of this kind has alwavs been done in the 

 quiet of my "den" at my own home at 

 night and not in the office by day, and in 

 order to do this work satisfactorily I 

 must do it at home. 



Very lew of our readers know that all 

 ol the editorial work on Gardening has 

 been night work, but such is the fact. The 

 editorial department in all of its detail, 

 writing, getting matter together and pre- 

 paring it, furnishing the pictures for 

 illustrations, correspondence, etc., has all 

 been done by me at night. Though often 

 arduous it has been delightful work, work 

 that I love, the subject is one ray heart is 

 in and my relations with ourreaders have 

 alwavs been of the most friendly and 

 trustful nature But to continue to edit 

 Gardening and do justice to ray park 

 work too are more than I am able for, 

 and therefore is it that I am compelled to 

 resign from the editorship of the paper. 

 From the beginning it has been my object 

 to make Gardening clean in every detail, 

 helpful to the amateur, concise, plain, 

 practical and truthful, in all its teachings, 

 and absolutely independent and impar- 

 tial, and unkind personalities or disre- 

 spectful references to correspondents or 

 contemporaries have been absolutely 

 debaned from its pages. We have never 

 been at a loss tor matter for the paper, it 

 has been filled by the voice of the most expe- 

 rienced horticulturists in the United States 

 Our illustrations too have teen a glory 

 from the beginning, and in point of truth, 

 beauty, and aptness, they never have 

 been surpassed, and they come pouringin 

 upon us from our appreciative readers as 

 fast as we can use them. The Dosoris 

 pictures — there are lots more of them — 

 have been marvels of beauty and instruc- 

 tion; than that Paradise of horticulture 

 no other place on this continent could 

 have furnished anything like as many, 

 and we are deeply indebted to and thank 

 its noble proprietor foi the substantial 

 aid and encouragement in this and other 

 ways he has accorded to Gardening. 



The future of Gardening is in the hands 

 of the board of directors, but you can 

 depend on my aid and sympathy and all 

 the good that I can do for the papershall 

 be done. Not only am I twice over the 

 largest stockholder in the paper, but I 

 love it. William Falconer. 



VEGETABLES. 



The vegetable garden 60 



Early mushrooms t»2 



RESIGNATION OF EDITOR. 



With this issue of Gardening I resign 

 from its editorship. I am obliged to do 

 this because of my inability to attend 

 properly to my park duties and the paper 

 too. Schenley Park consists of 4-50 acres 

 of exceedingly unev n ground with long 

 runs of deep precipitous ravines. The 

 land is stiff clay and rock. A vast deal of 

 work consisting of bridge building, road 

 making, grading, etc., has been and is 

 still being done, and a considerable area 

 of the surface has now been got in readi- 

 ness for planting. So far there has been 

 no permanent planting whatever in the 

 park, but next spring we are to start in 

 earnest setting out trees, shrubs, and 

 other plants for this effect. Up till now 

 mv time has been principally occupied in 

 work as above, mostly in the field, and in 

 the vast conservatories. Now, however, 

 that outdoor work will soon stop practi- 



Chrysaxthemlm Golden Wedding 

 seems to have outgrown the disease to 

 which it was a prey when it first made 

 its appearance here and in Europe; culti- 

 vators now think the evil was due to an 

 enervated constitution caused by over- 

 forcing in order to get uo a big stock of 

 the variety in a very short time. 



Our Common Witchhazel is in splendid 

 bloom in the ravines, indeed we never be- 

 fore saw it so fine. We believe this is due 

 to the unstinted moisture all summer long 

 and consequent strong well developed 

 growth. Bare of leaves and eovered all 

 over thickly with its small yellow flowers 

 it is really a very pretty and attractive 

 shrub. 



Wild asters were never more plentiful, 

 vigorous, or beautiful than they have 

 been this season; they lined our woods 

 and waysides in great beauty. No doubt 

 this has largely been due to the continu- 

 ously moist summer and consequent un- 

 checked grow-th. As these asters have 



ripened and spread about a large quan- 

 tity of seed we shall naturally look for a 

 greater abundance of these gay plants 

 another season. 



Eczema caused iiv Roman Hyacinth*. 

 — A correspondent of the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle writes: "A form of eczema has 

 been caused by handling bulbs of the 

 common Roman hyacinth, or possibly by 

 the buckwheat packing in which they arc 

 received in this country." We noted a 

 year ago an eczema of this sort caused by 

 handling tulip bulbs, the fine hairs of the 

 broken skin of the tulip causing it. V\ ith- 

 out rather pointed evidence to the con- 

 trary we must regard the case against 

 the Roman hyacinths as "not proven." 



The Goose Flower {Aristolochia gigas 

 var. Sturtevantii). — Mr. L. Burrows of 

 Decatur, Illinois, writes in praise of it as 

 a summer outdoor vine. He got a plant 

 last March, planted it in an 18 inch 

 square box, and in summer set it out- 

 doors, giving it a 6x2 feet trellis. This it 

 completely covered, and bore ten flowers 

 each one about the size of a canvas back 

 duck, in fact, the flower measured 12 to 

 14 inches from top to bottom, while the 

 tail like appendage was 17 inches long, 

 making in all a total length of about 31 

 inches for the flower. 



Queen Victoria's old gardener at 

 Balmoral is dead. He had been gardener 

 to Her Majesty for 44- years. In '92 on 

 account of failing health he retired from 

 the garden and was given a pension a"d 

 residence by the queen, and during his 

 late illness by her special desire he was 

 attended by Sir James Reid, her own pri- 

 vate physician. This is only one among 

 many instances of the kind motherly 

 nature of that dear, good old lady. But 

 we haven't to cross the ocean to find 

 deep, tender spots within the human 

 breast, we know of them right here at 

 home. 



The Survival of the Unlike is the 

 name of a new book by Prof. L. H. Bailey, 

 and published by the Macmillan Co., 

 New York. In size it is 5X7 1 2 inches, and 

 it contains over 500 pages; the price of it 

 is $2. It is made up of a collection of 

 evolution essays suggested by the study 

 of domestic plants. The author denies 

 the common assumption that organic 

 matter was originally endowed with the 

 power of reproducing all its corporeal at- 

 tributes, or that, in the constitution of 

 things, like produces like. He conceives 

 that heredity is an acquired force, and 

 that, normally or originally, unlike pro- 

 duces unlike. 



Our Pictures of China Asters. — In 

 these pictures page 53 we have given you 

 what has never before, so far as we know, 

 been given to the public, namely the act- 

 ual condition, appearance, and relative 

 size of thirty distinct kinds of China 

 asters as grown in the open field. For 

 the last two years we have been trying 

 to get this picture, and have only now 

 succeeded. Compare the blossoms as 

 shown here with the full, symmetrical 

 beauties you see in catalogues and books 

 generally, they don't look quite alike, but 

 these are the plain truth. In making up 

 your seed list next year consult these pic- 

 tures, they may be suggestive. 



Quince Culture. — The Orange Judd 

 Co., New York, sends us a new and re- 

 vised edition of Mr. W. W. Meech's Quince 

 Culture. It is a book SxT 1 2 inches and 

 contains ISO pages, and it is quite freely 

 illustrated. In it we find all about the 

 quince, and the different varieties of it, 



