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GARDENING. 



NOV: 75, 



a vegetable house soon which will also 

 accomodate violets, carnations, chrysan- 

 themums, etc. We also expect to start a 

 wild garden next summer and to put out 

 more and better flower beds which will 

 make our grounds quite attractive. For 

 the short time the enterprise has been 

 running it has been a source of great 

 pleasure and we think we may add, profit 

 to the institution. Gardening is our 

 inspiration and we wish it all possible 

 success. One of the boys. 



Good. We wish every industrial school 

 had a garden and a greenhouse too for 

 the use of the boys, yes, and the girls as 

 well. No. we don't wish to make you all 

 florists and gardeners and nurserymen, 

 for vou all will net have the apitude or 

 inclination for such work. But it will 

 make you better boys, manlier men, and 

 more refined citizens Take a walk 

 through your native towns and note the 

 prettiestand nicest kept gardens there, 

 they probably belong to machinists, car- 

 penters, or railway men, and you will 

 generally find their owners are yourmost 

 exemplary people. Likely it is the good 

 wife that is the gardener, bless her, and 

 the influence of that woman is potent on 

 every member of her family and every 

 neighbor. Boys, keep a diary and stick to 

 it. Not only make daily entries of what 

 is done every day, and why, and what is 

 in bloom, but also under separate head- 

 ings make separate entries, for instance 

 under the heading of roses, enter every- 

 thing you observe about roses, as you 

 observe it, and so on. 



You talk about increasing the number 

 of your flower beds, now be careful, many 

 flower beds are bad taste. Let us suggest 

 that you get together a large variety of 

 plants, say two or three of a kind of all 

 the popular shrubs so that you can be- 

 come acquainted with them and know 

 them; also popular hardy perennials, 

 bulbous plants, annuals, hardy roses, 

 vines of many kinds and the like, and get 

 them all properly named so that you can- 

 not mistake or "forget them. Your wild 

 garden is an excellent idea, keep it up. In 

 this issue, page 86, Dr. Barstowoneof the 

 most eminent gentlemen in New York gives 

 us his opinion, born of 60 years' practice 

 of wild gardening. 



COLD FRAMES. 



Tbese are used to protect somewhat 

 tender plants over winter from severe 

 cold; these plants may be cut-down 

 chrysanthemums to be kept over till 

 spring, potted bulbs to be kept under a 

 heavy coating of loam or ashes, to be get- 

 at-able when needed; daisies, polyan- 

 thuses, pansies. Canterbury bells, forget- 

 me-nots, crown anemones and the like, 

 which will be transplanted to out-door 

 beds in spring; and pansies, violets, for- 

 get-me-nots, lily of the valley, primroses, 

 anemones, ranunculuses for winter or 

 spring blooming in the frames. The 

 frames should be on perfectly dry ground, 

 and where there would be no possibility of 

 rain or melted snow lodging in pools about 

 them, and especially should they be dry 

 on the bottom inside. A bank of coal 

 ashes or sandy earth packed up against 

 the sides of the frame on the outside shuts 

 out the cold and throws off the wet; then 

 if there is a heavy bank of tree leaves or 

 strawy manure banked against them to 

 the top, and a board laid flat on top of 

 this covering, it will keep all snug and 

 warm Wet or rotted manure makes a 

 poor bank. Well glazed sashes should be 

 used to cover the frames and as an extra 

 protection straw mats should be placed 



A WHITE-FLOWERED CATTLEYA. (Catlleya Gaskdliaiia alba.) 



over them, then light wooden shutters 

 over the mats. If you haven't mats, hay, 

 straw, old carpets or anything of that 

 sort will answer. In fact where it is sim- 

 ply a case of keeping the plants over win- 

 ter, for instance, chrysanthemums, pent- 

 stemons, montbretias, multiflorus sun- 

 flowers, pansies, daisies and the like for 

 bedding out again in spring, some dry 

 oak leaves spread loosely over the plants 

 in the frame are protection enough under 

 the sashes, but be very careful to venti- 

 late freely in sunny weather tokeepdown 

 warmth" and in this way not excite 

 growth. As regards violets, pansies, 

 daisies, forget-me-nots, lily of the Valley, 

 anemones, ranunculuses, narcissus and 

 the like that we grow in frames to induce 

 them to flower in winter and earlier than 

 usual in spring, we must keep them snug 

 and warm, and endeavor by much cover- 

 ing at night over the sashes to exclude 

 frost altogether; be also very particular 

 to take advantage of sunshine and mild 

 weather. 



Himalayan Rhododendrons are tender 

 sorts requiring cool greenhouse treat- 

 ment, but they are of extraordinary 

 beauty, and not at all hard to grow. In 

 the more refined collections of greenhouse 

 plants in this country they are finding a 

 place, and deservedly too, for we want 

 variety. We want to get something more 

 than cinerarias, primroses, Dutch bulbs, 

 and other every day material, there is 

 room for all. But we were grieved the 

 other day to hear a prominent gardener, 

 whose employer had recently brought 

 some of these rhododendrons, speak dis- 

 paragingly of them. 



Chrysanthemums. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS AS WINDOW PLANTS. 



The illustration, page 69, is a picture ot 

 my window filled with chrysanthemums. 

 I understood that the blooms are not up 

 to a florist's standpoint, but it may prove 

 of interest to amateurs, who have to 



grow them under similar conditions to 

 mine. These were grown outside in sum- 

 mer in pots without special care except 

 to repot them as needed till it was about 

 time for frost, when they were placed in 

 the window as shown, where they have 

 bloomed nicely, and have elicited much 

 admiration from passers by. 



The varieties are J. H. Troy, the tall 

 one at the back of the center window, 

 Nemesis the one at the right and Mrs. M. 

 R. Parker at the leftin front of J. H. Troy 

 which stands almost five feet tall and con- 

 tains 89 blooms of snowy whiteness; at 

 the two lower corners of this center win- 

 dow are two plants of Miss M. M. John- 

 son whose rich yellow blooms show too 

 dark to t e very distinct. The one at the 

 right hand in small window is Dean Hole 

 not sufficiently developed then, but fine 

 now. At the left hand window is a plant 

 each of Jeannie Falconer and Mrs. E. G. 

 Hill, and some smaller plants are placed 

 along the front at the bottom of the cen- 

 ter window. W. O. Clark. 



Chillicothe, Mo. 



Orchids. 



A WHITE-FLOWERED ORCHID. 

 (Cattleya Gaskelliana alba.) 

 Orchids are the aristocrats among flow- 

 ers and white-flowered orchids are re- 

 garded as the fairest of the race. Among 

 the grandest of all are the cattleyas, and 

 the white flowered cattleyas are the gems 

 of the genus. Our illustration, engraved 

 from a photograph taken at Dosoris last 

 summer, shows one of the whitest, most 

 perfect and beautiful white cattleyas we 

 have ever seen. A plant of this sort is 

 quite valuable, but we came to have it 

 quite accidentally. A gentleman, a nat- 

 uralist, going to Brazil wished to send 

 home some orchids to whoever would 

 buy them, and Mr. Dana took a dozen or 

 two. They were mostly Cattleya gaskel- 

 liana and when they bloomed this white 

 one was one of them. It is just as healthy 

 and easy to grow as any other cattleya. 



