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* • ' GARDENING. 



Nov. 75, 



WDENIN6 



William Falconer, Editor. 



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Chas. Davis Chrysanthemum in full 

 bloom, more than any other variety, re- 

 sembles the frowsy, tow-headed foot-ball 

 player, and its sandy chestnut color gives 

 emphasis to the likeness. 



The double-flowering kudbeckia, 

 Golden glow has also found favor in the 

 eyes of Europe, and it too has been 

 bought up here and shipped there in 

 quantity. The picture of it in Gardening, 

 September 15, '96, page 5, was the cause 

 of this; it was the truth and the ke n-eyed 

 Briton knew it. 



Cupid Sweet Pea.— From far : ndnear 

 comes a wail of disappointment. Now 

 this is unreasonable. The plant was 

 given out as a 5-inch tall one; could you 

 consistently look for blossoms bigger 

 than the plants themselves, or on spikes 

 a foot long? Come now. be reasonable, 

 weigh things for yourselves. 



New Cannas — France isn't having a 

 monopoly of the business of raising new 

 cannas. America is having a share of it. 

 The agent of a very prominent European 

 florist firm has just gathered up a big 

 collection of the new American-raised 

 varieties and sent them over to Europe. 

 His exclamation to us was: "Ha\e you 

 seen them? Oh, man, aren't they fine?" 



Streptocarpus — The hybrids have 



flowered nicely all summer (-nd 1 have 



contexts. potted them into larger pots and they 



trees and shrubs. are coming along nicely, and I think thev 



'lh h rutefo r rl L mXow r ; I i^ U t S, : \ \ \ \ -\ \ \ \ iS ™» <£*« good all winter. But how 



Trees and shrubs 66 Slow S. Wendhindu is in blooming! It 



Japan quince- a freak 66 has only one leaf, but I put three plants 



A ul V e e arch mia_AZalea ~ HOl ! y . ." .', '. '. '. '. 66 in one P ot . pointing the leaves out in dif- 



Douglas's golden juniper (illus.)'. '. '.' '. '. '. '. '. 66 ferent directions, this gives the plants a 



the flower garden. nicer appearance than the one leaf onlv; 



Th y e E wil d d en g l?den nter ' : ' ! \ '. '. '. \ \ \ \ ! ! 68 the leaves are 13 inches Ion* . and s ' -' 



Flower garden notes 68 inches wide; the plants are in 6-inch pots 



Gentian— Primula-Stocks 69 anc ] are from seed sown last February. 



The flower garden 69 



A list of hardy perennials 69 „ ^, „ ~. . . 4 , , 



Coming cannas 70 The BOSTON rERN.— There is no doubt 



Notes on new flowers 70 whatever of the excellence ol this nephro- 



Kto*« *T "h'dShdr stems . . \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 70 *&*>. °r "sword fern." as a house plant, 



wintering auriculas . . . 71 and its tree-growing prop rties are extra- 



the greenhouse. ordinary. A few New York florists dis- 



An amateur ^greenhouse (illus.; 71 CO vered'its worth a year ago and filled 



A bof "greenhouse ' \ '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. ' 71 up their greenhouses with it and are now 

 Cold frames 72 reaping a golden harvest from it. Euro- 

 Himalayan rhododendrons 72 florists are now discovering its 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. H^t... _ £._„ 



Chrysanthemums as window plants (illus.) ... 72 value, too, and importing lots ot it from 



orchids. this country. As a market or house 



A white-flowered cattleya (illus.) 72 , t ; t ma t ters little whether it is new 



Cymbidium Lowianum (illus. 1 73 K , ... , „„ , •. ■ 



A year's cattleyas 73 or not, SO long as it is good, and it is 



Mimical orchids . . 73 good. 



Vanda cccrulea alba .... 73 



Planting fruit Trees™ 11 " *^T' 75 ^oke Dust -What about it? We can 



Winter protection for berry bushes 75 get it here in large quantity, and we use 



The Russian tree fruits 75 it on pathways and as a bed to stand pot 



Experiments with mufhroo™ beds 76 PJants on, and until recently had evil sus- 



Raising mushrooms . 76 picionofit. It is what is used as a thick 



vegetables. bed under granolithic pavement. One 



Onfo e n\ b ie e d1,n1sinrorV. \ \ \ ! ". ] \ \ \ \ \ \ 78 day a contractor called our attention to 



Broccoli vs. cauliflower . . . 76 the tact that he was putting a thick layer 



miscellaneous. of clav between the coke cinders and the 



^"w^theMo^rf rdening : \ \ \ \ \ \ 78 '™» of one of the bridges here because, he 



said, the cindersalways ate into the iron. 



This set us a thinking: If these cinders 



Clematis paniculata — S. M. S , Ty- CO uld corrode iron so seriously, what 



lerville, Conn., asks: "Hosv far apart a bput our plants, for wc had used tons of 



should I plant this clematis to cover a them in covering over our potted bulbs 



picket fence? Where is a good place to in the cold frames? We didn't know and 



get the vines?" .4;js. If your ground is couldn't afford to take any risks so we 



real good plant them four feet apart, and have stripped our bulbs removing all the 



in a year or two when they have filled cinder covering, and used sand and loam 



up the space lift every second plant and instead. Who has had actual experience 



set it out somewhere else, and in this way in this matter? Coal ashes are excellent 



you can have your fence completely cov- covering for potted bulbs, 

 ered from the first summer. In poor or 

 dry ground the plants needn't be so far 

 apart. But there needn't be any fast rule. 

 You can get them from any of the nursery- 

 men advertising in GARDENING, 



Jadu Fibre.— Some time ago we called 

 vour attention to this new potting ma- 

 terial; it seems to be the ordinary "Ger- 

 man moss" we use so much for bedding 



the horses in our stables, put through 

 some steaming and fertilizing process. 

 Because of its lightness, sponginess and 

 cleanness it was much lauded as a substi- 

 tute for earth in growing pot plants, 

 especially in cities where potting compost 

 was scarce. We got a bag of it and gave 

 it a fair trial and most everything we 

 planted in it grew finely; because of its 

 porous nature plants rooted more readily 

 in it than in common soil, but their leaf 

 growth was greater than their flower or 

 fruit producing properties when compared 

 with results lrom common ground. An 

 East Indian paper shows in tabulated 

 form its great superiority over common 

 earth as a medium for propagating trees 

 and shrubs in; cuttings rooted in a third 

 less time in it than in the soil and cuttings 

 of many kinds of plants rooted in it that 

 failed to strike in earth. 



A Traveller's Notes, by James Her- 

 bert Veitch of London is the record of the 

 author's experience in a journey of horti- 

 cultural research around the world in 

 1891 — 3. It is a magnificently gotten up 

 work, well illustrated, 12'bxlO inches, 

 and contains over 200 pages. Its princi- 

 pal chapters h re on Ceylon and Southern 

 India, Bombay to Lahore, Delhi to Cal- 

 cutta, Penang to Singapore, Java, Hong- 

 Kong and Canton, sprin/, summer and 

 autumn in Japan; Corta, Oueensland and 

 Western Australia, South Australia, Vic- 

 toria and New South Wales, and New 

 Zealand. The author is the son of the 

 late John Gould Veitch (who over thirty 

 years ago explored Japan on a similar 

 errand and with great success), and is 

 connected with the great Veitch firm of 

 nurserymen of London. His chief mission 

 abroad was to find new and rare plants, 

 and observe how these plants grew in 

 their native countries. When we take 

 into consideration the vast knowledge 

 and familiarity the author must have 

 acquired in his life long intimacy in the 

 greatest exotic plant nursery in the world, 

 one would naturally expect something 

 good in his n <tes of a two-years journev 

 in such far-away lands, and we are not 

 disappointed. The work is intensely in- 

 teresting from first to last, and there is a 

 very complete index. 



Naming Flowers in Compliment to 

 People. — If you raise a lot of nice new 

 chrysanthemums from seed and you think 

 a few of them are good enough to keep 

 and propagate for future years, of course 

 you want to name them and you hunt 

 around for the names of members of your 

 family or other friends or patrons to give 

 to your flowers, meaning thereby to com- 

 pliment your friends whose names you 

 have adopted. No doubt your intentions 

 are good and kindly meant, but the effect 

 is often very disappointing. In others 

 eyes these chnsanthemuns may be far 

 from as beautiful as in yours; when 

 grown by other people they may be 

 poorer or behave worse than they did 

 with you, and they are rejected. The peo- 

 ple have better plants and better flowers 

 than yours make, hence don't want yours 

 and stop growing them. Now then what 

 about the compliment paid to the friend 

 after whom you named the flower? In 

 the maelstrom of life the variety has 

 proved inferior and is discarded, and if 

 the name hail been registered it too is 

 lost, and it cannot be applied to any 

 other variety, no matter how good and 

 enduring it may be, so be careful. Take 

 a list ot the chrysanthemums often years 

 ago, and it may surprise you how few of 

 the varieties named in it are in cultiva- 

 tion to-day; perhaps among a hundred 

 sorts von have not got one of them. Was 



