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GARDENING. 



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CONTENTS. 



AQUATICS. 



Water lilies (illus.) J)3 



Nelumbium speciosum (illus ) . . in 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Narcissus poeticus (illus.) lj-j 



Rockeries (illus ) . . . . . . . 11° 



Double-flowering Rudbeckia laciniata (illus.) . 117 



Anemone japonica alba (illus.) jj7 



Clematis ... J y 



Cannas us 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



The purple fringe tree (illus.) . . . . . 118 



Shrubs and trees with showy fruit (illus.) . 118 



Winter protection jjO 



Kuonymus radicans 1-1 



ROSES. 



Rosa multiflora japonica (illus.) 121 



Rosa spinosissima var. Altaica 121 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Early flowering plants . 122 



Cyclamens ... ■ ■ ia 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Grafting fruit trees }23 



Peach-borers J'* 



Gooseberries ... 12* 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Flowers in the house (illus.) ]24 



Landscape gardening 1* 



Mushroom bed over-dry 12b 



Japan is rich in varieties of flowering 

 cherries, but she has few, if any, that bear 

 edible fruit. The cherries eaten there by 

 European residents are imported from 

 Australia. 



The Cherokee rose figured in the last 

 issue of Gardening is Rosa sinica (laevi- 

 gata), a native of China that has escaped 

 cultivation in the eastern southern states, 

 and is consequently supposed to be indig- 

 enous. It is not very hardy and dislikes 

 cultivation in pots. 



Rosa calocarpa is the result of a cross 

 between R. rugosa and the old Bengal 

 rose (R. Indica) obtained by Mons. 

 Georges Bruant in 1890. The heps are 

 smaller than those produced by R. rugosa, 

 but much brighter in color, and more 

 freely produced. It is described as a 

 strong grower and abundant bloomer. 



The beautiful picture ol Exochorda 

 grandiflora in the last issue of Gardening 

 calls to mind another form not yet in 

 general culture in America. E. Alherti is 

 a new shrub very closely resembling E. 

 grandiflora, and said to be much hardier 

 and to bloom some ten days earlier. The 

 petals are narrower than grandiflora and 

 the flowers are deposed in spikes instead 

 of the flat racemes of the older forms. 



W. C. E. 



While the double forms of hollyhocks 

 are best when treated as biennials, they 

 can be carried on safely for a number of 

 years if the faded flowers are but picked 

 and the seeds not allowed to mature. In 

 winter the soil should be hilled up against 

 the crown, or better still small boxes 

 placed over them. Moisture does as 

 much damage as frost, if not more. 



Howea Belmoreana, better known as 

 Kentia Belmoreana, from Lord Howe's 

 Island, Livistona chinensis, known in 

 greenhouses as Latania borbonica, from 

 China, the variegated Pandanus Veitchii, 

 from Polynesia, and the green form P. 

 utilis from Madagascar, are among the 

 easiest manr.ged plants in furnace heated 

 houses. The last mentioned grows to be 

 sixty feet high in its native home, but 

 you needn't fear it doing so in yours. 



There were two instances brought to 

 our notice last summer of wild sunflowers 

 blooming in the crotches of trees. In one 

 case it was in an Elm some fifteen feet 

 above the ground, and the other in an 

 oak lully thirty feet high. Birds had 

 probably dropped the seeds there and the 

 frequent rains had caused them to grow 

 and mature in the limited quantity of soil 

 and decayed wood lodged there. There 

 was a single bloom on a stalk a foot long 

 on each plant. 



The white or yellow Marguerite 

 (Chrysanthemum frutescens) from the 

 Canary Islands, is a good season bed- 

 der, making before the summer is over 

 quite a large, many-branched bush. It 

 blooms freely and will be loaded with 

 undeveloped buds when cold weather ap- 

 proaches. It can then be potted and 

 brought into the dwelling house where it 

 will continue to flower as if nothing hap- 

 pened until all buds made in the open air 

 have bloomed. This species has also the 

 common name of Paris daisy and is some- 

 times classed botanically as Pyrethrum 

 frutescens. 



Has it ever occurred to our subscribers 

 that the four volumes of Gardening 

 already issued, form a complete encyclo- 

 pedia of ornamental gardening? Almost 

 every kuown tree, shrub, vine or flower 

 has been intelligently written about, and 

 every subject incident to successful gar- 

 dening has been fully discussed. The 

 numerous faithful illustrations given, 

 reproductions from nature, have been a 

 fruitful mine of information, for "Seeing 

 is knowing." There is no work in Amer- 

 ican literature that has appeared up to 

 now that is so fully instructive in garden- 

 ing matters. 



Prof. Edmond Gain, of the University 

 of Nancy, France, in his experiments on 

 the influence of moisture upon plants 

 finds that it varies greatly at different 

 periods of growth. In most cases water 

 is essential when the first leaves are ap- 

 pearing. Then there seems to be a slight 

 call for it until the blossoming period 

 arrives when the demand is great. He 

 states that fruit is best perfected in com- 

 parative dryness. In all his experiments 

 he found that plants that were watered 

 at the two critical periods of growth— 

 the unfolding of the leaves and at the 

 commencement of blossoming— did just 

 as well as those constantly watered. 



Get all your garden implements under 

 shelter. All broken tools should be 

 mended, or discarded and substitutes pro- 

 vided, and everything be gotten ready for 

 spring work. Examine the watering 

 pots and solder leaky or weak spots and 

 then paint them inside and out. It is a 



good idea to paint all such things as step- 

 ladders, watering cans, wheelbarrows, 

 garbage cans, etc., some one color, brown 

 for instance, that identifies in a measure 

 one's posessions. Of course a borrowing 

 and non returning neighbor may not 

 sanction this advice. The lawn-mower 

 undoubtedly needs overhauling and oiling 

 against rust. All this should be done 

 before the rush of spring work commences. 



The young market gardener is the 

 title of a new book by T. Greiner. It is 

 intended as a guide to those who intend 

 to follow the business of growing vegeta- 

 bles and small fruits, both under glass 

 and in open ground. It is bound in paper 

 covers, contains 124- pages and the price 

 is 50 cents. A new edition of "The new 

 onion culture," by the same author, has 

 also been issued. Paper covers, 90 pages, 

 price 50 cents. Of "Practical farm chemis- 

 try," telling all about manures and fertil- 

 izers and how to use them to greatest 

 effect and profit, a special cheap edition 

 has been issued in paper covers. Price 50 

 cents All above are published by the 

 author, T. Greiner, LaSalle, N.'Y. 



Birds in Conservatories. — The com- 

 missioners of Lincoln Park, Chicago, 

 have been placing birds in the palm house. 

 For some years a species of rail has had 

 the freedom of the place and has afforded 

 considerable amusement to the children. 

 This evidence of life amid the tropical 

 scenery is a pleasingfeature. Lately they 

 have been adding to the number, selecting 

 some European species, a Japanese robin, 

 and about twenty-five canaries. Every- 

 thing was all right until these songsters 

 were let loose. They are proving disas- 

 trous enemies to the well-being of many 

 of the plants. They are rapidly stripping 

 the leaves of Solanum jasminoides, Jas- 

 minurn pubescens, Bougainvillea specta- 

 bilis, and the young tips of the bamboo. 

 They do not seem to touch the allaman- 

 das. The passifloras evidently suit their 

 palate also as they have already nearly 

 completely stripped one vine. It is 

 hard to tell whether this destruction is 

 pure wantonness or done in satisfying 

 their natural hunger. A few leaves could 

 be seen still on the vines showing evidence 

 of having been eaten into, but as a rule 

 the leaves were torn from the plant and 

 allowed to fall to the ground. At one 

 vine in which there must have been fully 

 a dozen birds the leaves were dropping at 

 the rate of three or four a minute. These 

 birds have been in there over thirty days 

 so it is evidently not a sudden spasm de- 

 veloped at the first sight of verdure after 

 confinement. The problem now is how 

 to catch them. They can't be shot, as 

 that would endanger the glass. 



The Greenhouse. 



EARLY FLOWERING PLANTS FOR T«E GR66N- 

 flOUSE. 



In the fall and early winter there is gen- 

 erally a lack of flowers in the greenhouse, 

 chrysanthemums being about the only 

 flower one sees. But a variety can be had 

 by getting together a j'oung stock in the 

 spring and growing on all summer. 



Amongst the many plants that can be 

 had early in flower the Chinese primroses 

 are one of the best and showiest. To have 

 these early they should be sown in tie 

 early part of March, grown on all sum- 

 mer in a shady frame and pitted on as 

 needed, the last shift being given about 

 the first of August, which should be into 



