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GARDENING. 



Feb. is, 



PCBL18HEO THE 1ST AND 15TH OP EACH MONTH 

 BY 



THE GARDENING COMPANY, 



Monon Building, CHICAGO. 



subscription Price, 12. 00 a Tear— 24 Numbers. Adver- 

 tising rates on application. 



Kolered at Chicago postofflce as second-class nintter. 

 Copyright. lSllT, by The Gardening Co. 



Address all communications to The Garden- 

 ing Co., Monon Building, Chicago. 



An English firm is offering through Mr. 

 J. W. Elliott a creamy white hybrid del- 

 phinium at five dollars and fifty cents a 

 single plant. That is certainly a high 

 price for a novelty, and if it is worth the 

 money it must be something very good. 



It is well known that the proper 

 function of the leaves of trees is to expose 

 to the action of the light the rising sap 

 that it may imbibe carbonic acid from 

 the atmosphere and combine it with the 

 oxygen and hydrogen it contains and 

 thus prepare the cambium, which when 

 hardened, forms the new wood. It is 

 necessary to obtain the largest sun ex- 

 rosed surface possible and no method 

 could have been employed that would 

 have produced the desired result so thor- 

 oughly as the myriad of thin flat surfaces 

 the leafage affords. Professor Gray says 

 that the Washington Elm at Cambridge 

 was estimated to bear seven million 

 leaves, exposing a surface of two hundred 

 thousand square feet, or about five acres 

 of foliage. 



Uakdening Is gotten up for lu readers and In their 

 interest, and it behooves you, one and all. to make It 

 Interesting. If It does not exactly suit your case, 

 please write and tell us what you want. It Is our 

 desire to help you. 



ASK ANY Questions you please about plants, 

 dowers, fruits, vegetables or other practical gardening 

 matters. We will take pleasure In answering them . 



Send us Notes of your experience In gardening In 

 any line; tell us of vour successes that others may be 

 enlightened and encouraged, and oi your failures, 



perhaps we can help you. In a woods not far from Chicago, where 



„£SS g^rdLTTeeUTses ^^^^^ the land had been sub-divided back in the 

 Horticultural appliances that we may have them en- booming times of 1873, and roads laid 



graved for Gardening. out a nd graded, but afterwards allowed 



^=^=== to grow up wild, numerous young haw- 



CONTENTS. thorns have sprung up. The roaming 



cattle have in manv instances trimmed 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. ,, . , , J , . . £ 



Hydrangea otaksa (illus ) . . loi these into compact symmetrical forms, 



starting flower >eeds lo' by constant browsing upon the fresh, 



Ai»troraeria-Anemone-lri:es 102 tender terminal shoots. Some are so 



Growmg'tender buibs in cold frames ." . . . . ' 103 nicely formed that no one would suppose 



Alstromerias "** the bovines had eaten to a purpose. This 



Unsightly cold frames . . . . . . j«3 ; s but historv repeating itself for it is 



Herbaceous plamsfoHow.d^mp borders Ibl saW tfaat th e be £ t y and vigor of SOtne 



Cercidiphyllum-Hydrangea IM plants on which the goats had browsed, 



Double-flowering plum (ilius ) jjji gave to the ancients the idea of pruning 



jTau^P^-M^oo^as \ '. \ V ' '. \ \ 1 . i« shrubs into form. Be this as it may, we 

 Japanese maples . . . - - • • • " H5 do not advise turning eithergoats or cat- 

 Labeling trees and shrubs (illus ) tie into our shrubberies for topiarv expe- 



Vines to cover dead trees . . . bb . 



Glossy-leaved evergreens for Virginia lob nments. 



the greenhouse. 



Primula stellata (illus.) 10" SWEET PEAS UP TO DATE IS the title of a 



TecomaSmithii-Solanum Weudlandi. . .107 ne at 70 page paper bound booklet bv the 



?. owiD L s ^ dS -, G " aniUmS m Rev. W. T. Hutchins. issued by W. At lee 



Greenhouse notes . "° rn.-i.iii.- -i r, 



Wistaria— Dolichos japonicus loo Burpee cc Co., Philadelphia; price 10 



Sowing seeds jjjjj cents. It contains the latest rules for cul 



Stag's horn ferns l"™^— "* ture, remarks about early planting, quan- 



Making a hotbed . . . 170 tity of seed, the cut worm, bushing and 



the fruit garden. trellising ( with illustrations ofsix different 



Pruning grape vmes^^.^^^ l.l , nethods of trellising), planting (three 



Science for its own sake 174 illustrations), watering, the latest pests, 



and a complete catalogue of sweet peas 



„ T , • , „ „, .,,„ „,.;„ ta j for 1897 (with 1+ illustrations), a por- 



We have received a copy ot the punted v , , . , , ." . r 



we. uau io-s r •' , lr ,„„| X nvpn trait ot Henrv hckford and description ot 



nroceedines ot the tenth annual c ,n\en- . . .j „ . . ,, . r . . 



I'. 1 ," °, • .- r »„,„,.;,.„„ r„_, a visit to Mr. hcktjrds place bv the 



Hon of the Association ot American Lem- r - 



u ' . . , . , ■ ,, „__ i,„i j ■ , author, a portrait of the author with an 



etery Superintendents which w« held in 1 mannerin ^ fae became 



St. Louis September 15 to 17 ^last The int wsled . s and a ari . 



pamphlet contains the vanons essays varie ties bv the publishers. It is a 



read at the convention, together with the ■». r . . , 



icau « Liii. >. V;„? „__ _«■ „,„„i, very useful and interesting little book, 



verv lull discussions, which are ot much -* , , ■ i j 



very iuu u»» , ~ - . well worth the modest price asked, 



practical value. The officers toi the cur- 

 rent year are: President, Geo. W. Creesy, 

 Salem, Mass.; Vice-president, Arthur W. 

 Hobart, Minneapolis, Minn ; secretary 

 and treasurer, Frank Eurich, Auburn- 

 dale, l). 



told how new varieties are produced by 

 cross-fertilization and the process fully 

 explained. Propagation by budding, 

 grafting, etc., is clearly demonstrated, as 

 well as the proper method of pruning. 

 All known garden fruits are thoroughly 

 discussed and their best mode of c 'lturc 

 given. Published bv Wm. Wood & Co., 

 New York. Price $2.50. 



Tin-: English use, and it is claimed with 

 success, chemical weed-killers for the ex- 

 termination of plantains and similar 

 large weeds on the lawn. The implement 

 used is described as follows: One consists 

 of a steel cutting plate at the end of a 

 tubular shaft or handle, the handle being 

 filled with a weed-killer solution. The 

 cutting plate severs the root, and by a 

 mechanical action a small portion of the 

 poison flows from the tubular handle on 

 to the root. The root is cut and poisoned 

 at the same time. Thereis another tubu- 

 lar form that may be used as a walking 

 stick also, by which the plant is "stabbed" 

 and the poison injected at the same time. 



The American Fkut Cilturist, by 

 John J. Thomas. We have just received a 

 copy of the twentieth edition, revised and 

 enlarged by Wm. H. S.Wood. This com- 

 prehensive volume of some seven hundred 

 and fifty pages devoted entirely to the 

 growth, culture and improvement of edi- 

 ble fruits commends itself not only to the 

 market grower, to whom it is almost 

 indispensable, but to all intelligent ama- 

 teurs, who desire to know and under- 

 stand the why and wherefore of the essen- 

 tial points in the successful production of 

 garden fruits. The opening chapter, 

 "Principles of the growth of trees," is 

 concisely written, more upon popular 

 lines than scientific ones, thus laying 

 plainly before the ordinary reader proven 

 facts that dispel all mysteries supposed 

 to enshroud the growth and development 

 of plant life. In other chapters we are 



GftlfUOGUBS RECEIVED. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, 

 seeds, plants and bulbs; Peter Henderson 

 & Co., New York, seeds, plants, bulbs, 

 tools and fertilizers; W. T. Hutchins, In- 

 dian Orchard, Mass., sweet peas; Storrs 

 & Harrison Co., Painesville, 0., seeds, 

 plants, bulbsand nursery stock; Weeber& 

 Don, New York, seeds, plants, tools and 

 horticultural sundries; W. A. Manda, S. 

 Orange, N. ]., plants, seeds and bulbs; 

 Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y., 

 miscellaneous nursery stock; Cole's Seed 

 Store, Pella, la., seeds, bulbs and imple- 

 ments; Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, N. 

 J., seeds, plants and bulbs; Silas Wilson 

 Co., Atlantic, la., new and standard fruits; 

 H. H. Groff, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, 

 cannas, gladiolus and clivias; Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., new and 

 standard chrysanthemums; Sehlegel & 

 Fottler, Boston, seeds, plants and bulbs; 

 Wm. G. McTear, Princeton, N. J , trade 

 list of chrysanthemums; Gould's Mfg. 

 Co., Seneca Falls, N. Y., pumps and 

 hydraulic machinery; Field Force Pump 

 Co., Lockport, N. Y., spraying pumps, 

 nozzles; R &J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, 

 Mass., seeds, plants, bulbs, fertilizers and 

 tools; Reasoner Bros,, Oneco, Fla., plants 

 and nurserj- stock; W. N. Scarff, New 

 Carlisle, 0., seeds, plants and fruits; John 

 C. Moninger Co., Chicago, greenhouse 

 construction lumber; E. J! Hull, Oly- 

 phant, Pa., plants and fruits; Johnson & 

 Stokes, Philadelphia, seeds and plants; 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, seeds, 

 plants, bulbs, small fruits, implements, etc. 



flNTOINECROZy. 



The accompanying engraving is from a 

 snap shot photograph of M. Antoine 

 Crozy, the celebrated canna hybridizer 

 of Lyons, France. The variety Mmc. 

 Crozy, still a standard sort, and 

 the host of other eannas of the large- 

 flowering type originated by him, have 

 made his name familiar to every lover of 

 flowers in America, and we believe our 

 readers will be much interested in this 

 view of the great canna specialist as he 

 appears in his working garb. 



Hot Beds. 



MAKING fl HOTBED. 



G. A , Chicago, wants to know when 

 and how to make a hotbed. We can do 

 no better than to reprint an articleonthe 

 subject from our issue of Feb. 1, 1895, 

 that covers the subject quite fully. The 

 article follows. 



There is nothing new to tell about how 

 to make a hotbed, the same story is told 

 and retold year after year, and we have 

 got to tell it afresh every spring. Hot- 

 beds can be worked to advantage all 

 through the winter in the south; in the 

 north, however, we don't care to start 

 them before February, and then for veg- 

 etab'es only; March is soon enough for 

 our flower seeds. The troub'e with the 

 hotbed in midwinter is properly attending 

 it in inclement and stormv weather. But 



