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GARDENING. 



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CONTENTS. 

 trees and shrubs. 



Lilacs (7 illus.) 289 



Notes on trees and shrubs 290 



Bechtel's double-flowering crab 291 



The cut-leaved birch 291 



Beautiful styraxes 292 



Our native stuartias 292 



Reinvigorating large oaks and chestnuts. . . . 292 

 the flower garden. 



Canterbury bells 293 



Wild cranesbill (illus) 291 



Choice wild flowers (illus.) 291 



American cowslip (lllu*.) 295 



Plants in bloom June 1 295 



Single white daturas (illus.) 296 



Columbines. . . 296 



Vagaries of the trillium (2 illus.) 297 



the greenhouse. 



A varied collection 299 



Spiraeas and raspberries 299 



Gasteria and Haworthia 299 



roses. 



Roses ... 



Rose Countess Marniesse 



Gloire de Dijon rose 



MUSHROOMS. 



Growing mushrooms in cow manure. 



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Keep a stock of reserve plants in 

 pots plunged in the ground in some out 

 of the way spot, to replac- gaps in the 

 beds that may occur through accident or 

 other causes. 



The Boston Ivy made many friends 

 under that name. At first the botanists 

 called it Awpelopsis Yeitchi and then A. 

 tricuspidata, and now, as if in considera- 

 tion of its changing nomenclature it is 

 called Vitis inconstans. 



In the last bulletin of the Hatch Expe- 

 riment Station, the Loudon red raspberrv 

 is given first place for hardiness, vigor, 

 quality, size, yield and firmness. The 

 bulletin speaks very highly of this berry- 

 and announces that is the most promis- 

 ing variety in the station collection. 



The report of the Government Pomol- 

 ogist for 1895 has just been issued by the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton. It contains descriptions of a large 

 number of promising new fruits, and has 

 colored plates of Ozone apple, Calvin 

 pear, Rupp cherry, Miss Lola peach, 

 Scribner plum, and Campbell Early grape. 



A family who have generally spent 

 their summers at eastern watering places 

 took this season a furnished house in a 

 country village. One of the children, a 

 bright boy some eight years old, almost 

 immediately after their arrival, after gaz- 

 ing admiringly at the trees and shrubs, 

 exclaimed: "Mamma why do people live 

 in cities when there are such things as 

 these out here?" 



Keep your cosmos pinched back for a 

 while. The dwarfer the plant the more 

 easily it is managed later on. A very 

 satisfactory way is to plant them in a 

 slanting position and keep the main stem 

 and longer branches pegged down. Allow 

 a space four feet long by three wide for 

 each plant. The smaller"laterals will turn 

 up, and when in bloom the effect is fine, 

 and much less damage is done bv heavy 

 winds. 



Watch your rose buds for the green 

 worm. Hand picking is the only effectual 

 remedy- For all other pests, in outdoor 

 cultivation, a thorough spraying over- 

 head, sideways, and underneath with a 

 hose, using a rain-maker nozzle under a 

 strong pressure, seems to be the best 

 course to follow. Thesprav is so fine that 

 no damage is done to the" plant, and the 

 force is so great that the pests are forced 

 off without ceremony. Mulch your beds 

 with tobacco stems or with grass cut 

 from the lawn. 



A correspondent of The Garden says: 

 "It is strange how birds will sometimes 

 for no apparent reason attack a tree that 

 they have hitherto allowed to remain un- 

 molested. Mr. Burrell's chimonanthus is 

 a case in point, and here where the Lon- 

 don sparrows abound the Japanese Vi- 

 burnum plicatum has suffered greatlv 

 from their attacks. About the end of 

 Januay they in a few days destroyed all 

 the prominent buds so that we sha'l nave 

 very few flowers this year: I counted as 

 many as 20 sparrows on a bush, all busy, 

 and the ground beneath was strewn 

 with fragments of the buds." 



Prof. J. L. Budd, of the Iowa State 

 College, Ames, Iowa, is very much inter- 

 ested in the Rosa rugosa family, and is 

 doing good work in hybridizing the Jap- 

 anese form, the one most grown, with 

 the Russian and North Central Asiatic 

 types. He has about one hundred hy- 

 brids that have bloomed. Most of them 

 are single, and in all shades of crimson 

 and scarlet, and of all sizes of bloom up 

 to four inches. Some are very double, 

 the flowers ranging from 20 to over 100 

 petals. Mr. Jackson Dawson, of the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, is also doing good work 

 with the rugosa roses. He has hybrids 

 ol it with General Jacqueminot, Wiehurai- 

 ana and others. The blood of this hardy- 

 rose (Rosa rugosa) thus being infused into 

 that of our garden roses, will in time pro- 

 duce a race, of which Madame Georges 

 Bruant and Emily Agnes Carmen, are the 

 fore-runners, that will prove a great 

 acquisition to those living in a climate 

 where the winters are severe. 



For lawn sprinkling there is nothing 

 better than what is known as "The But- 

 terfly" costing less than fifty-cents. There 

 are two forms on the market, one in which 

 the sprinkler is fastened on to an ordinary 

 hose nozzle, which is not the one to get. 

 The best one is that which will screw 

 on to any section of a hose, taking the 

 place of the ordinary nozzle. To use this 

 sprinklereffectively.'if residing in a sandy 

 district where a rod can easily be driven 

 into the ground, take a section of a gas 

 pipe an inch and a half or two inches in 

 diameter and seven feet long, forge a 

 point at one end and at the other have 

 two clamps made, into which the hose 

 just below the sprinkler is forced. This 

 i lamp is shaped exactly like the figure of 

 a "Lyre" in Webster's Dictionary, minus 

 the strings. When the gas pipe is driven 

 into the ground, the hose is carried up 

 parallel to the rod and pressed in between 

 the clamps. These clamps should be just 

 far enough apart to allow the hose to be 



pressed in between them. Being wider at 

 the back the swelling of the hose under 

 water-pressure holds it in place. This 

 elevates the sprinkler five or more feet, 

 enabling it to cover quite a sppce. Lin- 

 coln Park gardeners use this method in 

 preference to all others. Where the 

 ground is clayey and hard, have your 

 blacksmith make a tripod, say four to 

 five feet high, with a short rod runn'ng 

 up above the neck, or place where the 

 three feet meet, and on this rod place the 

 clamps. This tripod can be made to fold 

 up. One leg is carried up, the top form- 

 ing the rod to carry the clamps. The 

 other two legs are riveted on to the main 

 one in such a mannerthat they will swing 

 in and out. For one not to fold, take a 

 piece of piping, say three inches in diameter 

 and fourincheslong. Cut this half through 

 at the middle and then straight down to 

 one end. This makes a coniDlete band of 

 iron two inches wide, one half of the 

 band being four inches wide or high. It 

 is like taking a barrel and sawing it half 

 through at the middle and throwing the 

 upper half of the sawed staves away. 

 The clamps are attached to the outerside 

 ot the wider part of the band, and the 

 legs riveted to the narrower part. In the 

 folding tripod, be sure that that part to 

 which the clamps are attached stands per- 

 pendicular, as the sprinkler should stand 

 up straight. 



JAPANESE FLORAL ART. 



The Japanese are, as a class, probr.blv 

 the greatest lovers of flowers of any 

 known nationality. This is shown in 

 their national customs, creating holidays 

 devoted entirely to viewing and admiring 

 the common flowers of certain seasons. 

 The country is particularly noted for its 

 flowering trees and shrubs and all impor- 

 tant cities have groves devoted to them, 

 that their people may enjoy their beau- 

 ties. Flower viewing excursions are in 

 order at each recurring season and singu- 

 larly enough their enthusiasm is earned 

 so far that ' Snow Viewing" is included 

 asoneof their ' flowerfestivals." Asnow- 

 clad landscape is considered as a winter 

 floral display. 



In the spring come the plum and cher- 

 ries (the latter producing no edible fruit), 

 in the summer the wistaria, peonies, 

 lotus and irises, and in the autumn the 

 chrysanthemum and "the seven plants of 

 autumn," which are: The lespedeza, the 

 morning glory, the Eulalia japonica, the 

 Valeriana villosa, the Valeriana officina- 

 lis, the Pueraria Thunbergiana and the 

 carnation. 



They claim to have 269 color varieties 

 of the chrysanthemum, and fancy that 

 the same tint is never exactly reproduced, 

 resenbling in this feature the endless vari- 

 eties of the human countenance. 



The arrangement of flowers for interior 

 decoration is restricted by many rules. 

 Those that possess any poisonous char- 

 acteristics in leaf, stem or root, are con- 

 sidered ominous, and to be avoided. 

 Those having a strong odor are not con- 

 sidered suitable to be placed before guests. 

 What are termed "passed" flowers, i.e., 

 those belonging to last month, are for- 

 bidden. 



There are rules covering "combina- 

 tions." For instance the combining of 

 the pine and the Rosa indica, and the 

 willow and the narcissus is allowed, but 

 the oak and the aster, and the peach and 

 the cherry, is prohibited. 



In all their landscape work the idea of 

 sex is attributed to the material employed. 

 They have male and female cascades, 

 male and female plants and trees, and 



