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GARDENING. 



July I, 



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CONTENTS. 



ROSES. 



Bourbon and Bengal roses (illus ) 305 



Three recently introduced good roses . . 306 



Gloirede Dijon rose 305 



Rosa lucida alba (illus ) 306 



Sweet briars 306 



Rosa spinosissitna altaica (illus.) 30b 



A plea for garden roses . . 306 



trees and shrubs. 



Viburnums (3 illus.) 310 



Pruning trees 310 



Vines not flowering 311 



Moving large trees (illus.) 311 



BATTLEFIELD FLOWERS. 



Floral treasures of Gettysburg 312 



COLD pits. 

 A cold pit 313 



PALM LEAVES. 



Preserving sago palm leaves 313 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Plants in bloom June 15 314 



Pyrethrum roseum fl. pi. (illus.) 315 



Seeds to sow in summer 315 



Hesperis matronalis 316 



Hardiness of Fuchsia Riccartoni 316 



False Solomon's seal 316 



THE FRUIT GARDFN. 



Setting out strawberries 316 



Worms in strawberries ... 316 



Strawberries and raspberries 316 



Spraying. . . ... 317 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Park and Out-door Art Association . . . 318 



A splendid single rose now blooming 

 is a hybrid of Mr. Jackson Dawson's, not 

 yet disseminated. It is a cross between 

 Rosa rugosa and the universal favorite, 

 General Jacqueminot. The flowers are 

 large and open, numerously produced, 

 and very near F. Schuyler Mathew's pure 

 red, but inclined somewhat towards 

 magenta, retaining its brightness to the 

 last. 



On June 16, 1896, the Columbine Asso- 

 ciation had enrolled its first one thousand 

 members The object is to eventually use 

 its influence in inducing Congress to 

 adopt the columbine as anational flower. 

 Any one interested in the movement can 

 gain more information on the subject by 

 addressing Mr. J. S. Pray, secretary of 

 the Columbine Association, P. O. Box 

 2774, Boston, Mass. 



Paul's carmine pillar rose is in 

 bloom, and what a beauty it is! Saucer 

 shaped single roses, fully three inches in 

 diameter, of the color that gave it its name, 

 dot the bush from the ground up to its 

 tip, some eight or more feet high. A 

 matured plant must be a sight worth go- 

 ing miles to see. This rose is undoubtedly 

 hardv in most sections of our country, 

 and in all sections under protection; and 

 should be as universally grown as the 

 Crimson Rambler. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at Morgantown, W. Va., has been mak- 

 ing extensive experiments with poultry 

 and has now issued a bulletin on the sub- 

 ject which can be had free of charge by 

 any one applying for it. 



The wild cow parsnip (Heracleum 

 latiatum) found growing in moist places, 

 makes a veiy decorative display for large 

 bouquets in front of mantel places or 

 room corners. It may wilt a little when 

 first placed in water but it soon recovers 

 and lasts in good form for several days. 

 The broad white umbels rising above the 

 massive laciniated leafage are quite 

 effective. 



A group of 25 plants, set quite closely 

 together, of the double cuckoo flower, or 

 as it is sometimes called, "Ragged Robin" 

 (Lychnis Flos-cuculi), makes a very fine 

 show, especially at a distance. Thecolor 

 is a peculiar shade of magenta seldom 

 seen in flowers, and as it lasts long in per- 

 fection it is a desirable garden companion. 

 In windy situations, if a heavy rain 

 occurs, its flower spikes need staking, but 

 it is worth the trouble. 



Last winter proved that in some 

 instances a temperature of 25° below 

 zero, prolonged for a few days, is fatal to 

 Nordman's fir and the Japanese Scia- 

 dopitys verticillata. Both were protected, 

 the former by a solid board fence as high 

 as the tree, and the latter by a slatted 

 crate, shading it, but allowing free circu- 

 lation of air. The fir had all the terminal 

 and lateral buds killed on all but the 

 lower tier of branches, which were 

 covered with snow, while the sciadopitys 

 had all its buds distroyed. Both are 

 injured beyond recovery. 



If you are not growing Iris Hispanica, 

 make a note of it, and order some in time 

 for fall planting. They are not expensive, 

 are easily grown and are extremely 

 delicate and refined in appearance. There 

 is hardly a poor color among them 

 Ano ther aristocratic appearing member of 

 this family is the English iris, so named by 

 the Holland growers, who first obtained 

 the plants from England. Its habitat 

 is the Pyrennees and it is known botani- 

 callv as Iris xiphioides, but generally 

 catalogued as I. angelica. This blooms 

 immediately after the Spanish iris and is 

 somewhat larger. It doesnot increaseas 

 rapidly and therefore ismore expensive. 



An English paper says: "It is a very 

 common complaint that peach and nec- 

 tarine trees, when tied to galvanized 

 wires, have their shoots killed back every 

 year. Where the shoots touch the wires, 

 and often for some distance above and 

 below the points of contact, they become 

 browned or blackened. These portions 

 being killed it follows that all above them 

 must sooner or later die for want of sup- 

 port from the roots. The explanation 

 offered is that iron and zinc when wet 

 generate electricity, and the shoots are 

 thereby killed. The remedy against gal- 

 vanized wires is to give them a good 

 double coat of paint, which neutralizes 

 their action." 



Gardening World is responsible for the 

 following pretty story: "The Marechal 

 Niel rose was named by Empress Eugenie 

 in the days of her splendor. When Gen- 

 eral Niel returned from the Franco-Prus- 

 sian war, a poor man gave him a basket 

 of yellow roses. In remembrance of the 

 gift, the general struck a cutting from the 

 stem of one of the blooms. When it grew 

 into a good sized bush he took it to Em- 

 press Eugenie, who was delighted with 

 the gift and the donor, but was surprised 



the plant had no name. She said, 'I will 

 Ljive it a name; it shall be the Marechal 

 Niel.' In this manner it dawned upon 

 General Niel that he was promoted to the 

 office of Marshal of France." 



The Flower Garden. 



PLANTS IN BLOOM JUNE 15. 



June 15 finds the garden with a fine 

 floral display. The roses, in endless 

 variety and color are not yet at their best 

 but will be in a few days. Since my notes 

 of June 1, quite a lot of interesting flow- 

 ers have come into bloom. 



Sweet Williams are now at their best, 

 and though common plants one cannot 

 grow too many of them for they are very 

 gay while in flower and last for some 

 time in bloom. We treat them as bien- 

 nials, raising a fresh stock each year The 

 seeds should be sown about July 1, to 

 have good 9trong plants to winter over. 

 The perennial larkspurs are now beginning 

 to make a show but it will be a week be- 

 fore they are at their best. From 

 Lemoine's strain we get some fine flowers 

 and good colors. Some of the strains of 

 these flowers are very poor, and one 

 should get the best as they are one of the 

 showiest perennial plants and so good 

 for cutting. Delphinium cashmerianum 

 grows about IS inches high, the flowers 

 about an inch in diameter; it is in every 

 way a fine plant, very free flowering and 

 fine for cutting. It is easily raised from 

 seed and will bloom the following year. 

 D. Rembrandt is a noble plant growing 

 five feet high; some of them have dark 

 blue flowers, while others are light in 

 color; both should find a place in the 

 garden. 



The foxgloves (digitalis) are now about 

 at their best and what a gorgeous show 

 they do make! The variety gloxinixfiora 

 in mixed colors is all that could be 

 desired. The pure white ones with spotted 

 throats are fine. In the purples we some- 

 times get some poor ones, but all are 

 good enough to grow in a mass, and it it 

 in this way they are seen at their best. 

 We treat them mostly as biennials; as 

 they sometimes do not winter over very 

 well, seed should be sown now. The ever- 

 blooming forget-me-not, (semperflorens) 

 is now a mass of flowers. It is not so 

 good as some of the other varieties, but 

 as it lasts the most of the season and is 

 quite hardy it comes in handy for cutting. 

 Verbena venosa with us is not quite 

 hardy and needs the protection of a frame. 

 It is a free flowering plant and grows 

 about a foot high, of a branching nature; 

 it flowers much the same as our common 

 verbena of the garden; the flowers are 

 purple and can be used for cutting; it 

 lasts a long time in bloom. 



Coreopsis lanceolata and C. grandiflora 

 are now giving us plenty of their lovely 

 yellow flowers. For cutting this is one 

 of the finest June flowering perennials we 

 have, and how free they do flower! They 

 don't last a great while but then they 

 give us a few flowers in the early fall 

 months, which makes up for it. The}- are 

 easily raised from seed but they don't 

 seem to be very hardy the first year, as 

 we lost last winter the most of ours that 

 were raised from seed the summer before, 

 while the old plants in the garden came 

 out all right. 



Campanula persicifolia is one of the 

 showiest bell flowers there are. It grows 

 two to four feet high and has hand- 

 some spikes of large bell-shaped blue 

 flowers. The white variety is also very 

 fine. They are easily raised from seed 



