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CONTENTS. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Coronilla varia (illus.) 337 



plants in bloom July 15 337 



Dwarf perennials for edging 338 



Hedge of Rosa rugosa (illus.) 338 



Summer blooming carnations 339 



Pseonies— Roses— Deutzias— Althaea 310 



Grouping pseonies on the lawn (illus.) 340 



Wire stakes (illus ) 311 



Wire-staked paeony (illus.) 311 



Asclepias tuberosa 34 1 



Lemon verbena 34 1 



Bocconia cordata (illus.) &U 



Rosa lucida alba 34.2 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Magnolia grandiflora 342 



Decumaria barbara 342 



The Japanese tree lilac (illus.) 343 



The Chinese honeysuckle 343 



FERNS. 



A hardy fern bed ... 313 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Solanum Wendlandli (illus.) 344 



Heatiog a room (or plants .... 345 



Bougainvillea glabra Sanderiana (illus ) . . . . 34i 

 Heating a small greenhouse 345 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The Kieffer and Le Conte pears 347 



Fall bearing raspberries . . 317 



Thedwart Juneberry 347 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thousand-legged worms 318 



Mask plantings 3w 



The annual convention of the Society 

 of American Florists will be held at 

 Providence, R. I., August 17 to 20. The 

 program includes the following essays: 

 "Root galls of cultivated plants," by 

 Prof. Byron D. Halsted, New Brunswick, 

 N. J ; "Trees and shrubs that should be 

 grown by every florist," byChas J.Daw- 

 son, Bussey Institute, Boston; "Florists 

 as scientists versus artizans," by Prof. F. 

 W. Rane, Agricultural College, Durham, 

 N. H.; "Our favorite exotic plants in their 

 own homes," with steropticon illustra- 

 tions, by Prof. Geo. L. Goodale, Botanic 

 Gardens of Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. There is also a whole 

 series of papers under the general title 

 "A year's progress in our business," 

 covering the rose, the carnation, the 

 chrysanthemum, decorative and green- 

 house plants, bedding plants, and the 

 retail department. The entertainments 

 include a trip to Newport to view the 

 many beautiful grounds there. An exhi- 

 bition will be held in connection with the 

 convention and the society offers six silver 

 and six bronze medals as first and second 

 prizes for cannas, tuberous begonias, 

 fancy leaved caladiums, aquatic plants 

 and "hardy conifers in pots. A rate of one 

 and one-third fares for the round trip has 

 been secured from all the railroads east of 

 Chicago and St. Louis. 



GARDENING. 



On account of ill health Elizabeth Fry 

 has resigned the editorship of the South- 

 ern Florist and Gardener, which position 

 she has occupied since its first issue three 

 3 - ears ago. 



Bulletins 53 and 54 have been received 

 from the U. S. Experiment Station at 

 Brookings, So. Dakota. The first treats 

 on "Forestry in South Dakota" and the 

 second on "Subsoiling." 



A lover of wild flowers found in the 

 woods last summer a black-eyed Susan, 

 almost double and transferred it to his 

 garden where it is now blooming. It 

 retains its doubling tendencies, and is 

 quite a novelty. The petals are finely 

 divided and nearly cover the entire head. 

 In some of the flowers, a small dark cen- 

 ter is preserved, but in others there is an 

 attempt to produce petals clear to the 

 center. 



The bloom stalks of Yucca filamentosa 

 keep well in water and are very decora- 

 tive in large bouquets. The long leaves 

 of the swamp cat-tail (Trpha latitolia), 

 or, better still, the narrow-leaved form 

 (T. angustifolia) give a suitable green to 

 accompany it. Their creamy white bell- 

 shaped flowers at a recent reception, 

 caused a lady present to refer to them as 

 "those magnified lilies of the valley." In 

 Missouri the3 r are called Belles of the 

 South. 



Did you go out into the meadows and 

 gather a large bunch of lilies? Nearly 

 every unopened bud will expand if the 

 stems are placed in water. Take up some 

 bulbs of the brighter colored ones by cut- 

 ting out a piece of sod a few inches square 

 and deep containing the bulb. Heel these 

 in anywhere until fall, cutting off all 

 flower buds but retaining the stems and 

 foliage. When fall comes, and the stems 

 are ripened off, either clean away the soil 

 and plant where wanted or shave oft the 

 top two inches, which will include most 

 of the grass roots, and plant the remainder 

 two to three inches deep. As a rule they 

 improve under garden culture. 



Now that all the varieties of the large 

 flowered clematis are in bloom, visityour 

 neighbor's garden and admire them, but 

 don't envy the owner, for you can have 

 them also. Since the appearance of the 

 yet unconquered clematis disease it is a 

 question of "a survival of the fittest." 

 The Jackmanni and some of the vitieella 

 hybrids have the most robust constitu- 

 tions, and therefore a larger percentage of 

 them overcome the malady, but one likes 

 to have other colors also. Make a note 

 of the names of the varieties you admire 

 and then make up your mind that next 

 spring you will overcome your scruples 

 against indulging in a lottery scheme, and 

 go to some reliable dealer and buy some 

 home grown plants. Get a dozen, and 

 plant them in your garden in some 

 reserve spot where you do not depend 

 upon them for decoration. Treat them 

 well, and if any develop the disease very 

 badly, pull them up and throw them 

 away. In a couple of years or so you will 

 find that a few plants have grown 

 strongly and are comparatively free from 

 disease. Then you can move those to 

 permanent positions. Anyone of the sur- 

 vivors, if strong and healthy, is worth 

 as much as the whole lot cost originally. 

 We know of three plants bought this 

 spring, that were propagated in America, 

 that vet show no signs of disease, while 

 every one of eight imported plants put in 

 the same time, have had several vines on 

 each plant die back. 



Aug. 



BEDS OF COLORED FOLIAGE. 



"Sweet Briar" writes as follows in a 

 recent issue of the Gardeners' Magazine, 

 of England: 



"Shakespere wrote nearlv three hundred 

 years ago that we should find 'tongues in 

 trees,' but I think it would baffle any 

 tongue to fitly describe, or artist to truly 

 depict the glorious tints that are now to 

 be seen on every hr.nd in our woods, 

 parks, or gardens. My object, however, 

 at the present moment is not to eulogise 

 trees in general, but rather to draw atten- 

 tion to what may be achieved by using 

 some of them in a dwarf form. 



"Possibly many of your readers have 

 observed in nurseries, and elsewhere, the 

 intense and clear colors which the foliage 

 of the various maples, elms, sycamores, 

 poplars, &c, assume upon young trees, 

 commonly called maidens, to what they 

 do upon more matured trees. Now what 

 I would advocate is this. Prepare a good 

 sized bed, on the lawn for preference, and 

 well exposed to tne south, and here in due 

 season plant young trees of the varieties 

 hereafter named. After the plants are 

 well established cut them down each year 

 as we should osiers, and the result will be 

 young growths clothed with vivid ?nd 

 handsome foliage, and there will be a 

 grand and gorgeous mass of color. The 

 varieties might be planted in circular 

 masses of one kind, but if space could be 

 afforded in one bed for all the varieties 

 named, then two or more beds could be 

 formed. To a practical man this idea 

 will speedilv commend itself, for weshould 

 obtain color, which is much required in 

 spring anterior to the general bedding 

 out, and also we should have a perma- 

 nent bed, which would give us very little 

 trouble beyond pruning and thinning out 

 the growths. 



"The kinds of trees I would suggest are 

 as follows, commencing from the center 

 of the bed in the order given: Acer plata- 

 noides Schwedleri, A. pseudo-platanus 

 lutescens, Silver poplar, Acer platanoides 

 purpurea, Acer platanus Wortei, Quercus 

 coccinea, Acer pseudo-platanus Leopoldi, 

 Prunus Pissardi, golden elder, Acer sac- 

 charinum, golden poplar, Acer pseudo- 

 platanus Prince Hendiery, golden spiraea, 

 Sorbus aria lutescens, Ulmus Wreedi 

 aurea, purple hazel, and variegated privet. 

 If desired, half standards of Prunus 

 Pissardi could be interspersed to break 

 up any flatness." 



For those admiring foliage color in 

 masses the selection of material here given 

 is good, but we would discard the idea of 

 standard Prunus Pissardi and place a 

 group of Ailantus glandulosa in the cen- 

 ter, if the bed is seen from all sides, or in 

 the rear center, if seen only from the front 

 and sides, and not cut them so far back 

 as the balance, thus mounding up the 

 center with its handsome pinnate foliage. 

 Such a bed, however, would only be suc- 

 cessful on very large grounds. 



AN INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXPO- 

 SITION. 



An international exposition devoted 

 wholly to horticulture is being held this 

 year in Hamburg, Germany. It opened 

 in May and will continue to October. In 

 the exposition grounds the hardy plants 

 shown remain for the summer in the 

 same positions, but in the buildings there 

 is a succession of displays of blooming 

 plants in season The engraving shows 

 one of the spring displays in which 

 azaleas, bulbous flowers and other spring 

 blooming plants were prominent. 



