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CONTENTS. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



A hedge of Berberis Thunbergii (2 illus .). 354 



Notts on trees and shrubs of the season . . . .3.54 

 Heteromeles arbutifolia 3-4 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Plan for grounds of six acres (illus ) 354 



orchids. 

 A dozen easily grown orchids 355 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



The lapageria (illus.) 356 



ROSES. 



A hedge of Crimson Rambler roses (illus.). .356 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Centaurea Marguerite ... .... 357 



Plants for early spring 357 



Lilium auratum 358 



Killing thistles and other weeds .... 358 



Notes on garden annuals 358 



Herbaceous plant notes 359 



Lilium Henryii 360 



Bocconiacordata 360 



THE COLli 1KAME. 



Plants in cold-frames. . . 360 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Tart cherries 362 



Raspberries and blackberries 362 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A cluster of Bridesmaid roses (illus.) 361 



Gloxinias (illus.) 361 



A floral story 363 



The New York Gardeners' Society 364 



Peat moss 364 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 366 



A Jubilee bouquet of orchids presented 

 to Queen Victoria contained several 

 thousand blooms, including the rarest 

 varieties obtainable. 



The Universitj' of Missouri announces 

 a summer course in scientific and practi- 

 cal horticulture, free to teachers in Mis- 

 souri. Particulars may be had by ad- 

 dressing Professor M. L. Lipscomb, 

 Columbia, Mo. 



The American Institute of New York 

 Citv has issued a list of premiums 

 to be awarded for plants, flowers, fruits, 

 vegetables and cereals, to be competed 

 for at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 20 

 to Nov. 4. Copies may be had on appli- 

 cation to the general superintendent, Mr. 

 Alfred Chasseaud, 113 West 38th street, 

 New York. 



A large QUANTITY of trees and shrubs 

 for the Pittsburg parks has been ordered 

 from the nursery firm of Ellwanger & 

 Barry, Rochester. N. Y. Pittsburg is 

 spending money freely and wisely on its 

 parks. The planting at Schenley Park is 

 being done under the personal supervision 

 of Mr. William Falconer, the superintend- 

 ent, who was formerly editor of Garden- 

 ing, and whose abilities are well known 

 to the readers of this paper. 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the 

 Georgia State Horticultural Society was 

 held at Savannah Aug. 4- to 7. 



A successful exhibition of roses was 

 held under the auspicies of the Bedford 

 Flower Club at Mount Kisco, N, Y., 

 June 26. 



The disease of the Bermuda Easter lily 

 (Lilium Harrisii) is being investigated by 

 the authorities at Washington and a 

 report will soon be issued. 



The life of wooden greenhouse benches 

 can be considerably lengthened by apply- 

 ing a coat of cement to the bottoms when 

 the lumber is dry. Make it thin enough 

 so it can be applied with a white wash 

 brush, but no thinner. 



The Horticultural Society at North- 

 ampton, Mass., recently distributed a 

 large number of chrysanthemum plants 

 to school children. Printed directions for 

 their care were also given and prizes will 

 be awarded at the fall exhibition for the 

 best specimens. 



It is reported from Berlin, Germany, 

 that a destructive hail storm that raged 

 for hours in southern Wurtemberg caused 

 the death of thirteen persons and did 

 more than $4,000,000 damage to crops. 

 The stones were of enormous size and 

 thousands of head of cattle were killed. 



We have received a copy of the first 

 annual report of the Carnegie Library of 

 Pittsburg. It shows that on February 

 1 last the library contained 26,859 vol- 

 umes and over 3,000 pamphlets. During 

 the past fourteen months there have been 

 132,232 visitors to the reading room and 

 138,591 volumes have been drawn for 

 home use. 



Strawberries is the subject of Bulle- 

 tin No. 77 of the Central Experimental 

 Farm, Department of Agriculture, Ot- 

 tawa, Canada. It contains many prac- 

 tical cultural directions and is freely illus- 

 trated. Our Canadian readers would find 

 this bulletin very useful, and they can no 

 doubt secure a copy on application to the 

 director, Mr. Wm. Saunders, Ottawa. 



Lye is the best agent for removing 

 putty or paint from greenhouse glass. 

 Dissolve a pound can of lye in twenty 

 gallons of water. If the glass is allowed 

 to remain in the solution for an hour or 

 so the putty or paint can be more readily 

 removed. Caie should be exercised in 

 preparing and using the solution as the 

 lye attacks the hands as readily as the 

 putty. 



In the Boston Parks Rosa Wichuraiana 

 is largely used in covering the ground 

 between shrubs, and A', lucida is employed 

 in masses as a ground cover. To Prof. 

 Sargent is given the credit of suggesting 

 the idea of so using it, in order to lessen 

 the expense of maintaining the grass. 

 North of Chicago the woods are full ot 

 the dwarf rose R. humilis, which could be 

 used for similar purposes, as it stands 

 drouth well and its foliage colors bril- 

 liantly in the fall. 



Bulletin No. 65 of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Purdue University, 

 Lafayette, Ind., tells of the successful use 

 of formalin for the prevention ot potato 

 scab. The treatment advised is: "Add 

 8 oz. formalin to 15 gal. water, and soak 

 the seed tubers in it for two hours, then 

 cut and plant." Itis found that formalin, 

 a non-poisonous, non-corrosive substance, 

 is equal to corrosive sublimate in efficiency 



and is without its dangerous and trouble- 

 some properties. 



The Fruit Garden. 



TflRT GtiERRlES. 



Very many of those who set out sour 

 cherries rely altogether on the common 

 pie or Morello. This is an excellent sort, 

 but there are others which could be added 

 to it were more than one ttee wanted. I 

 would certainly take the one mentioned 

 were but a single tree wanted. It is the 

 first to ripen of all its class. 



Those who know of it, and who want 

 a late one, usually plant the English 

 Morello, and without a doubt it is a 

 splendid sort. The fruit is large, it is 

 late, and it will hang a good while after 

 it is ripe, without spoiling. It is very 

 tart, and this no doubt has much to do 

 with its good keeping qualities. When 

 quite ripe, the fruit is almost black, and 

 of beautiful appearance. 



But in starting these notes I had par- 

 ticularly in mind the Duke cherries, a class 

 between the sweet and the sour ones. 

 There are several of these which I have 

 known planted as tart ones, though the 

 fruit is as good fresh from the tree as when 

 preserved. The Royal Duke and Late 

 Duke are two particularly good ones, the 

 last named especially. This is the one 

 usually planted with the common pie 

 cherry, and is what most customers mean 

 when they order a late pie cherry from 

 their nurserymen, as it ripens much later 

 than the others. 



It may be as well to say a word about 

 planting cherries. While early spring is a 

 good time, I believe early fall is a better. 

 Spring is apt to catch one busy, and if a 

 cherry be not planted early it won't do 

 well. Planted in early fall, a tree rarely 

 dies. Plant it towards the close of Sep- 

 tember. Strip the leaves off, ram the soil 

 in firmly about it, soak it well with 

 water, and it will live. If where the soil 

 freezes deeply in winter, mulch it to keep 

 the frost out. It is a great help to a 

 freshly planted tree. 

 Philadelphia. Joseph Meehan. 



RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. 



Every amateur should have a small bed 

 of raspberries and blackberries for family 

 use, even if he does not care to grow them 

 for market. The situation selected for 

 these fruits should not be too damp a 

 one, neither should it be too rich, or the 

 canes may make a late growth, which 

 will not ripen well, hence are easily hurt 

 by winter freezings. Raspberries may be 

 set three to four feet apart each way, 

 blackberries need to be six to eight feet. 



These fruits do very well planted in the 

 fall, and the work may be done at any 

 time after the close of September. If in 

 spring, do it just as early as possible. At 

 whatever time it be, cut the canes back to 

 about six inches of the ground, and see 

 that the soil is trodden in quite firmly 

 about the plants. 



In Pennsylvania we have no trouble at 

 all with blackberries in winter, and none 

 with the ordinary raspberries. But there 

 are tender sorts of raspberries, seedlings 

 from the European species, which are 

 much the better for a covering at that 

 time. In fact 1 believe it pays to coverall 

 raspberries, so many fine beds have I 

 seen of plants which were covered iii win- 

 ter. But an inch or two of earth is suffi- 

 cient to cover with, if the plants be held 



