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CONTENTS. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Rhododendrons (9 illus.) 369 



Three beautiful cedars 370 



Trumpet vines ... 372 



The hickoiy bark borer. 372 



Beautiful sumachs 373 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Plants in bloom August 14 .374 



Herbaceous plant notes. 37a 



Garden 1 lies ..." ' . . 376 



Some shrub-like herbaceous plants. . . . 376 



Climbers . . .... 377 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



The dwarf Juneberry. - ... 378 



Small fruits 378 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Aphides on cherry tree 379 



Trouble with Cycas revoluta 379 



How to exterminate dodder 380 



Clustered goldenrods 380 



The Waco Floral Society, Waco, 

 Texas, will hold its second annual chrys- 

 anthemum show November 10,11 and 12 

 next. A printed list of the prizes has been 

 issued and copies may be had by applying 

 to the secretary, Mrs. M.B. Davis, Waco, 

 Texas. 



The Trans-Mississippi and Interna- 

 tional Exposition, to be held at Omaha, 

 Neb. June 1 to October31, next year. Will 

 have a special building devoted to horti- 

 culture and the horticultural display 

 promises to be excellent. 



In another column will be found an 

 interesting communication on the dwarf 

 juneberry irom the pen of that veteran 

 horticulturist, Benjamin G. Smith, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass Mr. Smith is now 81 

 years of age. In a personal letter he 

 writes: "Though somewhat of a veteran 

 I have not lost my love for gardening, 

 nor for your excellent journal. Although 

 it is some twenty years since I introduced 

 the juneberry into Massachusetts, with 

 us it has not failed a crop since its first 

 year of fruiting." 



The third annual excursion of florists 

 and gardeners to the Dreer nurseries at 

 Riverton, N. ]., took place August 31. 

 The day was devoted to an inspection of 

 the extensive greenhouses, water lily gar- 

 dens, canna beds, trial grounds, etc , and 

 a luncheon was provided for the visitors 

 by Mr. Dreer. The business of Henry A. 

 Dreer was established in 1838 in Phila- 

 delphia where the seed store is still main- 

 tained. The greenhouse establishment at 

 Riverton is one of the largest in the coun- 

 try and the nurseries and trial grounds 

 are always of great interest to visitors. 



At the thirteenth annual convention 

 of the Society of American Florists held 

 in Providence, Rhode Island, August 17 

 to 20 a largenumberof interestingessays 

 were read the majority being of purely 

 professional interest. The reports showed 

 a present membership of 786 and a bal- 

 ance of $1021.19 in the treasury. Steps 

 were taken looking to the formation of a 

 mutual company to insure greenhouses 

 against fire. In an essay on "A year's 

 progress in roses" Mr. M. H.Walsh spoke 

 highly of the following: Souv. du Pres. 

 Carnot, Maman Cochet, Madame Abele 

 Chatenay, Caroline Testout and Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria, of foreign origin, and 

 Mrs. Robert Garrett, Souvenir de Woot- 

 ton Marion Dingee, Lillian Xordica, 

 Jubilee and the several seedlings of Wich- 

 uraiana, of American origin. He also 

 spoke favorably of Mrs. R. G. Sharman 

 Crawford, Clio, Helen Keller and Clara 

 Watson. He rejoiced over the progress 

 made by American hybridizers and pre- 

 dicted a greater interest in roses here on 

 account of the new American varieties. 

 In the discussion of this paper the poly- 

 antha rose Mosella was considered of ex- 

 ceptional merit. It had been found per- 

 fectly hardy at Philadelphia, and never 

 produced a congested bud and was in this 

 respect superior to Soupeit. Prof. Byron 

 D. Halsted read a very interesting paper 

 on "Root galls of cultivated plants" 

 pointing out the distinction between 

 those galls due to a low form of mold, 

 such as the club root of the cabbage, 

 those on clover and clover-like plants 

 which are produced by bacterial germs 

 and promote life instead of inducing 

 decay, and those produced bj' microscopic 

 worms (called eel-worms) that thriving 

 in the tissue of the abnormally swollen 

 roots check the activity of the plant and 

 ultimately may cause it to sicken and die. 

 In regard to the latter he said: "For the 

 eradication of these microscopic eel- 

 worms there are certain precautionary 

 measures that may well be borne in mind, 

 namely the examination of the roots of 

 plants and the rejection of all that are 

 galled; the cleansing of the soil in all its 

 constituents by freezing, baking or steam- 

 ing; the use of lime water while the crop 

 is growing and possibly that of Kainitor 

 some other commercial fertilizer, bearing 

 in mind always that sick plants are un- 

 profitable and good management means 

 watchfulness fromthestart and always." 

 A feature of the convention was a lecture 

 by Prof. Geo. L. Goodale, of the Botan- 

 ical Garden of Harvard University, on 

 "Our favorite exotic plants in their 

 homes." Prof. Goodale illustrated with 

 very beautiful stereopticon views the sub- 

 ject of tropical vegetation, describing 

 with much detail the palms, orchids and 

 other exotic plants which are the pride of 

 our best greenhouses. The lecture was 

 given without any technical language 

 and passed in brief review the characters 

 of the genera and species which have be- 

 come general favorites under cultivation. 

 He showed that the term exotic is only rel- 

 ative, that ourcommon wild plants would 

 be exotic if grown under other skies, and. 

 further, that a good many of our wild 

 flowers are quite as well worth cultivat- 

 ing and improving as some which have 

 become established here. The fashions in 

 plants by which certain species are for a 

 while great favorites and then give way 

 to others were shown by the lecturer to 

 be based on other factors than the whims 

 of capricious people. The gigantic bam- 

 boos and climbers of Ceylon and enor- 

 mous ferns of Australia were exhibited by 

 means of photographs on the large screen. 

 Perhaps the phase of plant life presented 



by the kinship between the plants of the 

 north and of the equatorial zone, touched 

 upon by Prof. Goodale, gave as many sur- 

 prises to his audience as any part of his 

 graphic demonstration. There was an 

 extensive exhibition of plants, supplies, 

 tools, greenhouse models and appliances 

 in connection and it was thoroughly 

 representative of the great progress made 

 in commercial floriculture. The plants 

 included beautifully grown palms, cro- 

 tons, rare conifers, rare decorative plants, 

 and there were two fine displays of 

 aquatic flowers. The collection of 

 aquatic shown by H. A. Dreer, Philadel- 

 phia, included a beautiful double lotus 

 (nelumbium) and several magnificent new 

 water lilies (nymphaea). Omaha, Neb, 

 was selected as the place for the 1898 

 convention and officers for the ensuing 

 year were elected as follows: Wm. F. 

 Gude, Washington, D C, president; A. 

 Donaghue, Omaha, Neb., vice-president; 

 W. J. Stewart, Boston, secretary; H. B. 

 Beatty, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. The 

 delegates were most hospitably enter- 

 tained by the florists and gardeners of 

 Providence and at the conclusion of the 

 convention were taken by steamer to 

 Newport where the gardeners of that 

 beautiful city acted as hosts. The entire 

 party was given a ride over the magnifi- 

 cent ten mile drive and by special invita- 

 tion of the owners inspected many of the 

 beautiful estates with which Newport 

 abounds. They were also treated to a 

 shore dinner under a huge tent on the 

 beach. 



The Fruit Garden. 



THE DWARF JUNEBERRY. 



An article in Gardening by Joseph 

 Meehan on "The Dwarf Juneberry," I 

 have read with interest and will briefly 

 relate my experience with it. 



I was attracted and somewhat fascin- 

 ated by an account of the "June Berry" 

 published many years ago in a western 

 journal, by Dr. Hall, Davenport, Iowa. I 

 immediately wrote him and inquired if he 

 was cultivating it as an amateur or com- 

 mercially. He replied after testing it he 

 was satisfied it was a very desirable 

 small fruit and he was growing commer- 

 cially. I ordered two dozen plants. 

 When received I concluded I was soldjust 

 the amount of my expenditure (six dol- 

 lars, plants and expressage). Neverthe- 

 less I gave them personal attention. The 

 third year they fruited and they proved a 

 complete success. 



I exhibited them at the Mass. Horti- 

 cultural Society. Thev attracted a good 

 deal of attention and the fruit committee 

 awarded me the society's silver medal for 

 its introduction to Massachusetts. As 

 there are many amelanchiers, and I was 

 in some doubt about where to place it, I 

 went with a branch of the plant to Cam- 

 bridge Botanical Garden, and the profes- 

 sors pronounced it Amalanchier canaden- 

 sis, variety obolongifolia. 



Cambridge, Mass. Benj. G. Smith. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



After fruiting, the roots of plants should 

 be nursed back into vigorous life, b3' cut- 

 ting out all old and surplus growth, culti- 

 vate thoroughly and give a good dress- 

 ing of fine manure or wood ashes. This 

 best prepares them for resisting the cold 

 winters of the north, and stimulates them 

 for active work m the early springs of the 

 south. 



