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• GARDENING. 



Oct. /, 



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CONTENTS. 



trees and shrubs. 



Views in Arnold Arboretum (4 illus ) 17 



Shrub oaks 17 



Pruning hedges 18 



Hypericums .... 18 



the flower garden. 



Herbaceous plant notes 19 



Our garden to day 2U 



plan for garden of hardy plants 2i 



Clematis paniculata ... 22 



Perennial phloxes from seed 22 



THE COLD FRAME. 



The cold frames . 22 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Conservatory of Mr. H. H. Hunnewell (illus.). .21 

 Cyperusalternifolius . . 23 



THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



Trouble with the quince 23 



Downing mulberry 24 



Pruning pear trees .... 24 



Disease of San Jose scale 24 



ORCHIDS. 



Odontoglossum crispum (illus.) 24 



Vanda ceerulea (illus.) . 21 



miscellaneous. 



Successful gardening 26 



Wm. C. Egan (with portrait) 27 



The New York Gardeners' society 27 



The new rose President Carnot is a 

 good summer bloomer. 



Clematis paniculata is getting quite 

 well distributed, as it should, as it is the 

 queen among climbers. 



Plumbago larpent-e proves to be 

 quite hardy around Chicago with ordi- 

 nary winter covering. It is now covered 

 with dark blue flowers. 



Old native trees that seem to be losing 

 their vigor may often be rejuvenated by 

 digging holes here and there within a 

 radius of say 20 feet and filling in with 

 good soil. 



Many of the pompon chrysanthemums 

 are in bloom out of doors. They are a 

 little late this season on account of the 

 cool weather in August. The earliest to 

 bloom were Percy's seedling, Mr. Sell}' 

 and Mme. Jolwart. 



So far this fall in many sections the 

 season has been an unusually dry one. 

 Should no rains come until hard freezing 

 weather is expected, it is well to give 

 shrubbery beds, and trees planted within 

 two years, a thorough soaking. 



If some of your plants have not done 

 well this season, say Lilium W'allaceii, 

 Spiraea palmatum, or any plant that in- 

 creases rapidly, take them up, add some 

 fresh soil and replant, putting elsewhere 

 the surplus. When there are too many 

 plants trying to exist in limited quarters 

 and in exhausted soil, only poor results 

 may be expected. 



The Rudbeckia laciniata ft.pl. (Golden 

 Glow) more than fulfilled its last year's 

 promises. If you have not got it, get it 

 by all means, and plant it this fall. It is 

 very hardy, easily grown in any moist 

 spot, and increases quite rapidly. 



In a bed of miscellaneous shrubs that 

 was suffering badly for want of water dur- 

 ing the present dry spell, so much so that 

 they dropped their leaves, Spiraja Van 

 Houttei remained in good form. S. pru- 

 nifolia, which is supposed to stand drouth 

 well, was in bad form. 



Don't be in a hurry to cover your 

 plants. A little frost will do them good, 

 in fact it is the thawing and freezing in 

 the spring that does the most injury. 

 When coveied too early the field mice 

 choose your covering for winter quarters 

 and your plants for their food. If you 

 wait until they have chosen other board- 

 ing houses you lessen the chance of dam- 

 age. 



We have received a copy of the eighth 

 annual report ot the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, St. Louis, from Prof. Wm. Tre- 

 lease, the director. It includes full details 

 of the work of the garden for the preced- 

 ing year and of proposed enlargement 

 and improvement of same, in addition to 

 records of a vast amount of original 

 research in the field of botany. The 

 "Botanical observations on the Azores" 

 by Prof Trelease are very full and inter- 

 esting including a catalogue of plants. 

 There are also botanical plates of a large 

 number of plants. It is certainly a credit 

 to the garden and its talented director. 



The common Virginia creeper (Ampe- 

 lopsis quinquefolia) is quite a wanderer 

 with its roots in quest ot food. Recently 

 a variegated elm. two years planted, was 

 noticed not to be doing as well as it 

 ought. Upon examination it was found 

 that the tree hole was filled with ampe- 

 lopsis roots from a vine whose roots had 

 left their own bed some eight feet away, 

 and going through solid clay had taken 

 possession. They had been absorbing 

 the moisture intended for the elm hence 

 its weak growth. There is an inherent 

 power possessed by plant life to detect 

 food and moisture from a considerable 

 distance. A Paulonnia imperialis planted 

 within ten feet of a shrubbery border, 

 upon removal was found to have gone 

 through a hard clay soil and entered the 

 shrubbery bed. The roots were not out- 

 side the original hole dug for it, except on 

 the side towards the border. The roots 

 towards the border, where they left the 

 original hole, were four inches in diam- 

 eter. On the other side none were over 

 an inch, even close to the tree. All this 

 would indicate that the tree had hardly 

 got settled in its new quarters when it at 

 once decided where the most food could 

 be obtained and proceeded to expend its 

 greatest energy in that direction. If the 

 readers of Gardening have plants grow- 

 ing near large trees or strong growing 

 vines, and they are not doing well, it is 

 evident that the soil is occupied by roots 

 not intended for it. 



SUCCESSFUL GARDENING. 



Success in all things is seldom the result 

 of luck. It comes only as the result of 

 intelligent application and is mainly 

 brought about by a constant attention 

 to details executed at the right moment. 

 The striker at the bat wastes hi energies 

 if he swings his club one second too soon 

 or too late. So it is in garden work. The 

 successful cultivator is he who attends to 

 detail and at the proper time. In a rainy 

 season go out into that garden in which 



past experience has shown you that 

 things seemed poorly grown, and the 

 chances are that you will find the soil 

 packed hard by the rains around the 

 young seedlings, and baked by the sun 

 and winds. On the other hand visit a 

 place where things always look well, and 

 here you will find that after the rains had 

 packed the soil it had been loosened again 

 by the thoughtful gardener that the roots 

 might receive the necessary amount of 

 air, and the moisture in the ground be 

 retained. 



In this garden you find tall growing 

 plants in exposed situations securely yet 

 loosely stf.ked so that each spike retains 

 its individuality and yet is secure from 

 breakage. Go into the slovenly garden 

 and you find the same plants sprawling 

 upon the ground or else staked too late, 

 after the main stalk had become procum- 

 bent and the lateral branches started up- 

 wards towards the light. Or worse still, 

 the bunch;of flower spikes ma}' have been 

 tied in a bundle as one would a sheaf of 

 wheat. 



From the beginning of the season until 

 well towards July a gardener on a place 

 of any pretensions must expect to be 

 more than busy from earl}' morning until 

 dusk, and his services, being appreciated 

 by the owner, entitle him to a life of more 

 ease for the remainder of the year. But 

 if he will do a little thinking, and guide 

 his actions so that he does the right thing 

 at the right time, his efforts will be better 

 rewarded and his exertions less trying. 



Experience is a great teacher, but how 

 many are really guided by it. In the 

 ordinary run of outdoor gardening each 

 stage of experience with any one plant 

 comes but once a year. Perhaps one is 

 growing hundreds of varieties of plants, 

 from the vegetable garden to the peren- 

 nial and annual flower beds. Who can 

 remember all the incidents connected with 

 each variety from the seed planting to 

 maturity? Few indeed are blessed with 

 a memory so tenacious of the ordinary 

 incidents of life. The thoughtful gardener, 

 the one who desires to profit by the suc- 

 cess or failure of the past, keeps a diary 

 in which he notes each day's doings, and 

 as the season advances he notes the fail- 

 ures, errors and omissions, and thus is 

 enabled when another season arrives to 

 profit by his past experience. This is 

 merely one of the details so necessary for 

 successful culture in gardening matters. 

 This applies more strongly to young gar- 

 deners. Men of observing habit long in 

 the business may have in time learned all 

 the little tricks of their trade essential to 

 success and yet never have kept a diary. 

 Still they would have learned it much 

 quicker had they kept one. 



People will say: "oh, he can grow 

 flowers, because he is fond of them." 

 That is true. Parents can raise children, 

 because they are fond of them, but not 

 without anxiety and care, and an intelli- 

 gent devotion to details. You will notice 

 a young man whose behavior charms 

 you, whose every action shows him a 

 gentlemen, and yet when you analyze all 

 his actions and endeavor to ascertain 

 why his manners so please you, you will 

 find that it is in little things, in matters 

 of detail, that in the main he is no differ- 

 ent from anyone else, but that these "little 

 things" give a roundness and polish to 

 his manners that stamps him as a gentle- 

 man. He reached that state because his 

 loving parents in bringing him up, paid 

 due attention to detail, to little things. 

 So it is in successful gardening; to have 

 things in Derfeetion your plants must 

 have constant attention and their wants 

 supplied at the proper time. 



