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• ' ' GARDENING. 



Nov. 



Published the 1st and 15th of each Month 



BY 



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CONTENTS. 



TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Fir trees for the garden (2 illus ) 

 Dimensions of trees at maturity. . . 



Planting a screen 



Notes from the U. S. Botanic Garden , 

 Pretty-berried trees and shrubs 

 Green- foliaged evergreens in winter 



THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



Eremurus robustus (illus.) 



A back-yard garden (illus ) 



Dahlias and cosmos 



Ipomaea Heavenly Blue 



Cutting back clematis 



ro=es. 

 Wintering Crimson Rambler rose . . . 



Ko^es hardy in Minntsola 



AO.UATICS. 



Keeping tender aquatics over winter . 



THE COFFEE TREE. 



Coffea arabica (illus ) 



the greenhouse. 

 Rules for ventilation 



THE WINDOW GARDEN. 



Ferns for the window garden 



PARKS. 



The parks of Paterson, N.J (3 illus ) 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A lily bulb disease 



Autumn colors 



Variegated Japanese vitis . . . . 



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Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Koch 

 ester, N. Y., were awarded six valuable 

 medals for their display of t-utt at the 

 International Horticultural Exposition 

 in Hamburg. 



In cleaning your walks of snow the 

 coming winter do not pack it along the 

 edge of the grass. Bithercart it away or 

 throw it with the shovel here and there 

 out on the lawn. When thrown immedi- 

 ately along side the walk it becomes 

 packed, readily melts and again freezes, 

 thus forming a frozen mass that excludes 

 the air and badly kills back the grass. 



Save all late falling hard wood leaves 

 that are blown upon your lawn to use in 

 protecting your plants. Theearly falling 

 leaves generally belong to the soft wooded 

 trees, and are not good for the purpose, 

 rotting quickly or matting down and 

 thus keeping out the needed air. Oak 

 leaves are among the best. Use them to 

 cover your perennials, laying biush over 

 them to prevent the winds from blowing 

 them away. Next spring pile them up in 

 some out-of-the-way corner where they 

 will rot, and become in a year or so good 

 leaf mould. When half rotted they act as 

 a splendid mulch to place over the roots 

 of newly planted trees or shrubs, espeei- 

 allv in clay soils that bake in the sun. 

 They contain but little manurial value, 

 because nearly all available plant food 

 that was in them was assimilated by the 

 trees that produced them, before the 

 leaves ripened. 



CHARLES fl. DflNfl. 



It was with heartfelt pain that we 

 received the news on the 17th ult. of the 

 death of Charles A. Dana, the owner ot 

 lovely Dosoris. His public life is familiar 

 to all. We knew him at home. We knew 

 him personally for about twenty years, 

 and for over twelve years had charge ot 

 his country seat, Dosoris. Mr. Dana was 

 an intellectual giant and a splendid speci- 

 men of physical manhood. His manner 

 was magnetic, most cordial and kind, 

 and to know him at home was to trust 

 in and love him forever. No resident ot 

 Glen Cove ever had more Iriends or was 

 more esteemed in the village than he. 



His home life was most beautiful. He 

 was very punctual in business matters 

 and went to New York every day except 

 Sunday, but when he left his city office he 

 stopped work absolutely for the day, and 

 came home for rest and recreation. He 

 was extremely fond of children and all 

 that was oeautiful in nature, and he was 

 an ardent lover of trees and flowers and 

 fine landscape effects. 



When he acquired Dosoris island about 

 twenty-five years ago heat once set to 

 improving it for his heart was in his 

 home, and before long it advanced trom 

 a plain country place to a teeming 

 museum of living plants of great value 

 and merit, tor every kind of tree, shrub, 

 and other hardy plant obtainable and 

 worth growing found a lodging at 

 Dosoris, and greenhouse, Jruit and vege- 

 table gardening too were practiced in a 

 manner unsurpassed anywhere. 



We never knew a private gentleman 

 who knew trees and plants generally bet- 

 ter than did Mr. Dana; be knew their 

 geography, history, adaptability and 

 use, and there was an exceedingly warm 

 place in his heart for intelligent horticult- 

 urists. Every year he took a vacation of 

 two to three months which he devoted to 

 travel in foreign lands — maybe Mexico, 

 Syria, Egypt, Russia, Norwaj' or Spain, 

 but wherever he went he never omitted to 

 visit the gardens, parks or forests of those 

 countries, and his rare linguistic attain- 

 ments fine presence and genial gentle- 

 manly bearing seemed to at once open the 

 hearts of men tothis noble American, and 

 his garden friends were everywhere. 

 With great delight we used to listen to 

 him as he told of the gardens he had 

 visited, the trees and plants he had seen 

 and the enthusiasts he had met, and 

 intense was our interest as we used to 

 unfold the little packages of seeds or 

 sprays of blossoms that he emptied from 

 his pockets after his return from a trip. 

 These papers might contain seeds from 

 the garden of Gethsemane, a cone picked 

 from one of the old cedar trees on Mount 

 Lebanon, some blossoms from a convent 

 in Spain, or fern fronds from the High- 

 lands of Scotland. 



It was Mr. Dana who made Gardening 

 a possibility. Without Dorsoris as an 

 experiTent garden we would not have 

 started the paper. He heartily approved 

 of the publication and encouraged us in 

 many ways. The lovely Dosoris pictures 

 of the earlier volumes are incomparable 

 for beauty, truth and merit, every one 

 was a lesson in horticulture and they 

 reflect pretty accurately the style of gar- 

 dening Mr. Dana approved. 



At his special request, with a few other 

 garden friends, we revisited Dosoris on 

 June 11 last, and although he was the 

 same grand and hearty old gentleman as 

 of yore and walked out among his 

 favorite trees with us. he was not as well 

 as usual, but it was far from the minds of 



any of us that that was the last time we 

 should see him alive. 



Charles Anderson Dana was born at 

 Hinsdale, N. H , August 8, 1819. In his 

 death America haslostoneof her greatest 

 and noblest men, and horticulture a 

 founder of what is most refined in garden- 

 ing. W. F. 



celastrvsscandens masquerades under 

 various common names. Hereit is known 

 as the Climbing Bitter-Sweet, also as the 

 Koxbury Wax-work, but abroad it is 

 called David-root, Fever-twig and Staff 

 Yine. The generic name is derived from 

 kelastros, the old Greek name once applied 

 to the privet, the specific name scandens, 

 signifying climbing. The genus includes 

 several species of non-climbing forms, one, 

 C. orixa, from Japan, being quite orna- 

 mental. Prof. J. L. Budd, of the State 

 Agricultural College. Iowa, has a form 

 from Central Asia, C. punctata, that is 

 said to be more showy in its fall berries 

 than our native one. At this season a 

 well placed vine of the Bitter-Sweet is 

 very attractive. It takes kindly to culti- 

 vation, and delights in amplemoisture. 

 While it will grow in shade, it prefers full 

 sunshine, in which position it will branch 

 down low. It will send out droopingside 

 branches some three feet long, which in 

 the fall are loaded with large clusters of 

 orange-crimson fruit with lighter colored 

 capsules. The beauty of these is enhanced 

 by the yellow tint the foliage assumes. It 

 is strictly a twiner, and moreover an 

 insidiously cruel one. Its soft wooded 

 new shoot in time becomes tough and 

 wiry, and often kills the young trees it 

 embraces. Its habit of branching thickly 

 all along its main stem when growing 

 strongly, renders it peculiarly suitable for 

 running up a tall, slender" pole, where 

 these drooping, slender, radiating 

 branches can hang and sway unob- 

 structed. It takes any transplanted plant 

 some time to become well established and 

 at its best. Too often wooden supports 

 are used in a case like this, and in a few 

 years, when the vine is fully f.t home and 

 making its best eflort to please us, some 

 unruly north wind topples over the 

 rotted support and our picture is ruined. 

 We have gone to the expense of digging 

 the hole, carting in good soil, bought our 

 plant, and inserted our frail, short-lived 

 wooden support, only to be in the end 

 disappointed. Why not have put a little 

 more money into the venture at the start 

 and enjoyed success! Get a 2 inch iron 

 gas pipe some eighteen or more feet long, 

 and insert it in the soil fully three and a 

 half feet deep, digging the hole for it with 

 a post-hole auger, and tamping small 

 stones or broken brick in at the bottom 

 and up at least six inches. This helps to 

 keep the pipe solid. Then plant your vine, 

 which will soon reach the top. Jtis well, 

 but not absolutely necessary, to have 

 four cross-bars at the top coming out 

 twelve inches from the pole, for the top of 

 the vine to lay on. Paint the pipe when 

 put up. We have a vine so supported 

 which is now a pictuie. It is clothed from 

 near the ground uptothetopwith droop- 

 ing branches clothed in yellow and 

 decked with the brightest of berries. 



Mulch newly planted trees quite 

 heavily. There is root action below trost 

 line during winter that is storing up food 

 for next season's growth. Established 

 trees generally are below the frost line 

 with some of their roots, but newly 

 planted ones have not had time to get 

 there. Mulching lessens the depth of the 

 frost line and thus is apt to allow some 

 of the roots to remain active. 



