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GARDENING. 



Dec. 



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CONTENTS. 



Hasket or orchids (illus) . 81 



Cypripediums .... 81 



Exhibition of New York Gardeners' Society. . 8 J 



Hall standard chrysanthemum (illus.) >2 



Prize winning gloxinias (illus.) . . . ... 84 



Alocasia Sanderiana (illus ) 81 



London parks (2 illu*.) 84 



Herbaceous plant notes ... ... 85 



Christmas decorations for the home (2 illus ) . . 88 



Notes from Kgandale 86 



Autumn foliage of oaks 86 



Vie v in a Bermuda garden (illus.) 87 



Lautana rosea 87 



Seasonable Notes 88 



American elder (illus.) 88 



Future roses of the prairies 88 



Disease of the Japan lily . . 89 



Harrisii lily with three flowering stems (illus.). .89 



Obituary— Wm. Grey (portrait) 90 



Ginkgoas a street tree 91 



How to mase a manure barrel 91 



Temperature for lilacs . 91 



Half a dozen pears 92 



Outdoor grapes . . 94 



Will some of the readers of Garden- 

 ing let me know if the Star of Bethlehem 

 (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is hardy in 

 a climate somewhat similar to that of 

 Chicago? 



If you have had trouble in having 

 your Lobelia cardinalis roots lifted by 

 the frost, or any other shallow-rooted 

 plants, try inverting a sod over them for 

 the winter. 



Let your tulip beds become frozen a 

 little before covering, and when you do 

 cover, do so rather lightlv, or your tulips 

 will come up lean and lank through exces- 

 sive covering. 



If in a cold climate, an ampty box 

 inverted and placed over tree preTnies, 

 not only helps them somewhat over win- 

 ter, but retards thcirgrowth in thespring. 

 holding batik the buds that are inclined 

 to start too early. 



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OBITUARY. 



William Grey died Thursday, November 

 25. His death removes one of the land- 

 marks of the profession. The famous 

 orchid collection which he established for 

 Erastus Coring at Albany forty years ago 

 is rated among thefinest in the world. His 

 old friend Wm. K. Smith, of Washington, 

 sends us the following heartfelt tribute 

 to his memory: 



THE LATE WILLIAM GRBY 



The sad news of William Grey's death 

 fills me with dismay. I am led to exclaim 

 with Charles Lamb, " All are gone, the 

 old familiar faces." An acquaintance of 

 nearly forty years, made during honey- 

 moon times and renewed annually at one 

 place or another, always with great 

 pleasure and profit intellectually and pro- 

 fessionally, to me, at least; he was acute 

 in his observations, exact in his descrip- 

 tion of natural objects, well read and per- 

 fectly honest in his expressed opinions. 

 A friendship with such a man was a joy 

 indeed. 



As a high priest in orchid culture and 

 one of the best all-round plantsman in the 

 United States, it will be long ere we meet 

 his like again. His essay on orchid grow- 

 ing for the New York Club, and his cata- 

 logue of orchitis, arc both out of print. 1 

 think they are valuable, especially for be- 

 ginners. 



I might mention many things of him as 

 a social companion, but this is not the 

 time. W. R. Smith, 



Botanic Garden, Washington, D. C. 



Where one has young plants of Bech- 

 tel's Double FloweringCrabgrowing in a 

 section where wild rabbits abound, wrap 

 the trunks with straw rope up to a height 

 beyond their reach, or fasten earth up 

 against them. These short-tailed imps 

 are very fond of the bark of this variety. 



when spreading manures or other fer 

 tilizers on the lawn put a double dose of 

 the richest over that part near trees and 

 large shrubs. As a rule the feeding roots 

 extend even farther out than the tips of 

 the branches, very few being near the 

 bole, a fact to be remembered when doing 

 the fall work. 



Don't smother your roses when wrap- 

 ping them up for the winter, allow some 

 air to reach them. The main object in 

 covering them is to maintain an even 

 temperature. Do not wrap them closely 

 as you would yourself. Your body emits 

 heat, which you desire to retain near 

 your person, but plant life does not to 

 any perceptible degree. 



In Meehan's Monthly appears the fol- 

 lowing: "A Japanese Habit." — At the 

 birth of a Japanese baby, a tree is planted 

 which must remain untouched until the 

 marriage day of the child. When the 

 nuptial hour arrives, the tree is cut down 

 and a skilled cabinet maker transforms 

 the wood into furniture, which is consid- 

 ered by the young couple as the most 

 beautiful of all ornaments of the house. — 

 'translated l>v Sarah D. Launing, from 

 La Semaine Horticole. 



Nasturtiums have long been known 

 to sport treely, even showing several 

 shades of color on one plant, but seldom 

 producing distinct markings in such 

 flowers. We learn that for 189S Messrs. 

 Vilniorin-Andrieux & Co., the famous 

 French Seed Establishment, will intro- 

 duce a variety which they name Chame- 

 leon in the d .varf class as well as in the 

 taller growing variety. This sort pro- 

 duces not only many colors with very 

 similar markings on each plant, but also 

 Mowers with different markings, and 

 must prove an attractive and desirable 

 addition to these beautiful summer flow- 



C'S. 



The Division of Pomology of the De- 

 partment ol Agriculture at Washington, 

 D. C, have adopted the Revised Cata- 

 logue of Fruits ol the American Pomolog- 

 ieal Society as a standard authority on 

 nomenclature, and have requested all 

 truit growers and nurserymen throughout 

 the country to do the same, stating cor- 

 rectly that a nurseryman, through his 

 catalogue, is an educator of his patrons 

 to a large extent. This is a commenda- 

 ble move, and if the request is granted it 

 wi 1 not only clear up much of the confu- 

 sion existing, regarding the identity of 

 varieties, but be of unusual advantage to 

 all future purchasers. 



Evergreen plants like perennial pop- 

 pies, Heuchcra sanguinea. etc , are best 

 wintered in a manner that the covering 

 does not press or mat down on them. 

 An easy way, when grown in mosses, is 

 to lay small logs, posts or anything that 

 will produce a solid foundation six to 

 eight inches high, around them, then fill 

 in with dry leaves or any light strawy, 

 open material, and place a solid board 

 shutter over them, resting on the logs. 

 Have one end higher than the other in 

 order that it may shed water. If no 

 shutter is handy, cover with old boards 

 lapped. If the group is small, invert a 

 box over them. All this for those who 

 cannot obtain evergreen boughs, which 

 are one of the best of coverings. 



CnTfUOGUBS RECEIVED. 



Thos. Meehan & Sons, Germantown, 

 Phila , ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, 

 hardy plants and fruits; Peter Henderson 

 & Co., New York, bulbs, plants and seeds; 

 Wm. H Harrison & Sons, Lebanon 

 Springs. N. Y., the Rathburn blackberry; 

 P. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 bulbs, hardy shrubs, trees, roses, etc ; J. 

 H. H. Boyd, Cagle, Tenn., tree seeds; V. 

 Lemoine & Son, Nancy. France, new 

 plants, bulbs, seeds; A. W. Livingston's 

 Sons, Columbus, O., pointers for lovers 

 of flowers and house plants; Walker Fer- 

 tilizer Co., Clifton Springs, N. Y., Excel- 

 sior plant food. 



