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GARDENING. 



Jan. /, 



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CONTENTS. 



Park greenhouses (3 ill us. ) 113 



New chrysanthemums ill 



Vanda Sanderiana (illus.) 114 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine (illus.) 114 



An early winter garden 116 



Hardiness of the ginkgo 116 



Southern trees in the north 11" 



Catalpas as garden trees (2 illus.) 118 



Notes 118 



Herbaceous plant notes , 119 



Notes on vegetables 121 



Winter Balads I -"- 



The St. Joseph slrawberrj (illus.) 122 



Books and bulletins 123 



Catalogues received 123 



What some are doing 124 



Plan now to get good seeds, and your 

 garden will become a source of pleasure 

 and profit. 



A botanioal garden for Chicago is the 

 most recent project, and the newspapers 

 declare it is to be the finest the world 

 ever saw. We say more speed to it. 



Fresh vegetables and fruits from 

 one's own garden are sweeter and more 

 reliable than nine-tenths of the truck 

 hauled about the country by peddlers of 

 questionable habits of cleanliness. Grow 

 more of the garden produce and less of 

 the peddlers. 



Bougainvillea glabra is conspicuous 

 as a greenhouse climber for bloom at this 

 season. Unfortunately it is not suitable 

 for a small house, making a good display 

 only where it can be given plenty ot roof 

 space. The variety B. glabra Sanderiana, 

 of bush form, is now quite popular, and 

 makes a good pot plant in greenhouses 

 of very limited proportions. 



Some English books were recently 

 received at this office. The books ( that 

 is, their contents) are excellent, the bind- 

 ings villainous. A good book deserves a 

 good cover. Speaking of books, we may 

 add that so far there has been no com- 

 plaint about either the binding or con- 

 tents of the five back, volumes of this 

 journal. It may be said that, like the 

 dress material selected by Dr. Primrose 

 for his wife and daughters, these books 

 both look and wear well. 



Real flowers and plants as pres- 

 ents are being substituted more and 



more for the painted and lithographed 

 tokens at holiday times, and it seems to 

 be a most pleasing and desirable change. 

 Palms, ferns and India rubber plants are 

 popular for this purpose at all times, 

 while Easter lilies, solanums, ardisias 

 and little orange trees find favor more 

 especially at festive seasons. This shows 

 only a few names, but the variety of suit- 

 able plants is infinite. 



Sales of nursery stock by auction 

 are perhaps common in some sections of 

 the country, but we are not aware, as a 

 correspondent writes, "that some promi- 

 nent and respectable dealers regularly 

 dispose of dying stock in this way." Such 

 dealers, madam, are neither prominent 

 nor respectable; they are notorious. But 

 our fair friend is truly courageous when 

 she adds that in purchasing a quantity of 

 such stock, and r lacing the experience at 

 its full value, she bought dirt cheap. Cer- 

 tainly; it is always better and cheaper to 

 send to the nursery rather than the sales- 

 room and buy such needed plants as one 

 knows to be not dead but living. 



The herbarium ot the late Prof. 

 Michael S. Bebb, of Rockford, 111., has 

 been purchased for the Field Museum of 

 Chicago, at a cost of $5,000. The col 

 lection contains over 50,000 specimens, 

 representing 30,000 species, including the 

 valuable material gathered on the Mexi- 

 can boundary and Canadian Pacific sur- 

 veys, and the Peary and Greeh- polar 

 expeditions. Prof. Bebb was a recog- 

 nized authority on the genus s-alix, and 

 his herbarium collection of these plants 

 was said to be second only to that at 

 Kew, England. This herbarium, added 

 to the collections of Schott and Mills- 

 paugh, places the Field Museum in the 

 front rank of American botanical institu- 

 tions, especially on matters relating to 

 willows. 



One Chicago waif (there are many of 

 them), a little girl, was selling Christmas 

 greens in the bleak streets ot the big city 

 city on Christmas Eve, and it was evi- 

 dent from her forlorn appearance and the 

 amount of her stock that she was mak- 

 ing small progress. Her lungs were too 

 weak to enable her to compete with her 

 sturdier masculine companions. Some 

 passersby gave her a look of pity. A 

 lady stopped and fumbled in her satchel 

 for something; she didn't find it, and 

 passed along. The girl's tattered gar- 

 ments spoke eloquently of poverty and 

 suffering, and tears at last betrayed the 

 misery of her soul. She had been crying 

 a minute or two when a portly, bearded 

 man in patent leathers, kids, melton and 

 beaver passed that way. He appeared 

 severe — a stern man of business. That 

 was the external man, inside it was dif- 

 ferent maybe. However, he saw the girl 

 • in tears, suspected the cause of her woe, 

 bought all her merchandise and hurried 

 on. The man may have needed the greens; 

 he didn't look it. One witness of the inci- 

 dent considered it a seasonable act of 

 human kindness, and this chronicle of the 

 facts will have served its purpose if it 

 prompts one other to indulge his human- 

 ity by the application of a healing balm 

 to some bleeding heart. 



The late James Bateman, who died 

 November 27, at Worthing, England, 

 was one of the leaders in British horticul- 

 ture. In association with the late Dr. 

 Lindley, he did much to bring about the 

 present popularity of orchids in European 

 gardens, and his publications on these 

 plants are justly celebrated for their accu- 

 racy and magnificence. Collej' the famous 



collector and G. Pre Skinner, both of 

 whom are well and favorably remembered 

 by the older generation of orchid men, 

 were also numbered among his friends, 

 and it is a pleasure to recall that even in 

 these prosaic times there are numerous 

 successors to pioneers so worthy. It 

 must not be assumed from this that Mr. 

 Bateman's endeavors were confined to 

 the aristocratic orchids. Every depart- 

 ment of horticulture was helped to a 

 higher plane by the exercise of his kindlj 7 

 interest and powerful influence The pos- 

 session of great wealth enabled him to 

 give material assistance where it was 

 most needed, and he was as generous in 

 its bestowal as he was practical in its 

 application where the interests of garden- 

 ing were at stake. Mr. Bateman was S7 

 years of age. 



Heaths are coming rapidly to the 

 point where they cannot be dispensed 

 with. Our growers seem to have discov- 

 ered the peculiarities of treatment which 

 suit them best, resulting in the production 

 of presentable plants. The heath in its 

 numerous varieties is very difficult to 

 grow under the most favorable condi- 

 tions, and it has been generally supposed 

 that the high summertemperature of this 

 country is antagonistic to its successful 

 management. This difficulty overcome, 

 there should be no trouble in duplicating 

 the European collections which for so 

 many years have been a source of pride 

 to their owners. This is worth trying, 

 for there are many beautiful plants 

 among the heaths, and good specimens 

 well repay all the effort they call for. 

 Erica hyemalis and the varieties of E. 

 persoluta are perhaps the best to begin 

 with, as they are more easily grown 

 than most of the other kinds; but when 

 one has become familiar with the needs 

 of these plants, the numbercan be readily 

 extended to include many other species 

 and varieties only slightly more difficult 

 to grow. It is unfortunate in this con- 

 nection that so far we have been unable 

 to establish permanently in our planta- 

 tions the hardy heaths (heather) which 

 constitute so pleasing a feature of Euro- 

 pean landscapes, and yet, with further 

 experience and an increasing field of 

 observation, we may hope to overcome 

 the difficulties of the case. Let us try 

 again. 



Camphor trees in America are given 

 some notice in a recent bulletin of the 

 University of California, as follows: 

 Attention has been widely called of late 

 to the desirability of the camphor tree 

 (Cinnamomum camphora) for growth in 

 California valleys and foothills either as 

 an ornamental tree or as a possible source 

 of profit for its timber and for the gum 

 and oil which are derived from it by sim- 

 ple distilling processes. The camphor tree 

 was introduced to California at least 25 

 years ago and was among the first plants 

 distributed from the University. Thereis 

 therefore at the present time ample dem- 

 onstration of the hardiness, drouth-resist- 

 ance, and beauty of the tree and, so far as 

 its growth is concerned, it is an emi- 

 nently safe tree to plant for ornamental 

 or forest purposes. Concerning profit to 

 be derived from its planting we do not 

 undertake to give assurance. The tree 

 is a handsome, broad-leaved evergreen, 

 attaining large size, and noticeable 

 by the characteristic light green of its 

 foliage. It endures in California a tem- 

 perature as low as 20 Fahr.,and is prob- 

 ably about as hardy as the olive. It has en- 

 dured without injury, a temperature that 

 has killed large trees of Eucalyptus glob- 

 ulus and Acacia mollissitna, and thrifty 



