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GARDENING. 



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CONTENTS. 



The rhododendron (illus.) 225 



Notes from Egandale 22(5 



Rambler roses (illus.) 226 



Floricultural nomenclature 226 



Shrub queries .... 228 



Rose Crimson Rambler (illus.) 228 



Magnolia stellata . 229 



Exacum afline (illus.) 229 



Chrysanthemum notes 229 



Ornamental bedding ... 229 



Botany at Cornell University (illus.) 230 



Societies . . 231 



The culture of hardy roses 232 



Workers in horticulture (portrait) 333 



Vegetables for the home garden 233 



Grape notes 234 



Strawberry notes 234 



Hints on prize lists fur dahlia shows 234 



Design for a cemetery lot (illus.) 2:15 



Cowslips 236 



When some trees bloom in Vermont , 235 



A buds and blossoms excursion is the 

 latest idea in San Jose, Cal. 



A floral iestiTal will be held at Co- 

 lumbia, S. C, April 21. 



New Gazanias raised in Italy are said 

 to haTe very large flowers, which vary in 

 color from creamy white to deep yellow, 

 with markings of various other shades. 



One of our correspondents reports that 

 rabbits have eaten some of his hepaticas, 

 and desires to know whether others have 

 had a similar experience. 



The Louisville, Ky., park commission- 

 ers have employed John C. Olmsted and 

 his assistant, Warren H. Manning, of 

 Boston, Mass., to improve the parks of 

 that city. 



A correspondent of the New York 

 Times states that at Alfred University, in 

 the southwestern part of the state, it was 

 decided, after 25 years' experience in their 

 collection, that the hepaticas and colts- 

 foot should head the list of native flowers 

 in New York State. 



Well preserved flowers, says the 

 Christian World, which have recently 

 been discovered in Egypt, concealed within 

 tombs of the earlier Pharaohs, have been 

 placed in the Cairo museum. The com- 

 monest of these were white and blue 

 lotuses, red poppies, leaves and flowers 

 of the pomegranate, of saffron, and other 

 species of crocus. It seems that the flow- 

 ers of to-day are the same as flourished 



then, and even the chrysanthemum had 

 made its appearance in Egvpt some 5000 

 or 6000 years ago. 



Pea blight is said to be due to adverse 

 physical conditions of soil, extreme 

 drought, and the continual planting of 

 the peas on the same ground year after 

 year. 



Canadian experiments, conducted with 

 a view to the eradication of the common 

 bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), dis- 

 close the fact that salt is the most effica- 

 cious remedy. 



There will be a start made on an ar- 

 boretum in Humboldt Park, Chicago, on 

 Arbor Day, when, in the presence of some 

 thousands of children, a clump of maples 

 will be planted on that portion of the 

 grounds reserved for the purpose. The 

 exercises of the day will conclude with 

 speeches and singing. 



Tasmanian apples, to the extent of 34,- 

 000 cases, are due in London next month, 

 and during the present month 570 boxes 

 of grapes and pears arrived from the 

 Cape. It is reported that the Cape 

 grapes arc wretched, and that English 

 and Canadian apples are very scarce in 

 the London market. 



The water hyacinth trouble continues 

 to vex the good people in the neighbor- 

 hood of the St. Johns River, Florida. Nu- 

 merous experiments were carried on last 

 summer by government officials, looking 

 to a solution of the problem of devising 

 ways and means to rid the river of the 

 pest, but so far no practical remedy has 

 been discovered. 



Preliminary tests of formalin, made 

 in a greenhouse, under the direction of 

 Prof. Arthur, of Purdue University, soak- 

 ing potatoes for two hours in solutions 

 of varied strength, resulted in no injuri- 

 ous effect upon the germination of the 

 tubers and indicated that formalin is a 

 successful fungicide for scab. The direc- 

 tions given are to soak tubers two hours 

 in a solution of half a pint of formalin in 

 fifteen gallons of water. 



Minnesota has a law to encourage 

 tree planting. A bounty of $2.50 an 

 acre is offered, and at least one acre must 

 be planted, while no one person can col- 

 lect for more than ten acres in a year or 

 for more than six years. Any tree but 

 the black locust may be planted. Last 

 year bounties were paid to twent3'-five 

 counties for planting 9,524 acres. The 

 law has been in operation sixteen years. 

 In that time more than 100 000 acres 

 have been planted in trees. 



The annual horticultural and agricult- 

 ural exhibition was opened at Cairo on 

 January 14, by the Khedive and other 

 high officials in Egypt. There were 

 exhibits of Egj'ptian pottery and timber 

 woods. The soil of the countrj' and its 

 climate are considered to have great 

 capabilities in forestry. The Finance 

 Ministry is now conducting experiments 

 along this line, having just planted out 

 190,000 young trees of about 100 differ- 

 ent varieties, all exotic and chiefly from 

 India. A novelty was shown in the shape 

 of a substance called cerosie, which a 

 French chemist claims to have discovered. 

 It is procured from the scum which rises 

 to the surface of liquid sugar after the 

 cane is crushed. The substance has much 

 the same qualities as ordinary beeswax. 



The Toronto Horticultural Society, 

 which exists for the purpose of diffusing 

 a better knowledge of horticulture and 

 floriculture, proposes to present 1,000 



plants to the children of the public 

 schools, to be grown by them during the 

 summer, and exhibited at the chrysanthe- 

 mum show in the fall, when prizes will be 

 presented for the best grown plants. It 

 is also proposed by the society to initiate 

 a movement looking to theestablishment 

 of a botanical garden in that city. With 

 this object in view the principals of all 

 the colleges are invited to co-operate, as 

 well as the superintendents of the various 

 parks and government institutions, so 

 that any future planting required may be 

 done with this object in view. 



THE- CULTURE OF HARDY ROSES. 

 At the March meeting of the Elmira, 

 N. Y., Horticultural Society a paper was 

 read on this subject by a thoroughly com- 

 petent gardener, Mr. John B. Rudy, as 

 follows: 



A great deal could be said and written 

 about roses, their varieties, their beauty 

 and the origin of the many varieties, but I 

 will simply tell you about hardy roses. 

 There is nothing in the line of outdoor 

 flowers so pretty as a well-flowered rose- 

 bush, and with right has the rose been 

 named " the queen of the flowers." 



As it is about time when they require 

 our attention, after their winter's rest 

 or time to begin to plant voung bushes, 

 for all those who intend to" do so, I think 

 it will be well to tell you something about 

 planting them. Roses require a deep, 

 well-enriched soil, of a somewhat clayey 

 nature. They should be planted in an 

 open or prominent place in your garden 

 or yard where they will get the full bene- 

 fit of all the rain and sunshine. A good 

 many people make the mistake of plant- 

 ing them close to a big tree or alongside 

 of a house, and the result is a weak 

 rose bush and hardly any roses; but should 

 there be some roses they will be small 

 and deformed. Should your soil not be 

 as wanted, dig it out to a depth of about 

 eighteen inches and as wide as vou want 

 your bed. Fill in with well-rotted sod to 

 which has been added a liberal quantity 

 of well decomposed compost and some 

 pure ground bone, and firm you bed well, 

 as the filling will settle considerably. 



After you have your bed ready you can 

 begin to plant your roses. Plant them 

 assoon as the frost gets out of theground 

 and the soil is in such condition that it 

 will handle nicely. Never plant when the 

 soil is too wet, as in that case the earth 

 around your rose bushes would get hard 

 when dry. 



You may ask me what varieties I would 

 advise you to plant. That is very hard 

 to tell when there are so many good ones. 

 Get some old standard variety that has 

 been proven good. Always go slow in 

 novelties. You might try a few and vou 

 will soon find out if good or not. For 

 red I should plant General Jacqueminot, 

 Marshall P. Wilder, Louis Yan Houtte, 

 Ulrich Brunner, Alfred Colomb, Baron 

 Bonstetten, Prince Camille de Rohan; for 

 pink, Baroness Rothschild, Mme. Gabriel 

 Luizet, Magna Charta, Anna de Diesbach, 

 John Hopper, Paul Neyron, Captain 

 Christy, Merveille de Lyon; for white, 

 Mme. Plantier, Mabel Morrison, Coquette 

 des Alpes, Coquette des Blanches. 



In yellow there is only one good hardy 

 rose, and that is the Persian Yellow. The 

 Yellow Rambler is a climbing rose. The 

 Harrison Yellow and the Persian Yellow 

 are very nearly the same. 



In getting some of the varieties from 

 your nurseryman or florist, be careful and 

 get good, strong and healthy plants. 

 Avoid as much as possible agents, unless 

 you know them or the firm they represent. 



