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Vol. VI. 



82.00 A Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, MAY 15, 1898. 



Single Copy 

 10 Cents. 



No. 137 





LAWN VIEW OF HOTEL DEL MONTE. MONTEREY. CALIFORNIA. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



CALIFORNIA SCENES. 

 We present herewith two views of the 

 Hotel del Monte, Monterey, Cal., and 

 grounds, which is without doubt one of 

 the best laid out places in that part of 

 the country. The ivy covered oaks in the 

 foreground of the picture on this page 

 are Quercus agritolia. The illustration 

 on page 259 shows the building and 

 grounds as seen from the lake. The tall 

 trees are the Monterey pine, Prunus 

 insignis. Here we have a typical illus- 

 tration of the incongruities of California 

 gardening, for the series of steps rising 

 up in the center of the fine terrace are 

 neither granite nor marble, but ordinary 

 wooden planks, very ragged and foot- 

 worn. 



NOTES PROM EGflNDflLE. 



All trees and shrubs native and exotic, 

 seem to be blooming with unusual free- 

 dom this spring. Young maples, varieties 



of the Norway, six to eight feet high, 

 planted a year ago, are full of flowers. 

 The Japan weeping cherries whose flower 

 buds were killed during the winter of '96- 

 '97 are not only floweringmost profusely 

 upon the old wood, which is its habit, 

 but has occasional bunches of flowers on 

 last season's growth, an exceptional 

 occurrence. 



Finding that the rabbits were eating 

 the blooms of the pansies and early 

 creeping phloxes, I powdered the plants 

 with Paris green and left it on a few days. 

 The rabbits evidently did not relish the 

 sauce provided for their evening meal and 

 have changed their boarding house, for 

 the plants are not disturbed now. 



All the climbing roses came out unusu- 

 ally well this spring save the Empress of 

 China, which seems to dislike my method 

 of winter protection. I would like to 

 hear from some reader of Gardening who 

 has wintered this rose successfully in a 

 somewhat similar climate, either with or 

 without protection, as to the method 

 employed. I used to have trouble with 

 the Ayrshire roses killing back when heav- 

 ily protected with straw. I then tried an 



open covering, like that provided by 

 throwing sweet pea vines over them, 

 which worked splendidly. 



The daffodils are now on the wane, but 

 have afforded plenty of flowers for the 

 house since the middle of April. Princess 

 is one of the earliest and strongest grow- 

 ers with me, while Maximum seems to 

 be the weakest, producing but few 

 blooms. The varieties Emperor, Hors- 

 fieldii and Yon Sion do well. As is well 

 known, the foliage of the daffodils, die 

 down in midsummer, therefore some 

 judgment should be exercised as to the 

 situation allotted them. Mine are in the 

 vegetable garden near the cuttinggrounds 

 where the blank space left by the disap- 

 pearing foliage is not prominent, as a 

 row of dwarf pompon chrysanthemums 

 are planted close up to them and soon 

 cover the vacant space. 



Where it is necessary to plant them in 

 more prominent places, and not in rows 

 they may be planted in small groups, 

 each group about a foot apart, and 

 strong growing annuals put between 

 them, especially those of a spreading 

 nature, or some perennial. 



