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GARDENING. 



June 15, 



Published the 1st and 15th of each Month 



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Messrs. Peterson in 300 varieties will be 

 at their best during the next two weeks, 

 and those interested are cordially invited 

 to view them any day except Sunday. 



A disease which appears to generally 

 affect lemons grown in New South Wales 

 is known as black spot, and precautions 

 are being taken to rigidly exclude it from 

 the adjoiningcoloniesunderthe new regu- 

 lations relating to fruit pests. A consign- 

 ment of fifty cases of lemons plainly 

 marked with the disease was shipped to 

 Melbourne recently from Sydney, and on 

 the usual inspection being made the fruit 

 was not permitted to be removed by the 

 consignee. The whole of the fifty cases 

 were condemned and afterwards de- 

 stroyed. 



Gardening Is gotten up for Its readers and In their 

 Interest, and It behooves you, one and all, to make It 

 Interesting. If It does not exactly suit your caBe, 

 please write and tell us what you want. It Is our 

 desire to help you. 



Ask any questions you please about plants, 

 flowerB, fruits, vegetables or other practical gardening 

 matters. We will take pleasure In answering them , 



Send us Notes of your experience In gardening in 

 any line; tell us of your successes that others may be 

 enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures, 

 perhaps we can help you. 



Send us Photographs or Sketches of your 

 flowers, gardenB. greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or 

 horticultural appliances that we may have them en- 

 graved for Gardening, 



Examine your rose bushes and you will 

 probably find that where a leaf is curled 

 up and closed upon itself, a small green 

 worm is waiting its chance to eat into 

 the buds. Crush the leaf between your 

 fingers, or open the leaf and crush the 

 worm. Be quick about it, for worms 

 they are quite lively. Most of the other 

 enemies of the rose may, outdoors, be 

 kept under subjection by a vigorous 

 spraying with a force pump or a hose. 

 With the latter nothing is better to use 

 than the Rain-bow nozzle, as with it any 

 CONTENTS. part of the bush may be reached. 



pSXinu'mperiS^:::::::::::::::::::::: :::» , this is the natural season of blooming 



Cercis Canadensis (illus.) 290 for the lily of the valley, a flower as easy 



Notes from Egandale 190 to grow as the thistle. Planted in a 



Fiowe n rfn" h °tre 1 e i s 3ndr0nS and aza,ess |» rather damp soil and slightly shaded sit- 



ClematiS naniculata '(iliusO"'^ '.'.'.'.'.'.'."'.'.'. !9I uation it soon covers the ground and 



Propagation of clematis paniculate 291 takes care of itself, spreading so rapidly 



Herbaceous plant notes ssil th t n weeds are soon exterminated. 



Ornamental bedding (illus.) 292 „ - ,. . ,, , ,,. j 



An excellent hardy fern 293 Every few years they should be thinned 



Nelumbium speeio'sum (illus.) 293 out or thev become too crowded to bloom 



Forcing papnies...... M ,[ Th( : n]orl th of August is a good 



Specimen plants of chrysanthemums 2'.U ,. . .^ „, . ° ." 



llrac-cna Godseffiana (illus.) 294 time to do it. The easiest way is to cut 



Sweet peas 294 out trenches, spade width, the entire 



Notes and comments 29b length of the bed, leaving rows of the 



Twine for greenhouse use 29a . s . . . .., • ,^ r^-n ^.u 



The weather and the crops 296 plant about the same width. I-illup the 



The sunflower 296 trenches with good rich soil, and each 



Workers in horticulture, xi (portrait) 29? w i nte r put on a few inches ot well rotted, 



Suitable manure for fruits! 2HH "■- r 



Societies 299 tine manure which may remain all sum- 

 American Association of Nurserymen 299 mer. 



The name of "Marguerite's" plant is 

 Physalis Francheti and it may be propa- 

 gated from seeds or root cuttings. 



J. E. Dager is a horticulturist of attain- 

 ment and has some very fine specimen 

 trees and shrubs upon his grounds at 

 Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Dager was a recent 

 visitor at Egandale. 



P^eonies have been remarkably fine in 

 many sections this year. They are hardy 

 plants that all may grow with little 

 trouble, and they generally make a bril- 

 liant display before the roses come into 

 bloom. 



Recent experiments with Rontgen rays 

 made by Mr. Bounier, and described to 

 the Academy of Sciences, Paris, are 

 claimed to show definitely that these 

 rays are favorable to the germination of 

 seeds. 



Inspection has brought to the knowl- 

 edge of the Los Angeles County Horti- 

 cultural Board the fact that a number of 

 new orchards are infested with Aspid- 

 iotus citrinus. Recent reports also show 

 that Lacani umoleal is gaining ground 

 east of Ontario and must be checked this 



We are in receipt ol some excellent sam- 

 ples of paeony blooms from P. S. Peterson 

 & Son, of the Rose Hill Nursery, Chicago. 

 The eight acres of these plants grown by 



Visitors to the World's rair will 

 remember the Wooded Island in Jackson 

 Park, now much more deserving of the 

 title than it was then. The trees, espe- 

 cially the willows, have made wonderful 

 growth, bringing out in fuller relief the 

 purposes of the designers. One of its 

 most attractive features at that time 

 was the rose garden, and under the fos- 

 tering care of Mr. Fred Kanst this has 

 been so well maintained and developed 

 that the display this season far excels 

 anything of the kind ever seen in or 

 around Chicago. Thousands throng the 

 island daily, and everyone seems to know 

 that the roses are of a very superiorqual- 

 ity this year. Mr. Kanst modestly assures 

 us that the gratifying results are largely 

 due to an exceptionally favorable season. 

 While the weather may have had some- 

 thingtodo with it, we know that the out- 

 come depended more strictly upon skillful 

 management. And yet, there is no secret 

 about the methods practiced here, and 

 they are essentially the same as are 

 adopted by rose growers in all tem- 

 perate countries. The beds are covered 

 in autumn to a depth of two or three 

 inches with leaves. This covering is 

 removed in spring, and when the plants 

 have been pruned — an operation per- 

 formed when the wood buds are begin- 

 ning to swell — a dressing of cow manure 

 is applied and dug into the soil, taking 

 care to keep as much as possible of it 

 from direct contact with the roots. When 



the warm weather comes, and before the 

 flower buds expand, the beds are given a 

 coat of lawn mowings, and this in a gen- 

 eral way completes the work. We 

 selected the following as the best varie- 

 ties for general cultivation: Caroline 

 d'Arden, rose; Pa^onia, red; Baroness 

 Rothschild, rosy pink; Mrs. John Laing, 

 pink; Comtesse de Sereny, silvery pink; 

 Paul Neyron, deep rose; Camille de 

 Rohan, deep crimson; Marshall P. Wilder, 

 rose and carmine; Margaret Dickson, 

 white; General Jacqueminot, bright crim- 

 son; Mabel Morrison, white; Jean Lia- 

 baud, crimson maroon; Anna de Dies- 

 bach, carmine. In another section of the 

 park a very fine effect was produced with 

 Fairy Queen against an extensive bank of 

 shrubbery. 



THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. 



GOVERNMENT I1ULLETIN. 



Over the North Atlantic Division the 

 rainfall in May was in excess in all east- 

 ern districts; in Maine, the northern por- 

 tions of New Hampshire and Vermont, 

 and throughout western New York and 

 Pennsylvania, it was below the average. 

 In the South Atlantic Division the rain- 

 fall was markedly deficient in Florida, 

 Georgia, South Carolina, and portions 

 of North Carolina; about the average 

 amount fell in Maryland, while an excess 

 was reported over the southern part of 

 Virginia. In the South Central Division 

 the rainfall was deficient in Louisiana, 

 Mississippi, Alabama, and in eastern dis- 

 tricts of Tennessee; rain in excess of aver- 

 age reported from Oklahoma, also an 

 excess in Arkansas and western Tennes- 

 see. In the North Central Division large 

 excesses are reported in Missouri, Kansas, 

 Illinois and Iowa, and about an average 

 amount elsewhere. In the Western Divi- 

 sion the May rainfall was slightly above 

 the average in California, Colorado, Utah 

 and Wyoming, and nearly normal in all 

 other sections. 



Excepting in New Jersey, Delaware, 

 Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis- 

 sippi and Arkansas the season has been 

 highly favorable for peaches throughout 

 the entire eastern half of the country In 

 Georgia, probably the greatest peach- 

 growing state in the Union, the condition 

 is 105, against an average June condition 

 for the last ten years of 61. 



In all the New England States, except 

 Rhode Island, the condition of apples is 

 considerably above the June average for 

 the last ten years. In New York it is 5 

 points above the ten-year average, in 

 North Carolina 8 points above, in Michi- 

 gan 17 points, in Wisconsin 31 points, in 

 Iowa 8 points, and in Nebraska 13 points. 

 On the other hand the present early indi- 

 cations are less favorable than usual in 

 the following states and to the extent 

 indicated: Rhode Island, 5 points; New 

 Jersey, 4 points; Maryland, 8 points; Vir- 

 ginia, -t points; Georgia, 3 points; Ala- 

 bama, 3 points; Arkansas, 13 points; 

 Tennessee, 11 points; West Virginia, 30 

 points; Kentucky, 12 points; Ohio, 7 

 points; Indiana, 15 points; Illinois, 6 

 points; Missouri, 11 points; Kansas, 

 1 point. 



THE SUNFLOWER. 



Probably the cultivation of no other 

 plant has, during the last few years, in- 

 creased so greatly as that of the sun- 

 flower. In Russia alone nearly a million 

 acres are annually devoted to its cultiva- 

 tion, while in Germany and other Euro- 

 pean states it is grown in immense quan- 

 tities. Some of our farmers think that in 



