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GARDENING. 



Aug. /, 



Published the 1st and 15th of each Month 



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on application to the secretary, \V. J. 

 Stewart, 07 Bromfield street, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Mk. Shore, of Cornell University, 



Ithaca, N. V., reports that hardy roses 

 have done exceptionally well with him 

 this season. Margaret Dickson has been 

 extra fine, and seems to stand the winter 

 in that section best of any. Mr. Shore is 

 surprised that they have done so well, 

 especially as the ordinary garden soil of 

 a sandy nature was given no special 

 preparation. The beds were heavily 

 mulched with well decayed manure the 

 previous fall and forked over in spring. 



The following has been awarded a 

 prize as the best method of ripening 

 tomatoes detached from the vines: "Get 

 a middling air tight box (Australian but- 

 ter box I find the cheapest and best) put 

 in a sheet of paper to fit the bottom, and 

 then put a layer of tomatoes, one thick, 

 then another sheet ol paper, then another 

 layer of tomatoes, and so on for five or 

 six layers. Cover well with paper. Put 

 in a dry place for fourteen days. Even 

 small tomatoes will come to maturity. 1 

 have done this two vearswithout fail." 



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 enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures, 

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flowers, gardens, greenhouses, fruits, vegetables, or Thf mod neonle of Newark N 1 are 



horticultural appliances that we may have them en- . i »t goou people oi xicwari, n. j., ait 



graved for Gardening justly alarmed at the depredations ol an 



insidious borer which is attacking shade 



CONTENTS trees. Prof. John B. Smith, the state 



entomologist, writes that outside of 



Natures grouping (illus.) 337 c i t ; es birds keep this wood moth in check 



New hybrid clematis 33i , - , *r 



Lawn and garden notes and that the only remedial measure of 



Bechtels double-flowering crab (illus.) 33* which he knows is to inject into the bur- 



Tbebe-ry crabs.......... 339 rows occupied bv borers a small quan- 



The Japanese ins (illus.) 339 ... y ., ■» r , j i 



Hardy herbaceous jplants 339 tity of bisulphide of carbon and plug up 



Canterbury bells (illus.) 340 the hole with puttvto prevent the escape 



C,«iono P sis clematJdea 340 f tne vapor . Of course this is practica- 



Flowers for the cemeten 341 r r 



(fuchsias (illus.) 34i ble only on smaller trees, and even then 



Shading greenhouses temporarily 342 it is an unsatisfactorv proceeding. 



Chrysanthemum ii'ite.- 348 „ , _ . . ,, . 



Begonia Glolre de S© -i 343 Silver and Sycamore maples in the city 



Hooks and bulletins 343 of Brooklvn are affected bv Pulvinaria 



worle^lort^ture^lx u :,rtrai,i:::: ^ jnnumerabilis commonly known as the 



Quality in strawberries 845 Cottony maple scale, and the pest is on 



Arsenic as a substitute for Puis green :nn the increase. Lewis Collins, secretarv of 



£E*S5 ::.::::::;:::::::3« theTree Planting Society, recommends 



The dropping of rose buds 347 that, as the scale is succonal and not 



The Dutch horticulturists 348 affected bv arsenicals, the small, super- 



iowTUoi ::::::::::::::::::::::::S abundant" branches upon which theinsect 



348 makes its appearance be removed and 



that the scale, which is turtle-shaped, 



President McKinley's favorite flower brown, hard shelled and one-fifth of an 

 is a pink carnation and be alwavs inch long when full grown, be carefully 

 wears one on the lapel of his coat. picked from the remaining branches. This 



is practicable when the scale has covered 

 C. H. Richardson, horticultural inspec- onlv a portion of the tree. 



tor, has removed 6,132 infested trees 



from 317 vacant lots in Pasadena, Cal. 

 The trees were the breeding places of 

 scale and other pests which were spread- 

 ing from the neglected grounds to the 

 adjoining orchards. 



Dr. A. M. CcsHiNG writes: "The better 

 way to destroy elm beetles is to twist up 

 a newspaper, set one end afire and singe 

 the tree from the ground to as high as 

 one can reach. Two minutes will com- 

 plete the operation but it must be repeated 

 daily as long as the insects appear. I 

 tried it last vear with fine results." 



WILD FLOWERS OF THE ROCKIES. 



I. W. Kerr, of Maryland, who has 

 75,000 plum trees advises grafting the 

 plums upon peach roots and planting 

 rather deep to secure rooting of the plum 

 near the surface of the ground. He has 

 an abiding faith in American plums, find- 

 ing the European uncertain and the 

 Japanese varieties subject to rot. 



An elaborate programme has been pre- 

 pared for the fourteenth annual conven- 

 tion of the Society of American Florists, 

 to beheld at Omaha, August 16, 17, 18 

 and 19. Those who wish to attend can 

 receive information of low railroad rates 



Cornelius Van Brunt, of Xew York, 

 recently delivered a lecture before a joint 

 meeting of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society and the Appalachian Moun- 

 ain Club. His subject was "The Wild 

 Flowers of the Canadian Rockies Amid 

 Their Xative Surroundings." Following 

 is an abstract of the botanical part of the 

 lecture: 



"A trip over the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way from Montreal to Vancouver, is one 

 of the most delightful to be imagined: 

 and the variety ot the scenery and the 

 beauty and novelty of the flora make 

 one's enjo3'ment increase each dav. Last 

 year we took this trip, going in the* early 

 part of July and returning the first of 

 September, that we might photograph 

 the flowers then in bloom. East of Lake 

 Superior the flora was mostly familiar to 

 us. Farther west, on the prairies, the 

 flowers were especiallv brilliant and beau- 

 tiful. 



"Banff was our first stopping piace. 

 After the beautiful mountain scenery the 

 thing that most impresses the stranger is 

 the abundance and brilliancv of the flow- 



ers and their habit of growing in large 

 communities, as it were. A hill blue with 

 blue-bells, a swamp vivid scarlet with 

 painted cup or brilliant magenta with 

 fireweed, are the rule, not the exception. 

 The most striking novelty about the 

 Banff hotel early in July is the Zygadcnus 

 elegans. of the lily family, a beautiful 

 white flower growing in great abundance 

 on swampy ground. A swamp near the 

 hotel, which had. earlier in the season, 

 been filled with lady's slippers, habena- 

 rias, arethusas and other orchids, now 

 showed myriad specimens of Todeldia 

 glutinosa, the parnassia, senecio, cam- 

 panula, castilleia and potentilla. Poten- 

 tilla fruticosa might at a first glance be 

 mistaken for a wild yellow rose, so large 

 are both the bush and the flowers. The 

 wild rose of that locality. Rosa acicularis 

 van Bourgeauiana — was about through 

 its blooming season. It had covered 

 large areas an.f must have been very 

 beautiful. Blue clovers, instead of red, 

 white or yellow, were also a novelty to 

 us. The color of one of these. Astragalus 

 adsurgens, varied from bright blue to 

 purple and violet, and was most effective. 

 I (ther plants resembling blue clover were 

 Astragalus bypoglottis, Oxytropis ris- 

 cida, and, most beautiful of all, O. s/i/e;; 

 dens, a superb tose-purple head and leaves 

 resembling silvery-colored velvet. 



"In ]ulv the Leguminiis.c seemed the 

 best represented family. There was the 

 beautiful rose-purple of the Vicia truncata, 

 which twines about everything, white 

 and pink Hedysarum boreale, Oxytropis 

 Lambertii, both white and pink, the 

 graceful and very fragrant Lathyrus 

 ochroleuca, with cream-colored flowers 

 and trailing habit, and the brilliant ma- 

 genta Hedysarum Mackenzii — these are 

 a few members of the pea family in bloom 

 during July. Phaca Americana was in 

 seed, but almost as handsome as when 

 in flower. A superb blue vetch grew in 

 masses on the shore at the junction of the 

 Bow and Spray Rivers, which has not 

 yet been identified. Under the coniferous 

 trees near Banff the ground is fairly car- 

 peted with Linnaea borealis. With it 

 were the dwarf cornel, the one-flowered 

 pyrola (Moneses grandiflora), and also 

 P. secunda, clorantha, and rotundifolia. 

 These grew in dry places, but in wet, 

 s'liady spots the pink pyrola (P. uligin- 

 osa) was abundant. With it we found 

 Pinguicula vulgaris and the delicate, un- 

 obtrusive brown lily — Stenantbium occi- 

 dentals — which has a delicious fragrance. 

 "The Bow River valley, through a 

 glass looked as yellow as gold, and we 

 found that the hue was due to the abund- 

 ance of Gaillardia aristata, which resem- 

 bles our Rudbeckia birta, though it is 

 more brilliant. 



"A most noticeable shrub is Sbepherdia 

 Canadensis, with its vivid scarlet or trans- 

 lucent yellow berries. Allium cernuum 

 and its more noticeable relative A. Sibiri- 

 cum, cover large patches of dry hillside. 

 In shady moist nooks Parnassia jialus- 

 tris had [taken a strong foothold, and a 

 little later in the season the more beauti- 

 ful P. Smbriata appeared. 



"The season is so short in this latitude 

 that haste is -retry necessary it the flowers 

 would fulfill their mission in this world: 

 and in consequence they tumble in and 

 out of life with the most confusing rapid- 

 ity. Spring flowers and summer flowers 

 and autumn flowers all bloom together, 

 and in such an energetic fashion that we 

 marvel not only at their vigor, beauty 

 and abundance, but even more at their 

 apparently intelligent comprehension of 

 the necessity for speed. A show)- weed is 

 the strawberry blite (Cbenopodium capi- 



