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GARDENING. 



Aug. 15, 



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CONTENTS. 



New evergreen hybrid Wichuraiana roses 



(illus.) 353 



Tin' Crimson Humbler rose 353 



Single roses at Egandale 3M 



Roses at the Arnold Arboretum 355 



Omaha's great exposition (illus.) 356 



View in Hun scorn Park 357 



The Bower garden 357 



Sweet pi*a novelties for 1896 35? 



A new reined v For aphides 357 



Hardy herbaceous plants 358 



The greenhouse 359 



Odontoglossum Prince of Wales (illus. I 359 



Chrysanthemum notes 859 



Fertilization of cucumbers 359 



Editorial 360 



Tree planting on public streets 360 



Workers in horticulture. XV (portrait) 361 



Fruits and vegetables 861 



An assortment of strawberries 3iii 



Best of all tomato (illus.) 3(H 



limy to grow mushrooms 362 



Horticufturists intermingle 862 



M iscellaneous 364 



Bulb "rowing in North Carolina MU 



Notes from Germany 364 



Australian raspberry pulp is sold in 

 London at $182 £er ton. 



San Jose scale is as yet unknown in 

 Nova Scotia and strong efforts are being 

 made to prevent its importation. 



A G. Jacobs, of Springfield, Mass., has 

 a Crimson Rambler rose upon which 

 there have been at one time 5000 buds or 

 blossoms. 



The attendance at the Trans-Missis- 

 sippi Exposition is already large and is 

 increasing each week. The show is well 

 worth seeing. 



Report says that of currants Pres. 

 Wilder, and of pears, Kieffer, are the only 

 varieties to yield well in western New 

 York this year. 



The big apple crop of 1896 was largely- 

 sold abroad and this year there is a very 

 noticeable increase in the European 

 demand for the fruit. 



Austria has issued a proclamation pro- 

 hibiting the importation of American 

 nursery stock. This action is taken in 

 fear of San Jose scale. 



California is the greatest horticul- 

 tural state in the Union, New York is sec- 

 ond and Illinois third. Illinois has 

 $4,777,083 invested in nurseries 



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L.elia-cattleva Admiral Dewey was 

 exhibited recently in London. There is 

 evidently one Englishman who knows a 

 good thing when he hears about it. 



It is said that the odor of flowers is 

 antiseptic and that during epidemics 

 those who are employed where they con- 

 stantly breathe the perfume are exempt. 



The Kezalink Valley in Roumania is 

 entirely given up to the cultivation of 

 roses, the essence of which is sold to per- 

 fumers in Paris at a very remunerative 

 price. 



The Buffalo park commissioners have 

 mailed 28,000 citcular letters to house- 

 holders asking co-operation in the exter- 

 mination of the caterpillars which are 

 destroying shade trees. 



According to the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 one English grower sent to market 

 1.820,000 blooms of the double white 

 narcissus in three weeks. One day's 

 shipment was 248,256, weighing nearly 

 three tons. 



The use of dendrolene on the trunks o 

 apple trees, according to Prof. Goff, of the 

 Wisconsin Experiment Station, resulted 

 in killing fifty-seven trees out of 180 

 treated and severely injuring a large part 

 of the reminder. 



Joseph J Daynes, Jr., of Salt Lake Citv, 

 has a specimen of Lilium auratum with 

 five blooms in a cluster, each flowereight 

 inches in diameter. Mr. Daynes states 

 that the plant is very difficult to grow 

 outdoors in Utah. 



Jet black roses, so long considered 

 impossible of production, have, it is 

 announced, made their appearance in 

 Russia. Mr. Fetisoff, an amateur of 

 Veronezh, is said to be the originator of 

 the plant which bears them. 



The Society of American Florists has 

 adopted as its badge for the August con- 

 vention a silver rose leaf embossed "S. A. 

 F. 1898," which should be provocative 

 of warm greetings at the home ot the 

 good friends of the white metal. 



Ten and a quarter millions of dollars 

 have been spent on experiment stations 

 and the free distribution of seeds in the 

 United States, not to mention the large 

 appropriations made by the various 

 states for similar purposes. The receipts, 

 evidently, go to generations yet unborn. 



The city of Ghent, Belgium, long 

 famous in the world of horticulture, is 

 soon to have a new botanic garden. It 

 is surprising how many small foreign 

 cities maintain such institutions, while 

 many of the most important centers of 

 population in America are still content 

 to plod along without them. 



Russia will hold an international hor- 

 ticultural exposition at St. Peters- 

 burg in 1899 It will be under the pat- 

 ronage of the Czar and every effort will 

 be made to make it a notable one. The 

 display of flowers and plants will open 

 May 17, 1899, and continue ten days. 

 In the fall an exhibition of fruits will be 

 given. 



Mr. A. L. Winton, says the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, gives the following details 

 relating to violets: One thousand plants 

 contained in pounds, 257 pounds of 

 water, 52 of organic and volatile mat- 

 ters, 7 of other mineral matter, equal 

 316. Of nitrogen, the quantity works 

 out at 1.5; potash, 1.74; soda, .55; lime, 

 .62; magnesia, .25; phosphoric acid, .37; 

 sulphuric acid, .32; chlorine, .27; other 

 matters, 2.76, equal 6.88. 



The price of nursery stock in Canada 

 has not advanced because of the recent 

 enactment excluding stock from the 

 United States. Nurserymen in the States 

 who had booked orders in the Dominion, 

 which they were not permitted to fill 

 because of the act, bought stock at whole- 

 sale from Canadian dealers and packed 

 their orders inside the boundary. The 

 considerable surplus of Canadian grown 

 shrubs and trees enabled them to do this 

 without loss. 



TREE PLANTING ON PUBLIC STREETS. 



The following is the paper read by C. 

 M. Loring, president of the American 

 Park and outdoor Art Association at its 

 recent convention at Minneapolis: 



Any city or village, however inexpen- 

 sive its buildings, can be made attractive 

 by planting trees and otherwise embel- 

 lishing the public streets with borders of 

 grass and shrubs and flowers, thereby 

 giving them a park-likeappearance which 

 is very pleasing to the eye, and refining 

 in its influence. 



The pioneers of our New England cities 

 and villages appreciated the value and 

 beauty of shade trees, and as a result, we 

 have such attractive cities as Bangor and 

 Portland in Maine, New Haven and 

 Hartford in Connecticut, Springfield and. 

 Salem in Massachusetts, where grand old 

 elms spread their sheltering arms over 

 modest homes. Why are these old cities 

 called beautiful? What makes them so 

 attractive to the tourist and the seeker 

 of rest"' It is not the architecture of their 

 residences, as the majority of them are 

 very plain. Their great attraction is the 

 trees which border their streets. There 

 are cities dear to the recollection of all 

 sons of New England, where certain thor- 

 oughfares have a wide reputation for 

 their attractiveness, on which there are 

 no large estates, and very few finehouses; 

 but the noble elms which form arches 

 over the streets, and screen the imperfec- 

 tions of the houses, which seem half hid- 

 den in a border of waving foliage, form a 

 picture which is photographed upon the 

 minds of all who see it, and they exclaim: 

 "What a beautiful city!" I was born and 

 reared under these grand old elms, and 

 much of the happiness of my life has been 

 derived through my love and reverence 

 for them. 



A pleasant argument of the lurking 

 instinct for arboreal life might be found 

 in the fact that we like to give the name 

 of roof-tree to our domicile, although the 

 roof-tree may be brick or stone. 



Thousands upon thousands of the sons 

 and daughters of New England left their 

 homes with the love of the old roof-tree 

 in their hearts, and this love carried its 

 influence wherever thej' made new homes, 

 and the memories of the old, with the 

 longing for the trees, resulted in the plant- 

 ing of streets and roadways which are 

 the pride of many cities in our middle and 

 western states. One of these daughters 

 writes: "In memory's chart of the little 

 world of childhood, does not some best 

 beloved tree mark the center thereof, and 

 is not the tree's morning or evening 

 shadow the radius of the golden day's 

 round?" 



Most children are born with a love for 

 flowers and trees, and all that is beauti- 

 ful in nature, and even when reared under 

 the depressing influences of the tenement 

 houses of large cities, the oyster cans and 

 old bottles on the window ledges filled 

 with the growing plants testify that this 

 love is difficult to crush out of the hearts 

 of the unfortunates. But, alas! too many 



