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GARDENING. 



Sept. /, 



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 ing Co., Monon Building:, Chicago. 



Department of Agriculture, advised the 

 use of hydrocyanic acid gas, but so far no 

 information has come to hand in demon- 

 stration of its utility for the purpose 

 specified. 



The recent mention in Gardening of 

 the new Clematis coccinea hybrids, calls 

 to mind another hybrid of decided merit, 

 namely C. integrilolia Durandi. It is 

 even more of a departure from the type 

 than the hybrid coccinea hybrids, as the 

 flowers are as large as the ordinary C. 

 Jackmani, of a dark blue color at first, 

 fadinp into a light blue. C. integrifolia 

 is a bush form growing about two ieet 

 high. The Durandi torm grows about four 

 feet high, and while vine-like in habit, does 

 not twine, nor has it tendrils, and there- 

 fore requires tying up. It has been in 

 bloom over three months and perfectly 

 free from disease. 



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 case, 

 please write and tell us what you want, it Is our 



desire to help you. Dahlias, planted according to instruc- 



ASK ANT questions you please about plants, . ' r . . & 



flowers, fruits, vegetables or other practical gardening tions in the Dahlia societv premium list, 



matters. We will take pleasure in answering them. stood up during the recent storms, which 



Send us Notes of your experience In gardening In _,„_„ sr T e( . VPr „ tbnl- field mmwnshiH 



any line: tell us of your successes that others may be were so se\ ere tnat neid corn was laia 



enlightened and encouraged, and of your failures. over. They were not staked. Holes 



perhaps we can help you. , d enough to aUo w the roots 



Send us Photographs or sketches of your »»»■■»- ""& »• m es .,..,. 



flowers, gardens. greenhnuBeB. fruits, vegetables, or or tubers to be set in, so that tneir tops 



horticultural appliances that we may have them en- about six to eight inches below the 



graved for gardening. ■ fl , *• •, 



. surface, filling in three inches of sou. 



. When the shoots appeared all but the 



CONTENTS. strongest were removed and the tips of 



A plantation of Lilium candidum (illus.) 369 the latter were pinched out. This caused 



Bedding plants 369 s ide shoots to appear, four of which were 



aSKte^^ti^'.::::::::::::--.^ allowed to remain. Whentheseappeared 



Shrubbery notes (illus.) 371 above the surface the soil was filled in 



PrunusPissardi. 372 level. This packed around the junction of 



Artor%^XTedg;sV.v.v.v:.":::.::::::::::::ii the branches with the stem an d held them 



Rex begonias (illus.) 37_' securely against cold and rain, no stak- 



Chinese primulas 373 ; n „ being necessarv. 



Cineraria culture 3,3 ° " 



Chrysanthemum notes 3, 1 



Select ferns .......... B74 THE WEflTflBR flND TflE CROPS. 



Rust of garden pinks (illus.; 



An unsolved watering problem 37ft I EMPERATDHE. 



^ e weath«a d nf?b5 n ^ps.V.-.V.:V.V.:::.\".: The latter part of August has been 



Suburban home grounds 376 warmer than normal over almost the 



Workers in horticulture XVI (portrait) .177 entire country- In the middle Rocky 



^p^^borVr::!^ "::!::::::::::' :!:: Mountain region the maximum tempera- 



Strawberry growing in Nebraska 37h ture was 104° and in the interior of Cah- 



The Harrisii lily disease 37s fornia it exceeded 100° for several con- 



S.row^^i^m^i.w:-,.::;::;;::::::::::^ secutive days. The oni y districts to enjoy 



The florists' annual meeting :i7(i freedom from the abnormal heat were the 



, northern Pacific coast and the upper lake 



region. 



PRECIPITATION. 



Less than the usual amount of rain fell 

 upon the greater portion of the country. 

 That section west of the Mississippi 

 received no appreciable rainfall except in 

 Dakota and Iowa. In the south Atlan- 

 tic states the weekly rainfall was from 

 two to six inches and it was nearly as 

 heavy in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and the 

 central gulf states. 



THE CROPS. 



The conditions in general have been 

 favorable to crops, although in the west 

 the hot, dry weather hashad its injurious 

 effect. Corn and wheat are in excellent 

 condition the country over, but in many 

 of the fruit districts the crops are only 

 fair and in some instances are poor. On 

 the Pacific coast conditions are unusually 

 favorable for fruit drying. Local storms 

 have proved very destructive in North 

 Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio 

 and Pennsylvania. 



The Texas State Horticultural Society 

 has catalogued 201 named varieties of 

 peaches grown in the Lone Star state. 



When your delphiniums are through 

 blooming, cut them back to the ground. 

 They will soon break out at the roots 

 and bloom again this fall, but not as 

 strongly as during their earlier effort. 



We are in receipt of the Monmouth 

 County Horticultural Society's list of 

 premiums to be competed for at an exhi- 

 bition scheduled for Wednesday, August 

 31 and Thursday, September 1 in the 

 Casino, Rumson Road, Sea Bright, N. I. 

 H. A. Kettel, Sea Bright, N. J., is secre- 

 tary of the society. 



Edward C. Reid, secretary of the State 

 Horticultural Society, states that the 

 apple crop of Michigan will be neither a 

 large nor a good one, although it will be 

 in excess of that of any state east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Pears and plums are 

 abundant, but the crop of peaches will 

 not exceed fifty per cent. 



John Beimford, of Wilton Junction, 

 Iowa, writes to suggest that bisulphide 

 of carbon be tried as a remedy for the 

 disease brought upon Harrisii lily bulbs 

 by mites. He is of the opinion that this 

 preparation should be effective, and 

 believes that it could be applied cheaply 

 and without injury to the bulbs. About 

 a year ago Mr. A. F. Woods, of the 



SUBURBAN HOME GROUNDS. 



Charles N. Lowrie, landscape architect, 

 read the following excellent paper at the 

 second annual convention of the Ameri- 

 can Park and Outdoor Art Association: 



In the fifty years that have passed since 

 Andrew Downing pleaded so eloquently 

 the cause of public parks for America we 

 have made such advances that we now 



outrank other countries in the number 

 established, and in the ability displayed 

 in the majority of cases in their design 

 and development. 



Long before parks were advocated or 

 even needed, New England and the banks 

 of the Hudson, in the old days before the 

 growing up of the great cities, possessed 

 many towns in and near which dwelt 

 people of polite cultivation and polished 

 manners whose sober but stately man- 

 sions still remain; substantial buildings, 

 often with a court yard and high wall 

 after the English fashion, and a large 

 degree of breadth of landscape setting 

 and excellence of general design. 



Along with these, and much more 

 numerous, was the type of colonial home, 

 not changing greatly for many years, and 

 good examples, still well preserved, are 

 to be found from Salem to Annapolis. 

 The house, simple and plain, with hardly 

 anything to relieve it except a cornice, but 

 well proportioned, substantial and home- 

 like; set near the street in a good sized 

 lot with prim, box bordered, straight 

 walk to the front door. At the rear of 

 the house and sometimes to one side a 

 stretch of quiet secluded lawn surrounded 

 with fence, shrubbery and vines, with a 

 garden full of old fashioned flowers, fine 

 fruit trees, a plot for vegetables and small 

 fruits. 



These old places are historically inter- 

 esting, and worthy of mention here as 

 containing suggestive features adaptable 

 to our present needs. 



Before considering, however, our present 

 needs it will be well to look at our 

 condition and surely we have an inter- 

 esting situation before us. 



With the rapid expansion of material 

 welfare and the phenomenal results of 

 new inventions our ways of living have 

 greatly changed. Cities are growing 

 much more rapidly than the country dis- 

 tricts and a large number of the well to 

 do and those in comfortable circumstances 

 are finding their homes in the outlying 

 parts of the town or in easily accessible 

 suburban sections. They are building 

 attractive homes in many cases repre- 

 senting the highest type of semi-rural 

 architecture so far attained. 



We see, then, that great advance has 

 been made in park making and house 

 building. The treatment of home grounds 

 seems to have lagged somewhat behind. 

 There is truth in Bacon's lines: "A man 

 shall ever see, that, when ages grow to 

 civilit3' and elegance men come to build 

 stately sooner than to garden finely; as if 

 gardening were the greater perfection." 



The general practice is to buy a lot 

 with from seventy-five feet frontage to 

 several hundred, and then to clear awav 

 everything from the land that nature has 

 placed there, and starting from the bare 

 ground proceed to create a lawn, dot 

 evergreens over it in an inconsequential 

 way leaving suitably conspicuous open 

 places in the carefully created lawn where 

 ehromo like flower beds are cut, and set- 

 ting as many novel vivid and curious 

 plants as possible in inharmonious con- 

 trast with the evergreens and flowers. 

 This means ostentation and inappro- 

 priateness and shows the undue value put 

 in this branch of art, as in all others, 

 upon results which evince the expenditure 

 of much money. The most ignorant or 

 careless person sees that wide, carefully 

 tended lawns, gaudy flower beds, num- 

 bers of odd or exotic plants, represent 

 considerable outlay, and often he is 

 charmed by the mere perception of this 

 fact; just as the owner is charmed by the 

 thought that it is easily to be perceived 

 on his place. Those with truer percep- 



