1887. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



thin and the water cannot get into the 

 wood and rot it, as with painstaking there 

 need be no crack. 



Select the scion in the ordinary way and 

 instead of cutting the i)ark on both sides 

 and making a wedge of it. cut on only one 

 side half through the .scion and then domi 

 and off as shown in Fig. 1. Next, cut off 

 the limb to be grafted, and pare the wound 

 neatly on top so that it will heal over better. 

 Then by inserting a smooth bone wedge, 



F.-ff. I 



Fig. 3 



A Oood Ifethod of Grafting: Fig. 1. the Scion; Fig. 2, 

 a Bone Wedge: Fig. .!, Graft ready for the Wax. 



which is shown in Fig. 3, crowd away the 

 bark from the wood on one side .just enongh 

 to admit the scion, but not enough to split 

 the bark, and carefully push the scion down 

 to the shoulder with the wood of the scion 

 against the wood of the stock. Should the 

 bark of the stock happen to split, however, 

 it will not matter materially, for the next 

 thing to be done is to cover the top of the 

 stock and the bark back of the scion with 

 grafting wax to exclude air and moisture. 

 This then should be wrapped mth a strip of 

 old cotton cloth, which needs merely to be 

 stuck on with grafting wax and not tied. 



This way of grafting is so simple and sure 

 that almost any one, even a child of ordinary 

 intelligence, can work over the wild trees 

 on a place with success. 



What of the Earlier Flowering Chrys- 

 anthemums. 



JOHN THURPE, yCEENS, N. Y. 



I am pleased to give a list of the best of 

 these. At the same time I fear that there are 

 no early flowering Chrysanthemums that are 

 at all satisfactory or likely to be. What I 

 mean by early are those that flower from 

 July 1.5th to September 1.5th. My experience 

 with such has been entirely unsatisfactory. 



For six years I have consistently tried this 

 early flowering class. Without exception 

 the flowers all suffer from the excessive 

 heat and are discolored and bedraggled in 

 appearance. The foliage also wilts and is 

 generally covered with black fungus. 



There are, however, a few varieties be- 

 tween the 1.5th of September to October 1.5th 

 that are presentable, but as a rule the best 

 Chrysanthemums come after the middle of 

 October. The following are the early ones: 



Golden Madame Desgrunjje,— primrose yellow. 



Deuil De Pere,— reddish crimson. 



Flora,— deep golden yellow. 



Frederick Pele,— deei) crimson red. 



Fiberta, — rich canaiy yellow. 



La Petite Marie,— white. 



Lyon,— deep rosy purple. 



Mr. W. Piercy,— red. 



Mrs. Jas. R. Pitcher,~white. 



Rose D'ette,— light rose. 



Alex Dufour,— brilliant violet. 



Alice Butcher, — red. 



Boquet Estival, — deep rosy shade. 



Felicite,— changing from orange to yellow. 



General Canrobert,— yellow. 



La Vierge,— pure white. 



Mandarin,— creamy white. 



Roi Des. Precoces,— rich crimson. 



Soeuo. Melaine,— pure white. 



and they proving a success as to earliness 

 when prices ruled high, I concluded this 

 season that if a few vines would pay, more 

 would pay better. So I started enough early 

 to give me one thousand plants after being 

 twice transplanted. 



These early plants were cared for in hot- 

 beds until time for setting out in the ground, 

 some of them being in blossom at the time. 

 The result was I had bushels of ripe Toma- 

 toes three weeks before the crop of hot-bed 

 sown plants began to ripen, and they sold 

 readily at from $2.00 to *.3..50 per bushel for 

 the main crop, although many were de- 

 stroyed by rot and hot weather; yet I real- 

 ized more profit than from the same amount 

 of ground in berries. The berries were 

 nearly gone when the Tomatoes came in for 

 market. The Tomato seems to meet the 

 wants of consumers atter they have been 

 supplied with berries for several weeks, and 

 they get out of the producer's way before 

 Tomatoes come in. 



We would like to hear through these col- 

 umns from some of the practical Tomato 

 growers, giving mode of raising early plants 

 px-iorto setting in the field, marketing, kinds 

 grown and manner of culture. 



Early Tomatoes for Market. 



A. M. N., LICKING CO., OHIO. 



Having in 1886 experimented on a small 

 scale with Tomato plants of an early variety, 



The Japan Anemones. 



Were we restricted to half a dozen hardy 

 garden plants, one of these should be the 

 White Japan Anemone figured herewith, 

 another the rose-colored species, from which 

 the white is thought to have emanated as a 

 sport. The flowers of these plants woiild 

 prove attractive at any season, but coming 

 as they do in late September and October 

 when flowers are few, they prove exception- 

 ally welcome. 



The Japan Anemones possess about every 

 desirable quality of an ideal border flower. 

 The plants are perfectly hardy, succeeding 

 in rich soil with no more attention than 

 Pasonies and similar easily grown things re- 

 quire. They are handsome for their leaves 

 of picturesque ternate and toothed foi-m and 

 deep green color, if never a flower was to be 

 seen. Both varieties are first-rate plants for 

 groups, borders or the wUd garden. By hav- 

 ing them in various situations, some on the 

 north border and some on a warm one the 

 bloom may be greatly prolonged. The white 

 form, as Mr. Robinson has pointed out, is a 

 most charm- 

 ing plant for 

 occupying a 

 place under 

 shady trees. 

 The flowers 

 are of a fine 

 form, several 

 inches acros>- 

 in size, ami 

 well born I' 

 above the 

 plants, as can 

 be seen by 

 our engrav- 

 ing. In rich- 

 ness of color 

 and texture 

 the blooms 

 are not ex- 

 celled by 

 those of any 

 other garden 

 flower; and 

 there is a con- 

 spicuousclus 

 ter of yellow 

 stanjens to each that seems to beautifully 

 set off the flowers. 



It is supposed by some that the white is 

 the original form of the plant, and with 

 some reason. Various hybrids between this 

 and other species have been raised in En- 

 gland, but none to our knowledge has come 

 up to the Japanese in flneness of flowers, — 



we may have long to wait for such an one. 



By a little management it is easy to have 

 these Anemones in flower as pot plants in 

 the window or conservatory. For this pur- 

 pose they should be lifted and potted when 

 the buds begin to show, an act requiring no 

 skillful management. In the house they 

 bloom even more handsomely than outside, 

 where they have to contend against the chill- 

 iness of Autumn weather. As cut flowers 

 few blooms are more lovely than the Ane- 

 mones. For this pixrpose they have the 

 admirable quality of lasting fully a week if 

 they are cut when opening. 



Plants of the Anemone can now be pro- 

 cured of all the leading nurserymen and 

 florists. As to propagation, every bit of the 

 root grows when divided. 



Advantages of Fall Manuring. 



The time of all others in the year which 

 we prefer for applying manure is in the fall, 

 the sooner after October 1 the better. Then 

 we like to see it spread at once, and in the 

 case of cultivated land to set the gang-plow, 

 or if fine enough the harrow, going immedi- 

 ately to work it well into the surface before 

 the ground fi-eezes. 



The gain by this course is that the manure 

 is in position to have its soluable parts 

 carried into the soil by the autumn rains, 

 while it is safe from washing or blowing 

 away, as is not the case with manure spread 

 after the ground freezes. During the winter 

 the frost can then also fine the insoluble 

 parts, making them directly available as 

 plant food to give the spring crops a prompt 

 start. But the saving of the strength from 

 winter washing is one of the best points in 

 favor of fall manuring. 



Even in the care of lawns and pastures, if 

 fine manure is spread early in autumn it 

 becomes so beaten into the turf as to be 

 secure against washing or blowing away. 

 Something similar to this is true in the case 

 of land plowed or spaded in the rough, over 

 which manure now is spread; it has a chance 

 to settle into the depressions left, and thus 

 is safe from loss and in the best possible 

 shape for mingling with the soU. 



As compared with spring manuring the 

 advantages of fall applications, we think, are 

 nearly equal to a double crop. This is reas- 

 onable, for in the former case the manure, 



CLUMP OF THE WHITE JAPAN ANEMONE. 



applied perhaps in dry weather, may lay for 

 the possible lack of rain for a long time 

 in a poorly available shape, when with 

 fall manuring the richness is already dis- 

 tributed just where needed. It is well known 

 that the value of manure is increased in pro- 

 portion to the earliness of the period when 

 the plants first derive benefit from it. 



