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POPULAR GARDENING. 



June, 



In Cherry Time. 



In Cherry-time, the bees hum by. 

 In quest of honeyed flower ; 



And then the world its fairest seems, 

 A green and leafy bower. 



In Cherry-time, the Roses blush 

 In a long and fragrant train, 



And songs, so full of summer joy, 

 Are tinkled by the rain. 



In Cherry-time, the music gay 

 Of childhood's laugh is blending, 



With ruddy ailing of the palls- 

 Vacation weeks thus spending. 



—Good Housekeeping. 



June- 



O June ! the month of merry song. 



Of shadow brief, of sunshine long; 

 When in the meadow swarm the bees 



And hum their drowsy melodies 

 While pillaging the Buttercup. 



To store the golden honey up. 

 All things on earth love you the best,— 



The bird who carols near his nest; 

 The wind that wakes and, singing blows 



The spicy perfume of the Rose; 

 O June ! such music haunts your name; 

 With you the summer's chorus came ! 



—Si. NichoUis. 



A Reason for Early Rising 



Did you but know, when bathed in dew, 

 How sweet the little Violet grew 



Amidst the thorny brake; 

 How fragrant blew the ambient air 



O'er beds of Primroses so fair, 

 Your pillow you'd forsake. 



Gather ye Boses while you may. 



Wo expect many renewals this month. 



No weed is more injurious than neglect. 



Climbers without support are to be pitied. 



Do you hear the clatter of the lawn-mower ! 



Why not save seeds of some of the finer Pan- 

 sies? 



As a rule we do not thin seed-grown plants 

 enough. 



Berries well picked, and packed, are well re- 

 ceived in market. 



Some Koses, English nurseryman catalogue 

 21U well defined varieties of hardy Koses. 



For conunons, resalts in bloom, as well as in 

 vegetables, we must continue to sow and plant. 



Bemove the Old Flowers. Its the seeding 

 that brings the display of annuals to a close early. 



Grasshoppers will not be likely to injure 

 Grapes, if weeds and grass are kept down in the 

 vineyard. 



Why not mention Popular GiHDENiNG to 

 some friend who has a garden, but who is yet 

 without this journal "/ 



How easily the weeds are now kept down in 

 the garden, if we use those modern weed slayers, 

 the wheel hoes, freely. 



For Hollyhock rust try a solution of two 

 tablespoonfuls of permanganate of potash in a 

 quart of water, applying to the diseased spots 

 with a sponge. 



How is Thisi The Green Mountain Grape is 

 now reported to be none other than the Win- 

 chell, catalogued by Ellwanger & Barry for the 

 last ave or six years. 



The Bose is Queen. We are only in the be- 

 gining of Rose growing, although as a subject of 

 cultivation the Rose is probably the oldest in the 

 world.— Shtrtey Hibbard. 



For forcing 1 consider Chicago Forcing Lettuce 

 unsurpassed, while Henderson's New York 

 Lettuce is the best outdoor variety for my mark- 

 et.— J. K. Hemlermn, Iowa. 



The easily filling water pot, illustrated on 

 this page is after a design considerably in use in 

 Europe. Any tinsmith could make one. We 

 observe it is offered for sale by Osmau & Co., 

 Garden Supply dealers, London, England. 



Editors in the Garden. Do you notice any 

 editorial shortcomings in this issue 't If so, lay 



it to the fact that the editors are soil tillers 

 also, and the month of May found them spending 

 very many more hours in the field then in the 

 study. But this will tell fa\ orably on the work 

 in these columns for the balance of the year, 

 when the pressure of outdoor work is less urgent. 



Moon Flowers. Mine were a fiat failure last 

 year, only two seeds sprouted, one in 21 days the 

 other in two months. This year I cut off the 

 pointed end opposite the eye so as to expose a 

 little of the white inside, soaked them over night 

 in warm water, and then sowed about half an 

 inch deep pointed end up. In five days they 

 were above ground and doing well. Last year I 

 did not get a single blossom; this time I hope for 

 better things from them.— D. ilf. Farnsworth . 



The Tulip Bed. Our most successful Tulip 

 growers lift the bulbs each year about the end 

 of June and store them in a dry place until 

 planting time. A good plan is to have drawers 

 fitted with boxes, divided into compartments, 

 into which each variety is placed and numbered. 

 We simply lift the roots and clean them, placing 

 each variety in a flower-pot, which is stored in a 

 dry loft, and thus managed they keep in good 

 condition until planting time.— Man/ Hales, 

 Chemung Co., iV. Y. 



How Our Experiments Tell. We believe the 

 report elsewhere in this issue on Lawn Seeding 

 Experiments at the .Popular Gardening 

 grounds, will, if heeded, save the amateur gar- 

 deners of America tens of thousands of dollars 

 solid cash every year. Our recent information 

 on treating insects and plant diseases, should be 

 worth even more. All this is in the line of our 

 ideas of a practical paper for the people. And 

 yet Popular Gardening costs but one dollar 

 a year. Tell your friends and neighbors. 



A Difference. Every one knows that nursery 

 stock dug in the spring and healed in, starts 

 much more slowly than the same would if it had 

 continued in the nursery row. With stock ob- 

 tained in the fall and healed in it is different; 

 such starts into growth about as quickly as the 

 same kinds would if they had not been recently 

 moved. In handling trees that had been dug 

 both in fall and spring respectively during the 

 past month at Woodbanks, we find the latter 

 could be safely transplanted several weeks later 

 than the others. 



Precautions Necessary in Handling Insect- 

 icides. All poisons must be carefully and dis- 

 tinctly labeled, and kept out of the reach of 

 children. Never handle with bare hands, and 

 without oiling the hands or covering any sores 

 with court plaster, or still better using gloves. 

 While spraying keep to the windward of the 

 trees; wash thoroughly afterwards, and keep 

 children out of the orchard. Exclude animals 

 till a heavy rain falls. Avoid spraying on wind- 

 ward side of a dwelling or any yard for animals. 



The Colerain Grape, as described by B. W. 

 Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio, resembles its parent, the 

 Concord, in hardiness and productiveness. 

 Vine a strong grower, free from disease, show- 

 ing no sign of rot or mildew. Ripening with him 

 about August 15th, it will hang on the vine for 

 a long time. Bunches large and shouldered. 

 Color light green with bloom. Skin thin and 

 tender, fiesh juicy and remarkably sweet; never 

 more than one seed in a beri*y, and often not 

 any. Thus far the Colerain has found more 

 favor and less adverse criticism than an.v other 

 new Grape. 



The Otaheite Orange. This dwarf shrub is 

 admirably adopted for pot culture. I got a 

 good-sized plant last June, and set it in the 

 ground at once. When taken up in September 

 and potted there were ten wee Oranges started. 

 Most of them have since fallen off; a few are 

 growing. It bloomed a little in February, in 

 March it bore full two hundred delioiously sweet 

 blossoms, and is still in flower this 7th of April. 

 The foliage is thick and evergreen like the Tree 

 Orange. Orange blossoms in winter, on your 

 own plant stand, are delightful. Try it.— Ji. D. 

 Wellcome, Maine. 



Bepairing Garden Hose. I take two ounces 

 or more of naptha, into which I drop as much 

 shellac as it will absorb, till of the consistency of 

 thick gum. Then some bandages of canvas 

 cloth or thin leather are cut. on which I spread 

 the composition on one side, then bind tightly 

 round the hose, and fasten firmly with twine. 

 It is allowed to remain twenty-four hours, then 

 taken off. The hose must be dry before the 

 plasters are applied. I keep the cement in a 

 glass-stoppered bottle. It is good for many 



household jobs, and will not dissolve in anything 

 except its own spirit.— C. L. D., Cook Co., lU. 



Amateur's Way of Booting Cuttings. L. H. B. 

 in Success with Flowers claims that he has never 

 lost a cutting if treated as follows. He takes a 

 piece of cotton batting, as large over as a tum- 

 bler, thoroughly wets it and puts it in the bot- 

 tom of a tumbler, with about an inch and a half 

 of water; lets the ends of the cuttings rest on the 

 cotton and places in a warm, sunny window. 

 As soon as the roots begin to show well, the cut- 

 tings are placed in the pots in which they are to 

 grow. More water is added if it evaporates 

 much. The slips take up very little room, and 

 quite a number can be put into a tumbler at 

 one time. 



Town People Down on Sparrows. A horde of 

 noisy sparrows, says an exchange, has chosen for 

 a roost a tree in the yard of a citizen of Orange, 

 N. J. For several evenings he has been experi- 

 menting with a sparrow disturber, which is at 

 least a partial success. He has tied stout cord 

 to nearly every limb of the tree and gathered the 

 ends at his window. When the sparrows settle 

 down for the night he goes to the window and 

 jerks the string. The sparrows become "rattled" 

 and flit away In the dark. Another citizen of 

 Orange has a fine growth of I^-y on the side of 

 house, and the sparrows have been inhabiting it 

 throughout the year until recently. He has 

 driven them away by going into the attic and 

 sifting Scotch snuff and cayenne pepper down 

 through the vine. 



Picking Peas. Mr. E. Hobday in the London 

 Garden, says that much injury is often done to 

 the Pea crop by careless gathering, especially in 

 the case of late Peas, which are expected to con- 

 tinue in bearing longer than the early white 

 round varieties. If the haulm is carelessly 

 handled or bruised, that successional character 

 which many of the Marrow Peas possess is in- 

 jured, or perhaps destroyed. It every Pea pod 

 was gathered just at the time when it became 

 fit for use, and if the plants were as vigorous as 

 they ought to be when well grown, successional 

 crops equal to, if not superior to, the flret would 

 be produced. Peas, like all other seed-bearing 

 plants, will, so long as life remains, strive to per- 

 petuate themselves, and it is interesling to watch 

 the struggles which a plant will make pushing 

 forth crop after crop of blossoms in order to ful- 

 fil its destiny; hence the importance of gathering 

 the pods early before they got too old for use. 

 The same principal should be acted on in the 

 case of ail kinds of legumes. 



A " Japanese " Plant from Our Swamps. The 

 humbug plant agent doubtless finds his dupes 

 most easily among town people. He takes ad- 

 vantage of the absence of garden articles about 

 the surroundings of such and their craving for 

 a touch of plant beauty. Usually therefore 

 when he prates about wonderf'al plants with un- 

 heard of qualities to city people, his words fall 

 in ready soil. An illustration of this was lately 

 met by the writer in New York city. In passing 

 up a side street he found a vender of a wonder- 

 ful "Japanese" Water plant standing on a street 

 comer, with a liberal display of certain roots and 



The Eaaily-fllled Water Pot. 



some samples in glass jars filled with water, on a 

 stand before him. He was handing out circulars 

 like the one here illustrated, and usually had an 

 attentive crowd around, listening to his plausi- 

 ble sounding statements. The bulbs sold quite 

 freely at 20 cents each. Particular stress was 

 laid by the salesman on his warranty that they 

 would gi'ow. He would have been equally safe 

 in wari-anting Dandelion roots to grow. The 

 " curious " root he sold so far from being a "Jap" 

 was that common swamp weed known as the 

 Arrow head, (Saoiltaria variabilw) which 

 abounds in swamps and muddy shores by the 

 million in all parts of our country. 



