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POPULAR GARDENINQ. 



August, 



My Flowers. 



All m the early morning hours 



I walked through blooming garden bowers, 



Where purple Pinks and Pansles grew, 



And Roses sparkled in the dew. 



They were so lovely in my sight, 



I plucked the red ones and the white. 



And with full hands I wandered down 



Until I reached this busy town. 



Then round me, like a swarm of bees. 



Came ragged children, crying "Please 



Oh, please give me a flower! " and 90 



I had to let my treasures go. 



I gave them, every one, away: 



But somehow all the long, warm day 



Those flowers seemed just as sweet and bright. 



As if they still were In my sight. 



—Chicago Times. 



The Summer-Clock. 



When the cricket and the locust 

 Go " tick-tick " in the grass, 

 The Summer-clock is showing 

 How swift the minutes pass. 

 And when the thrush and robin 

 Strike loud, clear notes on high, 

 The Summer-clock is marking 

 How fast the hours fly. 



— Youth's Companion. 



You arrant, lusty Rose, how dare you climb so high 

 To flaunt your crimson ardor 'gainst her face! 



To outclimb you I'd scale the very sky 

 And fling you down,— and leap into your place. 



—Hojne-maker. 



Let the sickly plant go. 



We Bave many of our own seeds. 



What is the state of your cemetery/ 



A bouquet tor the table at meal time. 



The Scarlet Sage now forces attention. 



Work the home market for all it's worth. 



The Trembling Aspen tires some people. 



Nip the buds of Winter Carnations again. 



We like to have our readers ask questions. 



This is the between season, tor wild flowers. 



Oleanders are hardly suited to small rooms. 



A bad gardener finds enough things to blame. 



August should not yet see the hoes rest or rust. 



In successional planting we find the most suc- 

 cess. 



The Blue Spruce is our most attractive ever- 

 green. 



The idle garden runs to weeds. Plant some- 

 thing. 



A friend recently sold $U worth of Cherries 

 from two trees. 



For church decorations, the Lily, from its form, 

 is most appropriate. 



For low spots we again commend the common 

 Elder as a summer bloomer. 



Is a terrace and sharp slope ever as desirable 

 as the more natural treatment of the surface? 



Don't Swallow Orape Seed, Death resulting 

 from the practice has more than once been re- 

 ported. 



Everybody knows more than anybody. Will 

 you not contribute i/iiur notes on garden experi- 

 ence for these columns'/ 



Don't pinch out the Grape-leaves from bear- 

 ing canes, so that the sun may shine on the 

 clusters. Leaves are more needed than light. 



Sorrel is canned in large quantity in France, a 

 larg^ share of the product being exported. Do 

 Americanssufflciently appreciate this salad herb'/ 

 Cabbage and Cauliflower seed growu iu Puget 

 Sound has given as good results at the Geneva, 

 N. Y., Experiment Station last year, as the best 

 imported seed. 



" Wait a lite time for fruit'/" Its absurd. Our 

 young vineyard two years (a little over) planted 

 is weighed down with clusters to an extent re- 

 quiring free thinning. 

 Simple and Pretty, One of the prettiest indoor 



hanging baskets 1 have ever seen, was jilanted 



with rose-colored Oxalis in the center and green 

 Tradescanthia at the edge.— C. C. 



Cause enough to weep in the case of a poor 

 Kilmarnock Weeping Willow that is slowly being 

 wasted by wild sprouts sapping its life. Such 

 cases are common. By all means cut away the 

 sprouts. 



To answer some questions in the Inquiry De- 

 partment, is another way of contributing to the 

 general fund of garden information. We invite 

 all readers to assist in making this department 

 interesting. 



Pretty Window Screens. One of the Lyons, 

 N Y., hotels has the handsomest lower-sash win- 

 dow screens for its dining room ever seen. They 

 consist of woven wire covered evenly with Vir- 

 ginia Creeper growth. 



Oinseng root brings from $3.00 to $3.40 per 

 pound, according to quaUty and size. The de- 

 mand is reported to be heavy. The New York 

 Fur Exporting Co., of New Y'ork City, is one of 

 the firms handling this article. 



People talk of the expense of planting. One 

 of the finest evergreens at Woodbanks is a native 

 Hemlock that was transplanted young into good 

 soil. We think we paid the man eight cents for 

 the tree delivered, with the roots nicely secured 

 in damp moss. 



A Fruit Canning Exhibit. The National 

 Canned Goods Packers' Association has con- 

 cluded to show a fully equipped fruit canning 

 establishment in operation at the World's Fair. 

 It will be the center of eager interest to multi- 

 tudes of visitors. 



The best 'Verbenas for wintering over are 

 young plants started from cuttings in September. 

 Cut some of the old plants back now and stimu- 

 late with rich manure or manure water, and 

 there will be plenty of new wood for cuttings 

 by the time you need them. 



First Boot, Then Fruit. The foundation of 

 our ne.xt year's crop of Asparagus, Strawberries, 

 Apples and other small and tree fruits must be 

 laid now. These crops are largely the result of 

 stored-up energy. See that your plants and trees 

 have the proper nourishment at this time. 



Fuchsias and Pelargoniums are not the plants 

 they once were to the commercial florists, as the 

 demand now is light for even the nice blooming 

 plants that florists know so well to produce. 

 Still there is quite an extensive demand, for the 

 former from amateurs by catalogue and mail. 



The advent of a new and very destructive 

 enemy of the Grape vine is reported from the 

 vicinity of Grand Rapids, Mich. It hides itself 

 in the rolled-up leaf and feeds on it in compara- 

 tive safety. From the description we would fake 

 it to be the larvit of the gartered plume moth, 

 or one closely related to it. 



Wasps are sometimes doing much injury to 

 Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, Early Pears and 

 Apples. In extreme cases we may have to hunt 

 up and destroy their nests. Under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances we would suffer slight loss rather 

 than fight an insect that often makes itself useful 

 to the fruit grower 

 by fighting his in- 

 sect enemies. 



The recuperative 

 power of nature is 

 not easily seen in a 

 stronger light than 

 during the week 

 after she has first 

 touched the parched 

 earth with the 

 magic wand of rain. 

 The changes of a 

 week, from bare, 

 burning ground to 

 thrifty vegetation, 

 from dispair and 

 threatened failure 

 to assured success 

 are often wonderful 

 to contemplate. 



Women Qardeners. The College of Horticul- 

 ture at Swanly, England, was never on the right 

 track utitil it opened a branch for the reception 

 of women students. This has lately been done. 

 From first to last, there are as many girls and 

 women engaged in the occupation of flower and 

 vegetable growing and selling in all our cities as 

 there are of men. 



The Poor Man's Orchids, is the appropriate 

 name suggested by Mr W. R. Smith of the Bot- 

 anic Garden, Washington, for the beautiful Iris 

 Ka;mpferi. But why stop at Kicmpteri'/ the im- 



proved German Irises, as they grow on the Pop- 

 ular Gardening Grounds, are even better 

 entitled to the name. Some of the latter are as 

 fine as Cattleyas. 



Nut culture will be made a profitable industry 

 one of these days At present, however, there 

 is more theory than practice, and, we are sorry 

 to say, more disappointment than success about 

 it. The trouble seems to be in the ditflculty of 

 establishing fine nut groves. The life and health 

 of transplanted, grafted nut trees seem to be 

 uncertain things.— Oftscri'cr. 



The roots of Evergreens are in active growth 

 long after the upper growth is formed, and 

 while it is hardening. Why should not the equil- 

 ibrium of a tree transplanted in latter half of 

 August or early September, when the soil is 

 warm and the air growing cooler, be speedily re- 

 stored'? There is nothing in theory, or practice 

 either, that would be against success in trans- 

 planting Evergreens at this time. 



Preserving Oreenhouse Shelves. A most ex- 

 cellent way of treating the shelves in green- 

 houses in order to prevent speedy decay, owing 

 to the continual dampness, is as follows: Plane 

 the boards when perfectly dry, paint with ordin- 

 ary lead paint, and immediately strew with fine 

 white sand. This dries into the paint and forms 

 with it a crust which excludes dampness, thus 

 preserving the wood, while at the same time 

 improving the appearance of the shelves.- C. 

 Wagner, Valparaiso Co., Ind. 



The Fringed Sumach. In my collection ot 

 hardy shrubs every month shows some specimens 

 that seems finer than any others. At this writ- 

 ing, July 6, my Purple Fringe (Rhus Cotimis) is a 

 most beautiful sight, presenting, as it does, a 

 perfect cloud of misty infloresence. There is a 

 delicacy about the bloom that is matchless. 

 Another quality is that it lasts a long time, and 

 this at a period when flowers of hardy subjects 

 are scarce. For a single specimen bush on the 

 lawn, or for a clump comprising two or more 

 plants, I know of nothing finer than this shrub. 

 It can be propagated by layering. My first bush 

 was bought from the agent of a Rochester, N. Y'., 

 i nursery.— L. L. R., Otsego Co., M. T. 



Weeds for Sale. O. O., in a recent issue of 

 Garden and Forest, calls timely attention to the 

 fault of selling plants that are weeds under ord- 

 inary circumstances He says that Helianthus 

 divartcatus, Artemisia Pontica and some other 

 plants which dealers persist in advertising, spread 

 rapidly and crowd their way among their neigh- 

 bors, and are most difficult to get rid of. Hellop- 

 sis Icevis is another weedy subject which seeds 

 abundantly in fall and appears everywhere the 

 following summer. Dealers in hardy plants 

 should never disseminate such subjects without 

 a full explanation of their habits. Stocking a 

 garden with persistent weeds is rather worse 

 than selling us hardy plants altogether unfitted 

 for out-door cultlvation,a practice not altogether 

 unknown. 



Are You an Amateurl The question of who 

 are and who are not amateur and professional 



CARPET baq;fl0WER8. See Opposlte'.Poge. I 



gardeners, often proves to be a puzzling one 

 when it comes to classing exhibits at flower and 

 other shows. The Chrysanthemum Club of New 

 Haven, Conn., disposed of the problem in this 

 shape: For their next show in November, classes 

 are provided for '• Florists Only," " Gardeners 

 Only " and " Amateurs Only," and another class 

 is open to all. The definitions of various terms 

 adopted by the club are as follows: A florist is 

 one who (owning or hiring the laud or building 

 occupied by him) cultivates plants and flowers 

 to be sold to the public for his own profit, or has 



