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POPULAR GARDENING. 



November, 



When the Leaves are Turning Brown. 



Never is my lieart so gay 



In the budding month of May. 

 Never does it beat a time 

 Half so sweet in blooming June. 



Never knew such happiness 



As on such a day as this. 

 When the autmuu dons her cro-mi 



' And the leaves are turning brown. 



Breathe, sweet children, soft regrets 



For the vanished Violets; 

 Twist yom* cbaplets in young June, 

 Maidens— they will fade full soon; 



Twine ripe Rose.s. July — red. 



Leaves for the dear ones head; 

 I will weave my richer crown 

 ^\Tien the leaves are turning brown. 



— Elizabeth Akens Allen. 



The sober robin hunger-silent now. 



Seeks cedar-I>erries blue, his autumn cheer; 

 The squirrel, on the shingly shagbark's bough. 



Now- saws, now lists with downward eye and ear. 



— Lou-elL 



Camellias appear. 



Violets rlislike heat. 



Specimen copies free. 



Don't delay the Club. 



Have you subscribed? 



Fansies succeed iu i)nts. 



For Mildew use sulphur. 



Frimroses need full light. 



Write for yoiu- own paper. 



Wanted, .i(i,000 subscribers. 



Lantanas are good house plants. 



Immortelles are now appreciated. 



Cobaeas tough-out the season well. 



Crowding plants or trees is harmful. 



Know e\-ery plaut by its right name. 



Slugs cannot travel over dry sawdust. 



Single PaF'i )nies are becoming popular. 



Flant cm knolls rather than in hollows. 



The Snow-white Pansies are shy seeders. 



Never apply ga.s-tar to the bark of trees. 



Fropagate double Nasturtiums from slips. 



Flowers are messengers of grace to the sick. 



An out door Coral plant — the Barberry in 

 fiiiit. 



Fill up the outside plant boxes with Ever- 

 greens. 



Clove Carnations do not come with certainty 

 from seed. 



Eucalyptus leaves, it is said, will remove scale 

 from boilers. 



The first seed store in New York City was 

 c»penefl in 1802. 



A Magnolia, in Attica, N. Y. , bloomed twice 

 dui'iug the past sea.son. 



By digging over ground this fall, many kinds 

 of weeds will be put back. 



For a lasting inheritance to your children's 

 children plant some trees. 



A Cotton plant with bursting seed-po<ls, is in- 

 teresting in the greenhouse. 



Roses carry pistils,— the War of the Roses is 

 of cc.iursc. thus easily accounted for. 



The building of greenhouses for amateurs, 

 iiftoi-ds a lai'ge business in England. 



A Flower Sermon is preached every year at 

 St. Katharine Kree Church, London. 



The feathery see<l heads of oiu' native Clt- 

 matis work into winter bouijuets well. 



The Chrysanthemum now so charming, is of 

 Chinese origin; introduced to Europe lTfJ4. 



Mowers that leave a "ribby " lawn, are not 

 geared high enough, or else have too few knives. 



.ffiolus has freely let loose the winds of late, 

 and leaves have come down like snowflakes. 



To have particularly fine flowei-sof any kind, 

 remember one thing ; namely, thin out the buils. 



Poly Ann Thus. With but a single exception 

 or two the flowers you ask about, are as hardy 

 as Tulips. 



Don't err, by taking the forcing bulbs from 

 the plunge heap, before they are well furnished 

 with roots. 



For every person interested in flowers and 

 gardens twenty years ago, there are now a hun- 

 dred pei'sons. 



Flowers are everywhere over the earth, evi- 

 dently a reminder that there is an Eden and we 

 may regain it. 



An amateur friend says she never accoimts 

 the attention she gives her plants, work, be- 

 cause it is all pleasure. 



An east side dealer advertises "Rows Perta- 

 ters." His tubers are having a ten-ible spell — 

 we wouldn't trust them. 



November has not a good reputation as a 

 floral month; but one thing is sure, the Chrys- 

 anthemums are not to blame. 



We want every amateur gardener, poultry 

 raiser,etc. , to see Popular Gardening. Speci- 

 mens free to such. Send in their names. 



Hay is better material than straw to cover 

 beds for winter, being more springy it does not 

 settle down close, to smother the plants 



We give away this paper now, that is. om- 

 offer of it in clubs with other popular periodi- 

 cals, in another colimin, amouuts to this. 



No other pursuit can compare with gardening 

 in the quick returns of plea.sm-e, profit and re- 

 laxation, for the time and money invested. 



On a lawn within our view is an Elm tree 

 eleven years planted, and then smaU, that is 

 now nearly .30 feet high. A secret: Good soil. 



A Changeable Hydrangea, //. Hortennix, 3 

 feet liigh anrl ."i feet through, with 200 heads of 

 flowers, was met bj' one of our editors la-st 

 month. 



We knew that if you would dally around 

 about getting in the tender things some would 

 get nipped ; don't blame us, we said a month 

 ago it was time. 



We didn't apologize for No. 1 of Popular 

 Gardening, nor we ilon't propose to blow our 

 horn over the improvements visible in No. 2. 

 It's not our way. 



Sometimes we forget how important are the 

 conunon. simple and cheap flower pots in plant 

 growing. They virtually endow plants with 

 locomotive powers. 



Six "keeps" in growing house plants: keep 

 clear from dust, keep free from cold cb-aughts, 

 keep fairly watered, keep out of gas, keep off 

 insects, keep from frosts. 



A common comijlaiut against the Wistaria is 

 that it is slow to bloom. This is true: little 

 bloom need be looked for during the first half a 

 dozen years after planting. 



Last month we said "Hit us with a Club." 

 A gotxlly number have responded. We stand it 

 well. It is in fact delightful. Keep it up until 

 cm- .50,000 subscribers are iu. 



A good many pei-sons. have stood up as we 

 suggesteil last month to lie counted iu the first 

 .50,000 subscribers, but the quota is very far 

 from full yet. Are yuu cotmted reader? 



Levi P. Morton has given the city of New- 

 port. R. I., where he has a summer residence, 

 .«(jO,ooo for a jjai-k. That is quite like Mr. Mor- 

 ton, His hands and heart are alwaj's open. 



The American Garden, published by E. H. 

 Libby. (Greenfield. Mass., will enlarge to a 

 two liollar paper on January 1st next. It is an 

 able anil iudependeut journal, over whose pros- 

 perity we rejoice. 



Thank you ! for the kind words showered upon 

 us, on the success of No, 1 of our paper. This 

 to thousands whom we cannot answer in per- 

 son; too busy. Such a hearty greeting all 

 around, shall lie an inspiration to the editors 

 and publishei-s to do better j-et. 



There is no end of competent judges who have 

 travelled, and who pronounce Mr. Herman 

 De Vry's annual display of flowers in the Chicago 

 Parks, as unequalled by anything the great 

 gardens of the world besides affords. 



Gardening interests are with everything else, 

 rapidly developing in the west. Mr. John M. 

 Clark of Chicago, writes to this paper, that at 

 the recent Illinois State Fair, the show of Vege- 

 tables, Flowers, Seeds, etc., was much in ad- 

 vance of an}- previous year. 



For mailing small sums — the price of this 

 paper for example — U. S. Postal Notes are very 

 convenient. Every postmaster in the land 

 keeps them and will furnish at 3 cents each. 

 Try a 150 cent one on us. See our club rates for 

 leading periodicals on another page 



Sweet are the uses of forgetfuluess. With 

 but a darkeneil recollection of forgone seasons, 

 we feel that the beauty of the autumn leaves, 

 or of the simimer flowers, or of the spring de- 

 lights of the present season are the finest, ever 

 seen. Thus are we the more happy. 



Cats are useful iu their place ; but their place 

 isn't on the greenhouse roof, breaking entrances 

 through the glass on cold nights. If anj- cat 

 attempts this trick, catch him Iwe are will- 

 ing to allow it is a Thomas.) take to an open 

 meailow. and there "shoot him on the spot." 



It has been truthfully said, that the seed trade 

 is the only line of business in which our govern- 

 ment is in competition with its citizens. We 

 are glad to see the voice of the justly indig- 

 nant dealers raised against our infamous gov- 

 erment seed shop. Let it be razed from the 

 earth, why cumbereth it the gj'otmd? 



The Bell-Flowered Scilla. See Opposite Page. 



Aside of the many subscribers coming to 

 Popular Gardening from Buffalo, many are 

 also coming in from other large cities and 

 towns. We expected this. In England, the 

 numerous excellent gardening perif>dicals, se- 

 cure a large share of their readers from cities; 

 it ought not to be different in America. 



" I like to know about these things." said a 

 lady addressing the writer with some questions 

 about Pansies. There never was a time when 

 such a demand for information concerning 

 flowers and gardening prevailed, as at the pres- 

 ent time. The mission of this paper is to in 

 part meet this demaiid. Are we succeding ? 



The way that subscribers and clubs of sub- 

 scribers begin to come in to Popular Garden- 

 ing, leads one friend of the paper at our elbow, 

 to say, "you can ti-ust the people to know a 



