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POPULAR GARDENING. 



January, 



The Violets. 



Under the heiige, all safe and vvai-in. 

 Sheltered friini boisterous wind and storm 



We Violets lie 



With each small eye 

 ( 'kisely shut while the cold goes by. 

 You look at the bank, mid the biting frost. 

 And you sigh and you say that we're dead and lost; 



But Lady stay 



For a sunny day. 

 And you'll find us again, alive and gay. 



— Loui!<a Ttramley. 



On a Greenhouse. 



Here, front earth's dwdal heights and dingles lowly ; 

 The representatives of nature meet; 

 Not like a Congress, or Alliance Holy 

 01 kings, to rivet chains, but with their sweet 

 Blossoming mouths to preach the love complete. 

 That with iiearlcl mistletoe, and beaded holly. 

 Clothed them in green unchangeable, to greet 

 Winter with smiles, and banish melancholy. 

 I envy not the Emathian madman's fame. 

 Who won the world, and built immortal shame 

 On tears and blood; but if some Hower, new found. 

 In its embalming cup might shroud my name. 

 Mine were a tomb more worthily renowned 

 Than Cheops' pile, or Artemisia's mound. 



—Horitrc Smith . 



This is Priiiinise time. 



The Sunflower is American. 



Azalea blooms last for weeks. 



Now, we prize the Chorozeraa. 



Heliotrope is too fragile for wear. 



Dirt from hollow trees is poor stuff. 



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We enjoy variety; in plants we get it. 



Flowers are the smiles of the Creator. 



The Gladiolus came from South Africa. 



A starved Rosebush will not blossom much. 



Plants, like people, grow puny for lack of siui. 



The Mountains are in fashion : they are claJ 

 in Firs. 



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The Yucca is known as the Dagger Plant in 

 some places. 



There are more than fifty named varieties of 

 the rHeander. 



The 'Wood of Privet is so hard that it is used 

 for shoe i^egs. 



In gardening, every day brings its portion 

 of new deliglit. 



The word taste, as used Ijy the world at large, 

 is of vague im])ort. 



The craze for carpet bedding is certainly on 

 the decline in Europe. 



In Winter water the house plants in the morn- 

 ing: in summer, at night. 



Your Roman Hyacinths must lie counted as 

 late, if tile first are not in yet. 



The Dahlia was named in honor of Andrew 

 Dahl. a celebrated Swedish botanist. 



In our garden perennials give more satisfac- 

 tinn than annuals, but we grow both. 



Narcissus of the beautiful Tazetta section 

 grow wild by the acre on the Isle of Corsica, 



A Rosebush in Charleston, Ma.ss., thirty-five 

 years old liears over one thousand flowers annu- 

 ally. 



In the worst of seasons at gardening, the re- 

 wards more than make u]) for the disappoint- 

 ments. 



Gardening for pleasure combines repose and 



activity. It is rest in work and work in rest. 



Popular Gardening welcomes notes, articles, 



and questions about gardening from all its 



readers. 



A gardener of our acquaintance objects to 

 large Box trees near the dwelling, because of 

 the odor. 



" There are no ancient gentlemen but gar- 

 deners. They hold up Adam's profession."— 

 Hamlet V.I. 



To Advertisers. Matt«?r tor insertion should 

 reach us by the 14th of the month, for the 

 month following. 



To he one of the first .")0,(«lOsubscril)ers of our 

 successful paiier, will be a thing to feel proud 

 of in years to come. 



Don't make the common mistake of growing 

 more plants than you have room for, be it in 

 the windows or in the glass house. 



A yearly subscription to this pape)' makes 

 a splendid New Year's gift, and one to call to 

 mind the donor all through the year. 



The Gardeners Monthly for December con- 

 tains an excellent likeness of F. J. Scott, the 

 author of ' ' Scott's Suburban Homes. " 



An old Elm in Kingston, N. Y"., is a favorite 

 nest building place for birds: more than '200 

 nests have been built in it in a season. 



Reader, have you yet subscribed for this pa- 

 per ; If not, do this creditable act at once, for 

 the sake of yourself, your family and the paper. 

 Look out to have the tobacco that is burned, 

 to kill fly in the greenhouse, damp enough not 

 to create a blaze, for this would create a dan- 

 gerous gas. 



An old Calla. Our correspondent, Mrs. E. 'S 

 P., of Trout Rim, Pa., writes of having had 

 the same Calla and its young, in cultivation 

 for twenty years. 



Cannas in Winter. Mr. A. KatoU, of this 

 city, tells us that in a temperature upwards of 

 (50° high, this jilaut may be kept growing the 

 year aroimd without receiving rest. 



The Old White Lily, /.. ranclirluiii. might 

 almost be called an evergreen bidb. Blooms 

 in early summer; doi'mant soon after; growth 

 of leaves follow in the fall and spring. 



Wax Plants. Because these seem to stand it 

 well in the darker parts of a room, do not ex- 

 pect them to do much at flowering next sima- 

 mer, if wintered here, away from the light. 



A stone fence, unsightly though it may be, is 

 susceptible of being turned into an object of 

 the highest picturesque beauty, by planting 

 Wistaria, Clematis and other climbers along 

 its course. 



Be content, even if you cannot grow flowers 

 as large as they do in California and other 

 countries so favorable to growth. Their large 

 flowers are neither as sweet nor as lasting as 

 those we raise. 



John, the tree pruner of " heighteen years 

 hexperience," would have no vocation among 

 the Hindus ; their heathenish religion prevents 

 them from treating even plants and trees other- 

 wise than tenderly. 



Adam's Needle, Ym-ca Jilaiiicnfosa, deserves 

 more attention, as a hardy lawn plant. It is 

 an Evergreen ; it is picturesijue in appearance ; it 

 is a handsome bloomer about Jidy 1st: and it is 

 grown with the greatest ease. 



In the South — we learn fi-om a correspon- 

 dent, the Chrysanthemmn is not considered a 

 reliable flower, notwithstanding the lon.g sea- 

 son that ought to be favorable to its bloom. 

 The trouble; hot, dry summers. Is this the 

 general experience of our readers of the South; 

 She would help: Husband — Hulda, dear, I 

 see the Asparagus is large enough to cook, 

 would you like to gather the first fruit of the 

 season, your.self ; Y'oung wife (anxious to con- 

 ceal her ignorance) — I tell .vou what Adolphus, 

 we will go together, then you pluck it while 

 I hold the ladder. 



To our friends ! For remitting small sums, say 

 the price of this paper, the new postal notes, 

 are a great convenience. They cost but three 

 cent.'> erirh, and are to be had of ei-ei-tj post- 

 master in the United States, Don't send checks 

 on your local banks, they cannot be collected 

 here without discount. 



Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a letter to the 

 American Forestry Congress, held last Septem- 

 bei" in Boston, in which he referred to the 

 wanton destruction of forests, said pertinently, 

 he hoped the people would allow the country to 

 retain " leaves enough to hide its nakedness, 

 of which it is already beginning to be ashamed. " 



The Hardy Catalpa, so called, C. xjjeviosa, 

 according to the Bulletin No. 7 of the Agricul- 

 tural College of Lansing, Michigan, proves to 

 be no hardier in those parts, than the Common 

 Catalpa, ('. bignoniaide.'t. The latter species 

 is a handsome and hardy tree in most sections 

 of the country if not greatly exposed to high 

 winds in winter. 



With 50,000 subscribers on our books within 

 one year, and the price of this pajjer will re- 

 main permanently at 00 cents a year. Will 

 you who read these words, if you are not a 

 subscriber now, do your share towards our 

 reaching this end '. Most any one of you could 

 easily get one or more neighbors to subscribe 

 also. This woidd help greatly. 



Those who try their hand at potting plants 

 for the first time, usually manage to fill the pots 

 even full of soil at this first efl'ort, but not 

 often afterwards. They soon see, or ought to, 

 that the water applied wiU not disobey the 

 laws of nature, even for a novice, by staying 

 on the soil for soaking in, uidess the pot rim 

 or something else is there to hold it. 





THE FAN PALM— ILATANIA BOURBONICA). 



Plants receive not all their food through 

 the roots, but also a good deal through their 

 leaves from the ail-. Indeed, some kinds like 

 Air plants of the Orchis and other families 

 live on air wholly. These facts point to the 

 importance of pm-e air for plants. An atmos- 

 phere charged with gas or other deleterious 

 substances soon plays havoc with jilant life. 



Oh, now be fair! We refer to those exchanges 

 who drop down on our carefully prepared col- 

 umns, clip out matter wliich is solely our own. 

 and print it in their jiages without giving Pop- 

 ular (tardexln-g due credit. We detest such 

 a practice as we detest thieving from our or- 

 chard or from our purse. Clip if .you wUl, but 

 give credit where credit is due. That's aU we 

 ask. 



With January 1st, Mr. E. H. Libby's pajjer, 

 The American Ganlen, assumes the dignity of 

 an enlarged «2.00 monthly. Popular Ctar- 

 DENING so far from being envious at this sign 

 of prosperity, wishes this excellent paper great 

 success, in its new departure. We go f iu^;her ; 

 we offer Popular Ctardening and the Garden 

 together for one year for *2.(K), the price of the 

 latter alone. 



We like to meet people who think that their 

 own flower gai-den is the best in the neighbor- 

 hood, just as we like to see parents having high 

 opinions of their own children. If a prize could 



