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POPULAR GARDENING. 



March, 



To the March Flowers. 



Keep your muddy covers close, flowers, 



Nor dare to open your eyes. 

 For all this month your lover, the sun. 



Will only tell you lies. 



Trust not, ye modest Violets 



His promises to you. 

 Nor dare upon his fickle smile 



To broaden your kerchiefs blue. 



Oh Daisies, stay in your grassy house. 



Ye poor deluded things; 

 And keep your little white fingers shut 



Away from his golden rings. 



Ye Meadow Lilies, leopard-like. 



Under the mould so deep, 

 Crouch close, and keep your spotted cubs 



For a month yet, fast asleep. 



— Alice C'ary. 



How sweet to come when storms hold reign. 

 And winds sweep the meadows wide. 



To my little summer all shut in. 

 From the frozen world outside; 



To watch the beauteous pot plants grow. 

 From the bud to the open flower. 



While the outer world lies under the snow. 

 And bound by the ice kings' power. 



Azalea time. 



The months March 



Set some trees every year. 



The aim— ,"10,00(1 subscribers. 



Welcome F. W. Stibscribers. 



Don't spell Lily with doulile 1. 



Plant nut some Gladiolus early. 



The pleasures of gardening are pure. 



Plant some fine climbers somewhere. 



Careless sowint;; imperfect growing. 



The Mountain Ash is not a true Ash at all. 



Advertisements should reach us by the I.t inst. 



Just in ; a (Floral) World of new subscribers. 



Winter Aconites venture to lift their heads. 



A yearly subscription makes a splendid pres- 

 ent. 



Pleasure and plant vigor are near of kin in 

 gardening. 



A country seat that always rents — the barbed 

 wire fence. 



Carnations were used in the floral chaplets of 

 the Romans. 



With the first open weather lift some Pansies 

 for window bloom. 



The finest Double Petunias come from seed, 

 not from cuttings. 



Why not set out one or more clumps of Ever- 

 greens, this.spring ? 



Even a nosegay bespeaks the taste of the 

 l)erson arranging it. 



The higher the civilization, the greater the 

 love for fine gardening. 



There is a varigated-Ieaved Grape Vine, suit- 

 able for ornamental planting. 



Hov7 eager the Snowdrops seem to have 

 spring come — they can't wait. 



Snowflake Tree. This is what our White or 

 Virginia Fringe is called in Germany. 



To transplant the Holly, cut back very se- 

 verely and remove every remaining leaf. 



There is no better way of helping on this 

 paper, than to get up a club of subscribers. 



Its wonderful how much outright abuse plants 

 will bear. The}' complain only by feeble looks. 



George Eliot used to say she imagined that 

 her (lowers saw her, and could read her thoughts. 



A number of seedsmen ofler a semi-double 

 Phlox Dummondi. True from seed, they say. 

 To be well watered, plants should not have 

 well-water : cistern or liydrant water is better. 

 Floral World readers ! behold here is a miua- 

 ture " Floral World " department: as witness, 

 its engraved head. 



Many are doing what they can towards the 

 .50,000 subscribes, but some are not. How is 

 this, kind reader ? 



Popular Gardening would like to see more 

 money laid out on embellishing the grounds, 

 less on the buildings, 



Poplars. Mr. G. H. Wright, of 

 Sioux City, Iowa, reports that the 

 Lombardy Poplar is worthless for 

 his State. 



A flower bed a mile long is con- 

 templated by the proprietor of the 

 Van Buren Point (Lake Erie), sum- 

 mer resort. 



No " continued stories " in Pop- 

 ular Gardening, therefore one 

 month is as good a time to subscribe 

 as another. 



Says a Massachusetts subscriber: 

 " I have kept house plants for over 

 thiity-flvo years, and love them 

 more than ever." 



Mossy Lawns are usually a sign of poor land. 

 Top dress with manure, scattering in some 

 fresh seed at the same time. 



Parisians are largely vegetarians, the smell 

 of Onions is one of the first things to greet a 

 visitor to the French Capital. 



If your forcing Violets fail to show good 

 color, look to lack of proper light, and unsuita- 

 ble heat and airing as the cause. 



The Oak-leaved Lettuce, one of the recent 

 novelties, is said to be superior for table use, at 

 the same time that it is decidedly ornamental. 



We count every Floral Wnrld subscriber just 

 a.s much oue of our own subscribers now, as if 

 they had subscribed direct. We want you all 

 to feel this. 



" Peanuts," says Mrs. I. L. White, of Illinois, 

 "may be sown in the house, and soon make 

 beautiful plants." Of course the seed must "be 

 of imroasted ones. 



We want all correspondents of the Floral 

 World, to be free iu going right on with their 

 communications the same as formerly, but ad- 

 dressing this paper instead. 



Gardening in its every branch, is for one, a 

 business that is fair towards women who en- 

 gage in it. Equal pay for equal work here, 

 sometimes even superior pay. 



English Sparrows dirty up everything if al- 

 lowed to take possession of climbers against the 

 house. Stone them when about to occupy and 

 they'll clear out. They did from ours. 



"He who would ha ve Chrysanthemums in his 

 garden, must have Chrysanthemums in his 

 heart," says Mr. Allen, of Woodbridge, iS". J., 

 one of our most skillful amateur florists. 



If only the flowers of the new Jasminum 

 gracillimum did not drop so soon, they would 

 be the nc phis ultra of stove climbers. The 

 plant is a mass of bloom during the winter. 



It will not do to become so enraptured over 

 the way plants shoot ahead, now under glass, 

 to forget that insects at the same time increase 

 with rapidity. The insects must be kept down. 

 " I would rather part with my fruit treees 

 than with my Evergreens. I could buy fruit 

 in the markets, but the charm of these Ever- 

 greens about my house could not be bought." 

 —Parker Earti: 



Soot for Plants. "N. M. P.," formerly a 

 Floral Tl'ii/Vt/ subscriber, flndsthis an excellent 

 fertilizer for house plants used as stated: On 

 a teacupful of soot turn three quarts boiling 

 water; apply, when cool, to the soil. 



Subscriptions that came through the Floral 

 World transfer, will be dated one month ahead, 



for we understand no paper was issued from 

 the Floral World oflice for January. We pro- 

 pose to squarely make up for that skip. 



The trees in the parks in Boston are labeled 

 with the names by which they are known to 

 science, so that the tramps cannot by any mis- 

 take loll under an Acer pscudo platanus instead 

 of hrterophiiUuiu. — Syramse Standard. 



Rabbits and Trees. A subscriber at Rock- 

 port, Ind., offers an improvement on our pub- 

 lished remedy against rabbits gu-dling trees. 

 It is simply this : Grease the tree for oue foot 

 from the ground, with hog's lard. He says 



VARIEGATED-LEAVED COB/EA SCANDENS.— See opposite. 



he will warrant no rabbit will touch the bark 

 after that. 



To Our Readers. Now that the gardening 

 season is opening, couldn't you help along 

 towards that .50,000 subscribers, by introduc- 

 ing this paper among your friends who have 

 gardens, and sending in a club? We are almost 

 sure you could do this. 



Single Dahlias from Seed. Mrs. I. L. White, 

 of Knox Co., 111., finds much pleasure and no 

 difficulty in raising these. She says she starts 

 the seeds, bought of the seedsman, iu boxes in 

 the house, keeps them here imtil wai'm weather, 

 when she sets them out. 



Many of our readers now will be getting up 

 clubs for seeds, plants and so on. But while 

 at this, be sure also to put in some telling 

 work for Popular Gardening. Remember 

 that 50,000 subscribers must come somehow. 

 We are sure you'll not slight us. 



Over-bearing. In gardening we naturally 

 enjoy the prospect of a good yield ; this often 

 leads to the fault of harmful over-bearing. 

 Try a few flowering plants or a few fruit trees 

 and thin out the new-forming products, if 

 you would learn how great is the former fault. 



Let TTs Try It ! One of the former Floral 

 World subscribers, but whose name has been 

 detached from the communication, else we 

 would give it, says that a weak solution of 

 camphor gum iu water, sprinkled over house 

 plants, will aid in ridding them of insects, and 

 prove beneficial to the plants. 



Horticultural Art Journal. A new journal 

 by this name has reached our table from the 

 publishers, Mensing & Stecher, Rochester, N. Y. 

 It aims to disseminate a knowledge of fruits, 

 flowers and other garden products, by means 

 of first-class lithographic plates. We shall 

 watch for the future issues with interest. 



Scarlet Runners. A correspondent of the 

 Gardrno's Chronicle informs us that this well- 

 know climber may be stored away and pre- 

 served over winter in a similar manner to 

 Scarlet Geraniums. Coming so easily from 

 seed as it does, we woiUd see little occasion for 

 such a course, excepting when seed is scarce. 



A lady of Flushing, N. Y. , in subscribing for 

 Popular Gardening, along with saying some 

 very complimentary things for the paper, adds: 

 " I am indeed very much obliged to whoever 

 sent you my name for a specimen copy, other- 

 wise I should, perhaps, not have known of it. ' 

 A hint to all our readers who have friends that 

 would like such a paper. Send in their names 

 and a specimen will go to each one of them. 



How is this for an European idea of utilizing 

 public squares as market places, without inter- 



