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POPULAR GARDENING. 



September, 



Marigolds. 



When the Poppies Ijlaze with scarlet 



In the fields of tasseled Maize. 

 And the Cornflower shows its turquoise 



All along the woodland ways— 

 When the Clematis its tangle 



Weaves above the filmy Ferns, 

 And the Cardinal's bright namesake 



In the rich green meadow burns — 

 Then you come, O, radiant flower. 



Then your glowing heart unfolds ; 

 Summer dons your rich tiara, 



Gorgeous, yellow Marigolds. 



— Helen Chase. 



The Reason. 



You darling, dear little Four O'clock, 

 All the summer I've guessed and guessed 



And wondered why j'ou never awake 

 With the Lilies and Roses and all the rest. 



You never open your pretty eyes. 

 Wet with the drops of shining dew, 



Nor mind at all when the warm bright sun 

 Keeps whispering soft and coaxing you. 



But I have watched you. dear little flowers. 

 Till now I know why you never i)ut on 



Your beautiful gold and crimson crowns 

 Till the summer sunshine is almost gone. 



The cJiildi-en are gone till four o'clock! 



You listen and listen to hear them come 

 Laughing and glad. Then you peep out 



To give them a smile when they get home. 



— Sidney Day re, in Youth's Compa it ion. 



Leaf-raking begins. 



Plan well in gardening. 



Weed the garden paths. 



The last issue of Volume 1. 



A great jump in oircnlation. 



Coboeas are now in their prime. 



'What business has the Coleus to flower? 



What a large f.araily we ai'e getting to be. 



Is it cruel to raise plants and then pinch 

 tliem? 



Help make horticultural luiU at the fair a 

 success. 



The leaves begin to turn, but they will return 

 in the spring. 



Welcome ! friend Purdy, to the ranks of our 

 editorial stalT. 



In lifting plants we begin on Bou vardia eai'Iy 

 in this month. 



A Thought for Now. One year's seeding 

 makes seven years' weeding. 



A good tree or plant needs no more room tlian 

 a poor one. Have the good one. 



Would'st thou bestow blessings on genera- 

 tions to come i Then plant trees. 



A Concord Grape-vine two years old can be 

 bought for ten cents, and yet how many homes 

 there are without a vine. 



The Onion crop in New Jersey is being eaten 

 by insects. Their offense, like that of Hamlet's 

 stepfather, " is rank ; it smells to heaven. " 



Are Your Plants Yellowl Here is an idea 



then: Excess, as well as a deficiency of water, 

 causes GeraniuTns and the like to turn yellow. 



Previous to the latter end of the fifteenth 

 century the English — now the foremost gar- 

 deners of the world — were ignorant of the art 

 of cultivated gardens. 



A Large Pansy Bed. Miss Johnston, a grower 

 of Pansies in this city, sowed two pounds of the 

 seed last month, expecting to raise 300,(10fl 

 jiiants for sale next spring. 



The Hairy Caterpillars are voracious con- 

 sumers of foliage. But this in oui' favor : They 

 are ramblers and easily seen, hence easy to 

 kill. Kill every one that is met. 



Not in Bloom. He (at the horticultural 

 show). — " This is a Tobacco plant, my dear." 

 She. — "Indeed! how very interesting ! But I 

 don't see any cigars on it." — Har2)er\<: Biiziiur. 

 How would a fine ma-ss of the Parrot Tuhps 

 on your lawn next spring strike you ? It is 

 not too early to plan for snch things during 

 this month, for next month is the best time to 

 plant these and all hardy bulbs. 



Castor Oil Plants are now in their glory. 

 But all of their beauty may be laid low by a 

 heavy gust of wind snapping them off at the 

 root. A stake two feet long to support each 

 one may prevent this. This need not show. 



The Japan or Plicate Viburnum. This Japa- 

 nese Snowball, with its very handsome and 

 showy globular heads of flowers, is in every 

 way so worthy of more extended culture, that 

 we advise our readers to plant it. There is a 

 refined beauty about the plant that is both un- 

 common and captivating. 



Too Mean. It is reported on good authority 

 that some vandal has already stolen the Ivy 

 planted by the Yale class of '8(i. It was the 

 gift of Mrs. Gushing, who got it herself from 

 Mt. Helicon, in Greece, from the face of a cliff 

 where the marble was quarried for the build- 

 ings on the Acropolis at Athens. 



Oberlin College, in Ohio, has always done 

 what it could to instil a love for tree plant- 

 ing in the minds of the young. The good pa.s- 

 tor, Oljerlin, after whom the college was named, 

 required each boy and gii'l, before he would 

 administer the ordinance of confirmation, to 

 bring proof that he or she hail planted two trees. 

 A Fine Wax Plant. It is only four years old, 

 but has a number of branches, the largest of 

 which have nearly reached around a small south 

 room. It flowered well this season. The plant 

 referred to is owned by E. B. Kinney, a sub- 

 scriber, of Windham Co., Vermont, who has 

 kindly furnished the above report to our paper. 

 Asiatic Pitcher Plants. To Mrs. E. P. R., St. 

 Joe, Missouri, we would say, in answer to her 

 request, that these plants (Nepenthes) can be 

 had of the larger growers, of exotics and 

 stove plants. We happen as we are writing 

 to pick up the catalogue of R. J. Halliday, of 

 Baltimore, Md., in which for one they are offered. 

 Learn Where You Can. It may beqioticed that 

 those amateurs whose attention largely centers 

 on growing one plant, be it an Ivy, Geraniinn, 

 Rose, Cactus or even a Cigar Plant, usually 

 have remarkable success, even when the situa- 

 tion seems to be against plant culture. After 

 all it is care more than completeneiis of facili- 

 ties that is at the bottom of success in gardening. 

 A Tea Remedy. L. J. Hiatt, a subscriber 

 living in Montgomery Co. , Ind. , reports em- 

 ploying such a one with success in destroying 

 the Black Flea on Chrysanthemums. The direc- 

 tions are to sprinkle the plants and rub the 

 stems where the insects are bad with cold Tea. 

 Three or fom- applications to plants that were 

 badly infested cleaned them so they have been 

 perfectly free from the insect ever since. 



" Popular Gardening " with the next volume 

 takes front rank with papers of its class. 

 Indeed we are willing to leave it to our readers 

 to say whether for practical worth, beauty and 

 circulation it is not now, let alone coming 

 improvements, at the very head of American 

 gardening papers. But the matter of circula- 

 tion rests largely with them. If each reader now 

 could send in one new subscriber to begin with 

 October, what a bound that would be for us. 



Begun at Home. No one can possibly guess 

 how many new plants and flowers will be 

 named after the j'oung mistress of the White 

 House at Washington within the next few 

 years, but it will no doubt be very large. The 

 wheel was set a-rolling right at home by Mr. 

 Pfitzer, the gardener at the White House, in 



calling his new Gloxinia "The Mrs. Cleveland." 

 It is a pleasant way of recognizing the esteem 

 in which the wife of the President is held. 



Poets and Gardening. The poets have never 

 been able to reconcile themselves to the stiff 

 and unnatural style of gardening which so 

 much prevailed in Europe a century or more 

 ago. It is said, for instance, that the ridicule of 

 Addison, the imaginings of Milton, the natural 

 description of scenery by Thompson and Shen- 

 stone, and the refined criticisms of Pope, Gray, 

 Whatley and Walpole, practically applied, had 

 a wonderful effect on improving English gar- 

 dens and parks. 



Vegetable Pillows, A new and harmless 

 mania is the Pine-needle craze. Ladies who 

 take vacations among the pine woods in the 

 Eastern States make a point of bringing home 

 enough Pine Needles for a pillow, having faith 

 in the healthful and healing properties of the 

 balsam which they contain. One pillow will 

 last from vacation to vacation. There are 

 many sweet herbs that would make more 

 wholesome pillows than musty feathers.— Caii'- 

 fornid Patron. 



This is the last issue of Popular Garden- 

 ing paid for by many subscribei-s. But judg- 

 ing by the way renewals for Volume 2 are com- 

 ing in thus early, a hearty and prompt response 

 in this direction may be expected from every 

 one of such subscribers. This is desirable. 

 Done at once and your name need not be dis- 

 turbed on our books, a gain both to yourself 

 and to us. Popular GARDENiN(i needs you 

 as a patron; you need Popular Gardening, 

 hence our relations should continue without 

 break. Let the dollars come. 



Well Begun is Half Done. Years of experi- 

 ence leads us to begin the battle against insects 

 on house and conservatory plants eai-ly in the 

 fall. Green Flies,or Aphis, are sure to be lurking 

 about the garden plants at this season, and every 

 one killed now is eijuivalent to a large number 

 to be killed later, as they increase with exceed- 

 ing rapidity. Where there ai'e but few the 

 thumb-nail will answer to destroy them; if 



THE JEWELL STRAWBERRY.— See ojip. page. 



many, a wash of tobacco water, colored to look 

 like strong tea, and heated to about 180°, or 

 else a dusting with tobacco powder, will serve 

 well as a remedy. 



Stones for Layering, Etc. A writer in the 

 CUirden finds that layered shoots and branches 

 of all shrubs, vines and trees root much more 

 quickly if placed in the soil and covered with 

 a good-sized stone than if pegged down in the 

 usual way. Even for many hardy plants we 

 find this ]Jan of stone layering very successful. 

 A few good boulders, half sunk in the turf, 

 make fine positions for clump.s of Yucca, 

 or of Acanthus. If carefully grouped and 

 fringed with anj- small-leaved creeping forms 

 of Ivy stones make very lieautiful groups 

 and add variety to flat surfaces. 



Hollyhocks. "Sister Gracious" writes, under 

 date of July 31, that people do not enough ap- 



