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POPULAR GARDENING. 



November, 



Frost and Flowers. 



He is in tile garden, 



Let me liaste ! 

 He is in tile garden 



Mailing waste. 

 Marigold and Pansy, 

 Dalilia, Aster, Tansy,— 

 Such a nosegay scarce is to my taste. 

 Mignonette, my dearest, 



Art thou here ? 

 Tuberose, thou fearest ? 



I am near ! 

 Come, each bud and flower. 

 Come and grace ray bower. 

 Come ! it is the f alilng of the year. 

 He is in the garden : 



Let him be. 

 Wiii he asli our pardon ? 



No, not he ! 

 But the flowers are iilooming, 

 Ali tile Iiouse perfmning, 

 Safe beyond his touch, for you and me. 



Ida Benham, in TouWs Companion. 



The Pumpkins. 

 Here we iie amid the corn-fleld. gorgeous yellow as 

 the sunshine- 

 All the mandarins of China cannot equal us in tone; 

 But the world is quite forgetting what we malce and 

 what our mission. 

 And the twilight of Thanlisgiving finds us in the 

 fields alone. 

 Oh! ye children of New England, as ye gather for 

 Thanksgiving, 

 As ye watch the sparks fly upward from your bright 

 ancestral fires, 

 Auld Lang Syne should be remembered : let us see our 

 restoration! 

 Clamor for the Golden Pumpkin, wives and daugh- 

 ters, sons and sires! 



The Independent . 



Protection month. 



Violets prefer a cool spot. 



The boys should go " nutting." 



Gathered leaves make a good mulch. 



Good riddance of bad rubbish— burn it. 



Planting must be done quickly if at all. 



Syrnp from Water Melons is now talked of. 



Onions, It has been a poor year for the seed 

 crop. 



Even the manure pile now does best under 

 shelter. 



Garden seeds are expected to be cheaper anoth- 

 er year. 



Celery is never better to eat than before frost 

 injures it. 



Have some tools been left in the fence corners ? 

 It's not right. 



Blanket the bulb beds with leaves or litter, Just 

 before winter. 



Are the young trees, staked, or surrounded 

 with a mound of soil V 



A good job for now. Revise and renew labels 

 before the winter sets in. 



No killing frost yet on Popular Gardening 

 grounds middle of October. 



For a pretty ornament, All a Cocoanut shell 

 with Kenilwort Ivy and bang by the window. 



Kazzard is better stock for Cherries than 

 Mahaleb. The latter suffers more from borer 

 attacks. 



One thing much to be admired in the Purple- 

 leaved Plum is that it holds its color well to the 

 end of season. 



The Double-flowered Peach of Japan and China 

 is reported to succeed well near Paris, France, 

 but does not seem to thrive in England. 



The gardener who does not try to protect his 

 crops against insect attacks, does an injustice to 

 his neighbors besides an injury to himself. 



Moore's Early Grape. Too much can not be 

 said in its praise. I had salable fruit certainly 

 two weeks before the Concord was rijie.— T. If'tlc)/, 

 Kansas. 



The seed firm of Joseph Breck & Sons of Bos- 

 ton announce that they have purchased the 



stock, good will, rights and agencies of C. H. 

 Thompson & Co. of same place. 



An interesting little Fernery may be made by 

 hollowing out a large sponge, planting the Ferns 

 in it with a little good soil, and placing in a deep 

 saucer, kept filled with water at all times. 



We promise a small fortune to the man who 



will give us a Gooseberry with the general 

 characteristics of the Houghton bush, and the 

 size of any of the large foreign sorts in fruit. 



For a Blackberry in this severe climate I pre- 

 fer Ancient Briton to all others. On 130 plants, 

 second year after setting, or the -first bearing 

 year, I gathered 485 quarts.-^. C. Tattle, Wis- 



Put the young Roses just rooted, into a cellar 

 or pit, and if started early in the spring in the 

 house, and set out when danger from frost is 

 over, they will bloom finely the whole summer. 



A novel way of striking Rose cuttings is said 

 to be much in use with European growers. A 

 ten-inch cutting is bent in the form of a bow, and 

 both ends inserted into the earth, so that only a 

 part of the center with the bud is above the 

 ground. This arrangement stops the evapora- 

 tion from the top end, while the lower end is 

 forming roots. 



A New Plant Book. We are pleased to learn 

 that Messrs. Peter Henderson & Co. of New York 

 are issuing their Handbook of Plants in a new 

 and revised form. This work we have always es- 

 teemed as one of great value and to now learn 

 that it is to be thoroughly revised, enlarged and 

 illustrated is most agreeable. The new form will 

 be out in January next. 



Apple Export. American Apples were quoted 

 middle of October, in Liverpool: Baldwins $3.68 

 to S4.87 per bbl.. Greenings .$3.16 to $3.6.5 per bbl.; 

 in Glasgow: Greenings $3.40 to $3.89, Baldwins 

 $4.13 to J4.85, Kings $4.8.5 to $.5.83, Ben Davis t4.62 

 to $4.85. Only 4.3,000 barrels of Apples had been 

 shipped up to October 5th, as against 175,000 bar- 

 rels for the same period in 1888. 



Striking Bose Cuttings. Now is a good time 

 to strike Rose cuttings. Select a stem that has 

 just bloomed. Cut off three joints below the 

 flower, and below the lower bud all the leaves 

 but one ; insert in a pot of pure sand up to with- 

 in half an inch of the top ; set in a partially 

 shaded place, keep moist all the time, and in a 

 month they will have rooted sufficient to be 

 potted off.— S. 



Late Fall Work. One of the last things we do 

 in the autumn is to plow our late Cabbage ground. 

 There is always a great quantity of leaves and 

 rubbish on it, and we find the easiest way to get 

 rid of it aU is to work it in the ground after the 

 Cabbage is cut. The green stuff is almost equal 

 to a dressing of manure at this time, while if fit 

 be left until spring, it is about all wasted, and the 

 ground will not be in nearly as good condition as 

 if cleaned up now.— C. C. 



Pushing Sales of Fruit. .Vt Brocton, N. Y., 

 which is in the midst of the Chautauqua Co. vine- 

 yard region, boys treat the passengers of railroad 

 trains that stop here, to luscious, cool, bloom- 

 covered Concord Grapes at 10 cents per pint bas- 

 ket heaped with clusters. The passengers invest 

 freely; the boys and Grape growers reap quite a 

 harvest, and the Concord gains in reputation as 

 to its fine eating quality. Many travellers may 

 not be discriminating or exacting judges in such 

 a matter; however, the idea of this pushing sales 

 is a good one. 



For protecting house plants during the winter 

 nights, old newspapers are excellent. The object 

 is to hold a body of still air about the plants and 

 this the papers, if pinned closely, do nicely. 

 Very often putting several thicknesses of paper 

 between the plants and the window will give all 

 the protection needed. A friend, whose house is 

 " cold," spreads some old newspapers on the car- 

 pets, sets the plants on the papers, and then pins 

 papers about and o\'er the plants. This does 

 nicely.- JohH M. Stahl. 



Overhung Planthouse. Amongst the curiosi- 

 ties of greenhouse construction may be men- 

 tioned the "overhung" planthouse of IWessrs. 

 Wrinch & Co. of Ipswich, England, shown in il- 

 lustration. It has features, however, which 

 make growers look favorably upon the design. 

 The greenhouse benches usually are far too much 

 beyond arm's length to be conveniently worked. 

 The overhung plant house, besides its pleasing 

 form, affords greater space for the tops of plants 

 than they retjuire for pot room. 



A Flower Tower. Our florists are what may be 

 called real enterprising. One of the latest things 



POTTING BPNCH. 



out, in the way of floral designs, is a mmiature 

 Eiffel tower about four feet high. No doubt 

 there are occasions where such a floral piece is in 

 demand. It may be said in its favor that the 

 graceful outlines of the tower, as we are familiar 

 with the vast original in Paris, and now in its 

 miniature facsimile, suit it to produce a pleasing 

 effect when filled with blooms, and to render it 

 superior to many other designs. 

 The Patterson Peach, two fine specimens of 

 which were received of 

 Albertson & Hobbs, Mar- 

 ion County, Ind., is high- 

 colored .yellow with dark 

 red cheek, somewhat 

 j|l=i^:i.Q=H|^=— li resembling Late Craw- 

 ^J^V" g^lg yl ford. Late, apparently 

 an excellent keeperbeing 

 tested by us on 13th day 

 after picking, and after 

 considerable handling 

 and exposure on the ex- 

 hibition table. Unfor- 

 tunately the flesh clings 

 badly to the stone, but the quality is excellent, 

 rich, meat.v, not inferior to any Peach known to 

 us. The tree is said to be immensely productive, 

 and the fruit of uniform and largest size. 



Naming Vegetables. Under the authority of 

 the Association of American 'Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations a committee con- 

 sisting of Profs. L. H. Bailey, E. S. Goff, and W. 

 J. Green have wrestled with the problem of 

 bringing more system into'the Babylonian confu- 

 sion of vegetable nomenclature. They recommend 

 a set of rules, among them the following: The 

 name of variety should consist of not more than 

 two words, nor should it be superlative or bom- 

 bastic. Titles with personal names should be 

 omitted. The term h.vbrid should not be used 

 except where the variety is known to be of such 

 hybrid origin. 



The Kieffer Pear. Much has been said concern- 

 ing the Kieffer Pear, and while it is not generally 

 conceded of first quality, its early bearing and 

 late ripening make it a very desirable fruit, both 

 for home use and market. We have had it bear 

 for us in nursery rows on two-year-old trees, 

 standards, and when dwarfed, it bears frequents 

 ly from five or six Pears on a tree at that age. 

 A neighbor of ours set an orchard of three-year- 

 old standards, two years ago, which have now 

 from a half peck to a half bushel per tree. At 

 two dollars a bushel, which is frequently paid 

 for them, it looks as though the Kieffer is des- 

 tined to be a very profitable market variety.— 

 H. W. Freeman. 



Study of Botany. This is becoming diffused 

 among our district schools, but all too slowly. 

 We can not well stand this delay— it is too costly. 

 Another thing, in many schools the study of 

 botany is so unpiactical as to make it well nigh 

 worthless. Is it so in your school V Do you 

 know whether it is or not 't You should give this 

 matter your attention. Instead of studying the 

 flora of Africa, or memorizing the curious fea- 

 tures of Asiatic or Australian floral freaks, keep 

 the work at home. Our weeds should also be 

 studied, well studied. Their nature and life 



OVERHUNG PLANT HOUSE, 

 history should be known to every pupil of the 

 country school ; and they should be employed 

 in analytical botany until they can be recogniz- 

 ed at sight by every pupil in the botany class.— 

 John M. Stahl. 



The Metallic-leaved Begonia shown on the op- 

 posite page is one of the handsomest of a hand- 

 some class of plants whose greatest value lies in 

 their adaptability for general pot culture. It is 

 not among the most recent varieties of the Bego- 

 nias, but it is yet and always must be a leading 

 favorite. In habit the plant is erect-growing. 

 The beautiful leaves are of a triangular form 

 much longer than wide, rough and of a dark 

 bronzy green color, with the veins.depressed and 



