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POPULAR GARDENING. 



February, 



needed, and combine two or more In one is 

 not always easy, and many a path laid by 

 some artistic hand would never have got 

 there without some precious careful study 

 and knowledge. 



I was once called in by the trustees of 

 Buchtel College, in Akron, Ohio, to give 

 advice in arranging a more convenient front 

 walk. In the Fig. at the left c represents the 

 college edifice facing Jliddleburg street, 

 which originally wa.s reached by a straight 



The center figure represents the place of 

 a gentleman, the superintendent of a large 

 factory to which his daily walks led him on 

 the side of the house in the direction of /. 

 The ground was filled in front of the house 

 to bring the lawn to the grade of the corner 

 at d. At my suggestion the contour of the 

 fill from (7 to ;; was changed, and a gravel 

 walk made for a daily short cut to the back 

 of the house. This fill was about five feet 

 higher than the ground at /, which was a 



blend them, and you cannot fall to produce 

 a good effect. Yellow is the sunshine of a 

 bouquet, but you must use it sparingly or it 

 will produce a glare. But a wise choice of 

 this color always lends cheerfnlness. In 

 making saucer bouquets you can use flowers 

 very choice, or with stems so short you 

 would lose them in other bouquets. Rose 

 Geranium leaves alternating with Tulips 

 make a beautiful edge about any shallow 

 dish; then lay in Balsams, Pansies, a Tea 

 Rose or any dainty blossom you have, being 

 careful to have plenty of Sweet Alyssum or 

 some fine white flower to blend, and you 

 will be charmed with the result. A low 

 glass dish filled with damp moss, edged with 

 j Geranium leaves, and filled in with Sweet 

 Alyssum for a ground work, then Pansies 

 set star-like against the whiteness, makes 

 the lovliest center table ornament I ever 

 saw. By sprinkling every morning it will 

 keep its freshness much longer than ordinary 

 bouquets. A large shell filled with sand 

 and Smilax, Kenilworth I\^ or any fine 

 creeper, falUng over the edge; a few Purple 

 Verbenas, some Golden Caliopsis and a dash 

 of white, will throw a gleam of brightness 

 from a bracket shelf. Select Roses of deli- 

 cate white or creamy neutral tint, for the 

 flowers should be the point of color. 



PLEASING ARRANGEM 



walk, represented by the dotted lines at b. 

 Opposite a was College street, or the right 

 hand sidewalk of that street, as you came 

 from the principal part of the city or down 

 town. On reaching Middleburg street by 

 the straight walk the students must turn a 

 right angle and travel half a square to reach 

 College street, and they soon got to forsak- 

 ing the broad flag-stones and striking in a 

 diagonal direction for College street across 

 the grass. An unsightly barbed wire fence 

 was put up to prevent them from running 

 across the corner; but this was easily torn 

 down in the night, and finally on the erection 

 of an ornamental iron fence around the 

 ground I was called in to offer suggestions. 



I had previously located the walk in my 

 own mind as I passed that way, so it was 

 but a few minutes work to stick the stakes 

 for a path which not only led to College 

 street in a pretty direct fashion, but gave a 

 more artistic appearance to the lawn. 



After the stakes were in place, one of the 

 gentlemen present remarked, "That's easy; 

 why didn't we do that in the finst place." 

 The Fig. at the right shows a comer lot 

 also in Akron fronting on the street h with 

 a side entrance on the side street f. The 

 owner, a foreman in a large manufactory, 

 when he built the house put down plank 

 walks leading from either sidewalk as shown 

 by dotted lines, and also connected the two 

 doorsteps with a similar walk parallel to the 

 sides of the house, all angles being right 

 angles. After some years the street grade 

 was established, and he tore up the planks, 

 graded and seeded his grounds. 



He obtained the design of walk across the 

 corner at / as shown in illustration, and the 

 walks were laid out accordingly, excepting 

 the little triangular grass plot at the inter- 

 section of the walks, which he had left 

 wholly in gravel. Several trees now adorn 

 his yard planted at regular distances, and 

 in the gravel triangle a square wooden box 

 filled with earth nourishes a few Geraniums, 

 instead of the little grass plot with two 

 Yuccas and a clump of German Iris that I 

 should have placed there; and opposite across 

 the walk, instead of the Siberian Arbor 

 Vitae, Goldeu Retinospora and Suecica 

 nana that I should have planted, he has a ; 

 few straggling Rose bushes that fall victims 

 each spring to bugs and thrips. | 



ENT OF FRONT WALKS. 



' rich alluvial flat devoted to vegetables. To 

 separate the ornamental from the vegetable 

 garden I planted a Hemlock hedge on the 

 brow of the terrace, which after 12 years is 

 perfect and beautiful. 



Against my earnest protest the owner, 

 two years later, planted on the other side of 

 the lawn a hedge coinciding exactly with 

 the first, excepting that it was reversed, to 

 lead to the right instead of to the left. It 

 divided the narrow but beautiful lawn into 

 two unmeaning divisions, the only reason 

 the owner giving was to make the front 

 lawn symmetrical, which it fails to do in 

 reality, as the hedges having been planted 

 some years apart vary much in height. 



Blending Colors in Bouquet IVIatcing. 



MRS. L. H. GALE, BARTON CO., MO. 



Nature should be one's teacher in blending 

 colors, but she has hersecrets. The moment 

 we transfer flowers from the garden or their 

 wild wood home to our drawing room, the 

 charm is broken. Nature gives us the lol- , 



Culture of Raspberries. 



WM. H. TEOMA.NS, TALLAKD CO.. CON.V. 



Where twenty -five years ago one garden 

 could be found in which Strawberries were 

 cultivated, probably ninety-nine can be 

 found to-day. The Strawberry has in fact 

 come to be a common fruit. Not so the 

 Raspberry, and yet this possesses a richness 

 of flavor excelling even that of the Straw- 

 berry, and its culture is no more difficult. 

 It delights in a fairly moist, rich loam in 

 which it will make a vigorous growth; but 

 the making of the most vigorous growth is 

 not the most desirable point to be secured, 

 for canes of almost indefinite length may 

 be secured in rich soil. The aim should be 

 to produce canes that have such a degree of 

 maturity and strength that they can pro- 

 duce and successfully sustain an abundance 

 of fruit the following season. Last spring 

 we set some roots of different varieties, that 

 came from Western New York; the soil was 

 a rich black loam, and the plants made a 

 prodigious growth. I was compelled to give 

 them severe and frequent prunings by head- 

 ing back, and by that means we feel pretty 

 sure that with reasonably favorable condi- 

 tions we shall get some choice fruit. Late 

 in the season some of the canes showed a 



IDEAL CHEAP HOT-BED AND 



lowing hints: Don't crowd yonr flowers. 

 Flowers have their affinities and individual- 

 ities, and we must respect them. For 

 example, a spike of brilliant scarlet Gladio- 

 lus, with a feathery bunch of Asparagus 

 and a dot of white Feverfews here and there, 

 will light a shady corner like a torch. But 

 smother your stately blossoms with Ver- 

 benas, Phlox, Geraniums and a host of floral 

 beauties, and you will only weaken' the 

 effect. Put your scarlets, crimsons, and 

 purples in separate clumps. Use white to 



FORCING HOUSE. See page IS). 

 I very decided disposition to enter upon th 

 I work of fruiting, and just as the leaves fell 

 we noticed one or two clusters of partially 

 developed berries. With' present prospects 

 the farmer had better manage his farm in 

 such a manner as to secure to himself and 

 family all the pleasures to be derived there- 

 from in the way of all varieties of small 

 fruits and vegetables that can be consumed. 

 It will require but little effort but will afford 

 untold enjoyment to all who are privileged 

 to be consumers of the products. 



