POPULAR GARDENING 



AND FRUIT GROWING. 



"ACCUSE XOr yATlTBE, SHE BATH DONE HER PART: DO THOU BUT THINE." -HjutOS. 



Vol. V. 



j'crasT'E, X8SO. 



No. 9. 



O June : the month of merry song. 



Of shadow brief, of sunshine long ; 



All things on earth love you the best,— 



The bird who carol near his nest : 



The wind that wakes and, singing, blows 



The spicy perfume of the Rose : 



And bee, who sounds his muffled horn 



To celebrate the dewy mom ; 



And even all the stars above 



At night are happier for love. 



As if the mellow notes of mirth 



Were wafted to them from the earth. 



O June ! such music haunts your name ; 



With you the summer's chorus came ! 



—St. Ktcholas. 



Fractiosal Ctbbe.vct. We need it, we want 

 It. What is Congress going to do about it? 



Their own Senses must now convince rural 

 people that fruit trees may be planted for orna- 

 ment, for beauty, and for fragrance, as well as 

 for fruit. 



HORTICULTTRE FOR TouTH. Mr. Wm. Barry 

 thinks that scholars in our schools should know 

 as much about fruits and flowers, as about 

 arithmetic. " It is an accomplishment entirely 

 disregarded." 



The Cumbing Cutworm is often very destruc- 

 tive in orchards. One object to be accomplished 

 by planting Buckwheat in orchards, and plow- 

 ing it under, is to starve out the cutworm which 

 does not feed on Buckwheat. 



The Fohelle Pear is a very tardy but regular 

 bearer; fruit of line shape, large size, red-cheeked 

 in the sun; ripening a nice yellow, losing much 

 of its redness. Quality of the very best. Season 

 lastof November to January.— D.D.Coitom, Ohio. 



CoiXECTios OF Orchids. Messrs. Pitcher and 

 Manda of Short Hills, X. J., have secured the 

 entire collection of Orchids of DeWitt S, Smith, 

 of Lee, Mass., Imown among florists as contain- 

 ing only the finest varieties, of Cypripedlums. 



WoDiiD TOU have a fine lawn ornament? Order 

 a plant of Zebra Grass, set in a spot of very highly 

 enriched soil, and presently there will be a six or 

 seven foot growth of this most graceful and 

 hardy plant. Take Popular Gardening's ad- 

 rice and try this. 



OuB Crop Kepokt Our customary crop re- 

 port, to appear in next (July) issue, will be pre- 

 pared with great care, and is intended to pre- 

 sent as fair an indication of this season's fruit 

 crops, according to prospects late in June, as it 

 is possible to make. Those of our readers in any 

 part of the Tnited States who desire to assist us 

 in this undertaking, by making a trustwoi'thy 

 report about the fruit prospects in their respec- 

 tive localities, will send us their address on a post 

 card we will return suitable blanks. 



Makixo the Desert Bixjom. The Congres- 

 sional and Department scheme for making large 

 western arid plains bloom like the Rose is a most 

 magnificent one, but the people who will have 

 to foot the bill of many millions of dollars will 

 probably not get very enthusiastic over it. The 

 greed for more land than he can manage proper- 

 ly has brought many an individual fanner to 

 grief, and the nation would not fall into the 

 same error (buying up more land at heavy ex- 

 pense than they know how to utilize J if it 

 depended more on the tax-payers and less on 

 •* far-sighted political jobbers who look beyond 

 the necessities of the people to the long felt 

 want for boodle," As one of our contemporaries 

 truly says, this expenditure, " to a disinterested 

 person, would seem to be a criminal waste of the 

 people's substance, in view of the fact that all 

 over the south and west there are millions of 



acres of land, far better, in every respect, un. 

 used, and likely to so remain until the latest 

 born is dead of old age." 



Zixc IN Evaporated Apples. A sample 

 of evaporated Apples, analysed by Dr, Peter 

 Collier, of the New York Experiment Station 

 was found to contain in every 1,000 pounds 

 the equivalent of one and one-half pounds of 

 sulphate of zinc, which is a well-known active 

 poison. Dr. Collier says it is reasonable to sup- 

 pose that the continued use of these dried Apples 

 would lead to very serious consequences. "This 

 appears like a rebuke to the flippant, careless 

 manner in which some fruitmen, and even horti- 

 cultural societies, have tried to pass lightly over 

 the action recently taken by the Hamburg ( Ger- 

 many) authorities against American evaporated 

 Apples. Our people most interested in this ques- 

 tion have hardly thought it worth while earnest 

 consideration, assuming the inconvenient pro- 

 ceeding on the pai^ of our foreign customers to 

 be merely founded upon spite or unfriendliness, 

 and have been showing an inclination to drop all 

 further inquiry. We mention Dr. Collier's dis- 

 covery to show the urgent need of further and 

 careful investigation of our pi^sent methods of 

 evaporating fruits. This should be attended to 

 without delay, and before another evaporating 

 season arrives. 



What Crops to Grow Among Fruits. 



CARL HORTER, JACKSON CO., ULS. 



Where land is plenty and cheap, it would 

 be folly to crowd things, or attempt to have 

 the vegetable garden and fruit patch all in 

 one. It is much more convenient to grow 

 fruits and vegetables in separate patches. 



Still there are many modest homes in 

 Tillages and the suburbs of cities that have 

 only one-eighth or one-qnarter of an acre of 

 ground, too much for lawn and flowers 

 alone, and not enough for a garden and 

 fruit patch. To be able to enjoy the lusn- 

 ries of home-grown fruits and vegetables, 

 a system of close planting must be adopt- 

 ed in a case like this. We would then 

 rather do without tree fruits, with the ex- 

 ception of a row of Cherries, Peaches, 

 Plums or Pears near the line on the north 

 and west sides. Grapes, of course, should 

 not be omitted in any garden, no matter 



Expanded Form of Rose. 



how small, since they require so little space 

 compared with the amount of fruit they 

 yield. There may be a row or two next to 

 the trees, and at proper distance from them, 

 trained on stakes or cheap trellis. 



The Grape rows are to be seven or eight 

 feet apart, and the space or spaces betiveen 

 afford a splendid opportunity for growing 

 Strawberries, Currants, Gooseberries, or 

 Tomatoes, Potatoes, Beans, Cabbages, and 

 similar crops. Where Strawberries occupy 



a separate bed, they may be set in rows 

 three or three and one-half feet apart, and 

 allowed to form matted rows. Xo other 

 crop is to be grown between them: but any 

 bed after fruiting, if not to be preserved for 

 another season, should at once be spaded, 

 or plowed over, and planted with Potatoes, 

 Turnips, Cucumbers, Sweet Com, Celery, 

 Endive, Spinach, or whatever crop may be 

 most desirable, and promises to yet come to 

 maturity. A few Radishes, Lettuces, Beets, 

 etc., may be sown here and there on little 

 vacant spots, as a sort of catch crops; and 

 so may some other vegetables. In fact the 

 ground of these limited areas should be 



Glohular Form of Ro>^e. 



kept fully occupied with one or the other of 

 these crops during the entire season, one 

 being planted in the place of another as 

 quick as this latter is gathered and the spot 

 has become vacant. Even a small piece of 

 ground thus mananged can furnish a pretty 

 good supply of vegetables and frtiits for the 

 occupant's family. 



Hints on Hardy Rose Culture. 



To have beautiful Roses in your garden, 

 said a very successful rosarian, you must 

 have Roses in your heart. 



Xo other flower is at once so cheap and 

 easy of culture, for the satisfaction to be 

 obtained, and yet is so universally neglected 

 in the matter of bestowing decent attention. 



The Hybrid Perpetual class of hardy Roses 

 give the best general satisfaction to the 

 careful cultivator. They are not in reality 

 perpetual bloomers, but derive their name 

 from the fact of their being hybrids between 

 the hardy summer-flowering species and the 

 perpetual bloomers. Many of them throw 

 off a few flowers at intervals through the 

 summer, with a fair second crop in the au- 

 tumn. 



The Moss Roses are favorites on account 

 of the exquisite buds, fringed with a moss- 

 like growth. They are more subject to mil- 

 dew than some others, but this can in large 

 part be overcome by high culture and close 

 pruning. The Austrian or Yellow Roses, 

 the Damask and other summer Roses, and 

 the Prairie Roses (climbing) are entitled to 

 be included in every collection of these 

 flowers, which embrace anything like a fair 

 assortment. 



-Although some Roses may thrive bett'er 

 In one soil and others in different soUs, the 

 following selection of Hybrid Perpetuals 

 has a wide range of adaptability and should 

 suit the average needs of growers; -\bel 

 Grand, Anna de Diesbach, Baronne Pre- 

 vost. Baroness Rothschild, Caroline de San- 

 sal, Charles Margottin, Francis Michelon 



