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POPULAR GARDENING. 



July, 



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EASTERN SECTION. »»-gSS^-SoB6fg'g^ 



^%,&p.'o£iaoo.'gSgs Correspondent. 



New Hampshire. ^ ^ 



HockinKham " .. 4 4 . . 4 . . . 3 3 . 5 4 . George Q. Dow. 



Maine. 

 Curabcrlanrl County .33332234. 33333 A. P. Reed. 



AndroscoKgin " ....3334.443.343 3 3 L. K. Abbott. 

 Rhode Island. , .. „ 



Providence County 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 Joseph H. Bowcu 



Canada. 



VVelland County 3 2. ^ 4343. 5 28532 2 E. Morden. 



Lincoln " . .333423333. 43 3 D. W Beadle 



Yarmouth •' ... 5 4 3.3.43 3 Charles E. Brown. 



CENTRAL SECTION. 

 Ohio. 



Belmont County ...11140 00034 3 3 3 B. F. Starliuch 



Belmont " 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 3 b 4 3 3 K. \V. Rcid. 



Columbia " 00330000134 31 1 Harry G. Wolfifaug-. 



<Mvahoita '• 2 2 3 3 3 2 5 3 3 3 3 2 3 K H. Cushman. 



CuyahoKa " 2 3 11113 13 3 1 2 M.T. Thompson. 



FairHcId " 2 2 3 2 2 13 4 3 3 3 0. Brandt. 



Franklin " 112 4 112 2 4 4 4 3 2W. J. Green. 



Hamilton •' ...3213 00013421 2 Geo. W. Trowbridge. 



Lake " 0023111234443 3 Ptorrs & Harrison Co. 



Lake " 1 3 5 .5 3 2 4J. H. Tryon. 



Lickine " 12 13011 3 35542 2 A. M. Niehol. 



Lucas " 1114111344442 3 W. W. Farnsworth. 



Portage ■' ...1113000013331 2 Andrew Willson. 



Portage " 1 1 3 3 44 2 3 Frank Ford. 



Summit ' 2 3351110 134 53 4 M.Crawford. 



Tuscarawas " U11OO111033412 Daniel Wyss. 



Washington " 1 2 1 4 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 VV. W. Rathbone. 



Darke " 1123132.23353 2 Geo. Townsend. 



Kentucky. ,„ , , 



Wai-ren County 112 51 110 555 1 1 A. D. Webb. 



Indiana. ... ^ 



Delaware County 3 3 1 2 2 2 1 o 5 4 . 1 Granvdle ( owmg. 



Flovd " ...12230110 2444 3 3 .1. P. Applegate. 



Hendricks " 2233022 3 4433 3 Mordecai Carter. 



Putnam " 3 3 4 3 2 4 3 2 3 5 4 3 2 W. H. Ragan. 



Tippecanoe " 3354133404543 4 J. Troop. 



La(irangc " ....1113223.5453 3 J. C. Grossman. 

 Illinois. 



Champaign County 2 243122 1 4434 3 G. W. McCluer. 



DuPage •' 3 .43. .0.5 553 1 Phil. Strublcr. 



Hancock " 33440334345434 A.C.Hammond. 



Kno.\ " 4433023 534534 3 Will. M. Kellogg. 



McLean " 33 5 44 333 5553 4 Sidney Tuttle & Co. 



Madison " 3 50513345342 3 2 Mrs. W A. Uucknell. 



Marion " 333513S12 355 2 3 Jennie Sjiencer. 



Marion " 3 3 13 11112 3 3 3 3 3 B. C. Warfleld. 



Jackson " ...331513313 5 533 3 Geo C. Hanlord, 



Michigan. 



Berrien County 133 40 1 10 3 4 4 54 4W. A. Smith. 



Clinton " 331443 3. . 5433 4 I. A. Wooll. 



Kalamazoo " 33244112 3 2443 3 J. N. Stearns. 



V'an Buren " 2334013113333 1 George C. Lawton 



Van Buren " 34553 2 33455535 T. T. Lyon. 



Lenawee " 11131113333232 Peter Coller, 



Wisconsin. 



Dane County 3 3 3.. .2.3353 3 E. S. Goff. 



Outagamie " 4433.333.5 55 4 3 W. D. Boynton. 



Rock " 3335 . . -3 . 55544 Geo. J. Kellogg. 



Walworth " .3333.112.3344 4 F. K. Phoenix. 



SOUTHERN SECTION. 

 Alabama. 



Madison County 1203011 (I .212. - Virgil Wilson. 



Florida. 



Manatee County 30.440.2 5 . Reasoner Bros. 



St. John •• 0. . 1 . . 1 3 - . W. C. Steele. 



Georgia. 



Fulton County 00121001132200J J. Toon. 



Macon •' 2 1 1 5 1 1 1 (I 1 2 2 2 . - Samuel H Rumph. 



Richmond " .. 1 1 . 2 1 1 3 4 3 . . P. J- Beiokmans. 

 Carroll " . 1 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 3 . . R. N. Moody. 



North Carolina. 



McDowell County 11410 114 5 2. . Chas. C. Liudlcy. 



South Carolina. 



Chester County 11131111 .353. . H.A.Green. 



Texas. 



Washington County .00.2000000330 William Watson. 



Grayson " 1 1 5 1 1 3 3 2 3 S. V. Munson. 



Tennessee. 



Gilson County 1113311 o 0333. 3 C. M. Mervin. 



Virginia. 

 Accomack County .23131220033311 McMath Bros. 



Norfolk " 1 2 2 4 3 . 1 G. F. B. Leighton. 



WESTERN SECTION 

 Arkansas. 



White County 1 1 . 5 2 2 3 - Jacob C. Cauer. 



Pulaski " 3 3 3 1 1 3 4 30 OW. K. Tipton. 



Nebraska 



Nemaha County 4 3 4 3 3 3 1 5 5 5 1 3 Robt. F. Furnas. 



Jefferson " ...332203334533 4 G. J. Carpenter. 



Kansas. 



Douglas County 4. 34 433 32 35 53 3 G. C, Rrackett, 



Lawrence " B.F.Smith. 



Lawrence " 3333123333553 2 A. W. firiesa. 



Leavenworth " 5 4 3 3 1 3 4 5 2 5 5 5 4 5 J. Stayman. 



Lawrence ': 3 13. . 2 2 . 2 4 5 1 1 B. F. Smith, 



Missouri. 



Jackson County 3 34 41 1 2 1 3 53 52 4 L. A. Gooiiman. 



Greene " 3 32511122454 3 4 D. S. Holmaii. 



Jasper " 3323 1220 1344 3 3 Z. T. Russell. 



Jefferson " 12231110.343. 3 T. W. (iuy. 



McDonald " 4 434333125534 3 Mrs. Lora S. LaMance. 



Miller " 2 334132 2 2342 3 4 H. J. Shepherd. 



Montgomery " 1135112105542 5 Samuel Miller. 



St. Louis " 3 3 2 4 1 1 10 2 4 4 3 . . M. K. Murtfeldt. 



Vernon " ...4325123104563 3 Jacob Faith. 



Minnesota. 

 Blue Earth County .11 . 4 . . 2 . 3 3 3 3 4 J. H Vandervort. 



Grant " ... 1 3 3 ... 4 . 5 4 4 5 3 S. Frogner. 



Hennepin " 4 5.4 .4.5444 3 S. D. Hillman. 



Houston " 4 3 3 . . 3 5 5 2 2 2 John S. Harris. 



California. 



Contra " 3 3 2 5 3 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 3 Dr Strentzel. 



Sonoma " 3 3 4 4 2 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 1). B. Weir. 



Iowa. 



Scott County 3 3 4 3 3 U 5 5 3 3 3 Mrs. M R Waggoner. 



Jackson " 4 3 4 2 1 4 4 5 2 3 D. A. Fletcher. 



l,'Mr>. Fall Planting of Trees, etc. Trees and 

 shrubs may be planted in autumn from the time 

 the leaves begin to mature until the ground 

 freezes up solid. We always prefer to plant 

 n'ii>iciTi;ibly curly, to give the trees and their 

 rcpnt> ii chance to read.iust themselves, and get 

 tirnil\ established in their new quarters.— G. T. 



l.HS:!. Asparagns Beda. With good treatment 

 in the way of food, clean cultivation, and mod- 

 eration in cutting, a bed may outlast a genera- 

 tion. There is really no telling how long it 

 might continue in first-class condition. If ill- 

 used, however, a plantation, after ten or twelve 

 years of cutting, is liable to show signs of weak- 

 ness, when it should be discarded.— (i. T. 



l,!)l(>. Cnrled Leaf of Peach. This is a distinct 

 disease, probably of a fungus character, and 

 develops usually after a cold spell following a 

 jieriod of warm weather and rapid growth. The 

 remedy must be of a preventive nature, consists 

 in good feeding, especially with potash, annual 

 pruning or heading back, and thorough cultiva- 

 tion. Severe attacks of the disease are always a 

 great injury to the vitality of the tree and 

 sometimes even prove fatal. 



1,1115. Slugs in the Garden. Try heavy appli- 

 cati<ni of air-shicked lime,orhunt themiscreants 

 up in the night by lantern light gathering them 

 in a dish containing a little salt or kerosene.— G.T 



l.iKio. Cultivating Young Orchards- The 



usual practice is to discontinue cultivation along 

 in July, in order to avoid late growth that may 

 not have time to mature and harden sulficiently 

 to endure the winter's cold. This cpiestion, how- 

 ever, depends somewhat on the season itself. 

 Thcfr is such a thing as young wood ripening 

 too early. So if the season has lieen ver.v dry, 

 and the growth rather slow, it maybe well to 

 continue cultivation into August, especially with 

 Peaches.— G. T. 



l,nio. Grafting Herbaceous Growths. Cauli- 

 flower, Cabbage, Tomato, Potato, and similar 

 plants can be grafted upon plants of the same 

 genus unite successfully, if the operation is per- 

 formed with care and skill. The American Agri- 

 culturist tells of the common Cucumber grafted 

 on the wild vines of the same family. "Cucum- 

 bers may be grown on a high trellis," says our 

 contemporary, " or around the upper story 

 windows of any building by training one of the 

 wild Cucumber vines— either Sicyos angulattis, 

 the single-seeded or Star Cucumber vine, or the 

 LV/M»n<'//.str.s, or wiUl Balsam .\pple— either of 

 which grows .50 or W) feet in a single season up to 

 the desired height. This is done by sowing Cu- 

 cumber seed of any of the garden varieties in 

 a flower pot, and when the plant is six or eight 

 inches high joining it to one of these wild vines 

 when it has reached the desired height. Merel.v 

 scraping the bark of each, and tying theiu firmly 

 together with any soft material is sufficient. 

 They will unite in about ten or twelve days, 

 or sooner, and produce fruits at a height to 

 which the garden could never attain." The 

 same journal also states that this knowledge of 

 grafting annuals may be utilized and made pro- 

 litable, cspeciully when the Potato is forced to 

 ripi'ii seed b.\- <'ngrafting or inarching on the 

 Tomato, but our own experience in grafting the 

 Potato on Tomat<) stock for the same purpose is 

 not ver.v encouraging. With all the pains and 

 precautions we could not produce a healty union 

 between stock and graft, and in order to keep 

 the latter i Potato ) alive, we had to keep it 

 banked up with earth above the union. The 

 Potato graft then attempted to set tubers at its 

 lower end, at the junction, but failed to mature 

 its seed balls. Altogether we think that herba- 

 ceons grafting, except in moist atmosphere and 

 under glass, is quite a delicate ojieration — G. T. 



1,907. Soaking Seed before Planting. This 

 was formerly much practised and recommended 

 by writers, especially for Unions, Carrots and all 

 seeds of root crops. We know better now. If 

 the ground is the least bit moist, well-prepared 

 and freshly stirred, and the seed well firmed, 

 soaking the seed of common garden vegetables 

 before planting is usually unnecessary inconve- 

 nient, and often even hurtful proceeding. We 

 do not practice it any more, nor recommend it. 



Condition of Fruit Crops. 

 On pages 2'Z'i and 32t) this issue, is to be 

 found our annual report on the condition 

 of triiit crops as it appears at this date, .June 

 •20th. We again express onr thanks to our 

 kind corre.spondents who have so promptly 

 replied to our inquiries. A computation 

 shows the average yield of each kind of fruit 

 for the whole country to be about as fol- 

 lows, 3 denoting an average crop: 



.\pples, early l.ii Plums 1.6 



Apples, late 1.0 Quinces l.B 



cherries 20 Raspberries . 3.5 



friapes 34 Blackberries 4.0 



Peaches 10 Strawberries 3.2 



Pears, early 1.4 Currants 3tt 



Pears.late 1.4 Gooseberries 27 



