1889. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



121 



The Success of the Work. So far as the 

 work at Woodbanks has been completed it 

 has been entirely successful, the water pass- 

 ing from the outlet with a strong current. 



A Fine Hotel Conservatory. 



Buffalo's most elegant hotel, the Niagara, 

 is rendered all the more charming for con- 

 taining as one of its features a magnificent 

 conservatory and a greenhouse. These are 

 located on the ground tloor facing 

 the east, and are surrounded on 

 three sides by the main part and 

 the wings of the hotel. Doors from 

 the elegant main hall, from the din- 

 ing room and from the parlors open 

 directly to the conservatory piazza. 

 The conservatory proper is 23xR0 

 feet in size and is skirted by a l(i 

 foot wide piazza on three sides. 

 There are also winding walks 

 through the conservatory and lenil- 

 ing to the greenhouse which adjoins. 

 Our engraving, taken directly from 

 a photograph, shows a view from 

 the north end of the conservatory, 

 the piazza being plainly in sight at 

 the right and at the fiu'ther end. 

 The piazza is furnished with easy 

 chairs, tables and lamps and is a 

 favorite retreat and lounging place 

 for guests the year round. The 

 temperature of this apartment even 

 in the coldest weather is kept at 

 about seventy degrees, and hence is 

 always and agreeable agreeable. 



As our engraving shows, this apartment 

 is stocked largely with Palms, of which 

 there are many magnificent specimens. Not 

 only are the more common kinds like La- 

 tania Borbonica, Phoenix dactilyfera, Pan- 

 danus, etc., employed freely, but the writer 

 on a recent visit to the place, noticed some 

 fine specimens of rarer kinds Including 

 Pritchardia Pacifica, Phoenix recUnata, 

 Areca VerschalTelti, Areca lutescans, Pan- 

 danus Veitchii, etc. Numerous large Ferns 

 and other tropical plants also abound. For 

 flowering plants, drafts being made upon the 

 adjoining greenhouse, enough of which 

 former are employed to give vivacity to 

 the tropical scene. 



The greenhouse referred to adjoins the 

 conservatory on one of Its longest sides, 

 being separated from it by glass partitions 

 and is approached through two doors from 

 the latter. Its size is 30x70 feet. In this 

 structure is grown a large assortment of 

 flowering and ornamental plants, a chief 

 use made of which is the adorning of the 

 dinner tables and the apartments of the 

 hotel on special occasions. 



Unlike some attempts made in Chicago 

 and elsewhere to have complete plant apart^ 

 ments connected with hotels this one at the 

 Niagara is an entire success. This undoubt 



The admirable conservatory at the Niagara 

 was visited by the executive committee of 

 the American Society of Florists, in their 

 recent visit to this city, and culled forth 

 hearty praise from all. Included, as it is, as 

 one feature of a superior hotel, it finds gen- 

 eral appreciation with the traveling piiblic. 

 No doubt when the American Society of 

 Florists meet here in August next, this novel 

 attraction will serve to lead many of the 

 visitors to make the Niagara their tempo- 



INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NIAGARA HOTEL CONSERVATORY. 



rary home while in the city. The hotel is 

 immediately adjacent to the Front Park, 

 and commands a fine view of lake and river. 



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Figs. 6 (and upper one 7.) Tido forms of Levels for 

 use in Ditch Bottoms. 



edly is owing to the fact of its being located 

 near to the ground, while others which have 

 failed, notably the one formerly connected 

 with the Palmer House, Chicago, were loca- 

 ted on the roofs of the buildings. In a roof 

 conservatory there is met the almost fatal 

 difficulty of a dry and heated atmosphere, 

 which is uncongenial to the plants, and to 

 freely employ water over the flowers or about 

 the house, while it cannot entirely reme- 

 dy the defect, it is almost certain, sooner or 

 later, to give trouble by leaking into the 

 apartments underneath. 



Apple Tree Planting in Kentucky. 



T. T. LYON, VAN BUREN CO., MICH. 



In the February issue It is advised to plant 

 Apple trees leaning about 40° to the one 

 o'clock sun, as a protection to the body of 

 the tree from the effects of the sun. This is 

 by no means a new or even a rare recom- 

 mendation. Against it, however, we most 

 earnestly protest as being the lazy man's 

 remedy for his own ill-judged errors. 



If trees of three or four years' growth are 

 to be planted, already branched at five to 

 seven feet and especially if, as is too fre- 

 quently the case, the roots have been badly 

 shortened in lifting from the nursery row, 

 and the tops left unshortened, it will require 

 greater wisdom than most planters possess 

 to determine at just what angle the tree 

 must be planted so that the force of the 

 wind shall just exactly lift the tree to the 

 perpendicular by the time that the growth 

 of its branches shall suffice to protect the 

 trunk from the heat of a "one o'clock sun." 

 Better shorten the top to correspond with 

 the less of roots, plant the tree upright and 

 compel it to remain so. 



Better still, plant one or two year old 

 trees, which have been dug with the roots 

 nearly or quite entire; head the upright 

 growers down to one to two feet, and the 

 more spreading ones to not higher than three 

 or four feet, for starting the tops at these 

 heights, and plant them upright, assured 

 that they will continue in such position 

 without compelling and that they will 

 become more healthy, and ultimately more 

 satisfactory and profitable trees, and that 

 they will, as a rule, come into bearing fully 

 as early as those first described. 



proportion of the others invariably did, and 

 it blanches al.so in half the time of other 

 varieties. It is a good thrifty grower and 

 with good cultivation it will grow as large 

 as Crawford's half dwarf. 



Ooldcn Dumrf— This has been the leading 

 Celery for years past but it is now losing its 

 hold here at least, for we cannot get the gen- 

 uine seed any more; if we could get the 

 same seed that we bought five years ago it 

 would still be the leader, but the .seedsmen 

 seem not to have it. 



Perfection HrnrtweU was grown 

 here a good bit the past season and 

 I have failed to find one grower who 

 was dissatisfied with it. It grows 

 larger than the Golden Dwarf, the 

 hearts are of a fine golden yellow 

 and in fact is more like the Golden 

 Dwarf of the past. It will be grown 

 extensively here the coming season. 

 Boxton Market— For a late Celery 

 and as one of the best keepers I 

 would prefer the Boston Market. It 

 is of good flavor and size but a very 

 slow blancher, hence its superior 

 keeping qualities. 



Crawford's: Half Bimrf— This 

 variety grows larger than the Golden 

 Dwarf and in some seasons pro- 

 duces excellent Celery, but it is lia- 

 ble to be soft and on that account is 

 not so extensively grown as many 

 others; though one gardener here 

 told me a few days ago that he 

 would grow principally of this va- 

 riety. It is a good keeper. 

 C(;7cn/— These varieties are not 

 here much as the trade does not 

 want them, although it is recommended 

 very highly by some of the seedsmen who 

 say they are much better flavored than the 

 white varieties. 



Growers of Celery here will commence 

 sowing their seed in their hotbeds or green- 

 houses the 1st of March. Some venture- 

 some ones will sow before that time and in 

 consequence their Celery will mostly run to 

 seed. The general practice is to sow every 

 few days from March 1st until the 15th 

 when the main sowing under glass is made, 

 then waiting with all further sowing until 

 we can sow outside. 



An illustration in some of the catalogues 

 of the Celery shipping business at Kalama- 

 zoo gives some idea of the immense business 

 in this line and which is still on the increase. 



Pink 

 grown 



Celery; What Varieties to Grow. 



JNO. R. VAN EOCHOVE, KAI.AMAZOO CO.. MICE!. 



White Plume— For early I decidedly rec- 

 ommend this variety as having many points 

 of superiority over other sorts. Sown at the 

 same time and alongside of other varieties, 

 receiving in all respects exactly the same 

 treatment, it has not run to seed as a large 



Fiff. i. The Draining Tools used. 



It is estimated that over 2,000 acres of Celery 

 are grown here each year. The past season 

 has not been as profitable as other years 

 owing to the working of a combination 

 for the sale of the crop which turned out 

 the wrong way for the growers. 



