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POPULAR GARDENING. 



May, 



rn an Apple Cellar. 



Red. and russet, and yellow, 



Lying here In a heap — 

 Pippins, rounded and mellow; 



Greenings, for winter iseep; 

 Seek-no-furthers whose blushing 



The soul of a saint would try, 

 Till his face showed the crimson, flushing 



The cheeli of a Northern Spy. 

 Apples scarlet and golden. 



Apples juicy and tart. 

 Bringing again the olden 



Joy to the wear.v heart. 



—Thos. S. Collins. 



Break the soil to make the bloom. 

 Bruise the flower to get perfume. 

 Lose the gem to set a crown 

 Of loveliness. 



Do you hear the insects hum ? 

 Cherries are usually profitable. 

 Mulch where moisture is needed. 

 Annuals pay well for decent care. 

 Consider morale when hiring help. 

 Asparagus culture is far from overdone. 

 Of trees Evergreens may be moved the latest. 

 Tree Blossoms— the promise of usefulness in the 

 garb of beauty. 



Flowers and fruits above most things make 

 life worth living. 



For mildew and rot spray Grape vines with 

 Bordea.x mi.xture now. 



For grower's reputation buyers gladly pay $1 

 per barrel of Apples or crat,e of berries. 



Uore fine seeds are killed from covering too 

 thickly than from not covering enough. 



The Moore's Arctic Plum Dr. Hoskins pro- 

 nounces as the only hardy one for Vermont. 



A recording map of the orchard and fruit gar- 

 den is a necessity to the intelligent cultivator. 



An Evergreen Shrub. In this line we know 

 nothing finer and hardier than the Mugbe Pine. 



Plants and Pianos. A thrifty plant kept in 

 the room with Piano will provide moisture .just 

 right for the instrument. 



The Popular Gardening experiment grounds 

 are to be carried on absolutely in the interest of 

 the readers of this journal. 



For the Water, Aponogeton Distachyon 

 blooms quite well in summer when growing in 

 cool spring water in partial shade.— Geo. 



A Climbing Bose planted in 1079 in Southern 

 Germany is said to be the oldest now in existence, 

 and its main branch larger than a man's body. 



Another Native Plum, the Hawkeye, is being 

 introduced by H. A. Torrey, of Crescent City, 

 Iowa, as being as large as Bradshaw, and em- 

 phatically an Iowa variety. 



Coat the Pruning Scars. Many persons who 

 would doctor a tree where accidentally barked, 

 overlook analogeous cases of pruning scai-s. Coat 

 with any kind of linseed oil paint. 



This is Becommended. For Pear blight try a 

 mixture of four parts muriate of potash and one 

 of sulphate of iron (copperas). Apply several 

 pounds of it around the tree, and repeat in ob- 

 stinate cases. 



For mildew on Boses salt is recommended. A 

 solution of six pounds in 100 quarts of water is 

 the formula used by Jean SisUy, the famous 

 French Rose grower, to destroy mildew and other 

 fungi on Roses. 



Matrimonial. Our correspondent, Emily 

 Louise Taplin, who provides New York floral 

 news so acceptably to our columns, was married 

 to Mr. Edwin Royle, March 37th of this year, at 

 Hackensack, N. J. 



A bureau of information for every reader is 

 what Popular Gardening with its experiment 

 grounds purports to be. From the many hundreds 

 of varieties of trees, shrubs and plants in all de- 

 partments now set out, we shall very soon be 

 able to speak with authority concerning the re- 

 spective merits of these. 



The Berry Harvester. The verdict of Rasp- 

 berry growers who have used the harvester, 

 seems to be quite generally in favor of this new 

 and rapid method of gathering the crop for 

 evaporating purposes; and it can hardly be 

 doubted now that with the further improve- 

 ments sure to be made in the device, it is bound 

 to come into general use. Berries intended for 

 the table, however, will probably still 

 have to be gathered by hand for some 

 time to come. 



Popular Horticulture. What Pop- 

 ular Gardening and Fruit Grow- 

 ing wants to see is more homes each 

 with a good small fruit area, vine- 

 yard, vegetable garden and with 

 plenty of hardy plants, shrubs, climb- 

 ers, etc., about. It is assumed that 

 the orchard of choice tree fruits has 

 been provided, but if not.a start must 

 also be made here. From the central 

 farm of all our readers, namely, the 

 Experiment grounds at La Salle-on- 

 the-Niagara, we expect to give in- 

 numerable suggestions and ideas to 

 aid the work. 



Staking Trees Firmly. Thatitisan 



advantage to have newly set trees 



staked firmly until new roots have 



issued is not a matter of question. 



For doing this completely we know 



of no better method than that shown 



in the engraving annexed. Three 



stakes are driven obliquely as shown 



and to meet at one point. This is 



easily done by binding the tree to one 



side a trifle. At the top of the stakes 



a band of canvass or leather is wound 



around the trunk and is slit down at these 



places. The flaps thus formed are tacked over 



the tops of the stakes. 



The German Horticultural Exhibition. This, 

 an important exhibition, designed in part to 

 bring out the close relations which exist between 

 architecture and horticulture, will be held in 

 Berlin, and will be open to all nations. 2a5 classes 

 of warm house-plants, 377 classes of green-house 

 and hardy plants, besides fruits, vegetables, 

 nursery stock, tools and machines used in horti- 

 culture are included in the prize schedule, and a 

 section of classes for showing the morphology, 

 anatomy and growth of plants; physiology, use- 

 ful and poisonous fungi ; officinal and economic 

 plants, plant geography, etc. Among the chief 

 attractions of Berlin are some of the finest 

 examples of landscape gardening of which 

 Europe can boast. 



Pyrothrnm Boseum. The Pyrethrums or Fever- 

 fews are hardy perennials of easy culture and 

 quite pretty border plants. P. Roseum, here 

 illustrated, is the often mentioned " Pei-sian In- 

 sect Powder Plant." In an experiment made with 

 it at the New York Experiment Station, the 

 plants grew well the first season and bloomed 

 profusely the next; and the pulverized flowers 

 compared favorably with Buhach (the California 

 grown powder of P. cinerariaefolium giound 

 rather fine) m death-dealing effect. The flowers 

 are showy and of various colors lasting through 

 several weeks, and their beauty well repays for 

 growing the plants. What effect the living 

 flowers have on insect life we do not know. It 

 seems that ever.v gardener might gi'ow enough 

 ''insect powder" for his own use. 



To Transplant Plants in Bloom. The list of 

 plants that flower freely the first season, and 

 that may be easUy transplanted while in flower is 

 not large, but happily some of the very best are 

 among the number. Such as the Zinnia, Petunia, 

 Pansy, Portulacca, Phlox Drummondi, Chinese 

 and Japanese Pinks, can be used by those who 

 wish to raise a variety of flowers, in beds or rows 

 of a color, but cannot well afford to purchase 

 each color separately. Sow mixed seed in boxes 

 in the house or in a frame in March or April, or 

 where this is not practicable sow in the open 

 ground; the only difference is that the flowering 

 season will be .somewhat shorter. When the 

 plants show four or five leaves transplant to two 

 or three inches apart, and in two or three weeks 

 transplant again. As they begin to bloom select 

 the colors desired and plant where they are to 

 remain, handling them carefully in the opera- 

 tion.— IF. C, Jcnniaon, Middlesex Co., Mass. 



The Johnson's Amaryllis. What a splendid 

 pot plant is Amaryllis Johnsonii when in bloom. 

 It recpiires a rich soil. A plant that we have was 

 potted in the early part of the season last year 

 and made a good growth; then in the early fall 



it was turned down and allowed to rest by dry- 

 ing until there was danger of frost, when it was 

 taken into the house and shortly showed an im- 

 mense amount of vigor in sending forth rich 

 green lanceolate leaves two feet in length and 

 two and one-fourth inches in width, in thick 

 clusters. The last of January it sent out its first 

 flower stalk, which is an inch in diameter and S 



Flower of Pyrethrum Roseum. 



inches high; from this sprang four blossoms op- 

 posite each other of rich dark crimson striped 

 with white, the petals spreading to a diameter of 

 six inches. Another flower stalk is pushing itself 

 upwards, and what is to follow remains to be 

 seen. It is seldom that so ornate a plant can be 

 had that requires so little attention, for during 

 the summer this plant was planted under some 

 trees and was hardly noticed, but during this 

 period of rest it was gathering strength with 

 which to unfold the great beauty concealed 

 within.— ITfli. H. Ycomans. 



" Hollyhock Crimson Jackmanii " has a very 

 large, fuU double, crimson flower, and is a very 

 showy back ground border plant. I have had 

 blooms as early as June 20th, and as late as Nov- 

 ember 10th. The seed may be planted in May, 

 and again new seed planted in August as soon as 

 ripe. The latter makes the best plants. Old plants 

 may be lifted in the spring and divided to single 

 eyes and planted at once. The ground for them 

 should be dug deep, fifteen inches or more, and 

 enriched all the way down. Dig deep when set- 

 ting out, and straighten down all the roots. Keep 

 the ground stirred, and allow only one stem to 

 grow, which keep tied to a stout stake. They do 

 not need much watering. 

 Hill them up about six 

 inches in ciiltivating so 

 that the water and the 

 rains will enter the ground 

 around the plant in- 

 stead of close about the 

 stem. In July mulch the 

 ground all over with old 

 manure. About June 35th 

 some of the plants will 

 commence blooming near 

 the bottom of the stalk, 

 opening in succession over 

 the stalk from bottom to 

 top. All this first blooming 

 must be picked off, just as 

 the blooms wilt, not allow- 

 ing the seed to mature 

 and exhaust the plant. 

 About the time the first 

 has passed midway of the stalk, a second bloom- 

 ing wUl commence at the bottom and pass along 

 up over the stalk as did the fii-st, and before 

 arriving at the top a third blooming will start at 

 the bottom on branches six to fifteen inches long, 

 having from five to nine single blooms, branch- 

 ing at intervals along up the stalk, keeping up a 

 succession of bloom until cut down by frost. 

 The first blooming wiU give the largest and 

 best flowers, the second and third blooming will 

 be smaller, less double and produce more seed. 

 I lift all my plants in April, young and old, and 

 in planting cut away all the eyes save one to each 

 root or part of divided roots, and plant about 

 two feet apart in rows.— John Lane, Illinois. 



.staking a Tree 

 Firmly. 



