POPULAR GARDENING 



AND FRUIT GROWING. 



"AOOUSE NOT NATURE, SHE HATH DONE HER PART; DO THOV BUT THINE."— Hwiotl. 



Vol. IV. 



J-XTXj-Z", 18 8 9- 



No. lO. 



July. 



July— for you the songs are sung 

 By birds the leafy trees araoug: 

 With nierrj' caroUngs they awake 

 The meadows at the morning's break, 

 Aud through the day the lisping breeze 

 Is woven with their tree-top glees. 

 For you a fragrant Incense burns 

 Within the garden's blossom-urns 

 Which tempt the bees to hasten home 

 With honey for their honey -comb. 

 The river like a looklug-giass 

 Reflects the fleecy clouds that pass, 

 Until it makes us almost doubt 

 If earth ami sky arn't clianged about. 

 July— for you. in silence deep 

 The world seems faUen fast asleep. 



— F. D. Sherman. 



The Planting Se.\si)n iu the garden don't euU 

 yet — not until November. 



The Potato beetle is said certainly to be on 

 the decrease in the far west. 



July Planted Gladiolus. So good an au- 

 thority as C. L. Allen says in the Itural New 

 Yorker that to secure the full measure of beauty 

 in the Gladiolus it should be planted during the 

 first half of July. 



Cottonwood Poplar. The West is at last learn- 

 ing the true worth of the Cottonwood Poplar 

 tree which has been so extensively planted in 

 city and country of that region, because of its 

 rai>id growth. At the recent nui'serymen's con- 

 vention one intelligent delegate earnestly dis- 

 couraged its planting because of its destructive- 

 ness to other growths and of its then dying early. 

 He said it is a murderer, killing every other 

 growth by absorbing moisture and then it 

 commits suicide. 



The Seedsmen. About .W members of the Seed 

 Trade Association met in annual convention at 

 Washington on the 11th and V.ith insts. Officers 

 for the ensuing year were elected as follows: 

 President, H. W. Johnson, Philadelphia; Vice- 

 President, J. C. Vaughan, Chicago; Secretary 

 and Treasurer, Albert M. Mct^uUough, Cincin- 

 nati; Assistant Secretary, Frank T. Emerson, 

 tlmaha; Executive Committee: John Allan, Pic- 

 ton, Ont.; Wm. Mcggut, Wethersfleld, Conn.; 

 John Fottler, Jr., Bostfm; S. F. Leonard, Chicago; 

 H. W. Wood, Richmond, Va. 



That Sugar Trust. Fruit growers keenly 

 feel during the canning season the monstrous 

 grip of the infamous sugar trust. Granulated 

 sugar that two years ago could be bought of 

 nearly all retailers at six cents a pound can not 

 now be had short of about nine cents a 

 pound. The difference between these two figures 

 goes into the pockets of the owners of the great 

 sugar trust that was formed in October, 18.S7. 

 They secured absolute control of the market, 

 and have advanced i)rices to suit themseh'es. 

 Sugar cannot advance much farther, for now the 

 price is near a figure that would admit of profit- 

 able importions. It is a conspiracy against the 

 people that must be put down. To do this two 

 ways are oi>en, one is the rigid and prompt appli- 

 cation of the laws against conspiracies, the other 

 the repeal of imjiort duties on sugar until such a 

 time as the trust may feel the effects of importa- 

 tion. In any event, come the remedy as quickly 

 as ijossible, no relief wUl be felt during the pres- 

 ent year. 



Damage by Frost and Flood. It will be 

 some time before we begin to realize the full ex- 

 tent of the damage done to this year's fruit and 

 other crops, not to mention the apalling loss of 

 life and property by the May frosts and ttoods. 

 Over large areas fruit growers arc bewailihg the 

 almost complete loss of promising Apple and 

 Grape crops by the frost of May 29th. Fortu- 



nately the great diversity of soil and climates of 

 the States almost excludes the possibility of such 

 a calamity becoming universal. We shall have 

 some fruit, but for once no reason to complain 

 of over-prixluction. The floods also have done 

 considerable damage to horticulture in some 

 memorable instances. We are privileged to make 

 a few extiacts of a private letter written by Mr. 

 Harry Chaapcl, seedsman and florist, of Williams- 

 port, Pa., to one of our acquaintances. "On 

 June 1st we were completely flooded— 4)4 feet of 

 water in olfice, B in greenhouses and store, and 

 still more in seed store. Seeds 'all lost, plants 

 rather muddy. My house stood nobly in water 

 more than a day and night. The water came less 

 hin'riedly than the Johnstown flood' No glass in 

 house lost. Over 200 hot-bed sashes lost and 

 broken. To-day— a week after the flood— we are 

 trying to get our stores open to do business. 1 

 am tar from discouraged, as my loss compared 

 to that of some is small. The entire business 

 portion of the town was in water five feet or 

 more, and our large dry goods, grocery, shoe and 

 other stores present a pitiful sight."' 



The Florlsts' Convention. Buffalo's location 

 so nearly midway between the " East and West," 

 and its nearness to Canada, should render the 

 coming meeting August :?0-22, the most largely 

 attended convention of the Society ever held. 

 Our local organization is not so strong as that of 

 New York, Philadelphia or Chicago, hence the 

 local attendance will not equal that of some 

 former meetings, but this should be more than 

 offset by the fact that :i2 railroads terminate at 

 Buffalo, giving quick, cheap and direct com- 

 munication from all sections where floriculture 

 has made the greatest advances. That Niagara 

 Falls is a suburb of Buffalo, should also draw 

 many florists here whomightfeel that they could 

 not spare the time and means for a similar trip 

 elsewhere. On another page we point out vari- 

 ous other inducements which should lead to a 

 lai'ge attendance. All those railroads that are 

 represented in the Trunk Line Passenger Com- 

 mittee, the New England Passenger Committee, 

 the Central Traffic Association and the Southern 

 Association, offer a rate of 1% fare on the certifi- 

 cate plan to \isitors. Tickets will be good 

 for three days before opening and three days 

 after close of convention. Delegates will i»ay 

 full fare going, getting from their ticket agent 

 at starting point a certificate stating this fact, 

 and having obtained the signature of the Secre- 

 tjiry of the Association at the meeting to thLs 

 certificate, they will be entitled to return ticket 

 at % fare. For the convenience of the visiting 

 florists we offer herewith a list of the hotels of 

 Buffalo, from which special rates have been 

 secured for convention delegates: Tifft House 

 (headquarters of the Society), Tifft House Block, 

 $3.00 per day; Iroquois, Eagle and Main, $;i.i)0 

 $4.00 per da.v; The Niagara, Porter avenue and 

 Seventh street, J:!.50-4.r)0 per day; The Genesee, 

 Genesee corner Main, ]KJ.0O-:3..5O per day; Mansion 

 House, Exchange street corner Main, $:j'00 per 

 day; Sttifford House, Washington street corner 

 Carroll, $2.00 per day; Tuckers's Hotel, Exchange 

 and Michigan streets, $2.00 per day; United States 

 Hotel, Terrace corner Pearl street, $1..5O-2.00 per 

 day; Eagle House, Washington corner Eagle, 

 $2.00 per day. (iruener's Hotel (German), 20 East 

 Huron street, $2.00 per day; Southern Hotel, 

 Michigan aud Seneca streets, $1.50 per day; St. 

 Johns House, 3!t East Swan street, $1.50 per day; 

 Tiemont House, Washington and Seneca, $1.50 

 per day; Brunswick House, Exchange street 

 corner Washington street, $1.50 per day; Fillmore 

 House, Michigan and Carroll streets, $1.50 per 

 day. Applications for rooms may be made 

 direct to the hotels, or of Thomas Clayton, Chair- 

 man Hotel Committee, HO Richmond avenue, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. Visitors are invited to ha\e their 

 mail matter addrcsseil to themselves, Popitlar 

 Gardening oflice, 202 Main ;street, for the con- 

 vention season. 



Cornering the Cabbage Maggot 



D. M. DDNNINO, CATTTOA CO., N. T. 



I believe that I have found a remedy for 

 the Cabbage Maggot. On May '^Oth, I 

 noticed that an acre of early Cabbage and 

 about V acre of early Cauliflower were 

 lagging in growth in spite of favorable 

 weather aud plenty of rain, and on examin- 

 ing at least twenty plants by taking them 

 up entire, I found their stems below ground 

 entirely encased in maggots aud in some 

 cases the ball of earth at the roots was alive 

 with them— a nasty, pasty mess. 



After consultation with the gardener in 

 charge we decided to try an application of 

 lime and liquid maniu'e, having plenty of 

 the latter on hand. We haul liquicj manure 

 in a tank holding about 120 gallons on a 

 two wheel cart made for this purpose. Next 

 morning we procured ten bushels of fresh 

 burned lime and with about 1(X) gallons of 

 the liquid in the tank, put in five pecks of 



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Grafting the Lemon and Orange. See next page. 

 lime and this was thoroughly stirred for 

 some ten minutes, and then drawn off from 

 the bottom of the tank into common water- 

 ing cans from which the sprinklers were 

 removed. A pint of the liquid was poured 

 around each plant, using in all about 1,000 

 gallons and the 10 bushels of quick lime. 

 On a portion of the patch fresh gas lime was 

 used in place of the quick lime. 



On the 3Tth of May a careful examination 

 of at least a dozen plants was made by 

 digging them up entire. Where the quick 

 lime was used not a live maggot could in 

 any case be found. What astonished me 

 most was the rapidity with which the plants 

 had made new roots, some of them in places 

 being as fine as silk fiber and four to six 

 inches long, and in other places looking 

 more like a web of mould than plant roots, 

 yet strong enough to hold quite a weight of 

 earth attached to them, showing how 

 rapidly nature will repair injuries when 

 given a good chance. 



Where the gas lime was used the effect 

 was not so good, there being a few live 

 maggots found under the clump of roots, 

 and many of the plants were undoubtedly 

 injured as only about one half of this por- 

 tion were saved, althotigh subsequently 

 treated with the quick lime. On the portion 

 where the quick lime only was used, not 

 one plant in fifty is mis.sing. The average 

 size of the plant at the time was about the 

 size of a man's hand or larger, and June 



