1889. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



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stock. This may be verifled by the long 

 slender plants, being deficient in strength 

 and hardiness as the leaves are thinner and 

 thrown farther apart. This is a very im- 

 portant principle in Grape training. 



Notes from the Popular Gardening 



Grounds at La Salle-on-the- 



Niagara. 



A Plan of the Groumlg. If tlio reader must 

 ver.v carefully use his eyes in order to compre- 

 hend the features of the phiu which we take 

 pleasure in presenting this month, It is because 

 the bringing of the many details of our 13 acres 

 into the length of a page requires considerable 

 ndnuteness of parts. The plan is an accurate 

 one of the Popular Gardening grounds re- 

 duced to a scale of about 10 feet to 1-16 inch, and 

 as such we l)elieve it to be worthy of some study 

 by our readers who take an interest in the work 

 being prosecuted on what some term "our sub- 

 scribers' Central E.\periment Farm." The dark 

 portion represents these grounds, the lighter 

 parts the neighboring orchards and gardens, 

 which to the extent of thousimds of acres, almost 

 completely hem in the farm under consideration. 



Of the various improvements indicated on the 

 map, those of upwards of two-thirds of the area 

 represented have at this time been carried out|in 

 the planting and other early stages of the work. 

 The plats marked 12, 11, 10, and parts of 9, 3, and 

 5 are yet incomplete, while there are also vacan- 

 cies in the fruit plantations awaiting later varie- 

 ties to be tested. Almost every detail of lawn 

 trees, walks and drives about the house A, as 

 well as of the plat 4, 6, 8, are accurately shown in 

 the engraving. The Apple orchard to the rear 

 of the house, consisting of trees eight years 

 planted, was on the ground when the present 

 owner bought here. The drive indicated on the 

 upper part of the plan has not been completely 

 opened. 



Looking to the north (lower part of map) a 

 visitor would also find almost every detail fully 

 carried out. The Standard Pears appear to the 

 left in the engraving, and next to these in the 

 order named are Dwaif Pears, Plums, Quinces, 

 Cherries, Peaches, Apricots, Grapes, Nectarines, 

 Nuts, etc. The new lawn extending from the 

 turning place 7 to the bridge, is with the excep- 

 tion of a portion of plat 5, a complete sward over 

 which the mower has at this date passed several 

 times. As a grass plat it is especially interesting 

 as showing eight distinct tests of grasses for 

 lawns, either in separate varieties or mi.xed. The 

 same lawn, mainly in the half towards the creek 

 and bordered by an attractive fringe of natural 

 wood, supports an extensive planting of orna- 

 mental shrubs, trees, hardy flowers, evergreens, 

 Roses, etc. In the main the soil where these 

 gi-owtbs stand is kept tilled the plantations being 

 beds and borders in eifect, cut into the lawn. 



The rine walk between plats and the orchard, 

 and extending to the vineyard, is in part planted 

 to an assortment of creepers. The same walk 

 takes a sweep around to the creek bank as shown 

 in the lower part of the engraving, and here it 

 continues through the natural growth of wood, 

 shrubs and iilauts, the wild erarden that occupies 

 this bank and throughout its length back to the 

 bridge. To the south of the bridge and house 

 for a distance of some .300 feet the natural wood of 

 the bank has been thinned out somewhat and 

 the grade improved to form an easy slope of 

 lawn from the house to the waters edge, as illus- 

 trated on page 165, May issue. Beyond this, and 

 to the extreme south point, this woody bank has 

 been allowed to remain very nearly in its natural 

 condition. It is decidedly attractive. 



In further issues some of the plats of the 

 grounds will be illustrated on an enlarged scale, 

 to show the detail of the arrangement for setting 

 forth the principles of laying out fruit, vegeta- 

 ble and ornamental plats. 



Primmng lStrau'tierrk;i. We do not feel called 

 upon to speak critically and in detail about the 

 one hundred or more varieties of Strawberries 

 now growing on our test grounds, since the plant- 

 ation was only established with plants set last 

 autumn, and some as late as this spring, and the 

 plants at that were obtained from nurseries far 

 and near, and not exactly in uniform condition 

 when received. This we can say, however, that 

 some of the newer sorts give considerable promise 

 of value. Among them we have the Haverland, 

 with early, elongated, large fruit and healthy 

 foliage: the Warfield, with jilenty of large, fine 

 fruit, fully as early and also very nearly as 



INDEX. 



The Munson 

 Fruit Farm. 



12 Pi'oposi'd 

 South Lawn 



D Proposetl 

 Arbor. 



11 Inner 

 South Laivn 



Cayuga 



Creelc. 



Bush Small 

 Fruits. 



10 Fruit 

 Border 



Highway . 



9 Water 

 Front Lawn 



Hedge Tests. 

 Vegetables 



Straw- 

 berries. 



8 South 

 Home Lawn 



Orchard. 



1 Front 



La irn. 

 A Residencr 

 and Editor- 

 ial Office. 

 2 North 

 Home Lawn 



DRH'E. 



Conifers. 



Vine Walk. 



4 West 



Lawn. 



5 Center 



Lawn. 

 Roses. 

 C StabU\ 

 Shr^ibbery 



Beds. 

 E Vine 



Arbor. 



B Proposed 



Cottage. 

 Wood Path. 



Aquatics. 



ViNEYAHD. 



E Ferns. 



Wild 



Garden. 



7 Turn in 



Drive 

 Pears. 



Plums. 



Cherries. 



Peaches. 



Apricots. 



Nuts. 



S Bit of 



Forest. 

 Windbreak. 





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AcciiRiTE Plan of the Grounds now being Imtroved. Scale about 10 feet to 116 inch. 

 At this Date the Planting has been about Two-thirds Completed. This Faum of I;1 acres 

 Bordered on One Side by the Woody Banks of the Cayuua Creek is Located 6 Miles from 

 Niagara Falls in the Midst of the Famous Fruit Growing and Garden Region of Niagara 

 Co., N. Y. Visitors to the Grounds Are Axways Welcome, 



