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POPULAR GARDENING. 



August, 



Old-Fashioned Posies. 



Oh, for the dear, old fashioned posies 



Growing close by the kltehen door; 

 Popples soft to bring forgetting. 



Balm and Mint for a spirit sore. 

 Heartsease sweet for hearts that are aehing. 



Ragged Ladies and Four O'Clocks; 

 Marigolds with wealth uncounted. 



Cabbage Roses and Hollyhocks. 

 Old-time Pinks with their spicy odor. 



Tiger Lilies and Columbine; 

 Honey sweet in Its golden chalice. 



Humming birds in the climbing vine, 

 Sunflowers tall that turn their faces 



Out to the west as the sun goes down; 

 Morning Glories that close and cower 



Under the rays of his burning frown. 



— Evening Wisconsin. 



The Yellow Bird. 



There's a gay little yellow bird flitting about 



In the Maple just over the way, 

 'Mong the scarlet twigs, now in and now out. 

 Now pausing, as If some wish or some doubt 



Had bidden his wings delay. 

 O dear little bird with your golden vest, 



I hope you'll decide to stay; 

 For nothing shall ever your brood molest. 

 If you'll come and build your beautiful nest 



Of lichens all green and gray. 

 —Julia Anna Woh-ott, in Christian Register. 



The Little Gardener. 



I know a gardener bright and spry. 



But for a certain reason 

 His crops, tho' blest with culture high. 



Are far behind the season. 

 More faith Is what the laddie needs. 



For he is always doubting. 

 And every day digs up the seeds 



To see If they are sprouting. 



— Youths^ Companion, 



August (or Pansy sowing. 



The hoe mulch for drouth. 



Flum sprouts are bad lawn weeds. 



A dirty plant house is abominable. 



Label the ornamental trees and plants. 



For mildew on Boses (five better culture. 



The Cut'leaved Currant is a pleasing shrub. 



On to Buffalo. American Florists Aug, SO-SJ. 



Flowers on the table add a relish to the meal. 



A garden can hardly have too many fine Pan- 

 sies. 



Liquid manures for quick action in plant 

 growth. 



Early Cabbage. The Wakefield shows itself 

 yet at the head. 



It is good time yet for sowing seeds of most 

 hardy perennial flowers. 



Our lawn mowings go for mulching or as a 

 morning meal in the poultry yard. 



The old talk of Tomato foliage as a repeller of 

 insects, revived annually, is nonsense. 



Of dwarf Evergreens at " Woodbanks," the 

 Dwarf Black Spruce is the handsomest. 



Two in One The California Florist and Gar 

 dener "consolidated" with Pacific Rural Press. 



A "skimpy" supply of fruits and vegetables 

 is anything but creditable to the large land owner. 



Bubber bands for tying Asparagus is the sug- 

 gestion by Prof. Green of the Ohio Experiment 

 Station. 



Three things for continuous bloom in all 

 annuals— liquid manure, removal of faded flowers 

 and the hoe. 



Will the coming florist attend conventions'/ 

 Certainly ! that's what he's coming to Bufi'alo 

 for, August 20-33. 



In many places the purple Clematis is so com- 

 monly grown that to meet an occasional white or 

 blue is a great relief. 



English gardeners are severely criticising the 

 management of the horticultural department of 

 the Paris Exposition, 



Winter Badishes may be sown throughout this 

 month. Try the Mammoth California for size, 

 crispness and mildness. 



How BO many people can get along without 

 flowers and fruits is a puzzle to me, says Judge 

 Miller. It is to us, too. 



For quick growing or forcing Radishes the 

 Early Erfurt and the Earliest Carmine Forcing 

 have turned out the best on our grounds. 



Among many varieties of Strawberries, Cres- 

 cent, Haverland, Bubach and Jessie have proven 

 the most proBtablehere.—T. F. Longnccker,Ohw. 

 Everlasting Pea. I have a row of this peren- 

 nial o^-er 30 feet long, which is a perfect hedge of 

 bloom f orweeks every summer.— Jlf. Grace, New- 

 port Co., R. I. 



Of course you desire the finest blossoms and 

 most of them in your Cobojas, Cypress vines, 

 and other climbers. Then supply them with 

 adequate support. 



The most attractive bed on the Popular Gar- 

 dening grounds is a large circular one devoted 

 to the Blood-leaved Plura, with a margin of var- 

 iegated-leaved Cornelian Cherry. 



Plant Labels. A subscriber complains of the 

 perishable nature of florists' plant labels and the 

 writing thereon, and speaks in favor of using 

 zinc labels written on with indelible ink. 



Carnation Maggot. Some English florists 

 complain of the ravages of an insect (maggot) 

 which feeds on Carnation leaves. Its parent is 

 said to be a fly somewhat resembling a mosquito. 

 The cultivation of hardy perennial flowers is 

 real gardening in a way that bedding plant cul- 

 ture is not. Why? Because the former are in 

 their natural state, the latter for the most part 

 are art improved. 



New interest is added to Tulip culture by the 

 announcement of Messrs. Krelage & Sons of a 

 new race of these flowers named Tuiipca Darwin. 

 Amongst the colors are a "porcelain blue" and 

 "delicate violet." 



La 8alle-on-the-Niagara. To such florists as 

 favor us with a visit at "Woodbanks" during 

 convention week we believe we can show some 

 new ideas in decorating lawns with hardy trees, 

 shrubs and plants. 



A Good Verdict. A Boston jury has given 

 83,0,57 verdict to a florist where greenhouses suf- 

 fered injury from the negligence of city labor in 

 digging up the streets in the winter season and 

 exposing the water pipes connected with them. 

 Safety in Weakness Only. Remedy for black 

 rot in Grapes, although prepared with care, 

 proved too strong, and on some of the vines 

 burned the foliage badly. I am going to con- 

 tinue applying it with the solution weaker.— 

 itmith NkhoU. 



A comparison of the Wild Strawberry with the 

 cultivated made at the Ohio Experiment Station 

 showed that while the former has six per cent 

 of seeds the latter has only 1 .52 per cent., giving 

 us a reduction of quantity of seed by cultiva- 

 tion of 4. .5 per cent. 



A white Fuchsia, that is, the flowers bein„' 

 white throughout, has been secured by the vet- 

 eran Fuchsia raiser, Mr. George Fay, of Lewi*, 

 ham, England It is a vig orous grower and 

 free bloomer, the foliage and flowers of good 

 form and altogether as beautiful as its name. 



Thummage. Old Lady to Huckster— How 

 much are tlie Strawberries ? Huckster— Fiftet n 

 centsaquart. Old Lady— With or without thum 

 mage'? Huckster— What is thummage'i' Olil 

 Lady— The number of Strawberries which would 

 go into the space your thumb occupies in that 

 quart cup. — FVom the Oivl. 



Another Parker Earle Strawberry, to be intro 

 duced by Prof. T. V. Munson. The originator, 

 James Nimson, of Texas, writes to the Rural, 

 that in fruitfulness, beauty of berry, high 

 quality and vigor of plant, it certainly surpasses 

 anything, even among the many "wonderf uls" in 

 the Strawberry line growing on his grtmnds. 



Decidedly a horticultural subject— that is the 

 family horse, and for this reason we desire to 

 call special attention to a tastily gotten up, sub- 

 stantially bound work of some 1.50 pages, pub- 

 lished by the Orange Judd Co., of New York. 

 The author, Geo. A. Martin, presents his subject 

 "The Famil.v Horse," in all its various aspects 



Sowing Fine Seeds, Under this head come the 

 Calceolarias, Cinerarias, and some others now 

 seasonable for sowing. Bear it in mind that 

 shallow planting, thorough firming, and keeping 

 surface moist but not wet, are the secrets of 



success in sowing such. A pane of glass or a 

 thin covering of sifted sphagnum secures the 

 moist surface condition. 



Saving Tomato Seed, Five yeai-s ago I began 



growing Acme and Livingston's Favorite, and 



last year have saved the seed from the first ripe 



Tomatoes. Now I get the first fruit at least 



three weeks earlier than I did when I first 



began to plant. I have this day (July 5th) picked 



as fine a basket of fruit as I 



used to the first of August.— S. 



M. Hoyt, Neb. 



A Flower Support. The en- 

 graving of a flower support 

 given on this page is from an 

 English source and well repre- 

 sents the advantage there may 

 be in the use of some such a 

 device in floriculture. This one 

 is made of tinned wire. Its good 

 points are that it can be ad- 

 justed to a flower in half the 

 time it takes to tie them; it 

 holds the flower perfectly 

 secure ; can be easily removed 

 when desired and will last for 

 years. 



_^ A New Use for Plants. In 



^^ the dry air of our furnace or 



\\ base burner heated houses the 



"" pianos suffer as well as the 



health of human beings. The 



Extension Plant piano gets out of tune often 



SuppoH. ^Q^ perhaps the sounding 



board cracks and a large biU for repairs is the 



result. A shelf of thrifty plants in the room is 



constantly giving out moisture, good for the 



lungs and the piano. We ought to keep plants 



for the sake of economy.— Sister Gracious. 



Handy Things for Ornament, If one thing 

 more than another should serve to prdraote an 

 intense love for country life, it would, accord- 

 ing to our idea, be a deep border of irregular 

 flowering outhne along one or more sides of the 

 lawns and devoted to a collection of small trees 

 in the back ground and shrubs and hardy flowers 

 in front. Such a border should combine to a 

 handsome show of flowers and foliage the season 

 through. Keep the soil tilled. 



Qrape Culture in Wisconsin. Where the Apple 

 is iniable to stand the winter's cold the flexible 

 Grape vine can be laid down and buried out of 

 harm's way until danger is past. At least this 

 conclusion might be based upon the results of 

 experiments made by Prof. Henry of the Wis- 

 consin Experiment Station. Among good 

 Grapes that ripen in Wisconsin summers under 

 the treatment indicated Prof. Henry names 

 Delaware, Concord, Worden, Salem and others 

 of the Roger's Grapes. 



Water Lilies. I have a tub of Water Lilies in 

 '\ my yard sunk to the brim. Last winter I put 





A SIMPLE FUMIGATING DEVICE. 



some boards over it ami covered with coal ashes. 

 They kept well. This spring" as the Lilies did 

 not grow as fast as 1 desired I put in a large 

 pailful of liquid manure. In a few days they 

 threw up large, beautiful, healthy green leaves, 

 and soon blossomed. Since then I have given 

 them another pail of manure water, and the tub 

 is now full of large, rank green leaves, very 

 beautiful.— Jiiy8 Jennie Spencer. 



Flint's New Work on Grasses. This hand- 

 some \'olume of 3Jt8 pages is from the press of Lee 

 & Shepherd, lloston. It is a revised edition of a 

 former work by Mr. Charles L. Flint, who is a 

 recognized authority in this field. In the present 

 work the author aims to embody the most recent 

 practical and scientific information on the his- 

 tory, culture and nutritive value of the grasses 



