1889. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



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foruia. The title of tlie translation will be 

 Ameruaii Graiic Vincst and tlnir Dinaasen. A 

 second and supplementary work is promised on 

 Viticultun' in A nierica. 



Emergency Baskets. Why not ha\oone under 

 the iilant shelf V ( 'areful mothers generally pro- 

 vide in nurseries tor sudden sickness or accidents, 

 and plants take the place of children to those 

 who can eare for them. In my emergency basket 

 is a hammer, scissors, tacks, striufr, old knife and 

 cup holding Tobacco powder. If one had to look 

 for these things, tliey would not be so apt to be 

 used. Now, I can clip ott a dead shoot or trim 

 the branches with my scissors, tie up a straggling 

 branch and woe betide a green insect that has 

 slipped in, and malacionsly began on a leaf; a 

 pinch from my toV>acco settles him. I also have 

 a small bo.\ of sand, another of soil, and still an- 

 other of tree mold, while a few small thumb pots 

 arc tucked away in a corner. So a few minutes 

 here and there through my busy days keeps 

 things in order, and is a delightful change from 

 dish washing, or bread making. I know I can 

 lay my hand on just what I want, so the few min- 

 utes* work among the plants does wondei"S. I 

 have also a bo.x for slipping, and another for 

 seeds. The last has a movable glass top, made 

 from a broken pane. What should I tind in it 

 one day but a small Elm tree, from a seed that 

 had ft)und its way in, and sprouted. I didn't have 

 the heart to throw it out, and it has commenced a 

 vigorous career in a thumb pot.— Sister GracUnis. 



Large Elm Trees Removed. I know of no city 

 where the mania for removing large shade trees 

 for the streets is so great as in Chicago; the streets 

 being lined with Elm trees, moved when from 

 eight inches to one foot in diameter. But as a 

 centennial effort Mr. Simon, superintendent of 

 the Graceland cemetery, has just moved two Elm 

 trees that have been growing within si.x feet of 

 each other the best part of the century, the 

 larger being 3 feet 6 inches, the smaller over 8 

 feet in diameter three feet from the ground. 

 Ordinary the large trees are slung between huge 

 wheels constructed for the purpose, but this 

 mass of earth and roots was very near fifty feet 

 one way by thirty the other, weighing fifteen or 

 twenty tons. A house mover done the job ex- 

 actly as he would move a house, raising the mass 

 by jack screws, and inserting great timbers un- 

 derneath in all directions, then by means of a 

 windlas and chains, the whole mass is moved, up- 

 1 ight as it grew, slowly to a distance of nearly ^ 

 of a mile, a permit for the occupancy of the 

 streets being obtained of the authorities. The 

 house mover's charges were over $400, and so far 

 the noble old twin monarehs appeared to have 

 leaved out, as they must have done each spring 

 since the time that the red man roamed over, and 

 supposed he owned, the now mighty west.— Ed- 

 gar Smiders, Chicayo. 



About A Japanese Bose. I hke the Rosa ru- 

 gosa for its sturdy, uiiique appearance, its hand- 

 some foliage, which emits a fragrance after a 

 rain like the Sweet Briar, which delighted my 

 sense of smell 60 years ago, when a large bush of 

 it grew beside the school house door where I 

 learned my A B C's. To this day I am reminded 

 of that time whenever I pass a bush of the Jap- 

 anese. Two plants are interwoven, a red and a 

 white, and while not perfect in form they make 

 u nice show, blooming nearly- all summer. You 

 will hnd the little Apples full of seeds, sur- 

 rounded with a pretty thick pulpy shell, which 

 has some taste in it that might possibly pe put to 

 use if other fruit was scarce. The bright red 

 Apples on the bushes look handsome when the 

 latter is partly co\'ered by snow. These seeds 

 will grow readily when ripe if put in the ground 

 iu the fall; will grow from six inches to a foot 

 the first yeai-. It is possible that it would make 

 a good stock to bud some of the hardy varieties 

 of Hoses upon. There are some Hoses that give 

 much better flowers when budded on some strong 

 stock than when grown <m their own roots. 1 

 have just now Qve varieties budded on a com- 

 mon annual bush, three of Avhieb are iu bloom 

 at this time, Marishal Niel, Star of Lyons and 

 Bride (this latter is a si>lendid bud), Vick's Ca- 

 price and Baron de Bonstettcn. The three last 

 named are from buds taken from small plants 

 BOt from abroad last spring; are now much larger 

 than the plants taken from, and two have bloomed 

 while the plants have not yet shown a bud. This 

 Hose budding I practice all summer, and am 

 greatly pleased with the results.— ^'. Miller. 



Grouping Hardy Plants, .\ leading point in 

 fa\'or of many hardy Ihiwi'ring plants is that 

 they possess a stately and oraanietital appear- 

 ance the season through, which fits them well for 



arranging in groups on the lawn. This is nfit the 

 ease, however, with all kinds. Of the former 

 class wo call to mind some pleasiiw masses we 

 have met in the past. I'a'onies are always in 

 place when thus used ; we have seen them grow- 

 ing in large groups of irregular outline, which 

 were extremely satisfactory. By i>aying some 

 attention to having the dark colors towards one 

 end shading off to lighter and linally white at the 

 other end, with perhaps a plant of the darkest 

 set among the light ones fijr balancing the coloi-s, 

 the effect at the time of bloom is charming 

 beyond description. In the Canadian Park at 

 Niagara Ealls is a large circular bed devoted 

 wholly to plants of the Copper Day Lily (llem- 

 eroeallis) the appearance of which is handsome 

 indeed. Yueea fllamentosa similarly used, or 



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GROUP OF CUT-WORM MOTHS. 



perhaps better if set into beds of irregular shape 

 are unei|ualed for line effect in lawn embellish- 

 ment. The Plantain Lily, especially the large 

 white iFitnkia alba) is one of the handsomest of 

 lawn plants if grown in partial shade in a light 

 rich loam. Perhaps the first combination in this 

 line we have ever seen was a simple group con- 

 sisting of strong dwarfs of the common Blue 

 Iris or Flag, intermi.ved with the graceful yellow 

 Day Lily ( Hcmerorallis flam). Both plants were 

 in bloom at the same time, forming a contrast in 

 the color of the flowers most pleasing. Second 

 to the color contrast was that of the erect pointed 

 leaves of the Iris with the gracefully curving 

 leaves of the Day Lily. The kinds of plants to 

 avoid in this work are such as Delphiniums, Pop- 

 pies and Sweet Williams, which present a shrub- 

 by appearance of leaf after the bloom is gone 



Planting Bulbs. ' Notwithstanding it is a gen- 

 erally acknowledged fact that a garden without 

 an abundance of blooms from the Dutch bulbs, 

 coming as so many do in the early spring before 

 other subjects of more tender nature dare put 

 forth, is incomplete, there are many gardens 

 throughout the country which are almost whijily 

 destitute of such adornment, though there is a 

 large annual outlay on the preteuti<ius (and to 

 many minds aboninable) summer bedding. The 

 outlay of a single season iu this way, if spent for 

 Lilies, P.aeonies. and other fall-planted bulbs and 

 roots, would cause annual rejoicing for many 

 years, on the whole being far more satisfactory 

 in the end, especially if money be an object. 

 Among richer classes of people. Hyacinth, Tulips, 

 and so on are often planted in the summer beds 

 after they are destroyed by frost in the fall, and 

 these bulbs are lifted before time for setting the 

 summer flowers again. This is treating them as 

 though they were annuals, practically. Its re- 

 sult is that any season's growth is not fully com- 

 pleted, rendering the bulbs impaired for further 

 use, and is far from satisfactory. This plan 

 might do in some eases of summer bedding where 

 the things were planted in rows, setting the sum- 

 mer plants out between the rows in which the 

 bulbs were planted the fall before; or instead of 

 Geraniums being used in the bulb beds, let some 

 thing not requiring such deep root growth be 

 used, as for example the Verbena. The best way, 

 however, is t() plant where they may remain per- 

 manently, witlajut being disturbed, as increased 

 beauty ari<l strength of the clumps each sea.son 

 will be the in\-ariablc result. The season for 

 planting an out-door collection of bulbs extends 

 over (juitc a length of time, especially in the t-a.se 

 of Lilies which do not all ripen their growth at 

 the same time, therefore varying the planting 

 time. The work, however, should begin in early 

 September by laying out the plot ami deciding 

 delinitcly as to tl)f rehUi\ e positirai of t'ach suli- 

 ject, having in mind the growth and time of l)loom 

 of each. The ground also should be prepared some 



time before needed, bj making it rich, light and 

 deep. Sand and leaf mold ar<^ important factors 

 to the greatest success with most of this class of 

 bulbs.- H'. F.Lalie, KricCn., N. Y. 



New York Floral Notes. 



Two or three of the large Hose growers have 

 Hose hou.ses in full bloom, and their friends are 

 wondering how they do it, Perles especially— one 

 man is credited with .sending in one thousand 

 blooms of this Hose in a single day. Of course 

 trade is very dull, but there must be some money 

 in it, or these Hoses would n(jt be produced now. 



Some very fine funeral work baa been done 

 lately— not designs, which are not called for in 

 the best trade, but decorations of the mortuary 

 chamber. In some cases, where the remains 

 hare been lying in state for about a week, the 

 decorations have been altered or renewed each 

 day. These decorations consist chictiy of plants, 

 though of course flowers are also used. The 

 plants are disposed much the same as for a recep- 

 tion, but there is also some special decoratiftu 

 about the casket; it is sun'oundcd by or banked 

 in plants, and is usually covered with a plague 

 or pall of flowers. These plagues are usually 

 made just large enough to cover the top of the 

 casket, or they are arranged with an easy grace 

 which removes the idea of any set design. One 

 which had a loose ground-work of white flow- 

 ers, with a Pansy border, had in one upper 

 corner a loose trailing bunch of Cattleyas. These 

 Orchids are very much u.sed; they are especially 

 useful at this season, when Hue flowers are scarce. 

 A lightly made, loose wreath of Pansies, with a 

 trailing knot of Cattleyas at one side, made an 

 exquisite funeral design for an elderly person— 

 the wreath is one of the few designs which are 

 without stiffness when rightly made. But a fun- 

 eral wreath, when made according to the old 

 fashion, very round, very white and very smooth, 

 looking as if built with a trowel, is vastly differ- 

 ent from the loose artistic garland produced by 

 a good florist. 



Peter Henderson's Gladiolus show made a wel- 

 come break in the monotony the first week in 

 August. It was both large and good— the best 

 show he has favored us with. The finest Gladio- 

 lus there was a new white, which, I fancy, orig- 

 inated with C. L. Allen. It is really a good white, 

 having only a pale Lilac stripe in the lower petal; 

 the spikes are large and the te.xture good. It 

 has received a certificate of merit and prospect- 

 ive prize from the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society; it must be exhibited there three suc- 

 ceeding years before it receives the final prize. 

 On the whole the light colored Gladiolus were 

 the best at this show; it was rather a wonder to 

 see the flowers looking so good, after nearly a 

 week of the wettest, gloomiest weather known. 



Some of the new French Cannas were on ex- 

 hibition: they are most charming. Unquestion- 

 ably the finest Cannas seen yet; they are as showy 

 as Gladioli. A brilliant carmine, ITlrieh Brunner, 

 is almost the handsomest; large Iris-shaped 

 flowers, like Ehemannii, but an erect spike. They 

 are very free bloomers, and make a beautiful 

 group. Some showy varieties are golden-spotted 

 and streaked with crimson and scarlet; they look 

 more like an Orchid than a Caiuia. 



Some of those wonderful Dwarf Lima Beans in 

 pots attracted much attention; it certainly does 

 look odd to see Limas growing on compact little 

 plants the size of bush Beans. 



Some beautiful specimens of the red-striped 

 Lilium auratum (I/, auratum var. rubnim eitiat- 

 um) were very large and fine; this is a \'ery showy 

 thingforalargeva.se. Altogether a show most 

 creditable and handsome. 



Most of the city florists are buying up Palms 

 and other foliage plants in a way that implies a 

 large use for them next winter. A preference is 

 shown for those which have been summering in 

 the shade out of iloors; they arc so much hardier 

 than plants drawn up under glass that they are 

 very much more useful in decoration. A good 

 many of the Palms, Seaforthias or Kentias, are 

 planted three or four in a pot; this make a 

 thicker, bushier looking plant, though it has a 

 tendency to draw the leaves up; however, they 

 don't show this in the group. In many cases the 

 luu'row. drawn up plants are quite as useful as 

 the more spreading ones when forming a group, 

 but of course usually the ra(»re robust a plant is 

 the better. 



Sweet Peas are regarded with a good deal of 

 favor, but of course they are very cheap. A 

 buni-h of three or f<air blue Corn flowers is quite 

 a fashionable boutonniere. 



Emily Louise Tapun. 



