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POPULAR GARDENING. 



October, 



An Old-Fashloned Garden. 



A lovely place in the evening light 



Wherein to rest and be idle; 

 Its borders so shadowy, yet so bright. 

 Where old-fashioned Roses dwell by right. 

 And queeul.y Lilies are clad in white, 



Like flowers adorned for a bridal. 

 Here Gillyflowers spread till their branches seem 



A brood of chicks round their mother; 

 There, tender-ej'ed Pansies muse and dream, 

 Aad Jasmine stars through the twilight gleam. 

 And Sunflowers and Hollyhocks, grown supreme. 



Pay stately court to each other. 

 Here Wallflowers open with rich perfume 



Their velvety brown and yellow, 

 And, taking more than their share of room. 

 In far-spread patches Sweet- Williams bloom. 

 And regal Dahlias their crowns assume 



When the year grows ruddy and mellow. 



— Girh' Own Paper. 



The scent of a flower is a wonderful thing ! 



It plays round the heart like the zephyrs of spring ; 



So subtle, so soft, so resistless its power. 



No monarchy rules like the scent of a flower. 



Some odors so blend with past happier years 



They move us like melodies breathing thro' tears; 



For they bring back the faces and forms that are 



cold. 

 And walks in the woods 'mid sunsets of gold. 



— Jane C. Simpson. 



Plant firmly. 



Trench the soil deep. 



Clear up after every crop. 



A cheap county seat: A stump. 



Acacia roots smell like Garlics. 



Serpentine walks we dou't like. 



Try an Abutilon for the window. 



What heauty the woods now show. 



Horticulture should be a school study. 



Tomato-red is a fashionable new shade. 



Daisies need a moist but not a wet soil. 



Grape branches 200 feet long are known. 



Sweet Williams do fairly well in poor soil. 



Plant Hyacinths and the like now or never. 



October planting answers first rate for hardy 

 Roses. 



Tree Paeonies are grown as pot or box plants 

 in Europe. 



A bit of parafiin oil in the soapsuds for clean- 

 ing plants help?. 



Flums in the Buffalo market were never more 

 abundant than this year. 



What flower should be a favorite with singers? 

 The Trilliums of course. 



Calceolaria seedlings are offered bj' English 

 florists at :>5 cents a dozen. 



Now mind and plant your bulbs, mainly in 

 clumps, each sort by itself. 



To find the age of a tree, a smart boy tells 

 us, learn when it was planted. 



Prompt renewals are a delight to any pub- 

 lisher's heart. Think about this. 



Poppy alcohol is a new German product. A 

 good deal of it is being made, they say. 



If flowers are nature's jewels, then garden- 

 ers are jewelers, for they set the flowers. 



" My Nose Garden " is what Mrs. G. S. R. 

 calls a plat of all sweet^smelling flowers. 



The Grape-vine is long-lived; with fair care 

 it will outlive its planter. Treat the vines well. 



As Onions induce sleep, let us suggest that 

 they be eaten not earh' in the day, but about 

 bed-time. 



All these bits of information from readers 

 help much to make this journal so bright 

 and useful. 



" It's an ill wind that blows no good," quoth 

 the glazier, when called to repair the hail- 

 damaged grapery. 



The India Rubber tree fruits occasionally. 

 It is a near relative to the Fig, and the fruit is 

 somewhat similar. 



Trees for Profit. Next to live-stock, tree 

 raising is the most profitable product of 

 Nebraska. — Hujiey. 



Many subscriptions expire with this month. 

 Need we say to such subscribers, renew? We 

 expect you will do so of course. 



" Popular Gardening " should now be more 

 widely known than ever. Reader, will you 

 speak a word for it as you can? 



Striped Calceolarias. These novelties are 

 from iSenary of Erfurt, Germany, the flowers 

 being striped instead of spotted. 



Lime and soot dressings around the growing 

 Celery will save it from slugs, worms, etc., 

 helping the growth at the same time. 



A dollar-bill now pays for Popular Gar- 

 dening in its enlarged and improved state for 

 one entire year. Less iu clubs of five. 



We think you must like the prominence we 

 give Downing's apt words about fine fruit in 

 the Fruit Head elsewhere in the paper. 



The easiest raised flowers are often the most 

 beautiful. The Pansy, Hardy Phlox, Weigelia, 

 Mock Orange, and so on, are in our mind. 



Charcoal. " I have a sack of charcoal and 

 whenever I plant anything I put a little in the 

 soil before inserting the plants," writes J. L. 



Forget-me-nots. Do the readers know that 

 those from seed are hardier than those raised 

 by division or cuttings? — P. E., Finhkill, N. V. 



The qnestion as to whether window plants 

 should be turned or not seems to be decided in 

 favor of not turning them where bloom is the 

 object. 



We have been thinking that every subscriber 

 could get oue or more [persons to take this paper 

 if they tried for it. Will you, good reader, 

 not try? 



Rotten cheap — a basket of fai-gone Pears in 

 front of a huckster's stall, bearing this placard, 

 "6 for 1 cent." A country boj' wouldn't look 

 at such fruit. 



The Japan ftuince sometimes takes a notion 

 to bloom twice a year; just now a bush in a 

 Delaware-avenue yard in this city is showing 

 numerous flowers. 



No Trapaeolum wUl flower during midwinter 

 in a house having a lower temperature than 

 45° at night. In a heat of 60° they are pretty 

 and free bloomers. 



"Bridget" don't like the name of a certain gar- 

 den flower. ' ' Tisn't a noice name they have at 

 all. I heard your own mother herself calling 

 them spitunias," she said. 



To bury large stones that are met is a 

 good way of treating them. Their presence 

 in the soil, even when deep down, helps to 

 maintain moisture in dry weather. 



■When you renew, or at any time, couldn't 

 you drop us some information on flowers, fruits 

 or vegetables that would be of interest to the 

 family at large? We would like this. 



The threads of the Yucca or Spanish Bay- 

 onet ai'e made into brushes, which from their 

 softness answer better than anything else in 

 the apiaiy for brushing around bees. 



Toads. Our old gardener used to years ago 

 say " them venomous twoads." He is a citizen 

 now and has learned many things, among 

 others to call toads " gardeners' friends." 



England Reports Again as Follows : Last 

 number of Popular Gardening received this 

 morning. I like it very much and enclose a 

 check, that it may be sent me constantly. 



" Fruit Recorder " subscribers will receive 

 this combined paper in place of the former 



Fruit Recorder (now discontinued as such) for 

 the terms of their respective subscriptions. 



Grass Edges. Say what you will, it is hard 

 to find a finer edge for between walk and 

 flower bed than a strip of well-kept grass one 

 foot in width. Old Gardener. 



Crown Imperials, gi-and plants that they 

 are, if at all to be re-set should have this 

 attended to now. But let it be borne in mind 

 that they do not like being moved about much. 



Expensive " Floral Rugs." The actual value 

 of the plants which this year entered into the 

 "Floral Rugs," on the grounds of John Hoey 

 Hollywood, N. J., it is said, reached .S100,000, 

 and the labor half as much more. 



The sale in the town markets of Narcissus 

 and other spring bulbous flowers from coimtry 

 gardens each spring is now considerable. 

 This might be kept in mind by many of our 

 readers when fixing up the garden. 



An amateur, according to the rulings of the 

 American Institute's (New York) schedule of 

 competitive articles for their October show, is 

 the owner of any articles who does not make 

 his living by growing them for sale. 



Quiet Colors. " Elder's Wife " offers to the 

 family of readers the sensible suggestion that 

 by painting the plant pots with quiet grays or 

 browns, instead of flaming reds or gi'eens, the 

 plants in them will show off better. 



A Mammoth Orchid. Some time ago Mr. 

 Hunuewell of Wellesley, Mass., showed it. The 

 plant was a Ccelogyne cristata and was three 

 feet across, a perfect sheet of flowers. The 

 Coelogj'ne was figured iu our February issue. 



A Meditation. No simple act that we com- 

 mon mortals can do may be so fraught with 

 future benefits as the act of tree-planting. 

 Plant a tree to-daj' and generations to come 

 may not live to see the end of its benign effects. 



A word now to you who are growing Chrys- 

 anthemums ; Never allow them to want f or 

 water. For the best shaped plants, the shoots 

 must be tied out to stakes projecting outwai-ds 

 from the soil. And do not overlook liquid 

 manure for soil exhaustion. 



A Fine Elm. The writer recently met a re- 

 markably fine White Elm in the Chemung 

 River flats near Elmira, N. Y. The trunk 

 near the ground measured Ifl feet in circum- 

 ference ; the branches spread across about 90 

 feet in diameter of ground. 



The Cuthbert. Do you hesitate over a Rasp- 

 berry to plant for the family (or for market) ? 



A PUTTYING IMPLEMENT.— See opposite page. 

 Then try Cuthbert. It is a fine, large, sweet, 

 fti-m Red, well suited to about all sections; 

 hardy, but not so much so but that a slight 

 cover over winter is of service. 



What the Popular Gardening tree now 

 wants is a strong growth in the direction of 

 clubs. WiU our readers see to it that a good 

 development comes along in this direction; 

 it is a pai't they can well attend to. As the 

 growth matures send in the names. 



Now See to It! Last spring when you admired 

 neighbor A's fine Tulips and other bulbs do 

 3^ou remember promising yourself that your 

 own garden — then bare of flowers in the eai'ly 

 spring — should next spring be in good array? 

 Now is your season to fulfill the promise. 



Central Park, New York, is soon to have 

 twelve new propagating houses. More atten- 



