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POPULAR GARDENING. 



November, 



Chrysanthemum. 



I bring you the latest blossoms 

 Which summer has given to me. 



How white is her farewell tolteu 1 

 How pure she would have us be! 



She sent the Snowdrop and Wild-flower 



To herald her happy reign, 

 And the Hawthorn's crown of beauty 



Was a fall of snow again. 



Oh ! gaze at her latest blossoms, 

 And ponder her gentle speech. 



And the voice of the passing summer 

 Her lowliest thought shall teach. 



— Clara Thwaites 



" It is Common!" 



So are the stars in the arching skies, 

 So are the smiles in the children's eyes; 

 Common the beautiful tints of the fali; 

 Common the sun, which is over all; 

 Common the rain with its pattering feet— 

 So is the bread which we daily eat. 

 Common is the grass in its glowing green. 

 So is the water's glistening sheen ; 

 Common the fragrance of rosy June, 

 So is the generous harvest moon; 

 Common the life-giving breath of the spring. 

 So are the songs which the wild birds sing. 

 So unto all are the "promises" given; 

 So xmto all is the hope of heaven ; 

 Common the rest from the weary strife— 

 So is the life which is after life- 

 Blessed be God, it is common ! 



— Phreiioloyical Journal. 



Empty and store the vases. 



Chrysanthemums now stand supreme. 



For a good pot Fern try Pteris ti-enmhi. 



The Primrose once was called Bear's Ear. 



To arms ! They come ! the bugs, the bugs ! 



Trees with golden foliage need the full sun. 



Dusty Millers should now get but little water. 



As for Violets, they will not bear much heat. 



Leaves are Nature's material for root protec- 

 tion. 



Flowers and fruit are fit presents to make 

 alvvaj's. 



All double flowers are monstrosities, strictly 

 speaking. 



Natural Selection. Taking the largest Apple 

 on tile plate. 



Cut flowers are shipped from Boston to 

 Chicago regularly. 



Caladiums of much beauty are weeds in 

 Brazilian gardens. 



For the lately lifted plants a little extra 

 nursing counts well. 



It is surprising how few of our best Apples 

 are of recent origin. 



The pickers of Peaches in some districts go by 

 the name of " Peach jilucks. " 



The Coral-like fruit of the Barberry bushes 

 lends l)rilliancy to our shrubbery clumps. 



Vegetables are rai-ely classed among orna- 

 mental ])roducts, but Celery belongs here. 



If well ripened, even sour Apples contain 

 much sweet. The unripe produce the pucker. 



" 'What is Costmary ?" asks Mary G. Lewis, 

 of Penobscot Co. , Maine. It is the old name 

 of Tansy. 



Mere architecture will not adorn a place. 

 But tree planting alone will give beauty to an 

 humble home. — Jesstqj. 



The Evergreens on my grounds are worth 

 hundj-eds of dollars in pleasure and comfort 

 every year. — /. Wilcox. 



■WTiat a mirthful amusement for children is 

 the gathering and husking of the various nuts. 

 Do let them have their fill. 



You can help to popularize improved garden- 

 ing in your vicinity by getting neighbors and 

 friends to subscribe for this paper. 



" Popular Gardening " does not hesitate to 

 judge the efficiency of a plant grower by the 

 presence or absence of insects on his plants. 



This department should be called our postal 

 card catch-all ; it is so convenient for the many 

 little notes from our family of readers. Let 

 these increase. 



Newly-potted cuttings can't take up much 

 water; so, after one good watering given to 

 such, apply it quite moderately until the 

 growth fairly starts. 



Several of our readers report that they are 

 going into the Chrysathemum shows, as ex- 

 hibitors, having grown fine plants by following 

 Popular Gardening directions. 



Here is an idea about Primroses; Nip the 

 flower shoots, when they first show plainly, from 

 part of the plants. Such then will give a 

 larger spread of bloom, but it will be later. 



The early started Hyacinths may come to 

 light and warmth now. But reniemlier that 

 where there is a lack of fresh air, and added to 

 this there is much heat, fine spikes need hardly 

 to be expected. 



Oleander and Orange trees are quite subject 

 to the White Scale. It they are thoroughly 

 cleansed with warm soap suds and an old tooth 

 brush now when going to winter rest a deal of 

 future trouble may be saved. 



Forest Trees by Mail, Of more than a 

 dozen difl'erent deciduous and evergreen kinds, 

 R. Douglas & Son, of Waukegan, 111., will 

 send 100 plants from (1 to 12 inches high, by 

 mail post-paid, for one dollar. 



Dr. Johnson's good advice to a friend was 

 this; "If possible have a good orchard. I 

 knew a clergyman of small income who 

 brought up a family very reputably, which he 

 chiefly fed on Apple dumplings." 



There are flowers within the Arctic circle, 

 hundreds of them, and some so tar northward 

 that they may well be called Polar flowers. 

 But from within the Antarctic circle no flow- 

 ering plant has ever been reported. 



Fragrance Tells. At the Florists' Conven- 

 tion it was suggested that the Orchid would 

 supplant the Rose as a fashionable flower. 

 "Not while a woman has a nose!" was the 

 emphatic argument of one horticulturist. 



One house we pass often had its hanging 

 baskets, with the old soil and dead plants in 

 them, hanging out and swinging about all last 

 winter. We are sure that such slack gardeners 

 are not of the Popular Gardening family. 



True Enough. Each of us can make for our- 

 selves a home, adorn it with the beautiful 

 things Nature so lavishly ofl'ers in fine flowers 

 and fruits. And all she asks in return is care 

 and labor bestowed on her treasures. Mrs. R. 

 H. M., Mimtgoincry Co.; Mo. 



A word fitly spoken for Popular Gar- 

 dening by each one of its friends to each one 

 of their friends will yield more than "Pictures 

 of Apples"; it may yield the real article of a 

 plenty of aU fi-uits and flowers on many 

 tables where these are too rarely seen. 



A late swindling device is a powder sold by 

 agents as "pelpneum," and which is warranted 

 to keep fruit or gi-een stufl' fresh for any length 

 of time. Those who purchase it, however, 

 lose a large portion of their greenness with 

 great forthwithness. — Pittsbnnj Chronicle. 



Fall-sowing of Sweet Peas. Those who never 

 have tried sowing Sweet Peas in the fall I 

 advise to do so, and at once. Sow rather thinly 

 in a sheltered spot and cover with coal ashes. 

 Such plants _ bloom earlier and better than 

 from spring sowings. " L. E.," Lorain^ Ohio. 



A hail-storm last summer helped me more 

 than any damage it did, by clearing the ten- 



der tops of a lot of Roses and Chrysanthemums 

 I had of the aphis that had got on them 

 thickly. Reading in Popular Gardening 

 about hail insurance, I thought to drop this 

 note to show again that " 'Tis a bad wind that 

 blows no good." — Jamex Werklcy. 



This paper should be in the hands of every 

 grower of flowers, fruits and vegetables. 

 Much could be done towards attaining this 

 end if each one of our .50,000 readers would 

 kindly call the attention of their friends who 

 do not take it to its worth, beauty and cheap- 

 ness. We are glad also to send specimen copies 

 free to any names sent in by our subscribers, 

 while the regular price for such is 10 cents. 



Don't Count for Much Here. A candidate 

 for "botanical gardener and horticulturist" in 

 Prospect Park presents a card bearing after 

 his name no less than seveateen titles. He re- 

 marks of the park that "the impressions are 

 limited." The New York Tribune offers to 

 tell him how to make the unfavorable impres- 

 sion which the public has formed of him less 

 limited than it is. This by dropping a large 

 majority of those superfluous titles. 



Tulips in the House. " Meg," from Hartford 

 Co. , Conn. , says in a letter to us that she finds 

 Tulips are among her best winter flowers. She 

 prefers the single to the double ones for window 

 culture. She starts them along with the 

 Hyacinth and Crocus. In planting them one 

 bulb is set into a tour-inch pot and all are put 

 outdoors into a frame against the kitchen, and 

 covered with litter for at least four weeks. 

 The bulbs are cheaper to buy than Hyacinths, 

 and come quicker into bloom. 



Flue-heating. The question came to us the 

 other day, whether this old system of heating 

 glass houses possesses any worth side of hot 

 water and steam. In answer we say j'es, most 

 decidedlj'. It is cheap, effective, and as 

 capable of proilucing good results as any plan 

 of heating. Even such a great establishment 

 as that of the Dingee, Conard Co. , Rose grow- 

 ers at West Grove, Pa., is heated with flues 

 throughout. Taie the country over and flues 

 are in use in many greenhouses. 



In the insect war no worse course can exist 

 than to allow plants to become badly infested, 

 thinking then to subject them to an extra 



The Belmont Straioberry. (See opposite page.) 



cleansing. Not only is the work therebj- much 

 increased, but the plants themselves, beyond 

 the harm done by the insects, are more or less 

 injured by whatever means are employed in 

 the cleansing process. The best season to 

 attack the enemy is in autumn or earlj' winter, 

 for now all kinds increase more slowly than at 

 most other times, and there is also leisure. 

 Aquilegias, or Columbines, are plants of the 

 easiest possible culture, and their blooms are 

 excellent for cutting. A clump of the Golden- 

 spurred species {A. clrnjsantha} in our grounds 

 has not been without some of its fine flowers 

 for one month since June. To set out the 

 plants of this and others of the hardier species 

 at once in good soil they will start up well in 

 the spring, and soon send along a succession of 

 beautiful flowers. The beautiful but somewhat 

 rare sort named comes readily from the seed. 



