1887. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



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Received at this Office. 



CATALOGUES.— FIGURES INDICATE NUMBER OF PAGES. 



Irving Allen, Springeld, Mas.s., Small Fruits; 11. 

 Alneer Bros., Rockford, III , Seeds, etc ; 40. 



C. E. Allen, Brattleboro, Vt., Florist; 96. 



Wm. C. Beekert, Allegheny City, Pa., Florist; V2. 

 E. Bonner & Co.. Xenia. O., Florists; 24. 

 Beach & Co., Richmond, Ind., Florists; 48. 

 Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston. Mass . Florists; 174 

 Blooraington Nursery. Bloomington, 111.; 20. 

 Chas. L. Burr. Springfield, Mass., Seeds; 4. 

 Hugo Beyer, New Lonilon, Iowa, Seeds; :i2. 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa, Seeds, 

 etc.; ia.i. 

 Bush, Son & Meissner, Bushberg. Mo. ; 8. 



B. L. Bragg & Co., Springfield. Mass.; 88. 

 Caleb Boggs, Mooreton. Del., Small Fruits; 20. 

 Robert Buist, Philadelphia, Pa , Seeds, etc ; 108. 

 Geo. W. Carapbelt, Delaware. O.. Grapes; 20. 

 Coe & Converse. Ft. Atkinson, Wis., Sm. Fruits;, 35. 

 H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Eng., Plants; .350. 

 J. J. Creesman. Clarksville. Tenn,, Plants; 57. 

 Peter Devine, Chicago Hi., Heaters; 4. 



J. Ellettson, Auburn, N. Y.. Small Fruits; 4. 



D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich., Seeds; 124. 

 J. A.Foote, Crawtordsville, Ind.. Seeds; 32. 



Ed. Gillette. Southwick, Mass.. Wild Flowers; 15. 

 Joseph Harris Seed Company. Rochester, N. Y. ; 76 

 David Hill. Dundee, III,. Evergreens. 

 V. H. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, East Hinsdale, N. 

 Y'., Plants, etc.; 64. 



D. C. Hicks, North Clarendon. Vt., Seeds; 8. 

 Harvey Bros. Buffalo N. Y., Seeds; 82 



C. Hennecke S. Co., Milwaukee, Wis , Statuary : 12. 



E. Hippard, Youngstown, Ohio, Plants; 48. 

 H. C. Harman. South Bend., Ind., Seeds; 48. 

 Roberts Halliday, Baltimore, Md . Plants; 15. 

 Iowa Seed Co , Des Moines. la.. Seeds; -35, 



J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, N, J., Small Fruits; 56, 

 Aaron Low, Essex, Mass., Seeds; 112. 

 S. F. Leonard. Chicago, III , Seeds, etc. ; 45, 

 P C. Lewis. Catskill, N. Y., Force Pumps; 34 

 J. M. McCullough'sSons. Cincinnati, O., Seeds; 112. 



F. H. Mooers, Pittston. Me., Seeds etc.; 4. 



D. S Marvin, Watertown, N. Y.. Grapes; 4. 

 J. O. Manson, Harford. Seeds etc. ; 32. 



Wm. Henry Maule. Philadelphia. Pa., Seeds; 80. 

 A. C. Nellis & Co . New York City, N.Y'., Seeds;97. 

 W. C. Pyfer. Lancaster. Pa., Plants, etc ; 24. 

 Price & Knickerbocker, Albany, N. \' , Seeds; 40. 

 Geo E. Pinney, Evergreen, Wis., Evergreens; 10. 

 Chas. A. Beeser, Springfield, O , Florist; 112. 

 J. B. Root & Co . Rockford, III . Seeds, etc.; 40. 

 Michael Rains & Co . London, Eng . Seeds; 9. 

 Rob't C. Reeves, New York City, Seeds, etc. ; 52. 

 Louis Roesch. Fredonia, N. Y., Grapes, etc.; 12. 

 W. W. Rawson & Co . Boston, Mass., Seeds; 90. 



E. H Ricker & Co., Elgin, III., Nursery Stock; 30. 

 A. C. Smith & Son, Clay Center. Kan. , Nursery ; 10 

 Robert Scott it Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.. Roses; 56. 

 Phil. Strubler, Naperville, III., Small Fruits; 8. 

 John Saul, Washington, D C, Plants, etc.; 15. 

 Ezra G. Smith, Manchester, N. Y , Small Fruits; 4, 

 Shaker Seed Co , Mt. Lebanon, N. Y., Seeds; 96. 

 Schlegel & Fottler, Boston, Mass., Seeds, 104. 

 H. N. Smith, South Sudbury, Mass., Seeds; 10. 

 L. Templin & Sons, Calla,Ohio, Plants; 50. 



J. C Vaughan, Chicago, 111., Seeds, etc.; 73 



Albert WiUiams, Sharon, Pa., Plants, etc. ; 40. 



I. C. Wood & Bros., Fisihkill, N. Y., Nursery: 4. 



Samuel Wilson, Mechanicsville, Pa., Seeds; 88. 



Wiley & Co., Cayuga, N. Y., Nursery; 21. 



A. Whitcomb i- Sons, Lawrence, Kan., Florists; 16 



Thos. J. Ward. St. Mary's, Ind., Nursery; 4. 



Wm. C. Wilson, Astoria, N. Y , Plants; 20. 



H. W. WilUams &Sons, Batavia, HI., Plants; 24. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



" Second Annual Report of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists." 155 pages. Sec'y Edwin Lonsdale, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



" Annual Reports of the Colorado State Horticul- 

 tural Society, 1882, '83, '84, '85 and 80." Secretary, 

 Nelson Millett, Denver, Col. 



" Proceedings of the Columbus (O.) Horticultural 

 Society," 1886. 240 pages. Secretary, W. 8. Devol, 

 Columbus, O. 



"Essays on Economic Entomology," by Prof. 

 S. A. Forbes, State Entomologist, Springfield, HI. 

 130 pages. 



" Transactions of the Indiana State Horticultural 

 Society. " 153 pages. Secretary, C. M. Hobbs, 

 Bridgeport, Ind. 



" First and Second Annual Reports of the New 

 York State Entomologist on Injurious and Other 

 Insects." 381and 265 pages, by Prof. J. A. Lintner, 

 Albany, N. Y'. 



" Transactions of the Maine State Pomological 

 Society." 167 pages. Samuel L. Boardman, Secre- 

 tary. 



" Report of the Missouri State Horticultural So. 

 ciety." 573 pages. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, 

 Westport. Mo. 



"Report of the Montgomery (O.) Horticultural 

 Society." 65 pages. Wm. Ramsey, Secretary, 

 Dayton, O. 



" Eleventh Annual Report of the Montreal Horti- 

 cultural Society and Fruit Growers' Association of 

 the Province of Quebec.'" 174 pages. E J. Maxwell, 

 Secretary. 



"Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society tor 1885." 410 pages, and Part I. of 1886. 

 Robert Manning, Secretary, Boston. Mass. 



" Reports of the North Carolina State Horticult- 

 ural Society for 1885 and 1886 " 20 and 40 pages. 

 S. Otho Wilson, Secretary, Vineyard, N. C 



" Fourth Annual Report of the Ohio Agricultural 

 Expe riment Station, "Columbus, O. 240 and 256 pages 



"Nineteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State 

 Horticultural Society." Meeting at Columbus, O. 

 239 pages. 



" Report of the Twenty -Seventh Annual Meeting 

 of the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Associa- 

 tion." Meeting at Reading, Pa. E. B. Engle, Sec- 

 retary. 98 pages. 



^eHou5ehoI(l poMltry. 



Alum water is useful for bums 



For dusting and wash-off rags, cheese-cloth ex- 

 cels. 



Lassitude in the morning is rarely felt with the 

 bed rooms kept aired. 



Good deodorizers for the sick room are dried 

 Orange or Lemon peels burned on coals. 



A soft brush for dusting fine gilt frames. Never 

 use cloth as you care for a polished surface. 



Furred glass vessels are as easily cleaned with 

 the use of s]>ent tea leaves, in a little vinegar, as in 

 any way of which we know. 



To Cleanse dirty sponges, place in a basin, cov- 

 ering them with bran, and then with boiling water, 

 keeping the steam in by covering tightly. When 

 cold rinse in cold water and dry. 



Water, pure and wholesome, is perfectly taste- 

 less, nearly odorless (at least there can be no bad 

 smell), and of a clear color, though water might in 

 instances be somewhat cloudy or roily and still be 

 harmless. 



The old 'Wash boiler need not be cast aside when 

 leakage beyond repair sets in. This is the time it 

 should have the dents straightened out and be 

 scoured up to use for keeping bowls and glasses of 

 jelly and marmalade from the mice. 



Lamp wicks should be kept turned below the top 

 of the tube when unlighted, as otherwise the oil is 

 apt to exude, causing greasy and ill smelling 

 lamps. Lamp chimneys are easily cleaned if held 

 over a pot of steaming water long enough to damp- 

 en and then nibbed with soft dry paper or cloth. 



Oranges, delicious, and in these times so cheap, 

 are excellent for table use, either alone, or for an 

 inexpensive delicacy combined with Apples. A re- 

 cipe comes to us for using them by themselves, 

 which looks like a good one to follow. Two dozen] 

 cut up in a bowl, removing the seeds, with two 

 large peeled Lemons, to which is added seven 

 quarts of water, stirred and set away over night. 

 The next day have them gradually come to a boil, 

 then allow to simmer till the peel is tender, when 

 add fourteen pounds of granulated sugar. Boil 

 now till it is transparent and jellies if cooled. Keep 

 in small cans, within the covers of which first place 

 tissue paper ones. With care In making this mar- 

 malade may be kept a long time if visitors are not 

 too frequent about tea time. 



Moderation in Diet seems to be required for the 

 greatest amount of endurance. The heavy workers 

 of the world, both ancient and modern, seem to be 

 the light eaters. The rice-fed Coolie is far superior 

 to the heavy meat-eating negro in activity and 

 fortitude. The Eastern porter, who thinks nothing 

 of taking a third of a ton at a load, is satisfied with 

 a few olives and other fruit. The hardy soldiers of 

 ancient Rome, with their weighty armor and equip- 

 ments, and engaged as they were in making the 

 roads which even yet are the wonder of the world, 

 owed their ruggedness to their exercise and tem- 

 perance in diet, which was of coarse bread and 

 sour wine. The poverty-stricken peasants of Spain, 

 with their daily toil, and nightly dance, five on 

 watermelons, onions and black bread, and make 

 excellent soldiers. 



Carpet sweeping. There are many diverse opin- 

 ions about carpet sweeping. Some good house- 

 keepers maintain that to throw any damp sub- 

 stance on the floor to prevent dust rising is a mis- 

 take, also that every window should be open and 

 the dust allowed to rise and be blown out, the more 

 wind the better. Others, whose authority appears 

 to be equally good, say, and I agree with them, 

 that to sweep in a gale with nothing to " lay the 

 dust " is to make a dirty, suffocating business of 

 one that is otherwise not unpleasant. The fact 

 seems to me that the dust so raised will only be 

 blown out so far as it lies in the course of the wind; 

 the rest will lodge on the walls and every part that 

 may intercept it; and unless there is a window 

 directly opposite the one from which the wind 

 comes, there can be no blowing of the dust out at 

 all; it certainly will not go out against the wind. 

 As to the idea that you need to raise the dust from 

 the carpet, that is quite true; you want the dust 

 out of the carpet, but you do not want it to fiy over 

 the place. Those who object to using wet paper 

 or tea leaves to lessen the dust must be under the 

 impression that they in some way prevent the dust 

 from leaving the carpet, and that they simply roll 

 over the surface of the carpet. The fact, is, if you 

 sweep with a long, light stroke, the damp leaves 

 will prevent the flue and dust from rising by taking 

 it to themselves.— Good Housekeeping. 



Warmth is life for young chicks. 

 One thing that don't pay: having too many eggs 

 to a hen. 



The shortest cut to relieving egg bound hens, Is 

 the axe cut. 



Dirty Eggs. Clean them as soon as gathered. 

 Shells are porous and if dirty taint the meat. 



Of this there can be no doubt: fowls do better If 

 not kept in the same yard area perpetually. 



Gapes, it is said by one speaking with authority, 

 may be cured by the use of a teaspoonf ul of turpen- 

 tine to one and a half pints of corn meal, mixed 

 with warm water and fed to the fowls. 



It is said that epicures prize the poultry that 

 has had a good feeding of roasted Corn and Celery, 

 for a few days before kllUng. For laying fowls, 

 corn treated in the way mentioned, is a welcome 

 change of diet. Let these things be tried. 



Clean Yards. Accuthulating filth is a prolific 

 source of disease, especially gapes, which is essen- 

 tially a filth production. After a hen yard has 

 been cleaned to sprinkle it with a solution of two 

 gallons of water, one gill of carbolic acid and one 

 pound of copperas will destroy disease germs, 

 rendering the place sweet. 



Boup. It comes usually from having damp or 

 draughty roosting places. The first symptoms 

 show themselves in a swollen head, one side at a 

 time, something like the "mumps," which if not 

 stopped spreads to the other side and a slimy dis- 

 charge from the eyes appears. Being very conta- 

 gious, all sick fowls should be isolated. A good 

 treatment is feeding with oat meal with some green 

 food, giving one grain of sulphate of zinc daily, 

 and washing the head in tepid water. 



Time for Hatching. February and March will 

 be found quite early enough for most breeders, and 

 it is our beUef that more prize winners are hatched 

 in April than in any month of the year. The first 

 warm days of spring time have a wonderful effect 

 in developing young chicks, and those that are 

 hatched before that time, unless most carefully 

 brooded, are very liable to have their lives cut short 

 or their growth permanently affected by the frosty 

 air of the earlier months.— iVafioJloI Monitor. 



Hen Manure. How best to preserve and utilize 

 it is a matter of wide interest. By sprinkling 

 only enough dry earth, or in the absence of this, 

 dry coal ashes under the roosts and over the fioors, 

 to thoroughly absorb all moisture from the dung, 

 etc., and then cleaning out the house weekly, put- 

 ting the scrapings in barrels and keeping in a dry 

 place, there may soon be an accumulation of great 

 value. Several weeks before the time of applying 

 to the land empty out and turn the gathered ma- 

 nure a few times, then moisten it lightly to invite 

 heating somewhat, and at the same time cover 

 the pile with loam to prevent the escape of the 

 ammonia. Such a course will render the manure 

 fine, and it may then be used in the drills for seed. 



Bearing Chicks. I have found that the secret 

 of success is to pamper the young birds as little as 

 possible. From the rearer or the incubator they 

 are taken to an old sash-lighted building, the floor 

 of which is thickly covered with sifted ashes; this 

 is a foster-mother heated by a small lamp, and in 

 which the birds sleep and warm themselves. The 

 young birds soon find their way about, and after 

 that they are very little trouble. The floor is swept 

 every day, and fresh ashes put down; the food 

 consists of small rice, oatmeal, chopped eggs, 

 cooked offal from the butcher's, and scraps of all 

 kinds; oyster-shells broken fine are an excellent 

 addition to all their food; boiled Cabbage and 

 roots are also given with the best results. Pur- 

 chased food is bought at wholesale. After a few 

 days all danger of their dying is over for the pres- 

 ent, and the birds improve rapidly. They are let 

 out during fine weather on to a grass plat close to 

 the building, through a slidingdoor, which is closed 

 at night. When about three weeks old, the warmed 

 part of the building is wanted for the next brood 

 from the incubator, and the older birds have to 

 content themselves with rough boxes lined with 

 old carpet.which keeps them warm. The young and 

 old lots are separated by wire netting. When the 

 birds are about six weeks old, they are put in the 

 poultry -houses or spare loose boxes about the place, 

 where they give little or no trouble. When about 

 nine weeks old, they are placed in .small, roughly- 

 constructed huts in sheltered places in the grass- 

 flelds, where a boy feeds them twice a day.— Corr. 

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