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POPULAR GARDENING. 



June, 



The Message of the Roses. 



O royal Rose, so full and bright, 



That blushes in the g-arden fair, 

 Bathed in the sunshine's warmest light, 



And filled with perfume rich and rare; 

 Thou art the queen, the tloral queen. 



Of all beneath the warm, blue sky, 

 And through the summer hours serene 



Thou charm'st the beauty seeking eye. 

 AlasI that beauty such as thine 



Must perish in a summer day, 

 And all the fairest flowers that shine 



Are born to blush and paos away! 

 If all the beautiful here must die 



That shines like thee with royal pride, 

 "What gems of splendor must there lie 



In endless life beyond the tide! 



— R'm. J. Johnson, in Yoiitti's Companion. 



What do I seet 

 An empty nest in the Apple tree. 

 Where the Mother-Robin is calling and crying 

 To her mate on the bough above replying, 

 Wild for the touch of a downy breast 



In the vacant nesti 



Ah, woe is me 

 For the ruined nest Jn the Apple-tree! 

 Could the little robber have known the sorrow 

 Left to linger for many a morrow. 

 Would he have come on the cruel quest 



That spoiled the nest 



— Kate Putnam Osgood, in Companion. 



Sweet, single Rose of the woodland wild, 

 1 can see straight to thy heart. 



Rose of the garden, by man beguiled, 

 Thou baat grown double in art. 



Six papers in one. 



To be pitted— Cherries, 



A sharp hoe for good service. 



Many June subscriptions wanted. 



Destroy suckers on budded Roses. 



Well done is twice done in weeding. 



Sow seeds of perennials as they ripen. 



A window box of plants all may have. 



Asters are gross feeders; remember that. 



The healthier the leaves the finer the fruit. 



In pruning always cut slightly above a bud. 



The flower stalk of Rhubarb is to be cut away. 



A Mock Orange bush in this city is sixteen feet 

 high. 



Keep to the windward of the dust poisons when 

 applying. 



Bnifalo's six-hundred acre park is a charming 

 place now. 



A smart workman should dibble out his 7,000 to 

 9,000 plants a day. 



Flower growing about the railroad stations is 

 pleasingly on the increase. 



Lilies, when throwing up their flower spikes, can 

 hardly have too much water. 



Unlike the true Lilies the so-called Day Lilies 

 (HemerocaUis) close at night. 



"We know of one shady lawn that is covered with 

 the true single English Daisies. 



Roadside Daisies go to waste until the city belles 

 arrive, and then they— go to waist. 



Thinning fruit should be commenced as soon as 

 it becomes visible on overloaded trees. 



To have a beautiful Rose in your garden you 

 must have a beautiful Rose in your heart. 



A rule for resetting Lilies— do so after the leaves 

 are dead, a season varying with the kinds. 



When we plant a climbing Rose we prune almost 

 to the ground. This could yet be done. J. & G. 



Strawberry Mildew. A writer in (iardening 

 Illustrated says he has found sulphate of potassium 

 an eflflcient remedy. 



Grape-vines that mildew badly should not be 

 bothered with; plant the space with something that 

 will thrive with moderate care. 



The difference between one garden's thrifty 

 plants and trees and another's sickly unproductive 

 ones, is often one of manure pile. 



Away with fresh cut flowers once they are faded; 

 stale blossoms in a vase and the water putrid are 

 as unhealthy as they are loathsome. 



If a tree leans, prevent sun-scald to the exposed 

 side of the trunk by clapping on some lath, held at 

 about half an inch apart by twisted cross wires. 



Serious Floriculture. Waiting through to dawn 

 for a Night-blooming Cereus to open, only to find 

 your anticipations were dated one day ahead. 



Suppose you save and sow some Strawberry seed. 

 Someone has yet got to originate a genuine rival of 

 the Wilson's Albany, and perhaps it is to be a 

 reader of these Unes. 



Where barbed wire is objertionable for fences 

 the use of hoop iron answers very well on a small 

 scale. It should be well painted, or better yet, be 

 galvanized. A. C. K. 



Let us stop talking of overproduction until the 

 distribution of fruits is so perfect that all, in city, 

 village and country, who would do so, can buy at a 

 fair price. Not there yet. 



Salt as a Fertilizer. According to a report of 

 the N. Y. Experimental Station salt possesses little 

 value for Beets; one ton to the acre gave only 

 ;i i>er cent increase over thuse on unsalted ground. 



Pear Blight. E Moody of Lockport. N. Y.. tells 

 the N. Y. World that he has used a wash of lime and 

 sulphur upon his fruit trees and has had no blight 

 for years. Others in his neighborhood are troubled 

 with blight. 



Don't have to Climb. I prune my Peaches very 

 low, so the branches start within a foot of the 

 ground. Then I can trim, thin the green fruit, 

 gathf r the ripe, almost all from the ground. Chas. 

 J. Weeks. 



A great increase of subscribers and renewals is 

 what is needed to make a yet better paper of Popu- 

 lar Gardening and Fruit Growing. Such im- 

 provements must come, and you, reader, are to 

 help in the matter. 



Welcome! say all the family to the horticulturists 

 of the Ohio Horticulturist,who since the last month's 

 *' Buds " department was printed, have joined the 

 ranks of this journal, which knows no state or sec- 

 tion, but is national in character. 



This journal is calling forth any number of com- 

 pliments for its value and beauty. Well, as to that, 

 where can its equal be found for instructive matter, 

 costly engravings, good paper, good printing, and 

 careful editing, and all for $l.i.ni a year. 



Seats in the Highway Shade. These put up at 

 public expense are common all along the tree- 

 shaded boulevards of Paris and many other 

 European cities A good idea to be taken up in this 

 country in many places where streets are adorned 

 with shade trees. 



Caldwell Lawn Edger. Referring to this imple- 

 ment, which was figured in our April issue. Pro- 

 fessor Bailey, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 informs us that he has not found complete satisfac- 

 tion in its use. It does tolerable work on very low, 

 even borders, but for practical work on lawns of 

 any extent it has proved a failure with him. 



Ladybirds and Green-fly. Mr. W. L. Wilson 

 writes as follows: " My wife noticed a week ago 

 that Lilies that had a Ladybird on them were free 

 from Green-fly. She, therefore, put two Ladybirds 

 upon an Arum Lily, and now to-day the lovely 

 flower is entirely free from the pest, and the two 

 solitary Ladybirds are searching about the blossom 

 for more flies, and are looking very well-favored.*" 



Gardens in Mexico. A correspondent who has 

 been there writes that the parks of the City of 

 Mexico are really a ndvel as well as a beautiful 

 sight. Comfortable seats shaded by venerable 

 trees, winding walks encircling large beds of flowers 

 and fine fountains form a picture of perpetual 

 springtime. They are the breathing spots for those 

 who reside near them, as well as for those whose 

 poverty causes them to live in narrow stifling 

 streets. The student can be seen in them at an 

 early hour buried in his books: the invalid in car- 

 riage or OD horseback, or perhaps being carried in 

 a chair upon the back of a stalwart porter. Every 

 one seems to be out for a Sunday morning airing. 



Poisoning from Plants. The cases where people 

 are badly poisoned by coming in contract with the 

 Poisonous Sumachs, Wild Parsnip, etc., are numer- 

 ous each season. It is important therefore to note 

 that Dr. J. R. Flowers, of Franklin Co.. Ohio, finds 

 in the well-known plant called Thorough-wort and 

 Boneset. a complete cure. He says that his atten- 

 tion was first called to it in a severe case, when an 

 old Indian gathered a quantity of this herb, and 

 after pounding the tops and leaves to a pulp, ap- 

 plied it to the parts affected during the night. The 

 next morning the swelling had all disappeared. 

 Since that time be has used the fluid extracts of 



the same for all his cases, and the result has been 

 an immediate cure. 

 Look on the Bright Side. If one goes into his 



garden to seek cobwebs or insects, grubs and creep- 

 ing things, if he looks for decay, destruction and 

 death, be may find them, but if he goes to admire 

 his flowers and fruits, he will probably return with 

 one of the former in his buttonhole. This is only 

 another way of saying you may find very much in 

 the garden what you go to seek. The pessimist 

 finds the caterpillar fat and flourishing, and the 

 cankerworm busy and big. The optimistr— and 

 nearly every gardener is an optimist, or ought to be 

 — cannot see bUght for blossom. He loves his 

 plants more than he hates his enemies, and works 

 " for love,'" as the children say when they do not 

 play for gain.— London Horticulture. 



An Acre-and-a-half of Strawberries. Two years 

 ago I ventured on Strawberries, believing that 

 what had been done by some could be done by 

 others. I procured good plants and set one acre in 

 the spring and one-half acre the following fall. 

 These I kept clean, and mulched well the beginning 

 of winter, then waited for the result. Last season, 

 the first crop, I picked a full 150 bushels of nice 

 berries from the above ground . I supplied our home 

 market with what I could, and had arrangements 

 made beforehand to ship my surplus to dealers 

 direct. The result was, I found market for my 

 berries at fair prices, without the loss of a bushel. 

 I aimed to furnish full measure and to establish a 

 reputation for good, clean fresh stock. A. M. N. 



Praise by the Yard. Let no one imagine that 

 because we so rarely take space to print any words 

 of commendation for this journal from its readers, 

 that such kind words are at all scarce with us. On 

 the contrary, they are so abundant {and for which 

 we are most thankful), that we could scarcely make 

 a beginning at setting them forth in the paper, if 

 disposed to take the space to do so. But that in- 

 terested friends may see how the talk nms through- 

 out the family, we have had some six feet in length 

 of colu7nn-wtde, fine type matter of this kind 

 struck off, and of this a copy will gladly be mailed 

 to any applicant, enclosing one stamp. And even 

 these, interesting and inspiring as they certainly 

 are, are but a mere sample of a great many more. 



Currants in the New York Markets. Mr. C. W. 

 Idell of New York informs us that large, handsome 

 Currants are becoming a very popular fruit, and 

 the demand for them by fashionable dealers is in- 

 creasing yearly. The package, he says, is an im- 





A RASPBERRY GATHERING DEVICE. 

 portant item also, for the old way of shipping in 

 bulk is discarded, and now the most popular style 

 is the 32-quart berry crates and baskets. As the 

 new gift crate costs only 35 cents, growers can 

 afford to purchase them to ship this choice fruit in. 

 When sending these cases the cups should be well 

 filled before starting, and the upper tier should be 

 full enough to touchy the lid, so as to retain in place, 

 for any jolting of them is bad for the fruit. The 

 Red Dutch is sold to preservers for jellies only, for 

 a few cents per pound. 



Easpberry Gathering Device. Mr. Jewett 

 Benedict, a fruit grower of Dundee, in this State, 

 came to the conclusion that much of the expense 

 and many of the annoyances of hand-picking Rasp- 

 berries on a large scale could be done away with. 

 So he got up four of the devices shown in the en- 

 graving, and putting these with the same number 

 of men to work them in his field; he claims to have 

 saved the work of forty hand pickers. All there is 

 of his plan is the harvester or receiving canvas, to 

 rest under the bush, as shown In the engraving, a 



