HORTICULTURE 



Daisy, 



Dwarf Basil. 

 Egg Plant, 

 Eupatorium, Blue. 

 Euphorbia Latli.vris. 

 Fading Beaut.v. or Mor 



Bride {Scahi'isn}. 

 Fir {Finns balsamca), 

 Foxglove, 

 Fringe Tree. 

 Geranium ( Pelii mon in m 

 Garden Angelica, 

 Glycine. Clnster-tlowerin 

 Golden Coreopsis. 



Hollyhock. 



Honeysuckle, 



Hyacrnth, 



Hydrangea, 



Ice Plant. 



Impatiens Balsamii 



Lily. 



Lime Plant [Fodoji: yll ■ 



peltatum), 

 Lychnadia (Phlox), 

 Mezereon {Daphne Met 



Mountain Ash, 



vi.B.?.— Continued 



Nasturtium. 

 Passion Flower, 



Pea. Sweet. 



Peach, Double-flowering, 



Pink, 



Perennial Sunflower, double 



Polyanthus. 



Pyrethrum Parthenium. 



Poppy. 



Purple Hyacinth Bean, 



Rudbeokia. 



Scarlet Cacalia, 



Scarlet Lychnis {L. Chalce 



donica). 

 Siberian Crab. 

 Snowball Tree, 

 Snowberry. 



Spice-wood(ia»r»s Benzoin), 

 Spiderwort {Tradescantia), 



■ Jlock Orange. 

 Tree{ Euonynius), 

 Bay fLaurit^ nobilis). 

 William, or Poetic 



Venetian Sumac, or 



Tree. 

 Violet, blue fragrant. 



GREENHOUSE PL.\XTS. 



Lilies of the valley. Mignonette. 



Ranunculuses, V'erbena trifoliata. or Sweet 



Anemones. Vervain, 



Single and Double Jonquils. Fuchsia coecinea. 



White Lilies, Cob»a scandens, 



Roses. Camellia Japonica. or Japa- 



Tuberoses. nese Rose, 



Persian Iris. Myrtles. 



These lists are much less ample than those of M'Ma- 

 hon, over twenty years earlier, but they may be sup- 

 posed to include the popular and most easily grown 

 things. They will be suggestive to those who 

 wish to make "old-fashioned gardens." M'Mahon's 

 list was evidently largely compiled from Euro- 

 pean sources. Green says that the first list 

 (strangely called "annual and biennial flowers") 

 contains "such plants, shrubs and trees as are of 

 easy cultivation, generally hardy." The second list 

 comprises "a few different soi-ts of greenhou^i 

 plants" "which are commonly grown in rooms. ' 



The first American book to be devoted to .1 

 special flower was Savers' book on the dahh.i 

 Boston, 1839, which appeared only a vear l.itei 

 than Paxton's well known book" in riiirl.iinl 

 Sayers' book also mchnled the cactus 'lli. in \T 

 special flower book seems to have In . n I'.uists 

 "Rose Manual," Philadeliihia, 1844. .ilfliun.'li 1 

 sentimental book on the "Queen of Flowers li.i.l 

 appeared in the same city m 1841. Buist's b<«'k 

 went to at least four editions. It was followed \n 

 Prince's in 1846, and by S. B. Parson's "Tin 

 Rose: Its History, Poetrv. Cultui. aii.l Clisx,!, 

 cation." 1846. Parson's b'n..k w.i.t f. 1 i.mm ,1 

 edition. Of later-date fl<.^^.l 1.. .k- th. 1. iie 

 several of importance, but it is ]i,it tin ].ui|mi,i 

 of this history to trace more tli.iu the i.Lginnm^-s 

 of American floricultural \\ritin;_'s. 



In 1838 appeared a book in French in New 

 Orleans. This was Lehevre's "X.aneau Jardinier 

 de la Louisiane." It was a small book of 200 

 pages, with a calendar and brief directions for 

 tlie growing of vegetables, fruits and flowers. 

 Singularly enough, a French book also appeared 

 at the other extreme of the country. This was 

 Provancher's "Le Verger-Canadien," published 

 in Quebec in 1872. 



The writings clearly portray the tendencies of the 

 floricultural interests, — from the formal-flower ideals of 

 the dahlia and camellia to the enormous development 



Palms and 

 where ,50 

 of lusurie 



wrote Alfred 1 i.n.lr,-,,,,, m, isii:,. -ruiv \.:,rs ago, 

 camellia flow.Ts rrt;,,!,,! fiv.h f..,- a dnfl;,.: ,.a,-h, and 



to New York florists, g.-ttiug $5UU per l.UUU; while roses 

 went begging at one-tenth these figures. Now, the rose 

 is queen, and the poor camellia finds none so poor to 

 do her reverence. * • * • I confidently believe that 

 the time is not far distant when we shall compete seri- 

 ously with the foreign grower in the production of new 

 varieties of roses." William Scott, of Buffalo, makes 

 the following comments on tendencies in floriculture: 

 "About the year 1880, tulips and narcissuses began to 

 be forced, and during the next 15 years immense quan- 

 tities of these bulbs were imported auiiually from Hol- 

 land. As the methods of forcing were perfected the 

 market became overstocked, and, although large quan- 

 tities are still forced for the winter and spring months, 

 they are not now in the same favor as fornierly. and the 

 rose, carnation, violet, lily-of-tlie-vallev and mignonette 

 are still the favorites. Orchids are not yet the flower 

 for the million, but there is a yearly increasing demand 

 for them, and at present the showy orchids, such as the 

 Cattleyas and Lselias, are far short of the demand. 

 As their cultivation is more generally understood, we 

 look for a very steady increase in the number grown, 

 and are confident that tin- sii|>ply will not soon exceed 

 the demand. Witliin 



home, and the (Uiiia 



plants,— palms, dract 



among those mostly 



pretension to luxury 



fine plants scattered 



our modern houses 



window or small conservatory for the accommodation of 



plants." See Cut-Floicers and Floriculture. 



Early Pomological Writings.— It is in the pomolog- 

 ical writings that North America has made the greatest 

 contributions to horticultural literature. William For- 



. of American fruite. 

 irg. figured by Coxe in 1817. 



syth's excellent "Treatise on the Culture and Manage 

 ment of Fruit Trees " appeared in London in 1802, and it 

 was widely read, "an impression of 1,500 copies (of the 



