.'.As a special inducement to lead our readers to contribute short 

 notes on cultural methods and devices, and to send in sketches and 

 photographs of choice plants, fruits, flowers, vegetables, garden- 

 scenes, implemetits, etc., the publishers make the folloiving offer 

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 only by the practical and useful ideas or suggestions in them. 

 Besides this p^iemium, the gain accruing between readers by the 

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 tribute such notes. 



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I. LITTLE TWIGS. 

 ' ' Let us go a-May ing. ' ' 

 The dainty wild arbutus is still in bloom. 

 FoRSYTHiA susPENS.A. is a fine wall-plant outdoors. 

 A RED-STEMMED white primula is found among the 

 novelties. 



Have you a good variety of succulents coming on in 

 your garden ? 



Peonies should no longer be neglected. They form 

 fine ornamental clumps, i 



A NATIONAL amateur gardener's association has been 

 formed in England. 



Wanted : A new strain of Lemoine gladiolus, having 

 strong straight stalks. 



Fruits, plants, seeds, etc., for testing or examination by 

 the editors of this journal, should be sent to La Salle, N. Y. 



What a wonderful thing is a simple clod of soil! It 

 can be made to produce violent poisons, healing medicines, 

 delightful flowers and nutritious food. 



Blue flags and yellow day-lilies (hemerocallis) com- 

 bine handsomely when planted together. 



Peaches are being shipped from the Cape of Good 

 Hope to London ; why not to America ? 



It is proposed to move that famous but crowded old 

 botanical garden, the Jardin des Plants, from Paris to 

 Versailles. 



The modern idea of cemeteries is to make the resting- 

 places of our dead into beautiful parks rather than dreary 

 stone-yards. We commend it most heartily. 



Wh-s forcing roses have not done so well as usual the 

 past winter about New York city, is a question which 

 puzzles many florists. 



A good way to spread the interest in gardening is to 

 lend your copies of American Gardening to sluggish 

 horticulturists or farmers in your neighborhood. 



Poisonous Garden Requisites.— A seedsman of Barn- 

 stable, England, has been sued and made to pay damages, 

 for having sold a poisonous weed-killer, without being a 

 duly registered pharmaceutical chemist. 



Arbor Day celebration is merely a first attempt in 

 the direction of inculcating a taste for horticulture in the 

 minds of the young. Soon perhaps we will see garden 

 plats attached to every public school. Why not ? 



The Boston cemetery authorities state that it is almost 

 impossible to induce people to accept as a gift any dead 

 trees in the cemeteries, even after they are cut up into 

 suitable lengths for handling. 



The World's Fair Horticultural building is advancing 

 rapidly and begins to assume the appearance of a finished 

 structure. Great activity prevails throughout the horti- 

 cultural department during the present planting season. 



Clematis paniculata, a worthy ornamental climber, 

 which is this season being offered widely as a novelty, was 

 introduced into Europe nearly a hundred years ago. 

 Like many another jewel among plants, it has waited 

 long for introduction here. 



Lemoine Gladiolus. — Growers of this new race are 

 sure to be surprised at the richness, colors and m^arking 

 usual with it, but will be disappointed at the weak con- 

 torted stalks and the few flowers that appear in sight 

 at any one time. 



Our Kieffer pears three years from setting bore im- 

 mensely, and where two-thirds were thinned out, the 

 fruit was large and sold well in market two days before 

 Thanksgiving. Fruit on over-cropped trees was small and 

 of poor quality. — E. M. Warner, O. 



Special to our Friends. — We would call particular 

 attention to the publisher's modest (?) appeal, in the ad- 

 vertising pages of this issue, to the friends of horticulture 

 to assist in increasing the number of readers of American 

 Gardening. Please refer to the advertisement pages, 2, 

 3, and 23 to 31. 



Spring Wood-Flowers are more plentiful during the 

 month of May than at any other time in the year. Some 

 of them, if transplanted, bloom well in our gardens. 

 Among these are a number of the silenes, wild violets 

 (I'lola pcdata is finest of all), trilliums, cypripediums, 

 TiarcUa cordifolia, the tiny dwarf iris [Q. iierna), 

 wild columbine and many others, 



Apples for Quebec — The list of apples given below 

 is well adapted to soil and climate of Quebec, northern 

 Vermont and vicinit) . Summer: Yellow Transparent, 

 Red Astrachan, Montreal Strawberry, Titovka. Autumn: 



