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BUDS. BLOSSOMS, FRUITS. 



Kerosene Emulsion on a Small Scale. — Cut up and put 

 into a quart-bottle half filled with water a piece of com- 

 mon brown soap about an inch square. When it is dis- 

 solved add a large spoonful of kerosene, and shake well. 

 This mixture applied with a feather will be death to any 

 insect, and will be found handy for growers who only 

 have a small place or a few plants. Cork well, and it 

 will keep until used up. An addition of water will in time 

 be necessary. This is the best remedy ever tried for 

 aphis. — Julius Schnadelbach, Ala. 



California at the World's Fair. — So far as is prac- 

 ticable, growing specimens of all California's useful 

 flowers and plants will be shown at the fair, besides 

 paintings of 600 wild-flowers and grasses. This will be 

 only one of the many features of California's horticul- 

 tural department. But such fine displays cannot make 

 less odious that state's discrimination against eastern 

 nursery-stock. The American nurserymen, in a recent 

 convention, retaliated to this effect : If California will 

 not receive our trees we will not receive her fruits. 



Well Burials. — Suprintendent Troop of the Forest 

 Lawn cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y., is much puzzled by a 

 new ordinance of the Board of Health ; " Every grave 

 must be at least 6 feet deep and 4 feet below the level or 

 grade of any adjoining road. " The worthy members of the 

 Board surely have never been to beautiful Forest Lawn 

 or they would have noticed that some rolling, interior 

 portions of the cemetery have an elevation of 50 feet 

 above "any adjoining road." Obviously burials here 

 will have to be made, as in deep wells, by means of a 

 windlass and pulleys. 



Sow Pansies in August. — W. O. E., of Whitby, 

 Ontario, says that he has seen no recommendation to sow 

 pansy-seed in the open ground early in the fall, about the 

 time the plants naturally shed their seeds. In his own 

 grounds he has observed for the past two seasons that hun- 

 dreds of self-sown plants have come up and safely passed 

 the winter, coming into flower in the spring. August is 

 the time preferred for sowing pansy-seed by many who 

 grow plants for spring marketing here in western New 

 York. We sow our pansy-seed from August i to 20, for 

 outdoor blooming in spring. 



Carpet Plants. — The London Garden calls attention 

 to Phlox subulata as a pleasing plant for covering the 

 ground in borders under shrubs and trees. Some of the 

 varieties are as brilliant in color as they are varied in 

 tint. A mass of this old species as a carpet to a bed of 

 Daphne Mezereuni is very effective. The mass of pale- 

 green foliage above intensified the brilliancy of the phlox 

 and made a very charming picture. Another good sub- 

 ject for this purpose is Asfernla tincloria, a creeping 

 plant a few inches in height, forming a carpet of the 

 brightest green, relieved in summer by pure white 

 flowers 



II. THRIFTY SAPLINGS. 

 Natural Propagation of Clematis. — The young 

 growth of clematis should be used for propagation. Last 

 summer some branches of a clematis trailed upon a mass 



of damp, loose earth near the gutter. Toward the close 

 of the summer we moved the tangled mass and found 

 that a number of the branches had taken root near their 

 tips — the youngest growth. At another time, while 

 transplanting a clematis, I found that it naturally divided 

 into many separate plants, showing that it needed separa- 

 tion and transplanting. We have known valuable varie- 

 ties to die out, apparently for no other cause than the 

 need of separation. It is well known that forget-me- 

 nots will die from the same cause. — A. G. 



Promoting Interest in Gardens. — The editor has 

 frequently noticed in walking through a garden or park 

 with others, that to say, "This tree is a native of China, " 

 or ' ' That plant is from Arctic America, " etc. , at once en- 

 lists an interest in the subject pointed out. He has 

 therefore not only made it a point in his own grounds 

 to indicate on labels the natural homes of trees, but he 

 has also advocated for years the grouping of shrubs and 

 trees somewhat according to their original homes. Why 

 not have a Japanese and Chinese lawn-plat ? This would be 

 a particularly easy undertaking in view of the many 

 curious and beautiful trees, shrubs and plants brought 

 from these sunrise lands. Then there could be a Siber- 

 ian garden, prominent in which should be the Dicentra 

 spectabilis, Pimcs Cembra, the Siberian barberry, and 

 others. Alpine conifers and plants would form another 

 interesting collection ; so would plants and trees from 

 the Rocky Mountains and Pacific coast. The Colorado 

 blue spruce, the lovely silver-fir [Abies amabilis), the 

 California lilies and the eschscholtzia would form a nu- 

 cleus for the latter. Our nurserymen could do much to 

 promote such ends, with gains to themselves, by publish- 

 ing the native countries of all trees, shrubs and plants 

 they offer. 



Hoe Attachment for Cultivator. — The blade here- 

 with illustrated can be adjusted to an ordinary wooden 

 cultivator, and is useful in A 

 cutting up red -raspberry /j 

 sprouts, troublesome weeds /i'''' 1 



and thistles. The cutter.- IM 



are steel %x2]4. inches, 6 P"'^^ I,,; ''J 



or 8 inches below the beam . I J "^i^ 

 The horizontal cuttini- Nl 



blade is 6 inches. The Attachment to Hoe. 

 groove is fitted to the beam, to. which it is secured by the 

 bolt, the cutting edge sharpened and receding at the 

 point. In -he absence of a cultivator to which to attach 

 them, a frame can be improvised with some 2x3 scant- 

 ling and with an ordinary regulating-wheel at the point. 

 — E. F. M 



New Rose-Seedlings. — R. N. Little, who raised the 

 set of roses distributed last year as the Stanley set, will 

 distribute this year several seedlings of merit : Winnie 

 Davis, a seedling from Devoniensis, fertilized with 

 Madame de Watteville, is a very full rose and a profuse 

 bloomer. It is white, tinged on the outer petals with 

 pink. Mr. Little showed me a hybrid tea (as yet un- 

 named), a cross between Souv. d'un Ami and American 

 Beauty. It has a fine, long bud, and the delicate pink 



