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BODS, BLOSSOMS, FRUITS. 



Culinary Vegetables. — Leguminous; cereal and fruit- 

 like vegetables — beans, peas, okra, peppers, tomatoes, 

 cucumbers. Radicaceous and tuberous vegetables — 

 beets, turnips, carrots, potatoes, radishes, etc. Class 174, 

 vegetables cultivated for their leaves and sprouts — cab- 

 bage, lettuce, rhubarb, spinage, endive, asparagus, etc. ; 

 class 175, miscellaneous culinary vegetables not included 

 in the above ; class 177, vegetables dried or in cans or 

 glass ; class 177, pickles, champignons, truffles, chutney, 

 mustard, etc., class 178, methods for preserving vegeta- 

 bles by cold-storage or chemical appliances, their keep- 

 ing, packing and shipping. 



Seeds, Seed-Kaisiiig, Testing and Distribution. — 

 Class 179, display of vegetable and fiower-seeds grown in 

 different latitudes ; class 180, general display of flower 

 and vegetable-seeds by seed-houses or growers ; class 181, 

 methods of growing, harvesting and preparing flower, 

 vegetable, tree and shrub-seeds ; class 182, seed ware- 

 house, methods of burnishing and packing for the retail 

 trade — work of packing, etc., in operation; class 183, 

 methods of testing vitality of seeds, as practiced by dif- 

 ferent seed-houses ; class 184, tree and shrub-seeds, and 

 seeds used for condiments and medicines. 



Arl>oricidlure. — C\2.s's, 185, ornamental trees, shrubs, 

 methods of growing, transplanting, etc.; class 186, fruit 

 trees and methods of raising, grafting, transplanting, 

 pruning, etc., means of combating insects and other 

 enemies ; class 187, nurseries and the nursery trade. 



Appliances, Methods, etc. — Class 188, hothouses, con- 

 servatories, methods of construction, management and 

 operation ; class i8g, heating apparatus for hothouses 

 and conservatories ; class rgo, seats, chairs and adjuncts 

 for the garden and conservatory ; class 191, ornamental 

 wire-work, trellises, fences, borders, labels for plants and 

 trees, etc.; class 192, garden and nursery administration 

 and management, floriculture and arboriculture as arts 

 of design and decoration, laying out gardens, designs for 

 the laying out of gardens and the improvement of private 

 residences, designs for commercial gardens, nurseries, 

 graperies, designs for the parterre, treatment of water 

 for ornamental purposes, cascades, fountains, reservoirs, 

 lakes, formation and after-treatment of lawns, garden 

 construction, building, etc., rock- work grottoes, rustic 

 construction and adornment for private gardens and 

 public grounds, planting, fertilizing, cultivating and ap- 

 pliances. 



COMMENTS BY READERS. 



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 that recorded in any recent article in this magazine, or if you can 0 

 the Editor will welcome your contributions .'I 



Wall for Rock-Plants. — (Page 439.) This should 

 have been credited to The Garden, not the Gardening 

 World. 



The Siberian Iris (page 356) is hardy enough, but 

 don't you find that it is the weed of the genus ? — W. 

 Falconer. 



Amaryllis Johnsonii. — (Page 362,) This is one of 

 the flimsiest of the whole race ; better pay twice as much 

 for an aulica, or, better still, three times as much for a 

 Defiance.— W. F. 



New Jersey's Wild- Flowers. — (Page 350 ) The 

 little pixie (pyxidanthera), while one of the loveliest and 

 commonest of New Jersey's wild-flowers, does not take 

 kindly to cultivation. On the other hand, the helonias 

 adapt themselves readily to culture in nearly all moist 

 garden-soils. — W. F. 



■ Polyanthus Narcissus. — (Page 356). I don't find 

 them hardy, even with covering The trouble is that 

 oftentimes they start to grow very early in the fall, and so 

 the winter is doubly hard upon them. But by lifting the 

 bulbs in summer, and keeping them out of the ground 

 until October 15, and then planting them, they have little 

 opportunity to begin growth before winter sets in ; then 

 they can be wintered safely enough under a good cover- 

 ing.— W. F. 



Perennial Gaillardias. — (Page 346.) Get seed of some 

 fine strain and raise a lot of young plants. This is easily 

 done ; the seeds germinate as readily as those of the 

 annual (picta) and the seedlings bloom well the first year. 

 The roots live over winter, and even if cut up with the 

 spade the plants will come up in spring and go on growT 



ir experience, observation, orwell-fonnded opinion differs from 

 dd anything of special interest to the statemetits of other writers 



ing in size and increasing in bloom. You will be sure 

 of some beauties among these seedlings. — W. F. 



Perennial Gaillardias. — (Page 346.) The editor did 

 not do justice to the perennial gaillardias. Here, in south- 

 ern Louisiana, the flowers are much larger than in the 

 illustration on page 347. I have grown them for the last 

 ten years. There are two shades of yellow banded with 

 maroon. Often they begin to flower in March, but the 

 finest blooms open in April and May. The flowers open 

 at this time (June 25) are two inches across. The gail- 

 lardias make large clumps, as tiny young plants spring 

 up from about the old ones all the time. In June, when 

 the flowers are not so large, I break out all the old bloom- 

 ing branches to give the young growth a chance, and 

 from the middle of July until heavy frosts there is always 

 an abundance of bloom. The flowers are borne on long 

 tough stems, standing high above the foliage. Gaillardia- 

 leaves have a pleasant balm-like fragrance, and the seed- 

 balls are quite pretty when mingled with dried grasses 

 and everlastings. I keep them cut from my plants, for 

 if they are left to ripen the plants become exhausted and 

 the flowers smaller and fewer in number. The roots of 

 perennial gaillardias are almost as small as a knitting- 

 needle, and run deep into the soil ; but they transplant 

 well. — Margaret Campbell. 



White Grubs. — (Page 365.) — Don't be so sanguine 

 about destroying white grubs. Goodness knows how they 

 live ; but live and get fat they do in our loam pile, where 

 not a weed is allowed to grow. I must tell you how smart 

 I was once : In April, as soon as I pruned the roses and 

 cleaned the ground, I mulched all about the plants with 



