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CONTENTS OP 



The American Garden 



For October. 1881. 



Page Thirty-three— l\Me of Contents— A Nation 



in Mourning— Our Premiums. 

 Page Thirty- four— Tun Vegetable Garden — 



Seasonable Hints— Autumn Gardening, l>v Col. 



F. D. Curtis— The Potato Rot, by Dr. Byron D. 



Halsted. 



Pcur- Thirty-five — Italian Onions — Prevention of 

 the Potato Disease— Spinach, by P. T. Quinn. 



Page Thirty-six— The Fruit Garden— Season- 

 able Hints— Moore's Kuby Currant— Hardy Rasp- 

 berries, 



Page Tli in $■ si rcn — Pi uniim' Grape- Vines, by E. 

 Williams— Preserving Fruits— Fruit Trees— The 

 Quince, by P. M. Augur— Keeping Grapes — Or- 

 chard Planting. 



Page Thirty-eight— The Flower Garden— In My 

 Garden, a Poem, by liobin Hood — Seasonable 

 Hints — Hyacinthus candicans, by John Thorpe 

 — Tuberoses — Winter Protection — Hardy Lilies, 

 by Win. Falconer. 



Page Thirty-nine — Lilies, continued — Dutch Bulbs. 



Page Forty — Lawn and Landscape— An Ideal 

 Lawn, from S. Parsons, Jr.'s "Prize Essay"— 

 Rockeries— Hydrangea panicnlata — The Win- 

 dow Garden— Climbers for the House, by Chas. 

 E. Parnell. 



Page. Forty-one — Climbers, continued; — Care of 

 House Plants, by Damon — Bleeding Heart- 

 Moss Mulching, by E. C. Haines. 



Page Forty-two — FOREIGN Gardening — All Or 

 chid House in the Tropics, by E. S. Rand, Jr.— 

 How the Chinese make Dwarf Trees— The Bo- 

 tanic Garden of St. Petersburg. 



Page Fm-l y-three — Horticultural Societies— 

 American Pumological Society. 



Page Forty-four— Household Pets— The Gray 

 Squirrel— Carrier Pigeons— Gold Fish— Books 

 and Pamphlets received — Answers to Corre- 

 spondents. 



Page Forty-five — Adve RUSING Department. 



A NATION IN MOURNING, 



Whatever bereavements may have befallen 

 our people before, however deep and severe 

 we may have felt the pangs of former losses, 

 j never before in our history has so universal, 

 | so profound, and hoart-felt sorrow pervaded 

 throughout our entire continent. 



While we write these lines, the funeral 

 train carries the nation's cherished charge 

 from the Capitol to its last resting-place ; 

 doleful peals resoitnd from every church- 

 tower in the land ; the boom of the minute- 



JAMES A. GARFIELD. 



guns reverberates through the air ; from 

 every steeple and flag-staff the national ban- 

 ner, at half-mast, floats in the breeze ; public 

 buildings, stores, the modest dwellings of the 

 poor, as well as the palatial mansions of the 

 millionaires, are draped in black and white, 

 the emblems of mourning. Onward speed the 

 iron wheels over the flower-strewn track ; in 

 speechless sorrow and silent reverence, with 

 uncovered heads, thousands upon thousands 

 . line the road-way, as the train passes, to bid 

 the last adieu to their martyr President. 

 But away from the public gaze and exeite- 

 j ment, in every lonely chapel and far-off farm- 

 i house, the fervent prayers of millions rise 

 I heavenward for their beloved chief. Yet a 



sympathy still deeper and nobler than that 

 for a lost ruler has taken possession of every 

 one — that for so grand an example of true 

 manhood. His heroic struggle for life, his 

 patience in suffering, his resignation to the 

 inevitable, and his sublime Christian faith, 

 have attracted the admiration of the whole 

 world ; and few American homes will be 

 found where his loss is not deplored to-day 

 almost as sincerely as that of a member of 

 their own household. 



In the beautiful grounds of Lake View 

 Cemetery his weary and tortured body will 

 find its last resting-place, in sight, almost, of 

 the log cabin where he was born, and where, 

 by his own persevering toil, he commenced 

 to elevate himself from a poor farmer-boy to 

 the highest station attainable by man. To 

 this hallowed spot thousands will be drawn, 

 on every recurring anniversary of this sor- 

 rowful day, to strew flowers on the hero's 

 grave and commemorate the nation's loss. 



An imposing tomb will probably soon be 

 erected by a grateful people ; but a more 

 lasting monument to his noble career and 

 rare virtues than can be cut from stone or 

 molded of bronze stands already engraved 

 deep in the breast of every American citizen. 

 President Garfield's memory will live in the 

 nation's heart — in the nation's love — forever. 



OUR PREMIUMS, 



We ha ve reason to believe that our pre- 

 mium-seeds generally have given satisfaction. 

 It is, of course, not possible that all should 

 have been successful, especially in so unfa- 

 vorable a season as the past one ; yet the 

 many letters received give unmistakable 

 proof that many a spot that would otherwise 

 have remained barren has been made bright 

 and blooming by our Wild-garden Seeds, and 

 that they brought sunshine and cheer into 

 many a home. Will our friends do us the favor 

 to let us hear of their successes and expe- 

 riences'? Nothing adds so much to the fresh- 

 ness and value of a journal as the frequent in- 

 terchange of ideas between reader and editor. 

 It is, of course, impossible to answer every 

 communication received ; yet each suggestion 

 or experience aids to give a better comprehen- 

 sion and understanding of the real wants of 

 its readers. 



Copyright, 1881, by B. It. Buss & SONS. Exchanges invited, to make extracts, by giving oredit. 



