Vol. III. 



NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1882. 



No. 1. 



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A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 

 Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America, 

 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 DR. F. M. HEXAMER, : : : Editor. 



B. K. BLISS ifc SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barclay Street, New York, 



To whom all orders should he addressed. 



Entered at Post-Office at New York as second-class matter. 



CONTENTS OF 



The Ameriean Garden 



Fob January, 1882. 



Page One — Table of Contents — The American 

 Garden, a monthly — Terms — Onr Premiums. 



Page Tico— The Vegetable Garden— Season- 

 able Hints — Early Cabbages, by P. T. Quinn. 



Page Three— Mushrooms, by Samuel Henshaw — 

 The American Wonder Pea, by C. L. Allen. 



Page Four— The Fruit Garden— Seasonable 

 Hints— Cap Raspberries, by J. T. Lovett. 



Page Fwe—Xnt Trees, by Col. F. D. Curtis— The 

 Black Knot, by Dr. Byron D. Halsted — Pruning 

 Grape Vines, by A. S. Fuller. 



Page Six— The Flower Garden— Hymn, by 

 John G. Whittier— Seasonable Hints— The Wild 

 Garden— Trailing Arbutus— Violet Blight— Py- 

 rethrums. 



Page Seven — German Stocks, by Chas. E. Parnell. 



Page Eight— Lawn and Landscape— Borders of 

 Shrubs, by William C. Barry— The Window 

 Garden — Wintering House Plants, by * * * 



Page Nine — Wintering House Plants, continued — 

 Experiences with Amaryllis, by Mrs. S. C. Har- 

 rell— Ferns as House Plants, "by William Fal- 

 coner. 



Page Ten — Books and Pamphlets received — 

 Answers to Correspondents — Miscellaneous. 

 Page Eleven— Advertising Department. 



We present with this number to every sub- 

 scriber an accurate and life-like colored plate 

 of a bunch of the now famous Pocklington 

 Grape, and shall issue, from time to time, as 

 opportunity offers, other appropriate plates. 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



A MONTHLY. 



This number terminates the quarterly 

 issues of The American Garden, and initi- 

 ates at the same time the monthly series 

 under which it will appear hereafter. 



It is after mature consideration that we 

 make this change, well aware of the great 

 obligations which we incur with the under- 

 taking. Yet, with hundreds of letters from 

 our subscribers before us, bearing assurance 

 that our efforts have been appreciated, and 

 that the only fault they have to find with the 

 paper is that it does not come often enough, 

 we cannot doubt that we are justified in 

 making the venture. 



We take this occasion to tender our grate- 

 ful acknowledgment to our many friends who 

 have faithfully stood by us, who have en- 

 couraged and sustained our infant craft until 

 it has grown to the size and strength of the 

 full-decked vessel, ready to sail forth into 

 the world before it. 



The monthly American Garden will not 

 differ materially in form and general arrange- 

 ment from the quarterly, except that we 

 intend to make its contents still more valua- 

 ble and acceptable to its subscribers. While 

 we aim to educate and elevate the popular 

 taste for everything that is beautiful and 

 grand in nature, and to make our readers 

 familiar with all new discoveries and progres- 

 sive methods in Horticulture, it is not our 

 purpose to discuss abstract and theoretical 

 dogmas, nor to fill our pages with Greek 

 and Latin terms, unintelligible to all but 

 the scientist, when plain English words can 

 be used to express the meaning as well. 



Those who seek reliable practical informa- 

 tion about any or all branches of gardening 

 may be sure to find it in our columns, pre- 

 sented in simple, popular style. No paper is 

 more carefully scrutinized before it meets the 

 eyes of the public, and nothing that could in 

 the least offend the most refined and culti- 

 vated taste is ever admitted, either as read- 

 ing matter or advertisement. 



We make no further promises, preferring 

 that our work should speak for itself, and 

 confident that those who follow us through 

 the coming year will find all reasonable 

 hopes realized. 



Copyright, 1882, by B. K. Bliss & Sons. 



TERMS. 



The subscription price for the monthly 

 American Garden is 



ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR, ' 



commencing with this number. 



Our old subscribers, whose subscriptions 

 expire with this number, have already paid 

 for this, and are entitled to the paper from 

 now till the close of the year for ninety 

 cents. Or they may, by remitting one dollar, 

 select an additional premium from our list. 



OUR PREMIUMS. 



Some of our readers have expressed the 

 opinion that our journal is good enough with- 

 out premiums, and we fully agree with their 

 judgment ; yet when we read the many favor- 

 able commendations which we receive almost 

 daily about our premiums distributed during 

 the past year, we cannot but believe that to 

 the majority of our subscribers the premium 

 seeds have been highly acceptable. We 

 offer, therefore, to every subscriber of The 

 American Garden for 1882 the choice of 

 one package of any one of the following: 



JVM Garden Seeds, a package containing a 

 mixture of upward of one hundred varieties 

 of Flower Seeds, sufficient for a square rod 

 of ground. 



Improved German Ten-Weeks Stock. These 

 beautiful flowers are far too little known in 

 our gardens, and we hope by offering them 

 among our premiums to introduce these floral 

 gems to many of our readers. 



May-Flower Tomato. A new variety now 

 offered for the first time, the great excellence 

 of which has been indorsed by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society in awarding 

 it the first prize for the best new Tomato. 



Bliss's American Racer Pea. We have grown 

 this new Pea for several years on our experi- 

 mental grounds, and consider it one of the 

 earliest, most productive, and best Peas 

 known. Our stock of seed is as yet too limited 

 to enable us to offer it for sale, yet we are so 

 strongly convinced of its superior value that 

 J we offer it as a premium — the only way 

 in which it can bo obtained — to our sub- 

 scribers, trusting that it will prove as valu- 

 able an addition to the list of new vegetables 

 as the American Wonder Pea, introduced by 

 us last season. 



