Vol. III. 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1882. 



No. 2. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL, 



Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America. 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 Dr. F\ M. HEXAHER, - - Kclitor. 



B. K. BLISS & SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barclay Street, New York. 



To whom all orders should be addressed. 



Entered at Post-offil 



CONTENTS OF 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN 



For February, 1882. 



Page Seventeen— Table of Contents— To Our Readers 

 Our Premiums— Preserve Your Papers— Back Num- 

 bers. 



Page Eighteen— The Vegetable Garden— Seasonable 

 Hints— The Mayflower Tomato— Commercial Fertil- 

 izers. 



Page Nineteen— Market Gardening "around New York, 

 by P. T. Quinn— The Onion Smut, by Dr. Byron D. 

 Halsted — Keeping Potatoes — Forcing Rhubarb — 

 American Potatoes in Europe. 



Page Twenty— Int. Fruit Garden— Seasonable Hints— 

 The Manchester Strawberry, by J. H, Hale— Thin- 

 ning and Packing Fruit. 



Page Twenty-One— Pruning Grape Vines, by E. Wil- 

 liams—Fruit Notes— Changing Strawberry Plants- 

 Selection of Varieties— Phylloxera. 



Page Twenty- Two— The Flower Garden— Withered 

 Flowers, a Poem — Seasonable Hints — American 

 Bulbs, the Tuberose, by Josiah Hoopes— Novelties— 

 The Cardinal Flower. 



Page Twenty- Three— China Asters. 



Page Twenty-Four — Lawn and Landscape — Nooker- 

 ies, by S. Parsons, Jr.— Native Flowering Shrubs, 

 by C. R. Hexamer. 



Page Twenty-Five— The Window Garden and Green- 

 house— Ferns for the House, by William Falconer — 

 Window Gardening in February, by John Thorpe. 



Page Twenty-Six — Foreign Gardening — How Root 

 Crops Served us in the Tropics, by E. S. Rand, Jr.— 

 Foreign Scenery— The Giant Bamboo in Ceylon- 

 Palestine To-Day. 



Page Twenty-Seeen — American Scenery — Flowers 

 and Fruits of Southern California, by Mrs. N. W. 

 Winter — Horticultural Societies — The Western 

 New York Horticultural Society. 



Page, Twenty-Eight— Books and Pamphlets Received- 

 Catalogues Received — Answers to Correspondents 

 Miscellaneous. 



Page Ttcenty-Xine — Advertising Department. 



TO OUR READERS, 



.This paper is sent to many who have not 

 heretofore been among our subscribers, with the 

 hope that they will give • it a careful examina- 

 tion which will, we trust, make them so pleased 

 with it that they will become subscribers. We 

 have endeavored to send it principally to ama- 

 teur and pn >fessi< mal gardeners, yet in some cases 

 it will, no doubt, fall into the hands of persons 

 who do not care for it. Will these do us the favor 

 to hand it to some one interested in horticulture, 

 and thereby not only oblige us but benefit their 

 friends. 



We invite and solicit the co-operation of every 

 one who recognizes the. need and importance of 

 a first-class, popular Horticultural Journal. 

 We do not rival with contemporaneous period- 

 icals, nor compete for superiority, as there is 

 to-day no publication that occupies the same 

 field. But as there is no garden in which there 

 is not room for better vegetables, choicer fruits 

 and sweeter flowers, so there is in our horticul- 

 tural journalism " plenty of room at the top. " 

 We simply found in this field an inviting niche 

 which had not yet been occupied, and endeav- 

 ored to fill it. How far we have succeeded our 

 readers are more competent to judge than our- 

 selves. 



We shall strive with all the means at our 

 command to improve, and increase the useful- 

 ness of our paper with each succeeding number, 

 so that no one who cultivates flowers, fruits 

 or vegetables can well afford to be without it. 



We extend the hand of fellowship to all who 

 desk-e the promotion and improvement of the 

 gardening interests of our land, hoping that 

 while ready to do our part we may rely upon 

 the kind assistance of our friends. 



Every thinking man and woman who cul- 

 tivates a garden has some ideas of his or her 

 own, the result of experience and observa- 

 tion. Brother and sister gardeners, do not 

 hide your light under a- bushel, but let oth- 

 ers share the benefits of your experience. No 

 long treatises are wanted, a few lines that can 

 be written on a postal card contain often more 

 solid information than a closely written sheet of 

 foolscap. 



Our old readers need no assurance that our 

 promises will be fulfilled; to our new ones we 

 can only say : try us, subscribe for the Ameri- 

 can Garden and you will never regret it. 



OUR PREMIUMS, 



As some of our subscribers seem to have mis- 

 understood the conditions under which our 

 Premiums are offered, and for the information 

 of new readers we repeat part of what was 

 stated in our lasi issue. 



Every subscriber 1" the American Garden 

 is entitled to One Premium, and may take his 

 or her choice of any One of them, viz., either 



1 packet of Wild Garden Seeds: or 



1 packet Improved German Stocks: or 



1 packet Mayflower Tomato; or 



1 packet American Racer Pea. 



For description see advertising department. 



No Premium Seeds are sent unless the sub- 

 scriber, when sending his subscription or after- 

 wards states which one of the four he wishes. 



Any one who sends with his own another 

 subscription may select two packages for himself, 

 and any one who sends with his own two addi- 

 tional subscriptions becomes entitled to the four 

 premiums, the two other subscribers receiving 

 one premium each, as if they had subscribed for 

 themselves. 



PRESERVE YOUR PAPERS. 



We trust that most of our readers do pre- 

 serve their papers after having read them, but 

 those who do not we wish to remind that they 

 inflict a considerable loss upon themselves. 

 The twelve numbers of the year kept on file 

 will contain more practical horticultural infor- 

 mation than can be found in any book for the 

 same price, and together with the carefully 

 prepared index, which we shall issue at the end 



of the year, will be a useful 1 k for reference. 



A scries of several years will constitute a valua- 

 ble encyclopaedia of gardening. 



BACK NUMBERS, 



Fre pient inquiries are received for informa- 

 tion which has been fully given in some previ- 

 ous numbers. In justice to those who have 

 been our subscribers from flic beginning we 

 cannot discuss these questions so soon again. 

 We have a number of full sets of all the Back 

 Numbers of the American Garden quarterly 

 that have appeared, and will mail the set of 

 seven numbers for fifty cents, single numbers 

 for ten cents. Valuable information pertaining 

 to every branch of gardening is contained in 



