Vol. III. 



NEW YORK, MARCH, r, 



No. 3. 



^marital (.|ar3en. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America. 



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SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 I>r. K. M. HEXANER, - - Editor. 



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CONTENTS OF 



The American Garden 



For March, 1882 



Page Thi rlij-TIi ret — Table of Contents— Imported 

 Vegetables — Notices of the Press. 



Page Thirty-Four— -The Vegetable Garden— Season- 

 able Hints— Day's Early Sunrise Pea— liaising Early 

 Vegetables, by C. E. Parnell. 



Page Thirty-Fire— \\&xsa\g Early Vegetables, con- 

 tinued—Onion Culture, by Wm. G. Comstock— New 

 Potatoes. 



Page Thirty-Sir— -The Fruit Garden— Seasonable 

 Hints — The Montelair Raspberry— Strawberries in 

 Tubs, by Miss M. E. Grimm— Cuttings. 



Page Thirty- Seven— -The Tent Caterpillar, by Dr. Byron 

 D. Halsted— Garden Apples, by E. Williams— The 

 Apricot, by Wm. Saunders. 



Page Thirty-Eight— -The Flower Garden— A Leaf 

 from the Calender, a Poem, by Wm. M. Briggs— 

 Seasonable Hints— Experience with Pansies, by P. E. 

 Cope— A New Plant Support, by Prof. J. Roemer— 

 Tuberous-Rooted Begonias. 



Page Thirty-Nine— Early Spring-Blooming Perennials, 

 by Geo. C. Woolson— Marigolds— The Use 'of Flow- 

 ers, by Hon. M. P. Wilder. 



Page Forty — Lawn and Landscape— Shrubs and 

 Shrubberies, by * * * — Transplanting Native 

 Shrubs, by C. R. Hexamer— Rockeries from London 

 Garden. 



Page Forty-One- The Window Garden— Azaleas, 

 Camellias, Daphnes, by John Thorpe— What Plants 

 to Grow in the House, by E. B. Rexford. 



Page Forty- Tuxj—Forviuk Gardening— How Plants 

 Behave in Brazil, by E. S. Rand, Jr.— Japanese 

 Gardens, by J. Douglas. 



rage Forty -Three- -Books and Pamphlets Received- 

 Catalogues Received— Answers to Correspondents. 



Page, Forty-Four— Advertising Department. 



IMPORTED VEGETABLES. 



We have become so accustomed to send our 

 annual surplus products of the soil to Europe, 

 in exchange for various luxuries, that when we 

 suddenly find the tables turned and are told 

 that foreign countries have shipped to the port 

 of New York alone over one million dollars 

 worth of vegetables in one year to be paid for 

 in hard cash, we can hardly believe its truth. 

 Yet these are the facts and figures as they were 

 kindly furnished us by Collector Robertson. 



The imports of vegetables into the port of 

 New York in 1881, were: 



Potatoes, 785.792 bush., $446,000 

 Peas and Beans, 19,582 bush.. 22,913 

 Various vegetables, 410,377 

 Sauerkraut, 126,134 



Total, $1,005,520 

 These were of course, only the prices as in- 

 voiced, which, with transportation, duties, com- 

 missions, etc., added would at least double the 

 selling prices. 



The import duty on Potatoes is 15 cents per 

 bushel; on Peas, Beans, Cabbages and other 

 vegetables, 10 per cent., while sauerkraut, 

 which is nothing but pickled Cabbage, is duty 

 free. This is certainly a tariff anomaly not pro- 

 motive of home industry, to make the manufac- 

 tured article free while the raw product is 

 taxed. 



The importations of Potatoes during January 

 and February, 1882, have been considerably 

 larger than in any month of the previous year, 

 and have been steadily increasing, from 2,000 

 to 3,000 tons arriving every week. Neverthe- 

 less the prices of Potatoes are higher now than 

 they have been at any time during winter, and 

 are not likely to decrease before our markets 

 can be supplied from Florida and South 

 Carolina. 



Importers of vegetables are hopeful that this 

 new dispensation may be the forerunner of a 

 regular import trade in this line of products, 

 and are eagerly trying to create the impression 

 that European vegetables are of better quality 

 than our own. Of Cauliflowers and perhaps 

 Cabbages in a dry season, this may have some 

 truth, as these vegetables find in the damp 

 atmosphere and the drained marshes of Hol- 

 land their essential elements in high degree. 

 But to assert the superiority of European over 



home-grown Potatoes is imposing boldly upon 

 the credulity of those who know what a good 

 Potato is. We have tasted a great many kinds 

 of Potatoes from nearly every country in 

 Europe, but every new trial only confirms our 

 belief that good American varieties, grown here 

 in suitable soil, with good cultivation, cannot 

 be excelled, if equaled, anywhere. 



NOTICES 01 THE PRESS. 



The American Garden, of New York, was such a 

 success as a quarterly that Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Sons 

 will henceforth publish it as a monthly. In point of 

 ability in editing, excellence of matter, and mechan- 

 ical beauty, this journal heads the list of American 

 horticultural publications.— Farmers'' Review. 



The American Garden.— This illustrated journal 

 of horticulture, which has heretofore appeared as a 

 quarterly, comes on the 1st of January as a monthly. 

 It is edited by the veteran horticulturist, Dr. F. M. 

 Hexamer, who has no superior in this country as a 

 practical and scientific horticulturist. The aim of the 

 editor is to furnish a monthly which will give inform- 

 ation and suggestive hints, of a practical character, 

 to those who have city yards and small suburban 

 places with limited resources. The articles in the 

 present issue are. timely, well chosen, carefully writ- 

 ten by persons familiar with the subjects treated. 

 The low subscription price of $1 a year, will make 

 this neatly dressed journal a welcome visitor to hun- 

 dreds who will be instructed and interested in read- 

 ing its pages. -X< work Daily Advertiser. 



The American Garden, since it came under the 

 editorship of Dr. Hexamer and the control of B. K. 

 Bliss & Sons, has been greatly improved, and has in 

 consequence attained an extensive circulation. Its 

 readers have been so entirely satisfied with it, and so 

 many of them have urged its more frequent issue, 

 that the publishers begin with the January number to 

 make it a monthly at |1 a year. Though published by 

 one of the great seed houses of the country, its read- 

 ers have a guarantee that, under the editorship of 

 a man of the high character and attainments of Dr. 

 Hexamer, it will never take on the form of a mere 

 trade circular, but will be kept abreast of the times 

 as a first-class horticultural journal. The publishers 

 themselves, we are confident, have no other purpose, 

 than to give the patrons of The Garden full and 

 more than full value for their money, without seeking 

 unduly to advance their mercantile interests (so 

 effectively supported by the wide and gratuitous dis- 

 tribution of their elegant and costly "Hand-books 

 and Catalogues ") through its columns. We do not 

 know where our readers who are interested in horti- 

 culture can better seek information in that depart- 

 ment than by subscribing for The American Garden. 

 Specimen numbers will be sent free on application to 

 B. K. Bliss & Sons, 34 Barclay Street, New York — 

 Vermont Watchman. 



Copyi'ight, 1882, by B. K. Bliss & Sons. 



