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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED, 

 The American Poultry and Pigeon Breeders' 

 Directory published by Edward 0. Lord. Great 

 Falls, N. H. The book is so arranged that any one 

 desiring a particular variety of fowl can turn to it and 

 find the address of persons breeding that variety. 



Proceedings of the Portage Co., O., Horti- 

 cultural Society.— H. Y. Beebe, president ; Andrew 

 Willson, secretary.— A pamphlet of 82 pages, contain- 

 ing, in addition to matters of local interest, several 

 well written papers of value to horticulturists gener- 

 ally. 



The Scientific American.— A file oflthis excel- 

 lent journal before us, recalls to mind its fortunate 

 escape from the great fire of the "World Building." 



The subscription lists, account 1 ks, patent records, 



drawings and correspondence were preserved in mas- 

 sive fire-proof safes. The printing was done in another 

 building ; consequently the types, plates, presses, pa- 

 pers, etc., were unharmed, and no interruption of 

 business was occasioned. The new Scientific Ameri- 

 can offices are located at 261 Broadway, corner of 

 Warren street, within a few hundred feet from the 

 ruins of their old time-honored location. 



The Ohio State University.— The eleventh an- 

 nual report of the Board of Trustees.— A clear and 

 concise statement of the work done and the advance- 

 ment made during the past year. The vigor with 

 which this University takes hold of the practical and 

 scientific workings of the farm, and endeavors to 

 elevate "the chief calling of man," is well worthy of 

 emulation by her elder sisters. The State of Ohio 

 has always been one of the foremost in promoting 

 our national prosperity, and she is not backward now 

 in doing her part in the progressive march of modern 

 agriculture. In addition to the existing professor- 

 ship of Agriculture held by Dr. N. S. Townsend, an 

 eminent and practical agriculturist, a chair of Botany 

 and Horticulture has been created, to which Prof. W. 

 R. Lazenby, of Cornell University, was called. Prof. 

 Lazenby is a man of sound practical experience and 

 thorough scientific training. The energetic and 

 earnest manner in which he went at once to work in 

 organizing his department may well serve as an indi- 

 cation of what he will accomplish if he is allowed to 

 carry out his plans. 



Farm Architecture; Houses and Barnes, by 

 E. C. Gardner. Published by Clark W. Bryan & Co., 

 Holyoke, Mass.— A neat little pamphlet of fifty pages, 

 gotten up in .the usual faultless typography, of the 

 Paper World Press. The author starts with the asser- 

 tion that our farm-buildings are pitifully below then- 

 present possibilities, and demonstrates how to give 

 a fresh impulse, an upward and onward lift toward 

 changing this. The subject is divided into two 

 classes : 1st, the improvement of the houses and 

 barns already built, and 2d, the construction of those 

 which are to be built— the old and the new. The first 

 especially, is treated with much ability and thorough 

 familiarity of the practical bearings of the subject. 

 Many illustrations are given to show how with little 

 expense the external appearance of an old house and 

 the comfort within can be improved many fold. The 

 suggestions for the internal arrangements of new 

 houses are thoroughly sensible, and to the point, and 

 it is said with much truth that, our houses should be 

 built to live in ; not for show, not for company, not 

 for fashion ; for our home-life does depend to a 

 wonderful extent upon the character and plan of the 

 house we live in. 



Note sur Deux Societes D'Horticulture aux 

 Etats-Unis, by Ch. Joly, Paris.— A carefully written 

 and instructive essay on the history and advance- 

 ment of American Horticultural Societies, especially 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the work 

 and usefulness of which is related in most glowing 

 terms, and the American Nurserymen's Association, 

 which the author considers as a mark of national 

 prosperity and an example for European imitation. 

 A brief review of other prominent societies and the 

 work accomplished by them is also given. Carefully 

 collected statistics show the extent of our exports 

 of apples, pears and other fruits, and especially wine. 

 The quantities of wine shipped to France are increas- 

 ing annually, helping her materially to supply the 

 deficiency caused by the destruction of her vineyards. 

 We have it here stated by the best informed authority, 

 that the large quantities of our wines exported to 

 France are re-shipped under foreign brands to satisfy 

 the minds of those who consider only imported wines 

 fit to drink. 



The entire essay is a high and gratifying tribute to 

 American horticultural progress and American horti- 

 culturists laboring for the advancement of the impor- 

 tant industries resulting from them. 



The Small Fruit Culturist, by Andrew S. Fuller, 

 new, re-written and enlarged edition, published by 

 the Orange Judd Company, New York.— Every fruit- 

 grower will hail with joy this new edition of the 

 "Small Fruit Culturist." brought up to the state of 

 fruit culture of the present time, and feel grateful to 

 the author as well as to the publishers. When some 

 fifteen years ago the work first appeared, and Mr. 

 Fuller traced with prophetic eye the possibilities and 

 probabilities in small fruit culture, many thought his 

 conceptions visionary and their fulfillment impossible, 

 yet to-day we find them more than realized. The 

 positive knowledge of small fruit culture was formerly 

 in an extremely crude and vague state. Mr. Fuller 

 gathered, sifted, and systematized the material on 

 hand and, combined with the results of his| extensive 

 experience and research, presented it to the world. 

 The accuracy and comprehensiveness of the work 

 took every one by surprise, and as a book coming 

 from America it is a phenomenon, as is shown by the 

 fact that it was the first American work on similar 

 subjects ever translated in a foreign language. Asa 

 hand-book of small fruit culture as well as a book of 

 reference, it stands unexcelled to this day, and is 

 equally indispensable to the professional fruit-grower 

 as well as to the amateur. 



The Horticulture of Boston and Vicinity, hy 

 Hon. Marshall V. Wilder.— A private edition of 

 the chapter prepared for the Boston Memorial Series. 

 —This beautiful pamphlet comes to our table with 

 more than ordinary claims to our attention, as might 

 be supposed of anything written by the honored and 

 beloved president of the American Pomological 

 Society, but the value of the copy before us is in- 

 finitely enhanced by the friendly words and signature 

 of the author, written with his own hand, clear and 

 firm, at the venerable age of 83 years, 4 months, 22 

 days. The task of preparing this memorial paper 

 could not have been entrusted to abler and worthier 

 hands, for no living man has done so much to promote 

 the horticultural interest of our country, and has like 

 him devoted a long and exemplary life to the elevation 

 of pomology and floriculture. In his usual, beautiful 

 and elegant language, the author gives as accurate 

 and complete a history of the horticultural develop- 

 ment in and around Boston as the space permits. 

 Commencing with the landing of the pilgrims who 

 " found Grapes, Strawberries. Gooseberries, Raspber- 

 ries, Plums and Roses, white, red and damask, 

 single, but very sweet," following step by step every 

 marked improvement up to the present day. The 

 many beautiful gardens and country seats which sur- 

 round Boston are so vividly and charmingly portrayed 

 that in reading the descriptions one feels almost like 

 walking on the smooth, velvety lawns, and inhaling 

 the perfume of the seas of flowers. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 

 Book on Sheep.— 7?. A. H., Naples, Me.— Stewart's 

 Shepherd's Manual is considered one of the best, if 

 not the best book on Sheep. Will be mailed from this 

 office for $1.50. 



Book on Small Fruits.— II'. D., Cohoes, N. Y— 

 A. S. Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist is the best work of 

 the kind, and will repay any one cultivating fruits 

 many times its cost. It will be mailed from this office 

 for $1.50. 



Charles Barnard's Simple Flower Garden for 



Country Homes ; How to Start it ; What it will Cost ; 

 How to Stock it and have Flowers the year round— 

 A. I). S., Grafton, N. B. — This book was published in 

 Boston some twelve years ago. We do not know who 

 the publishers are ; perhaps some reader will answer. 



Celeriac, or Turnip-Rooted Celery.— L. H. Haz- 

 let, N. ./.—Celeriac is but a variety of the ordinary Cel- 

 ery, in which through numerous generations the de- 

 velopment of the roots has been promoted. By 

 earthing up, the leaves and stalks would develop 

 more, but to the detriment of the root, which is the 

 part used. 



Jasmine.— Miss M. J. F., Claveraek, N. U— Your 

 Jasmine seems to be sick, indeed, and may be beyond 

 recovery. Try the treatment advised for Azaleas and 

 Camellias on another page of this number. Wash out 

 the roots and plant in a comparatively small pot at 

 first. If the plant recovers this summer, expose to full 

 sunlight during another season. 



Onion Sets.— Mrs. B. S., Raccoon, West Ta— Sets 

 are small Onions grown from late sown seed. If the 

 sets are planted early they will make large Onions in 

 a short time, when they should be taken up and dried, 

 else they will go to seed. For information about 

 growing Onions from seed, see Mr. Comstock's excel- 

 lent article in this and next number. 



Manure for Kale.— 111. E. S., Washington, D. €'.— 

 Kale is not used before freezing weather sets in and 

 develops its curly leaves, which are the part eaten, 

 during autumn. It is set out about the time when 

 late Cabbages are planted and requires, like these, rich 

 ground. Mapes' Complete Manure, or Cabbage Ma- 

 nure, used as a top-dressing, will be found beneficial. 



Sweet Clover Shrub.— L. H. JY., St. Louis, Mo.— 

 The shrub mentioned is probably "Sweet Gale," or 

 " Wax Myrtle," Mijrica cerifera, its leaves are oblong- 

 lanceolate, narrow at the base, glossy, and of pleas- 

 ant fragrance. It grows wild near the sea shore, and 

 is also often found cultivated in gardens. The foliage 

 is used extensively by florists to mix with flowers in 

 bouquets. The true Sw< < t < 'lovt r is .!/< lUotus alba, this 

 is not a shrub, however, but a plant which dies down 

 every year. 



Muriate of Potash.— J. L., Kortright, N. Y— This 

 salt is so strong that unless it is very evenly distrib- 

 uted there is danger of its injuring the crops. Whether 

 it is to be used as a top-dressing of meadows or on 

 plowed land it is always safer and more advantageous 

 to mix it thoroughly with four or five times its weight 

 of dry muck or soil, previous to application. All pot- 

 ash salts should be applied as early in the season as 

 possible, that the spring rains may diffuse them 

 through the soil. Three to four hundred pounds 

 should be used per acre. 



Primulas, Cinerarias, Calceolarias. —Mrs. W. 

 A. C, Charleston, S. C— Primulas, Chinese Primroses, 

 can be propagated by division of the roots or by cut- 

 tiugs, but better plants are obtained from seed. To 

 produce good, strong plants for next winter blooming, 

 the seed should be sown in March or April. Cinera- 

 rias and Calceolarias are sown in August and Septem- 

 ber in finely sifted loamy soil mixed with about one- 

 third of fine sand. As soon as the young plants can 

 be handled they have to be pricked out in richer soil 

 and afterwards potted in soil containing about one- 

 third of well-decayed manure. 



Bean Weevil.— Subscriber, Can/on. 0.— This pest is 

 rapidly spreading over the whole country, and is do- 

 ing an immense amount of damage. The full grown 

 insect is a small beetle which deposits its eggs upon 

 the young Bean pods. The young larva as soon as 

 hatched works through the pod into the Beans, from 

 the substance of which it subsists. Here it transforms 

 into a pupa, which develops into a beetle the follow- 

 ing spring, or earlier, when the Beans are kept in a 

 warm place. The most effectual remedy, or better, 

 prevention, would be for all inhabitants of a large 

 area to sow only sound Beans. This would not be an 

 easy matter, however. Scalding the lieans before 

 sowing kills the larva? without injuring the seed; tur- 

 pentine put in the barrels or other tight vessels in 

 which the Beans are kept, is also recommended for 

 destroying the insects. 



Honey Plants.— L. L., Belle Vernon, 0.— White 

 Clover, Buckwheat, Rape and Alsike, are recognized 

 as the most valuable honey plants for cultivation on 

 a large scale, and it is stated by bee keepers that the 

 honey furnished by these plants pays for all expenses 

 of cultivation. The Spider plant, Cleome pungens, and 

 Figwort, Serophularia nodosa, a tall rank growing 

 herb, with small greenish purple flowers, growing- 

 wild in woods and damp places, are also highly rec- 

 ommended. Among garden flowers Mignonette 

 stands at the head of the list, at least bees appear to 

 be very fond of it, and " Mignonette Honey " is quoted 

 in the market lists at a higher price than any other. 

 Why not try "Wild Garden Seeds?" Among such a 

 variety of flowers, surely even the most fastidious 

 bees will find something agreeable to their taste. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



H. S. Anderson, Union. Springs, fni/nga County, 

 JV. I'.— Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of the 

 Cayuga Lake Nurseries. Duchess Grape a specialty. 



Ellwanger & Barry, Bochcsler, N. Y. — Mount' 

 Hope Nurseries, Abridged Catalogue of Select Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Grape Vines, Small Fruits, 

 Shrubs, Roses, etc. The best of everything a spe- 

 cialty. 



Green's Nurseries, Rochester or Clifton, A r . Y.— 

 Catalogue and Instructor. Shaffer's Colossal and 

 Lost Rubies Raspberries, specialties. 



V. H. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, Queens, N. Y— 

 Catalogue of Lilies, Gladiolus, Roses, and a general 

 assortment of Greenhouse Plants. 



J. T. Lovett, Littl, Silver, X. J. — Monmouth 

 Nursery Catalogue aud Descriptive Price List of 

 Small Fruits, and Fruit Trees. Manchester Straw- 

 berry and Souhegan Raspberry, specialties. 



