Vol. III. 



NEW YORK, APRIL, 1882. 



Is uerieu (fatten. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America. 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER. 10 CENTS. 

 Dr. K. M. HEXAMER, - - Editor. 



B. K. BLISS & SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barclay Street, New York. 



To whom all orders should be addressed. 



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



CONTENTS OF 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN 



For April, 1882. 



Page Forty-Nine— -Table of Contents— Gardening as 

 a Business— Notices of the Press. 



Page Fifty— The Vegetable Garden— Seasonable 

 Hints— Plant White Beans, by Dr. T. H. Hoskins— 

 Water Cress, by C. R. Hexamer— Hot-Beds. 



Page Fifty- One— Onion Culture, by Wm. G. Corn- 

 stock — American versus English Potatoes. 



Page Fifty- Two— The Fruit Garden— Seasonable 

 Hints— The Shaffer Raspberry— Marketing Fruits, 

 by C. W. Well. 



Page Fifty-Three— Grape Culture in California, by 

 Arlington— Large Strawberries— The Canker Worm, 

 by Dr. Byron D. Halsted. 



Page Fifty-Four— -The Flower Garden— The Seed, a 

 Poem— Seasonable Hints— Annuals, by Eben B. 

 Rexford— Gaillardia picta Lorenziana. 



Page Fifty-Five— How to grow Roses, by Josiah 

 Hoopes— Damaged Lilies. 



Page Fifty- Six— Lawn and Landscape— Farm Land- 

 scape Gardening, by L. B. Pierce— Making Lawns, 

 by Lke Ivy. 



Page Fifty-Seven — Tut. Window Garden — Foliage 

 Plants, by E. S. Taplin— Washing Plants— Grouping 

 of House Plants. 



Page Fifty-Eight— Foeeigs Scenery— Wild Flowers 

 of Para, by E. S. Rand, Jr. — Horticultural Socie- 

 ties.— The New York Horticultural Society. 



Page Fifty -Nine— Books and Pamphlets Received- 

 Answers to Correspondents— Catalogues Received. 



Page Sixty— Advertising Department. 



Short, concise articles on horticultural matters, and 

 reports of practical experiments and experiences in the 

 garden, will be thankfully received and appropriately 

 acknowledged. 



MARKET GARDENING AS A BUSINESS. 



• ' Can a middle-aged man with a small fam- 

 ily and a few thousand dollars ready money 

 make his living by market gardening near a 

 large city?" 



This question is the essence of a letter before us, 

 and in fact of many similar ones which have come 

 to our office. If the question is to be answered 

 with " Yes or no" we do say "yes," but it de- 

 pends — partly on the man, his early training, 

 his inclinations, habits and capabilities, partly 

 on the location he choses and its market facil- 

 ities, partly on his health, and partly on his 

 wife, her assent and concurrence. 



Our ' correspondent is probably a city clerk, 

 and it seems strange that it should not occur to 

 a man of business training that gardening for 

 a livelihood, for profit is a business, which, 

 like any other business, has to be learned and 

 thoroughly understood before one can expect to 

 succeed. But in addition to this, the change 

 from selling dry-goods or hardware to garden- 

 ing or farming is not merely a shifting from 

 one kind of business to another. It means a 

 change from city to country, a change of hab- 

 its, customs and associations, and of relinquish- 

 ing much that has unknowingly become almost 

 a part of ourselves, for an uncertain future 

 which although it may loom tip bright and 

 promising, may seem enchanting only through 

 its distance. 



To those who have a natural, in-bred love of 

 country life, nothing can offer a substitute for 

 its pleasures and enjoyments, while to one of 

 opposite inclinations, a similar life would 

 seem short of banishment to a barren island. 

 No one can know how fond he is of country 

 life and work, until he has tried it, as thou- 

 sands have done before him. Many have failed, 

 but others have succeeded and bless the day "on 

 which they changed city dust and heat for the 

 green fields, pure air and the natural and beau- 

 tiful scenery of the country. 



If our correspondent is in real earnest, we 

 would advise him to try; to engage with some 

 intelligent market gardener where he can learn 

 the details of the business, and where he may 

 become familiar with its requirements. After 

 a years thorough apprenticeship he will be 

 competent to answer his question more satis- 

 factorily to himself than any one could do now 

 in a whole volume. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



The American Garden, published monthly by 

 Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Sons, New York, at the low rate 

 of one dollar per annum, is worth five times its price 

 to all who cultivate flowers or vegetables.— Boston. 



Journal. 



The American Garden lias tu rn changed into a 

 monthly. We are pleased to notice this evidence of 

 prosperity. Dr. Hexamer makes The Garden help- 

 ful and interesting, and worthy the smiles of for- 

 tune.— G-reen's Fruit Recorder. 



The American Garden, published by B. K. Bliss & 

 Sous, and edited by Dr. F. M. Hexamer, changes with 

 the present issue, from a quarterly to a monthly. It 

 is always fresh and readable, and the oftener it 

 appears the better. — Centre Democrat. 



The American Garden, heretofore a quarterly, 

 appears with the new year as a monthly in the same 

 form and with the same faultless typography. The 

 change cau but be gratifying to l eaders and profitable 

 to publishers, for the magazine is so good it can't 

 come too often.— New Engl ami Homestead. 



The American Garden is, as usual, full of in- 

 structive and interesting matter relating to the 

 planting and cultivation of vegetables, flowers and 

 fruits. This periodical is now in its third year, and 

 the high standard of excellence which it took at the 

 start, is well maintained, if not surpassed, at the 

 present time. No .iournal devoted to the interests of 

 the garden, is more handsome in general appearance, 

 better printed, or supplied with more practical and 

 timely information than is The American Garden.— 

 Berkshire Courier. 



The American Garden introduces itself to us in 

 its third volume. We have given it a careful perusal, 

 and find it all it represents itself -to be: A monthly 

 illustrated journal, devoted, as its name indicates, to 

 the gardening interests of America. It contains 

 valuable articles under the following heads: The 

 Vegetable Garden; The Fruit Garden; The Flower 

 Garden; Lawn and Landscape; it has a space devoted 

 to books and pamphlets received, answers to corres- 

 pondence, and also an advertising department We 

 quote "Seasonable Hints" in this department.— 

 National Baptist. 



Every one of our readers can find a reliable adviser 

 in The American Garden, a beautifully illustrated 

 monthly .iournal, devoted entirely to horticulture, 

 and designed to fill this want. In its columns of 

 " Seasonable Hints," it tells just what to do each 

 mdnth in every department, and offers in its "An- 

 swers to Inquiries" columns to solve all the diffi- 

 culties that so frequently beset and dishearten the 

 horticulturist. You cannot invest $1 better than to 

 subscribe for this journal. Its publishers are well 

 known as a reliable, enterprising concern, and we 

 can assure our readers full value received in The 

 American Garden.— New York Witness. 



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



