Vol. III. 



NEW-YORK, OCTOBER, 1882. 



No. 10. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 

 Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America. 

 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 DR. F. M. H EXAM ER, : : : Editor. 



B. K. BLISS & SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barclay Street, New- York, 



To wlimn all orders should be addressed. 



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



CONTENTS OF 



The American G-ardefi 



For October, 1882. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-five — Contents — 

 Not Plain Enough — Our Premium List — The 

 Lilies — Duplicate Copies— Notices of the Press. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-six — The Vegeta- 

 ble Garden — Seasonable Hints — Farm Gar- 

 dens, by Col. F. D. Curtis— Exterminating 

 Purslane, by S. E. T. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-seven— Notes on 

 Beets, by Dr. T. H. Hoskins— Potato Notes. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-eight— The Fruit 

 Garden — Seasonable Hints — Blessings and 

 Evil of New Fruits, by Hon. Marshall P. Wilder 

 — The American Grape Mildew, by Dr. B. D. 

 Halsted — The Apple Crop — Wandering Grubs. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-nine— The James 

 Vick Strawberry, by Chas. A. Green— Do Bees 

 Injure Grapes —The California Grape — Currant- 

 Worms. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty — The Flower 

 Garden— The Cardinal Flower, a Poem — Sea- 

 sonable Hints — The Clematis — The Everlast- 

 ing Pea, by Mrs. M. L. P.— Wintering Dahlias. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-one— Bulbs for 

 Autumn Planting, by E. S. Rand, Jr.— Lilies. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-two —Lawn and 

 Landscape— The Lawn in Autumn, by Wm. 

 Falconer — The Public Garden of Boston. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-three — The Window 

 Garden and Greenhouse— The Agapanthus, 

 by E. E. Rexford — Ixias and Sparaxis — Small 

 Greenhouses — Petunias as Window Plants. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-four— Foreign 

 Gardening — The Fern Gully of Melbourne — 

 Sweet Peas — Flowers in Mexico — Soot as a 

 Manure for Plants — Substitutes for Grass. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-five — Books and 

 Pamphlets Received — Catalogues Received — 

 Answers to Correspondents — Miscellaneous. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-six — Premium List. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-eight — Advertising 

 Department. 



NOT PLAIN ENOUGH. 



To some of our readers the conditions 

 under which our Premiums are offered seem 

 to be not plain enough, else they could not 

 ask the many questions of which the fol- 

 lowing is a fair specimen : "I have been a 

 subscriber to The American Garden for 

 the past year (or several years, as the case 

 may be), and would like to have a Clematis 

 coccinea as my premium." In answer to 

 which, and to be more explicit, we repeat : 



First. Subscribers for 1883 only are en- 

 titled to premiums for 1883. It is imma- 

 terial how long one has been a subscriber, 

 or whether he has received a premium for 

 the current year or not ; to obtain a pre- 

 mium for 1883 he must subscribe for 1883. 



Second. It should be plainly stated at the 

 time of sending the subscription which one 

 of the premiums is wanted, as it would 

 cause us an endless amount of work to refer 

 back to our books for premiums not ordered 

 at the same time. We do not promise to 

 send premiums unless ordered at the time of 

 subscribing. 



Third. All premiums will be sent by mail, 

 post-paid, without any charge whatever to 

 the subscriber. 



OUR PREMIUM LIST 



will be found on page 156, and we request 

 all our readers to give it a careful exam- 

 ination. These premiums are not offered in 

 order to make up for what the paper might 

 lack in value, — as any one who reads the 

 American Garden will soon become con- 

 vinced that the information contained in its 

 pages is worth fully and more than the sub- 

 scription price, — but to prove to our sub- 

 scribers that we spare no reasonable effort 

 and expense to furnish them not only in- 

 structive, but also material assistance, in 

 their gardening. 



THE LILIES. 



Subscribers for 1883 who select a Lily 

 for their premium may obtain the bulbs at 

 once, by naming the variety wanted, at the 

 time of sending their subscription. 



All these varieties are perfectly hardy, 

 and to produce good flowers next summer 

 should be planted during this month. 



' DUPLICATE COPIES 



of the American Garden are occasionally 

 sent to subscribers who, we believe, appre- 

 ciate it enough to speak a good word for it, 

 and thereby extend its usefulness. Now, 

 will those of our readers who receive more 

 than one copy of this, or any other number, 

 do us the favor to hand it to some one inter- 

 ested in gardening, and ask him to become a 

 subscriber. 



Any one subscribing now for 1883 will 

 receive the remaining numbers of 



this year free, 



and, as a special inducement, we will 

 send also, if desired and stated when send- 

 ing the subscription, the September number. 

 This number contains a beautiful colored 

 plate of the famous new climber, Clematis 

 coccinea, a plant of which may be had free 

 by any one subscribing for the American 

 Garden. 



NOTICES OF THE PRESS, 



"Please send The American Garden regular 

 hereafter, and as many back numbers as you 

 can. It is a splendid paper." — Editor of the 

 North New Zealand Settler, Australia. 



The American Garden is one of the most ele- 

 gant and reliable publications of its class. It is 

 published by B. K. Bliss & Sons, and edited by 

 the veteran journalist, Dr. F. M. Hexamer. — Agri- 

 cultural Epitomist. 



The American Garden is a very neat and 

 cheap monthly paper, devoted to the gardening 

 interests of America. Such a work would, no 

 doubt, prove interesting and useful to many 

 amateur gardeners in this country.— Gardeners' 

 Magazine, London, England. 



The American Garden is certainly the best 

 horticultural paper published in this country. 

 Handsomely printed, beautifully illustrated, and 

 intelligently edited, it is a treasure in the home 

 of every lover of Fruits and Flowers. Each num- 

 ber is filled with practical information about 

 every branch of gardening. — Farmers' Home 

 Journal. 



The American Garden is a beautiful illus- 

 trated horticultural journal, invaluable for the 

 market garden, the kitchen garden, the orchard, 

 the flower garden and conservatory. The pres- 

 ent number excels all its predecessors in beauty 

 and excellence, and contains, as an unusual at- 

 traction, a handsome colored plate. — Farmers' 

 Review. 



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



