Vol. IV. 



No. i. 



1® ^■©ffeii fibrli 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted lo the Gardening' Interests of America, 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 DR. F. M. HEXAMER, : : : Editor. 



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CONTENTS OF 



Tike American G-ardem 



For January, 1883. 



Page One — Contents — The New Year. 



Page Two — Tim Vegetable Garden — Season- 

 able Hints— Hilling Potatoes— Growing Hub- 

 bard Squashes, by E. R. Billings. 



Page T/iree — Celeriac — Forcing Tomatoes, by 

 .Tames Maepherson — Water-Cress in Hot-beds. 



Page Four — The Fruit Gardes— Seasonable 

 Hints — The White Grub, by Dr. B. D. Halsted— 

 Fruit in England — Apricot Wine. 



Page Five— The, Black Champion Currant— Old 

 Strawberry Plants, by J. H. Hale — Fig Cul- 

 ture. 



Page Six—T\uz Flower Garden— What the New 

 Year Brings, a Poem, by Clark W. Bryan— Sea- 

 sonable Hints — Ever-blooming Carnations, by 

 John Thorpe — Discoveries in the Garden, by ( 

 Jenny Dare — The Yucca, by Josiah Hoopes. 



Page Seven — The Yucca continued. 



Page Eight— Lawn and Landscape — Hydrangeas, 

 by K. S. E. —Evergreens in the Shade, by Dr. O. 

 K. Willis —Winter Work on the Lawn — The Win- ' 

 dow Garden — Heating Small Greenhouses, by 

 * * -—A Neglected Rose, by H. B. Ellwanger. 



Page Nine — A. New Mimulua — Care of House 

 Plants, by Emily That cher Bennett — Oleanders. 



Page ^/(.—Miscellaneous — Tropical Fruits, by 

 E. S. Rand, Jr. — Experience with Teosinte, by 

 John F. West — Experiments with Fertilizers — 

 Women's Rights. 



Page Eleven — Foreign Gardening — Horticul- 

 ture in Mexico— How a Botanic Garden is 

 formed in Japan — Immortelles — Our Exhibi- 

 tion Tables. 



Page Twelve — Books and Pamphlets Received— ; 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Page Thirteen — Premium List. 

 Page Fourteen — Advertising Department, 



THE NEW TEAR. 



The cheerful holidays are over, and with 

 contented minds, with renewed strength, 

 with fresh, confiding hope, we all reenter 

 upon our various tasks and occupations, re- 

 viewing the past and making plans for the 

 future. In reviewing our own past, we have, 

 at the close of the first volume of the Amer- 

 ican Garden as a monthly, ample reasons 

 for profound gratitude. The enterprise 

 which, a year ago, was little more than a 

 promising experiment, has, thanks to its 

 many good friends, fulfilled all reasonable 

 hopes, and the American Garden stands to- 

 day on as solid a basis as is possible for so 

 young a journal. The number of its patrons 

 is rapidly increasing, and the circle of its 

 friends is constantly extending — not within 

 our own country only, but to every civilized 

 nation on the globe. 



We take this occasion to tender our sin- 

 cere thanks to all those who in any manner 

 have shown us their approval, who have en- 

 couraged and cheered us and lent a helping 

 hand to the advancement of the American 

 Garden. But, good friends, we shall need 

 your assistance not less during the new year 

 than we did in the old; we need your sym- 

 pathy, your cooperation as much as ever. 

 With these, and the experience of the past, 

 we promise to give you a better, handsomer, 

 and more valuablei paper than has ever 

 been published anywhere. 



Please speak a kind word for us now, 

 mention the paper to your friends who are 

 interested in gardening of any kind, and 

 point out to them the advantages of sub- 

 scribing to such a publication. For this and 

 any act or expression of good-will we shall 

 be very grateful, and will endeavor to return 

 the favors in the good advice andinstructions 

 we may give you during the year. 



However, it is not as a guide and adviser 

 only that we want to serve you : we wish to 

 become a friend of all our readers, to make 

 them feel that we are not indifferent to their 

 interests, and that they may safely take us 

 into their confidences; we wish to become 

 familiar with every nook and corner and 

 pretty plant in their gardens, and delight in 

 the tenderness and love with which they are 

 cared for. We hope to be able to prove the 

 earnestness and sincerity of our endeavor, 

 Copyright, 1883, by K. K. Bliss & sons. 



and to deserve to find a place in your gardens, 

 j in your homes, in your hearts. To this end 

 we shall labor and strive with all the courage 

 I and strength that is in us. 



Whatever the result, whatever the success 

 may be, we shall always have at heart the 

 best interests of our friends and readers, to 

 each and to all of whom we sincerely wish 



A Happy New Year ! 



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. The two volumes of The American Gar- 

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 have been carefully indexed and bound to- 

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 The amount of reliable and practical horti- 

 cultural information contained in this com- 

 bined volume, conveniently arranged for 

 ready reference, — a farming and gardening 

 encyclopaedia in itself, — cannot be obtained 

 in any similar book. There is hardly any 

 gardening topic, that is not treated in its 

 ; columns. 



The volume will be mailed, post-paid, on 

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 each member of the club to a premium, the 

 same as those subscribing singly. 



A VALUABLE PICTURE, 



A beautiful and elegant colored plate of a 

 group of the Shakespearean Collection of 

 New Perpetual Carnations, described on page 



I 6 of this number, will be presented to every 

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 1883. In order to place it in the hands of 

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A complete Index to Volumes L, II., and 

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