Vol. IV. 



NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY, 1883. 



No. 2. 



'he |Lmot§m (f ifl@i e 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted to the Gardening 1 Interests of America. 

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CONTENTS OP 



The American G-arden 



For February, 1883. 



Page Twenty-one — Contents.— To Our Readers. 



Page Twenty-two —The Vegetable Garden— 

 Seasonable Hints — Salsify, by Charles E. Par- 

 nell— The Sweet Potato, by E. K. Billings— 

 Mushrooms in Cellars. 



Page Twenty-three — Livingston's Favorite Toma- 

 to—English Vegetables — Manure for the Gar- 

 den, by Thomas D. Baird. 



Page Twenty-four — The Fruit Garden— Season- 

 able Hints — The Kieffer Pear — Soil for Grape- 

 vines—Canning Oranges — Southern Grapes. 



Page Twenty-five— Early Harvest Blackberry, by 

 J. T. Lovett — Renovating the Soil near Fruit- 

 trees, by S. E. T. 



Page Twenty-six — The Flower Garden — The 

 Message of the Rose, a Poem, by Bessie Chand- 

 ler—Seasonable Hints —Bulbous Iris, by R. S. E. 

 —In my Garden, by Jenny Dare. 



Page Twenty-seven — Double Acroelinium — Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants. 



Page Twenty-eight— Lawn and Landscape— A De- 

 sirable Variegated Plant, by Eben E. Rexford— 

 The Dogwood, by Ike Ivy— The Window Gar- 

 den—A Water-Plant for the Window. 



Page Twenty-nine — Epiphyllums, by Mansfield 

 Milton — Echinocactus— Watering Plants, by 

 Linnaeus. 



Page Tii irty — Foreign Gardening — A Vineyard 

 on the Rhine— Slug Hunting— An Old Garden 

 — Railway Gardening — Strawberries for Table 

 Decorations. 



Page Thirty -one — Miscellaneous — Tropical 

 Fruits, by E. S. Rand, Jr. — A Magnificent 

 Camellia, by Mrs. N. W. Win ton— Mistletoe — 

 Florida Crops — Rings not Year-Marks. 



Page Thirty-two. — Charles Downing— A Horticul- 

 tural Excursion — Broom-Corn Oats — Cork for 

 Covering Garden Tubs — Books and Pamphlets 

 Received — Answers to Correspondents. 



Page Thirty-three. —Premium List — Advertis- 

 ing Department. 



TO OUS READERS. 



This number is sent, as a specimen copy, 

 to many who have probably never seen the 

 publication or heard of it. To all these we 

 would say that the American Garden is' 

 not a local, but a national Journal of Horti- 

 culture in the widest sense of the word, em- 

 bracing the entire field of gardening. It is 

 not more devoted to the East than the West, 

 the North than the South, but labors for 

 the good of our entire country. 



Although the commercial and industrial 

 facilities of our great metropolis make it 

 desirable that a publication of this kind 

 should be published here, it will be per- 

 ceived, on a superficial examination even, 

 that its scope and range cover all sections, 

 and that its teachings and directions, are 

 applicable to our entire continent. In fact, 

 the majority of our contributors do not 

 reside near this city, but on their farms 

 and gardens in the States of Vermont, 

 Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Mary- 

 land, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Ken- 

 tucky, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, 

 and indeed, in every State of the Union, and 

 the provinces of Canada. 



To make our journal so practical and re- 

 liable that its teachings may be accepted 

 and followed as those of a trusted friend, is 

 our constant aim. 



As an organ for general practical horticul- 

 tural instruction, the American Garden 

 stands unexcelled, a fact which will be ad- 

 mitted by any one who will give its pages a 

 careful and impartial examination. 



The influence and stimulus exerted by a 

 periodical of this character and tendency, 

 upon sound horticultural development, can- 

 not be doubted. It is therefore that we 

 ask the assistance and cooperation of all 

 those who realize the great importance of 

 horticulture as a national industry as well as 

 a means of education and refinement. Those 

 especially who follow any branch of garden- 

 ing as a business, can do much good by 

 speaking a kind word for the paper, and 

 advising their friends and patrons to become 

 subscribers, for their benefit as well as our 

 own. 



Short, concise articles on horticultural mat- 

 ters, and reports of practical experiments and 

 experiences in the garden, will be thankfully 

 received and appropriately acknowledged. 



BOUND VOLUMES, 



Some of our readers seem to have misun- 

 derstood the conditions under which these 

 volumes may be secured ; we will therefore 

 try to state them more plainly : 



1. — For $1.50 the Bound Volume will be 

 mailed post-paid to any address. 



2. — For $2.25 we will mail the Bound 

 Volume and the American Garden for 

 1883. 



3. — Anyone who sends a club of four sub- 

 scribers to The American Garden for 

 1883, at $1 each, without premiums to the 

 members of the club, is entitled to a Bound 

 Volume. 



4. — Any one who sends a club of ten sub- 

 scribers to the American Garden for 1883, 

 at 75 cents each, with premiums to each 

 member of the club, the same as if they sub- 

 scribed singly at $1 each, is entitled to a 

 Bo _, nd Volume. 



These volumes contain all the numbers of 

 the quarterly of 1880 and 1881, and of the 

 monthly of 1882, carefully indexed and 

 bound together in a handsome heavy paper 

 cover. The amount of reliable and practical 

 horticultural information contained in this 

 combined volume, conveniently arranged for 

 ready reference, — a farming and gardening 

 encyclopedia in itself, —cannot be obtained 

 in any similar book. There is hardly any 

 gardening topic that is not treated in its 

 columns. 



WHAT OUR FRIENDS SAY. 



The Americvn Garden pleases me more and 

 more. The "Seasonable Hints "are invaluable. 



— W. S. W„ Shawano, Wis. 



The American Garden is far ahead of any 

 other horticultural paper, and grows better every 

 month. — L. J. B., Ludington, Mich. 



The colored plates of The American Garden 

 are splendid. The editor and publishers may be 

 congratulated on their success with this journal. 



— Green's Fruit Grower. 



I have derived much, valuable imformation from 

 the columns of The American Garden, and I 

 think the fortunate possessor of two or three pot- 

 plants, as well as the custodian of a large conserv- 

 atory, can obtain from the same sourco useful 

 hints for the care and culture of the plants in his 

 charge. If honest efforts be the precursors of 

 success, there will be no doubt of your reaching 

 the goal of journalistic floriculture. — Dr. D. G., 

 Granby, Canada. 



Copyright, 1883, by B. K. Bliss & Sons. 



