Vol. IV. 



NEW-YORK, JULY, 1883. 



No. 7. 



|fe ^mepieaa (|ai'ilen. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted to the Gardening' Interests of America. 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGIiK NUMBElt, 10 OJSNTS. 

 DR. F. M. HEXAMER, Editor. 



B. K. BLISS & .SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barchiy Street, New- York, 



To whom cell orders should be addressed. 



Entered at Post-Off ice at New-York as second-class matter. 



CONTENTS OP 



The American Garden 



For July, 1883. 



Page One Hundred and Twenty-one — Contents- 

 Six Months' Subscriptions — Horticultural Ex- 

 hibitions. 



Paye One Hundred and Twenty-two — The Vege- 

 table Garden — Seasonable Hints— The Cab- 

 bage Butterfly, by F. Roekett — Experiments 

 with Tomatoes, by Thos. D. Baird. 



Paye One Hundred and Twenty-three— Sugar 

 Corn, by Col. F. D. Curtis — Cross Fertiliza- 

 tion — California Garden Seeds — Planting 

 Wrinkled Peas. 



Paye One Hundred and Twenty-four — The Fruit 

 Garden — Seasonable Hints —Crab Apples, by 

 John M. Stahl — Care of Young Trees in Sum- 

 mer, by W. D. Boynton. 



Paye One Hundred and Twenty-five — The At- 

 lantic Strawberry — Strawberry Notes from N. 

 J., by J. B. Rogers — Improvement in Fruits. 



Paye One Hundred and Twenty-six— The Flower 

 Garden — Heart's-ease, a Poem — Seasonable 

 Hints — Two Modest Flowers, by E. E. Rexford 

 — Starting Delicate Seeds — Colors in the Flower 

 Garden. 



Paye One Hundred and Ticenty-scven— Nastur- 

 tiums, by K. S. E. — Carnations for Winter 

 Blooming, by Jean Sisley — Lilium auratum. 



Paye One Hundred and Tieenty-eight—'LAWS and 

 Landscape - Hardy Flowers for the Lawn and 

 Border, by Wm. Falconer — Flowering Plants 

 for Shady Places — Vines on Houses — Ever- 

 grees for Small Lawns — New Lawns. 



Page One Hundred and Twenty-nine— The Win- 

 dow Garden and Greenhouse — Home-made 

 Hanging Baskets— Imantophyllum. 



Paye One Hundred and Thirty — Foreign Gar- 

 dening— Tropical Fruits, by E. S. Rand, Jr. — 

 A French Horticultural Exhibition, by Maj. W. 

 K. Bergholz — A Glimpse of Bermuda Gardens. 



Paye One Hundred and Thirty-one — Rural 

 Economy— Evaporating Fruits and Vegetables, 

 by Jas. Edgerton — Clothes-lines, by T. D. E. — 

 Horticultural Societies — The New-York 

 Horticultural Society. 



Page One Hundred and Thirty-two — National 

 Convention of American Seedsmen — Miscel- 



Paye One Hundred and Thirty-three— Books and 

 Pamphlets received — Answers to Correspond- 

 ents. 



Paye One Hundred and Thirty-four — ADVERTIS- 

 ING Department. 



SIX MONTHS' SUBSCRIPTIONS 



For the American Garden, commencing 

 with the July number, will be received at 



FIFTY CENTS 



each, and, in clubs of five, at forty cents 

 each. 



We make this special midsummer offer to 

 induce those, not already subscribers, in 

 whose hands this may fall, to give our paper 

 a, trial. 



We would also remind our friends who 

 wish us success, that there is hardly a post- 

 office in the land where a club of five cannot 

 be formed by showing a copy of the paper 

 to those interested in horticulture ; and that 

 we will gladly mail a sample copy, free, to 

 any amateur or professional gardener whose 

 address is sent us. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



We desire to draw the attention of our 

 readers to the interesting and excellent de- 

 scription of the recent Paris Horticultural 

 Exhibition, by our esteemed correspondent, 

 Major W. J!. Bergholz. 



There is probably as much money spent 

 for flowers in New-York as in any city in the 

 world, and yet the best exhibition ever held 

 here is far distanced by those to be seen 

 every year in most large cities of Europe. 

 We admit to be at a loss to fully account for 

 the cause of this great contrast. It is cer- 

 tainly not the lack of money ; for this is 

 always forthcoming in New- York, when 

 wanted for a good cause, and $110,000 

 were quickly subscribed for the new Horti- 

 cultural hall. It evidently requires some- 

 thing beside money and a hall to make good 

 exhibitions and a prosperous society. 



PROFITABLE ADVERTISING. 



To those of our readers who wish to place 

 their advertisements before the eyes of the 

 best classes of country and suburban resi- 

 dents, the following unsolicited and gratify- 

 ing comments may be of interest : 



From the Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano 

 Co., Front Street, New- York. 

 " We have had a good chance to test your paper 

 as an advertising medium. With few exceptions, 

 we have appeared in its columns as advertisers 

 during the early spring and summer months 

 since it^ commencement — probably some seven 

 months out of the twelve each year. We are sat- 

 isfied that we cannot speak too highly of its 

 value for reaching the best class of farmers, 

 truckers, and fruit growers. Your paper has 

 gained a high position, and exercises a wide in- 

 fluence." Charles V. Mapes. 



From Woolson & Co., Hardy Plan ts, Passaic, N. J. 



" We are very much pleased with the results from 

 our advertisement in The American Garden, 

 both in orders for plants and catalogues; in fact, 

 we may say candidly that no such returns have 

 been received from any other source, even from 

 papers that charge from four to six times as 

 much per line, and we shall continue our adver- 

 tisement with your paper." Woolson & Co. 



From C. T. Raynolds & Co., Paint Works, Fulton, 

 Street, Neie-York. 

 "We take pleasure in stating that we consider 

 The American Garden a valuable medium for 

 advertising, our own experience with it having 

 been very satisfactory." 



0. T. Raynolds & Co. 



FROM READERS OF THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



Hike The American Garden so well that I 

 don't see how any one that has a garden can do 

 without it.— .1/. A. B., Mercer Co., W. Ya. 



Please send me The American Garden for 

 May, which, by some mischance, has not reached 

 me. It is a paper which affords a great deal of 

 pleasure and information, and which I appreciate 

 too highly to lose a single number.— I. C, Bris- 

 bane, Australia. 



Having been a reader of The American Gar- 

 den from its beginning, and having derived 

 much pleasure and information from its pages, I 

 feel it my duty to express the good opiuion in 

 which I hold it, and how highly I appreciate the 

 untiring efforts of its editor and publishers to give 

 us such a splendid horticultural paper, which 

 is ever eminently readable, practical, clean, 

 elegantly gotten up, and above all, timely. It is 

 certainly a beautiful publication, toward which 

 every American at all interested in horticulture 

 should extend a feeling of pride.— J. T. Lovett, 

 Monmouth Nurseries, Little Silver, N. J. 



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



