Vol. IV. 



NEW-YORK, AUGUST, 1883. 



No. 8. 



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. 



It. K. BLISS & SONS, PnbHsliers, 



34 Barclay Street, New- Vork, 



To whom all orders should be addressed. 



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



CONTENTS OF 



The American Garden 



For August, 1 883. 



Puyc One Hundred and Forty-Mr. — Contents — 

 The. American Poinologieal Poeiety - New Var- 

 ieties—Expectations Exceeded. 



Page One Hundred and Fo>,ty-two — Tnu VEGE- 

 TABLE Garden— Seasonable Hint.. — Swedes tor 

 the Garden and Farm, by Col. F. D. Curtis — 

 Fill up the Vacant .Spots, by \V. V. Boyntou. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-three — Celery, by- 

 John M. Staid -Early Market Peats, by TLos. 

 D. Baird. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-four — THE Fa I' IT 

 Gaud en — Seasonable Hints — Propagation by 

 Budding, by J. Jenkins. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-five — The Newer 

 Strawberries — The Prince of Berries— Bagging 

 Grapes, by J. B. Rogers. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-six — Tin; FLOWER 

 Garden — Little Kose, a Poem — Seasonable 

 Hints- What Roses to Plant, by H. B. Ell- 



Page one Hundred and Forty-seven — Iponioeas, 

 by E. S. Rand, Jr. — Preparing for Spring Flow- 

 ers, by Jenny Dare — Valuable Help, by T. D. E. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-eight— Laws and 

 Lan dsc ape — Mid summer Flowering Shrubs, by 

 Win. Falconer — The Lilies of the Field — Tut; 

 Window Garden and Greenhouse — Care of 

 House Plants in August, by Daisy Eyebriglit. 



Page One Hundred and Forty-nine — Tritelea uni- 

 flora, by Ike Ivy — Hot Water as an Insecticide 

 —Worms in Flower-pots. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty — Foreign Garden- 

 ing— Victoria Regia, by Prof. S. Lockwood. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-one —RURAL Life — 

 Drainage of Country Houses — The Last Load — 

 Obituary — Dr. John A. Warder. 



Paye One Hundred and Fifty-two — Miscellane- 

 ous. 



Page One Hundred and Fifty-three — Books and 

 Pamphlets received -^-Answers to Correspond- 

 ents— Advertising Department. 



THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The attention of all those interested in the 

 cultivation of fruits is earnestly directed to 

 the meeting of the Amerii an Pomologieal 

 Society, to he held in Philadelphia from Sep- 

 tember 12th to 14th. The meeting promises 

 to be a grand one ; and as this society was 

 the first national organization of the kind in 

 the world, and is as yet not excelled in use- 

 fulness by any now existing, it is the bounden 

 duty of every horticultural society in the land 

 to assist in the extension and promotion of 

 its good work. 



Kindred associations are requested to send 

 as large delegations as possible, and all per- 

 sons interested in the objects of the society 

 are invited to take part in the discussions. 

 The venerable president, the Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder, writes us that he intends to be 

 present in person. To see this noble man 

 again, to speak with him, to shake hands 

 with him, is in itself worth a long journey. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



The experience of every observant fruit- 

 grower furnishes unmistakable proof that no 

 one variety succeeds in all localities, nor is 

 any one equally suited to all soils. It is there- 

 fore not surprising that the experiences of 

 pomologist s in different States should lead to 

 varying conclusions. 



In our last issue, Mr. J. B. Rogers, chair- 

 man of the fruit committee of the New Jersey 

 State Horticultural Society, a most careful ob- 

 server and excellent judge of fruits, reported 

 on the newer Strawberries as seen by liim 

 in his State. That some of these varieties 

 should behave very differently under differ- 

 ent conditions is of course to be presumed, 

 and in answer to some comments upon these 

 notes we wish to state that' in publishing 

 individual reports we do no! in any way 

 indorse all the statements contained therein 

 Copyright, 1883, by B. K. Bliss <te SONS. 



as applicable to the entire country. It is not 

 the policy of The American Garden to 

 show only one side of a question, and to 

 lavish indiscriminate praise upon a favorite 

 without also showing its short-comings, if it 

 has any ; and although we decline to make 

 room for personal controversies, our columns 

 are always open to unbiased statements of 

 general interest. 



On another page we give the results of our 

 own experience with some of the newer 

 Strawberries. 



EXPECTATIONS EXCEEDED. 



I It is pleasing to note that The American 

 Garden Premiums are appreciated by our 

 readers and render them substantial help in 



j beautifying their gardens. A. V. R., Anrwille, 

 Pa., writes: "From the package of Pansy 

 seed I received from you last spring I had 



| the finest bed of Pansies I ever saw. For 

 two months it has been a perfect mass of 

 flowers, and they have exceeded in beauty 

 and size what we were led to expect from 

 the description and colored plate." 



WHAT THE PRESS SATS. 



The American Garden is one of the finest 

 specimens of typography, and one of the best 

 horticultural papers in the country. — North and 



Sou til. 



As an organ for general practical horticultural 

 ' instruction, The American Garden stands un- 

 excelled, a fact which will be admitted by any 

 oue who will give its pages a cai'eful and iinpai- 

 j tial examination. — National Baptist. 



1 The American Garden is always delightfully 

 ( fresh and interesting in its talk about the garden. 

 Every person who has even an apology for a. 

 garden should subscribe tor this valuable paper, 

 lis illustrations and " Seasonable Hints " are in- 

 valuable to the professional or amateur gar- 

 dener. — Good Farmer. 



Tin: American Garden.— This excellent month- 

 ly publication ought to find its way into every 

 family where there is a. love of flowers, fruit, or 

 vegetables, or where any of these arc cultivated. 

 | Many of its articles haw illustrations of beautiful 



answers to correspondents and the advertise- 

 ] ments of choice varieties of flower and vegetable 

 seeds, will prove as great an attraction to the 

 readers as any department in the magazine.— 

 Bath Daily Times. 



