Vol. IV. 



NEW-YORK, OCTOBER, 1883. 



No. ro. 



A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL. 



Devoted to the Gardening Interests of America. 



ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 



SINGLE NUMBER, 10 CENTS. 

 DR. F. M. H EX AM ER, : : Editor. 



H. K. BLISS ifc SONS, Publishers, 



34 Barclay Street, New-York, 



To whom all orders should be addressed. 



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



CONTENTS OP 



The American Garden 



Fok October, 1883. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-one — Contents — 

 A Plate of Lilies — A Special Premium. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-two —The Vege- 

 table Garden — Seasonable Hints — About 

 Beets— Wintering Sweet Potatoes — Lettuce for 

 the South — Coal Ashes for Heavy Soils, by 

 T. D. E. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-three — Winter 

 Radishes — Hoeing', by E. Williams — Tomatoes 

 on Poles. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-four — The Fruit 

 Garden — Seasonable Hiuts — New and Old 

 Raspberries, by A. A. Bensel — Grafting Crab- 

 Apple Trees, by W. D. Boynton. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-five — The Early 

 Cluster BJackberry — Apple Twigs, by John M. 

 Stahl — A Tree Planter. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-six — The Flower 

 Garden— October Musings, a Poem— Seasona ble 

 Hiuts — Chrysanthemums and their Culture, by 

 Daisy Eyebright. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-seven — Scillas, 

 by E. S. Rand, Jr.— The Antirrhinum, by R. E. 

 E.— Hardy and Tender Gladiolus, by L. R. 

 Cook. 



Page One Hundred and Eighty-eight— Lawh and 

 Landscape — Hardy Shrubs — Top-dressing 

 Lawus — The Window Garden — The Wax 

 Plant, by E. E. Rexford. 



Page One Hundred and, Eighty-nine — Fern 

 Leaves, by M. Milton — Heating Small Plant 

 Houses, by R. Cole — Liliivm Auratum for Pot 

 Culture, by Wm. Falconer. 



Page One Hundred and Ninety— Foreign Gar- 

 dening — Orchids at Home — Rural Life — 

 Living from the Garden, by East Dedham. 



Page One Hundred, and Ninety-one — Horti- 

 cultural Societies — American Pomological 

 Society — New-York Horticultural Society. 



Page One Hundred and Xinety-tteo— Miscel- 

 laneous — Books and Pamphlets Received. 



Page One Hundred and Ninety-three — Books 

 and Pamphlets cont'd — Catalogues Received 

 — Answers to Correspondents. 



Page One Hundred and Ninety-four — Adver- 

 tising Department. 



A PLATE OP LILIES. 



It gives us great pleasure to present to our 

 readers the inclosed beautiful painting. The 

 execution of this plate has required consid- 

 erable time and study, as each flower was 

 painted from nature at the most favorable 

 period of the blossoming season of the re- 

 spective species. 



Two additional flower pictures, executed in 

 the same artistic style, are already approach- 

 ing completion, and will be issued with 

 future numbers, the next one January, 1884. 

 It is our intention to make these colored 

 plates a leading and permanent feature of 

 The American Garden ; but, as the cost of 

 work of this excellence is considerable, the 

 frequency of their appearance will depend 

 largely upon the support received from our 

 readers. Nothing could give us more pleas- 

 ure than to be able to add a colored plate to 

 every number. It is not an impossibility 

 that we may yet realize this pleasing antici- 

 pation; but to effect it we need the active 

 cooperation of every one of our readers. 

 Treble our subscription list, and it is done ! 



This is a good specimen number to show 

 to your friends, and with your influence and 

 a word of comment, it seems that at least 

 two of your friends could be induced to 

 become subscribers. 



Any one subscribing during the present 

 month will receive this number with Lily 

 plate, the November and December numbers 

 of this "the twelve numbers of next year, and 

 a valuable premium in addition. Surely any 

 one at all interested in horticulture cannot 

 consider this dear at One Dollar. 



We shall be pleased to mail a specimen 

 number (without plate) free to any address. 



Colored plates suitable for framing, safely 

 packed in paper boxes, 10 cents by mail. 

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



A SPECIAL PREMIUM, 



In order to facilitate the arrangement of 

 j our subscription lists at as early a date as 

 possible, we make the following very liberal 

 offer : 



To any one sending us, 



Before November first, 



a club of ten subscribers to The American 

 Garden for 1884, at 75 cents each, we will 

 send as compensation for his trouble a bulb 

 of each variety of Lilies represented on our 

 colored plate. 



The same collection will be forwarded to 

 any one sending us, 



Before November first, 



I 



a club of five subscribers to The American 

 Garden for 1884, at $1.00 each. 



Members of these clubs will receive the 

 paper from now till December 1884, and are 

 entitled to our general premiums the same 

 as if they had sent their subscriptions singly 

 at $3.00 each. 



But remember these offers hold good only 



Till November first. 



PROFITABLE ADVERTISING. 



We have advertised considerably in Tut; 

 American Garden, and it pays us, we must 

 say, well.— Patten Publishing Co., New-York.. 



We have used all the publications we deemed 

 advisable to advertise in, and so far The Ameri- 

 can Garden has paid better than any other oue 

 paper.— Woods, Beach &■ Co., Rose Growers and 

 Florists, New Brighton, Pa. 



Judging from the demand we are having for 

 circulars, and the orders received, The Ameri- 

 can Garden is going to the ends of the earth 

 and "the isles of the sea."— Hammond d- Go's 

 Paint Works, Mt. Kisco, N. T. 



The American Garden has paid us better than 

 any one of the hundred papers that we have 

 used this season. — Hale Bros., Elm Frail Farm, 

 South Glastonbury, Conn. 



HOW SUBSCRIBERS LIKE THEIR PAPER. 



I cannot do without The American Garden. 

 It is a great help to me, and the information I 

 derive from it is of great importance to me. The 

 feature I value in particular is that its directions 

 are so plain and easy that any one can understand 

 them, and depend on them as reliable.— if. if, H., 

 Naugatuck, Conn. 



