March, 1889. 
57 
ORGHRRD 
GARDEN 
the pump combined with the tank or resor- 
voir for holding the solution, and straps are 
attached to the tank for fastening it to the 
back of the operator as one would carry a 
knapsack. The pump is worked by a lever 
which comes forward to the right hand, and 
the solution is forced out in a continuous 
stream through a short piece of hose and 
brass tubing, this being terminated by a 
cyclone nozzle which is furnished with a 
cleanser for removing any particles by 
which it may become clogged. The tank 
and pump including the valves are all of 
copper. The force required to work the 
lever is very small indeed and the spray is 
wide spread and continuous. One man can 
spray four to six acres of vines a day with 
this apparatus. The most serious defect of 
Home Grounds. 
No home grounds should be without a 
good selection of ornamental shrubs, and in 
making such a selection it is essential 
that we should bear in view very distinctly 
the place to be adorned. For we see around 
us so many incongruous effects produced 
from injudicious and ignorant planting that 
the advice to make suitable selections can- 
<f 
Eureka Nozzle. Fig. 1574. 
the Eureka sprayer is its weight. The tank 
holds six gallons and when filled the whole 
apparatus weighs 60 pounds. For spraying 
potatoes and other plants lying near the 
ground it would be better if the nozzle, 
which is directed forward, could be turned 
so as to stand at right angles to the direc- 
tion of the brass tube or lance which is held 
by the left hand. 
The nozzle and lance, or brass tube, sup- 
plied with the Eureka sprayer, is in the main 
illustrated in the above figure (ho. 1574) At 
e, where the hose is attached is a stop cock; 
c is a cap over a movable pin which is 
pushed in by the sliding bar b, when the 
aperture of the nozzle becomes clogged. The 
force of the liquid throws this pin back into 
place when the sliding bar is withdrawn. 
In fig. 1573 a and bis shown the Vermorel 
nr zzle of which the above is a slight modi- 
fication. 
The Japy nozzle, figs. 1571 and 1572, gives a 
most excellent spray and is easily cleaned. 
Vermorel Nozzle. Fig. 1573. 
The spray is made by the striking of two 
jets against each other at a definite angle. 
Fig. 1571 shows the nozzle in operation. 
Fig. 1572 represents the same with the stop- 
cock turned around for the purpose of clear- 
ing it. When turned only one quarter round 
the tube is entirely closed. This nozzle may 
be adapted to almost any pump. It is very 
simple in construction and we wish it could 
be obtained in this country. At present we 
know of no one here who makes it. — F. L. 
Scribner. 
not be too forcibly or too often urged. On 
grounds of very limited extent it is absurd 
to plant trees that in a few years will fill 
up the yard completely, and yet how often 
it is done. In this age of horticultural ad- 
vance we have deciduous shrubs and minia- 
ture evergreens of such exquisite grace and 
beauty that there remains no possible excuse 
for filling up our limited grounds with large 
disproportionate trees such as the spruces, 
pines and evergreens, so often to be seen, 
standing like so many stiff sentinels, in our 
village lots. A selection of shrubs might 
be made that would not only give a success- 
ion of delight ful, fragrant bloom through- 
out the season but also enliven the wintry 
landscape with bright berries. A fair pro- 
portion of the dwarf evergreens may be 
grouped with picturesque effect near walks 
and at the edges of the lawn, and if the 
grounds are of fair size the large trees plant- 
ed some distance from the house. But on 
small places, we repeat, large trees should 
have no place. We do not want our houses 
overgrown with trees. The grace and beau- 
ty of many a country home is spoiled by 
them. 
Bad Taste In Horticulture. 
The appearance of many otherwise beau- 
tiful home grounds is often sadly marred 
by lack of taste or want of proper discern- 
ment as to what is in harmony with na- 
ture’s surroundings in the way of horticul- 
tural adornment. The familiar, bright-red 
gipsy kettle, standing out in all its vivid 
gaudiness is, unfortunately, not the only 
eyesore that may be seen. Painted garden 
seats, tubs and vases are often scattered in- 
discriminately about the lawn, detracting 
greatly from its beauty. The making 
prominent of such objects by brilliant col- 
oring is greatly to be deprecated since, as 
should be well known in these days, by peo- 
ple of intelligence and good taste, all such 
should be subordinate and lost sight of in 
the beauty of their surroundings. There 
are those who claim that the free use of col- 
or in this way is now largely exployed, that 
fashions change and tastes differ but when 
we contemplate such work their error is 
painfully apparent. 
Another common practice to be deplored 
is the disfigurement of evergreen trees by 
cutting off the lower branches so as to ex- 
pose a naked trunk of several feet in height 
regardless of the fact that a full growth of 
foliage, even down to the ground, is essen- 
tial to the perfect beauty of an evergreen 
tree and consequently to the beauty of the 
landscape. As a matter of fact large ever- 
greens should not be employed in positions 
where it is necessary to so trim them for 
space. ^ 
Etionymus Radicans. 
This is a small decumbent hardy ever- 
green shrub with 
oblong serrated 
leaves, introduced 
from Japan sev- 
eral years ago 
and now common 
in nurseries. It 
is supposed to be 
only a variety of 
the species known 
as E. Japonicus, 
an upright ever- 
green shrub 
which is only 
half-hardy in the 
northern states. 
But the varieties 
known as E. rad- 
icans and E. radicans variegata are far 
more hardy than the species, in fact they 
may be considered very hardy in the lat- 
itude of New York City and probably 
much farther north. We have had both 
the green and variegated-leaved varieties in 
cultivation for a dozen years or more and 
value both highly, for rock work and for 
borders of raised beds where some kind of 
low, close-growing plant is useful for 
holding the soil in place. 
They successfully withstand long and 
severe droughts, also wet and cold, and may 
readily be sheared into almost any desirable 
form. The long slender branches strike 
root wherever they touch moist soil or 
rock; consequently there is no difficulty 
about propagation to an almost imlimited 
extent. For certain positions and purposes, 
these pretty little evergreen shrubs are in- 
valuable. — A. S. F. 
