10 
AND 
January, 1890. 
©RCHARD<^(§ ARDEN 
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Greeting. 
1890 is here upon us and another year 
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prospect for the horticulturist seems most 
favorable. Many of the difficulties and dis- 
couragements of the past may now be suc- 
cessfully combated and overcome by the 
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Illustrations of Eminent Horticultur- 
ists. 
On another page of this month’s issue we 
begin the publication of a series of short, 
biographical sketches of prominent horti- 
culturists, accompanied by an illustration 
each month. The engravings are being 
made by a skillful artist and none but 
truthful portraits will be used. We feel 
sure that our readers will be pleased and 
interested in learning more of the men 
whose valuable articles they have often 
read in Orchard and Garden. The sub- 
ject of this month’s illustration is H. E. 
VanDeman, the U. S. Pomologist at Wash- 
ington. This is but one of the many good 
things we have arranged for our readers 
during 1890. 
however, that marls differ very materially 
in value. That known as the green sand 
marl of New Jersey often contains from 
six to eight per cent, of potash and perhaps 
two per cent, of phosphoric acid and hence 
is very valuable. The blue marl is also 
good. But there are some so-called marls 
that are next to worthless for fertilizing 
purposes and it will not pay to cart them 
upon the land. 
Our insect department this month treats 
very fully on a pest that is not always a 
pleasant subject to handle. But as the time 
for fighting garden insects is passed for this 
season it is perhaps well to consider an in- 
sect that it is in order to fight at all times. 
Fungus Diseases of the Grape Vine. 
We may be pardoned for the statement of 
the fact that wuth the article in this num-^ 
ber we have discussed in Orchard and 
Garden all the known important fungus 
diseases of the vine, viz : 
1. Black-rot. 
2. Brown-rot and Mildew. April, 1888. 
3. Bird’s-eye rot. June, 1888. 
4. White-rot. August, 1S88. 
5. Bitter-rot. September, 1888. 
6. Grape-leaf Blight. November, 1889. 
7. Powdery Mildew of the Vine. No- 
vember, 1889. 
8. Root-rot. January, 1890. 
These are illustrated by twenty figures, 
carefully drawn. The disease known as 
Broussins is also described and figured in 
November 1887, but this is not a fungus dis- 
ease. Special articles on treatment of 
Black-rot an d Brown-rot ma y be found in 
November, 1888 ; December, 1888 ; Febru- 
ary, 1889 ; March, 1889 ; May, 1889 ; Sep- 
tember, 1889 ; December, 1889. 
We are glad to state that Prof. Scribner 
has consented to continue his instructive 
articles on Fungi in Orchard and Garden 
during 1890. We shall be glad if those of 
our readers who are troubled by fungi 
will send samples to us, with such obser- 
vations as they may have made respecting 
them, for investigation and study in the 
interest of our constituency of readers. 
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Franklin Co., Maine, Dec. 11, 1889. 
Orchard and Garden Is the best horticultural 
magazine published In the U 8.— A. H. Abbott. 
Every person toho cultivates a square rod of 
ground should read Orchard & Garden. It 
tells how to make the most profit from it at the 
least outlay by growing fruits and vegetables. 
The Experiment Station of New Jersey 
has recently issued a number of questions in 
the form of a bulletin, addressed to sweet 
potato growers. The object is to obtain in- 
formation bearing on the cause of rot in 
sweet potatoes. Any of our readers troubled 
with this disease should address a brief dis- 
cretion of it to Dr. B. D. Halsted, Rutgers 
College, New Brunswick, Botanist of the 
Station. 
In reply to numerous enquiries we would 
say that marl should be applied to the soil 
during the winter and exposed to the action 
of the weather. It should be remembered, 
Tlie Lawn In Winter. 
It will not have escaped observation, that 
some people seem to regard the lawn as an 
ornament for summer use only. This, at 
least, is a natural inference from the man- 
ner in which it is allowed to go into winter 
quarters. People who own country seats 
used only as summer homes may be said, 
in many cases, to treat their lawns very 
much as they do their costly paintings ; 
the latter are thickly draped with muslin 
and the former with a foot or two of leaves. 
One is a wise precaution ; the other is 
something else. It may be claimed that a 
light covering is a protection ; but a heavy *■ 
covering (which is the rule and not the 
exception) is a positive injury. Grass, 
however, is a thoroughly hardy plant, and 
does not need this protection. It gets all it 
