Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Henry T. Williams, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
By Henry T. Williams. 
VOL. III. 
NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1874. 
No. 25. 
Price 12 Cents. 
short time ; for material, secure slender bean-poles, lap 
the end of each on another, tying them firmly together, 
fasten them securely in the soil, bending them to form 
an arch over your garden pathway, four or five being 
sufficient to form your arbor; plant on either side of 
your trellis Morning Glory seeds, train them as they 
climb up over the frame, and every morning when you 
go to take a view of your flowers, a beautiful arch 
FLOWERS FOR EVERY LADY’S GARDEN. 
There is a little annual I would like to recommend 
to your flower-lovers, and that is Centranthus. It is 
very valuable for cuttings. Did you ever try rooting 
cuttings by placing them in pots near the sides ? If 
not, I would ask you to try it. I now have a Hy¬ 
drangea in full bloom, which is very beautiful indeed, 
the admiration of every one. The whole plant is 1 will greet your eyes, radiant with all the colors of the 
beautifully burdened with immense clusters of pink 1 rainbow. Try it, my fair friends, and you will he 
flowers, which gradually change color, 
as the clouds vary in their innumer- 
blo hues. It was kept 
through the winter in a 
dark cellar, 
where it shed 
all its leaves, 
but when the 
cold snows of 
winter were 
melted away 
it began to 
show new 
signs of life, 
riety, having circles of two colors in the same flower. 
Globe Amaranth seed will vegetate much sooner if 
soaked in warm water; soak the seed in tepid water 
for two or three days (not stripping off the hulls), fill 
a box w r ith good rich earth, and plant your seed quite 
deep, and it may not como up for a month, hut do not 
he discouraged, for after a time it is certain to come. 
I always sow the seed much too thick, in case 
of failures, and to have plenty of plants to set out. 
Give the plants plenty of room, for only a very few 
grown hi a box will give you more 
flowers than when the plants are 
Gather those 
for bouquets 
crowded, 
you wish 
when I again 
removed it to 
the “upper 
regions,” this 
being in 
February or 
March, where 
it has re¬ 
mained up to 
this time, be¬ 
ing far more 
beautiful than 
at any previ¬ 
ous time of 
blooming. ■ scene in central park. 
The White Eupatorium is a handsome perennial, 
somewhat resembling the White Ageratum, is very 
desirable for cuttings, and deserves a place in every 
garden. A lady once gave me some mixed seed 
of Tropaeolum, or Nasturtium, more commonly called. 
-ARCHWAY under the drive. 
fully repaid for your trouble. A word about Asters. 
Give them all the care within your ability, and they will 
reward you with an abundance of perfect flowers; enrich 
them with a good supply of fertilizers, keeping the 
ground mellow, and yon will soon notice the contrast 
In a few years the varieties had increased, each year between your own thriving plants and, perhaps, those 
adding novelties, when finally I had the pleasure to 
possess the very dark blood-red variety, called in the 
catalogues, Tom Thumb King Theodore. 
Avery simple yet pretty arbor can he constructed in a 
of your neighbors, straggling to grow, choked in poor, 
before any 
white shows 
on the blos¬ 
soms, these 
intermingled 
with dried 
grasses and 
ferns, both 
phantom and 
green, form 
very beauti¬ 
ful bouquets 
for winter, 
enlivening 
when with¬ 
out all is lone 
and drear. 
The Quaking 
Grass is very 
pretty for 
winter deco¬ 
ration; at first 
it is similar 
to common 
grass, and 
There is a 
does not blossom until late in the fall, 
pretty little branching plant, suitable for both 
out-door and pot culture, called the Wax Pink, 
having long, sharp leaves about the color of Carna¬ 
tions, a blossom somewhat like a single Aster. 
Among the Lilies, the White Candidun; is my favorite, 
very fragrant, and these alone, with only a faint 
gravelly soil. I sent for Truffaut’s Peony-flowered, background of Arbor Vitae, make most exquisitely 
(mixed sorts,) and in the fall was surprised to find so ! lovely bouquets for tall vases. 
many varieties. The Crown is another peculiar va- j Rose Geranium. *, 
