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By Henry T. Williams. 
Yol. IY. 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1875. 
AN AMATEUR’S GARDEN. 
I was so much pleased with the design for a flower 
garden which I saw in the April number of the Cabi¬ 
net last year, that I concluded that I would have one 
just like it; so the first thing to be done was to select 
a spot suitable for my garden. I could think of no 
place that suited so well as a bed in which mamma 
h a d cucumbers 
the year before; 
but when I sug¬ 
gested the idea to 
mamma, she 
said: “Where 
shall I plant my 
early cucum¬ 
bers?” But I 
was not to be 
outdone; a flow¬ 
er garden I must 
and would have; 
so at last I came 
off conqueror, 
and with the aid 
of an old negro 
man, who spaded 
and raked my 
ground nicely, 
I think I suc- 
together, made them the admiration of all who saw 
them. I must not forget to mention my Salvia, 
although its beauty was transient and its history rather 
a sad one. A lady friend of mine sent me the seed the 
first of June, and as they didn’t bloom until late in 
the fall, I took them up and transplanted in boxes for 
the winter; I carelessly left them out on the portico 
one night, and imagine my grief when, the next morn¬ 
ceeded in getting 
a 1 olerably fair 
specimen. I 
sowed my seed in 
hot-beds, but 
some of the 
plants came up 
rather delicate, 
and their consti¬ 
tutions were too 
frail to bo trans¬ 
planted to a 
cooler clime, in 
consequence of 
which, some of the poor little things drooped and 
died. 
But I think my Verbenas, Petunias and Balsams 
alone amply repaid me for my trouble. They 
bloomed beautifully until bleak winter, with its chilling 
blasts, came and nipped them in their beauty ; and 
even then they seemed loth to yield to the icy touch 
of the frost king. The varieties of colors, all blended 
Fernery. 
ing, I found them all frozen. I removed them to a 
dark room, but they did not revive. Will some corres¬ 
pondent of the Cabinet please give me some instruc¬ 
tions for budding Roses. I saw an article from Daisy 
Eyebright telling how to bud Geraniums, and she said 
Roses were budded in the same way; but as I am 
rather dull of comprehension, I would like her to be a 
little more explicit. I sent, last May, to Harford 
Bros, for six Monthly Roses — Bon Silene, Marcehal 
Kiel, La Reiue, Devoniensis, Agrippa and La Syl- 
phide. -The first two died; the others bloomed beau¬ 
tifully until late in the fall, and the La Sylphido had a 
bud on it until nearly Christmas; I think they would 
have bloomed all winter but I did not get my pit ready 
until late. Please inform me the best time for 
transplanting them in the open ground. Eva II. 
Home Gar¬ 
dening.—I must 
tell you of my 
successes. Most 
of our plants 
stand in a sunny 
south window. 
A thrifty English 
Ivy twines here 
and there on two 
sides of the room, 
wreathing pic¬ 
tures and win¬ 
dows with its 
dark green foli¬ 
age. Two Ivy 
Geraniums stand 
one on each side 
of the window, 
and climbing on 
a light home¬ 
made trellis, 
twine their 
branches togeth¬ 
er across the top. 
One of them has 
thick, waxy, 
green leaves with 
a slightly mark¬ 
ed dark zone and 
clusters of deli¬ 
cate rose-colored 
flowers marked 
with crimson. 
The other, L’Elegante, is a favorite among our floral 
treasures. It is three years old, has branches six feet 
in length, and, instead of being occasionally tinged with 
carmine, the creamy white margins of the leaves are 
often completely suffused with bright carmine, and the 
whole under side of the leaf is of the same beautiful 
shade. The vine is a delicately bright bouquet of itself, 
without a blossom. Fannie J. S. 
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