. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. to hide smallfences or to climb round posts. Plants of this vine may be purchased ofnearly all growers ot hardy garden flowers,a single root need not cost over twenty-flvecents. We see the plant is included in thelist of A Few Hardy Flowers which thenursery firm of the B. A. Elliott Co., Pitts-burgh, Pa., set forth in their unrivalledcatalogue of herbaceous plants. Seed may be sown in hot-bed or cold framein March or April, and when the seedlingsare large enough they should be trans-pl
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. to hide smallfences or to climb round posts. Plants of this vine may be purchased ofnearly all growers ot hardy garden flowers,a single root need not cost over twenty-flvecents. We see the plant is included in thelist of A Few Hardy Flowers which thenursery firm of the B. A. Elliott Co., Pitts-burgh, Pa., set forth in their unrivalledcatalogue of herbaceous plants. Seed may be sown in hot-bed or cold framein March or April, and when the seedlingsare large enough they should be trans-planted into the border about twelve inchesapart each way. This treatment is undoubt-edly better than to sow seed directly intoj open ground in May; for if the plant hasone fault, it is this, that it requires con-siderable time from seed sowing to bloom-ing. Perhaps this is the one reason why itis notmore extensively employed as a borderannual in American gardens. It is a greatfavorite as such in England, France andGermany, and certainly deserves far moreattention here than It heretofore received. ^*/?§.. A Talk About China Asters. Cultivation has put the annual (French,German or China) Aster into the front rankamong the summer and fall-bloomingbeauties of the garden. Few other annualsrival it in delicacy of tints, in profuseness ofbloom, or in symmetry and elegance ofits growth. Asters require a rich, loamy soil. Theroots are produced near the surface, andmulching will be found most beneficial. DOUBLE BINDWEED {Calystegia pubescens H. pi. In commenting on the annual Asters ontrial in the gardens of the Royal Horticul-tural Society (England) at Chiswick, lastyear. Gardening World mentioned the fol-lowing varieties: One of the showiest, most floriferous,and therefore most useful for decorativepurposes is the Victoria strain. The plantsmostly all attain the average height of onefoot, with ascending branches each termin-ating in a large and solitary head. Theflorets are regularly a
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