EVERY WOMAN HER OWN Flower Gardener.

A HANDY MANUAL OF

FLOWER GARDENING FOR LADIES.

By Mrs. S. O. JOHNSON.

(“DAISY EYEBRIGHT.”)

FOURTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

HENRY T. WILLIAMS, - - - PUBLISHER.

Office of the Horticulturist.

1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by

HENRY T. WILLIAMS,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

VAN BENTHUYSEN PRINTING HOUSE,

Stereotypers and Printers,

Albany, N. Y.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Page.

The Flower Garden—Its Uses, etc. 5

CHAPTER II

Construction of Beds—Beds in Lawn—Ribbon Gardening—Rockeries—Directions for Massing Flowers—Diagrams for laying out Gardens 12

CHAPTER III.

Annuals—Their Culture and Varieties—A List of the Most Desirable for Amateur Gardeners 18

CHAPTER IV.

Perennials—Biennials—Their Treatment, etc.—Lists of Most Desirable Varieties 27

CHAPTER V.

Geraniums—Pelargoniums—The Difference between the two Plants—Their Culture and Varieties—Double Geraniums—The Zonale Geraniums—The Liliputian Tribe—Lists of Desirables and Novelties 32

CHAPTER VI.

Bedding out Plants—Pansies—Verbenas—Heliotropes—Feverfews, etc. 38

CHAPTER VII.

The Fuchsia 47

CHAPTER VIII.

The Cultivation of the Rose 52

CHAPTER IX.

Ornamental Vines 62

CHAPTER X.

Ornamental Shrubs for Garden and Lawn 69

CHAPTER XI.

The Carnation and Picotee Pinks 73

CHAPTER XII.

Herbaceous Plants—Pæonies—Phloxes—Chrysanthemums—Delphiniums—and a Select List of Desirable Herbaceous Flowers 77

CHAPTER XIII.

Immortelles, or Everlasting Flowers and Ornamental Grasses—Acroliniums—Globe Amaranths—Helicrysums—Helipterium Sanfordii—Rodanthes—Xeranthemums—and a Select List of Grasses, Annual and Perennial 83

CHAPTER XIV.

Ornamental Foliaged Plants—Coleus—Achyranthus—Caladiums—Silver Leaved Plants—Cannas, etc.—Tri-colored Geraniums, Gold and Silver Edged 89

CHAPTER XV.

Summer Flowering Bulbs—Japan Lilies—Gladiolus—Dahlias—Vallota, etc. 96

CHAPTER XVI.

Spring Flowering Bulbs—Snowdrops—Crocuses—Hyacinths—Tulips—Daffodils—Jonquils—Narcissus—Polyanthus Narcissus—Lilies of the Valley, etc. 107

CHAPTER XVII.

Old Fashioned Flowers 119

CHAPTER XVIII.

Vegetables and Hotbeds 122

CHAPTER XIX.

Arrangement of Bouquets, Vases, etc.—Flowers in Churches 132

CHAPTER XX.

General Management of the Garden—The Soil—Selection of Seeds—Weeding—Watering—Planting out—Pruning, etc.—Saving of Seeds—Preparing Pots—Taking up and Preserving Flowers in Winter—Sleep of Flowers—Insects—Cultivate the Beautiful everywhere—Lines of Mrs. Howitts—Let us Teach our Children to Love Flowers rather than Fashion 139