Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine; Vol 6, No. 1; Jan. 1883
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JANUARY, 188 3. Entered at the Post Office. Roches ter. N . Y .. as second class mail matter. HORTICULTURE ... GLOXINIAS . 2-3 DOUBLE ACROCLINIUM .. CO RRESPO NDENCE. BLOSSOMS BENEATH THE SOD ROSES IN MAINE ... THREE SWEET CRAB APPLES A BIRTHDAY VINE . THE F IG AT THE NORTH . INSECT INFESTED PLANTS. FICUS ELASTICA ANDERSON'S VERONICA . BUSH MORNING GLORY ROSE GOSSIP . II WATERING PLANTS. CHRYSANTH EMUMS F O REIGN N OTES. Harvest Festival; A Clematis Canopy .... Simple Heating Apparatus: Seaweed for th e Gard en ; Trichomaucs radicans; Double GIoxinia . ,, PLEASANT GOSSIP. Flowers for the Schools . ' 7 Geranium Sporting ; Cape Pond-Weed ; Keeping Chinese Hibiscus. Unthrifty Gloxinia ; Honeysuckles-Roses; West Tennessee: FlOW crs for the Prepare for Spring. .. ... JQ A Bog Garden . Geranium Buds Blasting ; White Russian Oats ; Horticultural Meeting. Insects and Flowers . The Rings of Trees . Native Ferns . A Grape Discussion . In sect Pests; Various In quiries Celeriac ; Our Neighbor ; Raising Verbena Plants O UR Y OUNG PEOPLE. Wayside Waifs . An Uncoveted Ride . Little Mabel's Birthday 32 Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, $1.26 per Year. C. W . SEEL YE, Editor. Bound Volumes of 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1882, $1.75 Each. The Complete Set to Date of 5 Volumes $7.50. Drain and Nerve Food. Vitalized Phos-Phites. IT RESTORES THE ENERGY LOST BY NERVOUSNESS OR INDIGESTION; RELIEVES LASSITUDE. ERRATIC PAINS AND NEURALGIA; REFRESHES THE NERVES TIRED BY WORRY. EXCITEMENT. EX CESSIVE BRAIN FATIGUE; STRENGTHENS A FAILING MEMORY, GIVES RENEWED VJGOR IN ALL DISEASES OF NERVOUS EXHAUSTION OR DEBJI,lTY. IT IS THE ONLY PREVENTIVE OF CONSUMPTION. IT GIVES VITALITY TO THE INSUFFICIENT BODILY OR MENTAL GROWTH OF CHILDREN. PRE· VENTS FRETFULNESS, AND GIVES QUIET, REST, SLEEP. IT GIVES A BETTER DlSPOSITION INFANTS AND CHILDREN, AS IT PROMOTES GOOD HEALTH TO BRA IN ANI) BODY. Composed of the V ital or N erve-giving principles of the Ox-B rain and Wheat-Germ. PHYSICIANS HAVE PRESCRIBED 500,000 PACKAGE . For sale by Druggists or mall, $1. F. CROSRY CO. , 664 & 666 Sixth Avenue. New York. JANUARY, 1883. HoRTICULTURE, as a recreation, has gard to our people, by HERBERT SPEN- substantial claims that are not sufficiently CER, who came to this country with the recognized. Our own pages have borne express purpose of observing our habits abundant testimony that tired mothers, and traits of character, have been widely and housekeepers turn, with a sense of re- published, and most of our readers are lief, from the routine of their ordinary doubtless familiar with them. And, what duties to the care of their window plants, is more, most of us acknowledge the or their flower gardens. Men who have truth of his observations, and the wisdom engaged in employment all through the of his advice. He informs us that it is a day will yet find an hour to spend among current remark in England that "when their favorite plants when they have once the American travels, his aim is to do the acquired a real love of them. The greatest amount of sight-seeing in the pleasure felt in seeing the beautiful pro- shortest time," and he found this obser- ducts of the garden, whether fruits, vation to be true in regard to our travel- flowers or vegetables, in seeing a plant ing in our own country. Thus, the jour- grow into a handsome form, the result of neys we undertake, avowedly for pleasure, one's care, and molded and fashioned to are made a toil from their commence- some extent by one's skill, is a true recrea- ment to their close. The result of this tion to those constantly accustomed to continuous mental and physical strain he sterner duties. Horticulture, therefore, traced in faces, which " told, in strong in its widest sense, in its various phases, lines, of the burdens which had to be may be presented as one of the most borne." Moreover, he says, "in every positive, most beautiful, most intelligent circle I have met men who had them- and refining. and in many ways one of selves suffered from nervous collapse the most beneficial means of recreation, due to stress of business, or named adapted to persons of all ages and all friends who had either killed themselves conditions. Especially at this time may by over work, or had wasted long periods we properly call attention to this subject, in endeavors to recover health. I do but when, as a nation, we are told by one echo the opinion of all the observant who is acknowledged to be one of the persons I have spoken to, that immense. closest observers, and one of the subtlest injury is being done by this high-pressure thinkers of the age, that our lives are too life-the physique is being undermined." intense, that " work has become, with Still, he observes, " Beyond the physical many, a passion." The opinions in re- mischief, caused by over work, there is the 2 VICK'S ILLUSTRATE D MAGAZINE. further mischiefthat_it destroys what value i GLOXINIAS. there would otherwise be the le1sure part of life. Nor do the evil s end here. The Gloxinia was first found in South There is the injury to posterity. Dam- A meri ca, growing in deep, shady ravines aged constitutions reappear · in children, on mountain sides. It was na med after a a nd e ntail on them far more of ill than 'botanist by the name of GLO XIN. Many g reat fortunes yield them of good." species of it have been discovered in va- What shall be the remedy for an evil rious parts of Brazil, Buenos Ayres and so serious ? In a general sense, it must other tropical countries of South Amer- lie in better habits, habits more in accord- ica, and in Central America and Mexico. ance with our natural physical demands. The pla nts now most hig hl y prized for It will not be an annual visit to a fashion- their beautiful fl owers a re hybrid vari e- able watering place, or a popular tour in ties. The first hybrid produced was the ma nner these are usua ll y made ; for G. speciosa and G . rubra, but aft erwards these, thoug h capable o a ffording recre- crosses were made with other species, ation even in the highest sense, are, as or- greatly improving the fl owers from a dinarily made, but other causes for ne r\'- fl orist's point of view. The plant has a ous tension and bodily discomfort. We tuberous root which can be successively would not discourage these sources of dried off and broug ht into g rowth and recreation, but rather have them sought bloom for several years ; it is readily for the highest good they can yield. propagated from seeds a nd also by When they bring to us strength of bod y, leaf cuttings. The latter method is a nd ease of mind, and higher moral im- employed to increase a particul ar variety. pulses, a more philanthropic spirit, the n The most rapid method of increase, is by they are positively good. Bu t the correc- seed , and it is sure to give at once ti on of wrong life habits is not to be many beautiful varieties and colors. The performed in a few days, or weeks, espe- seed is very sma ll and should be sown on ciall y not by tota l discontinuance of the surface of the soil without much or those habits for a brief time, a nd the any covering. T ake a light, fin e soil in a resuming them. The remedy must pot or pan, with good d rainage. The be radical and continuous. H appy is soil may be about three parts fin e sifted that man who has a hobby. The artisan, leaf-mold and one pa rt. clean sand ; place the merchant, the professional man, or this in the pot a nd give it a slight water- the literateur, who has some pursuit ing, and a fter it has stood awhile to all ow which he engages in mere ly for the love the water to pervade all the soil , press of it, has a source of rest and strength un- the surface fla t and smooth with a sma ll known to him who persistently foll ows block of wood, and then sow the seed. on his business course from morning till the surface, and cover with ·a pi ece of night, through , weeks and months, from paper-, or cloth, or sprinkle over it, in a the year's commencement until its close. fin e layer, a little moss that has been Without, however, e nlarg ing on this quite pulled to pieces. Place the pot in point, which is patent to all observers, the propagating house or the hot-bed , we wish to present the idea that hp rti- whe re a steady temperature of 70°, or culture is a most benificent means of re- over, may be ma intained , and where the creation, and as such can be practised in atmosphere will be constantly humid, and numberl ess ways, even by those actively place a bell-glass over the pot. Should e ngaged in other pursuits ; and our claim the pot at any time indicate by its ap- is, that those thus interested will not be pearance that moisture is needed , supply hindered , but, on the contrary, will be so it by placing it in a saucer underneath benefitted by it as to be able better to the pot, whence it will rise through the discharge their ordinary labors and duties.