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candidum, lilium excelsum, lilium tigrinuQi. lilium uliak-edonicum, liliuni uinbellatum, 

 lilium japonic'um longiflorum, many of the pyrethrums, the two Japanese anemones, 

 lychnis chalcedonica, echinacea intermedia, centaurea glastifoha, silphium perfoHatum, 

 hyacinthus candieans, chrysanthemum maximum. 



Subjects like the silphium and the taller-growing sunflowers or heliantha?, are more 

 suitable for the shrubbery, or placed in the background. Among the smaller plants, 

 violets, cowslips and primroses are best i)laced in beds by themselves where they may 

 receive partial shade. The primrose family is especially adapted to the rock garden 

 where the plants form dense cushions of bloom. Indeed, many beautiful dwarf plants 

 may be grown to the best advantage in the rock; but not a few may be appn^pnately 

 placed in the foreground of the flower border. All of the following are charming small 

 hardy flowers: 



Adonis vernalis. silene alpestris, saxifraga cordifolia, saxifraga cuneifolia, saxifraga 

 schmidtii, sanguinaria canadensis, trillium granditlorum, ranunculus bulbosus, phlox 

 amoena, phlox procumbens, phlox subulata, johlox subulata alba, lotus corniculatus, 

 iberis corifolia, iberis sempervirens, iberis gibraltarica, iberis jucunda, hepatica triloba, 

 cypripedium spectabile, cypripedium pubescens, doronicum caucassicum, eonvallaria 

 majalis, astilbe japonica, anthericum liliastrum, saponaria ocymoides, gold and silver 

 leaved thyme, daffodils in variety. 



Among the ornamental grasses should be included eulalia japonica. eulalia japonica 

 zebrina, eulalia japonica zebrina variegata, erianthus ravennae, aria fol. var., and the 

 varigated arundo. The rose would require a separate paper to do justice ta its mani- 

 fold forms and varieties. I have mentioned but a very few of the very many desirable 

 hardy herbaceous plants; but enough to render any garden beautiful from early spring 

 until late autumn. Little care, indeed, they call for— these nurslmgs of nature— com- 

 pared with the beauty they bring. Year by year they renew their youth and draw new 

 loveliness from the mould of spring. 



George Ellw.\nc;eb. 



At the conclusion of the reading, AVm. C. Barry made the following 

 remarks : 



Hardy plants in the garden are a great delight. When once placed there they remain 

 for years, affording a great amount of bloom and requiring but very little care. It is 

 proper at such gatherings as we have here, to occasionally go out of the beaten track and 

 draw attention to things of this character; because any one who has a taste, or who is 

 willing to cultivate a taste for these plants, is domg something which will not only result 

 in great pleasure to himself, but will lead others to follow his example, and in that way 

 accomplish a great work. Our hardy plants are not properly appreciated; the plants of 

 our woods are not appreciated as they should be: and I hope that every year, as we 

 gather at these meetings, special stress will be laid upon this subject, so that every 

 member of this organization, when he leaves for home, will feel it a duty almost on him- 

 self, during the vear. to go out into the woods and bring in some of these plants, put 

 them in his garden, take good care of them and produce something which will in the end 

 give great delight. 



NOTES ON VEGETABLES. 



Professor E. S. Goff. of the New York state agricultural experiment 

 station, read a report on new vegetables tested the past season at the station. 

 Professor Golf introduced the paper by saying: 



To one who does not expect too much, there is a certain amount of pleasure and profit 

 to be obtained from testing seedsmen's novelties. It must not be expected that all, or 

 even a majoritv of them, will be really novel. Most of them are at best only new strains 

 of old varieties: some, it is to be regretted, are new in name only. But occasionally we 

 meet a truly valuable acquisition, one whose real mei it is sufficient to repay us for at 

 least a part"of the disappointment we feel from the failure of the others. I would not 

 condemn the introduction of novelties because so many of them disappoint us. Uur 

 enterprising seedsmen have ransacked the four corners of the earth to enrich our 

 gardens with the choicest products our climate is capable of producing. 1 hey merit 

 our thanks for this. But it must be said, with regret, that they often carry novelty- 

 pushing bevond the limits of truth. This, both individually and as a society, we should 

 condemn. 'To put a new name on an old variety and advertise it as a novelty, or to make 



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