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at its best it must be sougbt in the low river liummock, its 

 favorite habitat, where it reaches the proportion of a tall slender 

 tree with trunk emersed half the year. If seen from a car win- 

 dow when slowly passing over a high trestle, a not unusual point 

 of view, and we look down on the rose-crowned wilderness, sway- 

 ing with the breeze just after a refreshing shower, when the sil- 

 very underside of the foliage is displayed, and the raindrops 

 catch the glint of the sunshine — a spectacle, never to be for- 

 gotten, greets the eye. The setting of this tree is but one of 

 innumerable examples where the landscape gardener has an infal- 

 lible guide in nature. 



FLORAL NOTES OF FOREIGN LANDS. 

 Bv Feltx J. Koch. 



At Ogulin. in Croatia, one finds at their Ijest the " old-fashioned 

 gardens," with the tall pink phlox, the petunia, dahlia and sun- 

 flower, as well as mignonette and coriopsis in long beds. Sum- 

 mer-houses are set out in these gardens and gay-colored glass 

 balls, such as we hang on our Christmas trees, are hung on the 

 ends of short poles and scattered among the plants. 



Somobo. in the grape country, is famous for its oleanders, while 

 in the old ruined castles of the vicinity sweet clover, mullein, 

 sweet-fern and wild carrot, as well as the wild-rose, thrive lux- 

 uriantly. To these, in the Sissek region, the road-side adds 

 the butter-cup and whole fields of yellow lenum. as well as a 

 pretty purple flower unknown to us, while in the parks the zinnias 

 raise their many-colored heads. 



To the south, in Bosnia, notably at Banjaluka. blossom jas- 

 mines that recall the vales of the Arabian Nights' legends. At 

 the railway station at Novi. in this province, zinnias and white 

 roses and castor-beans combine to produce a most pleasing efifect. 

 In the fields abound the sun-fern and the yellow daisy, as well as 

 a small purple thistle and the wild carrot. In the coal mines of 

 Banjaluka there are magnificent white fungi, hanging as downy 

 white pendants from the roofs of the galleries, while below them 

 thrive queer mushroom-shaped species. 



