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in attendance during the summer to avail themselves of what may be learned 

 from the garden at that time. Early June is the time for roses and grasses, 

 lilacs, and spiraeas. 



On July lijth, I took notes of plants of most interest to visitors at that 

 time. The list may interest a few: Crimson wild bcrgamot, lasting nearly 

 two months, foxglove, large blue clematis, red and white hollyhocks, ferns, 

 young mixed growth on the banks of the brook, several kinds of foreign 

 mulleins, two or three sages, one kind of catnip, Ityssop, a group of sumachs, 

 a bed of mixed poppies, several chrysanthemums, loosestrife, wild peas, 

 hydrangeas. 



On August 4th were the following: Crimson wild bergamot, a patch of 

 cardinal flower, a number of mints, Rocky-mountain bee plant or Cleome, 

 if you are not afraid of scientific names, Bocconia, several wild sun-flowers, 

 and rosin weeds, black-eyed Susans and their cousins. 



On August 20th, the following were noted: Cardinal flowers, several 

 kinds of Hibiscus, four-o'clocks, scarlet-runner beans, Tamarix, wild indigo, 

 Hercules' club, sj^ikenard, snow-on-the-mountain, castor bean, button 

 snake-roots, several kinds of Clematis and Statice, Cleome, teasels, four 

 or five kinds of flax, dodder, Indian corn, Arundo, Celosia, hydrangeas, 

 zinnias, balsams, cat-tail flags, especially the species with narrow leaves, 

 and a large number of plants of the aster or sun-flower family. 



On September 20th, were the following: The green tops of many things 

 that endured frost, purple barberr}^. Clematis paniculata, wild asters by 

 the brook. Hibiscus, Meibomia pendulifolium, scarlet-runner pea, Pitcher's 

 sage, broad-leaved pea, Asperula setosa, sumachs, castor bean, two kinds 

 of ^lartynias, ten-weeks' stock, Kochia or World's Fair Beauty, Arundo, 

 Pennisetum, Eulalia zebrina, prince's feather. Petunia, three Boltonias, 

 Rudbeckia trifolia, Helianthus orgyalis, H. multiflorus, H. Kellermanii, 

 China asters, three kinds of poke weed, long flowered tobacco. 



On October 29, after severe frosts, were the following: Four kinds of 

 Tamarix, rue, cacti, broad-leaved pea, Potentilla tridentata, house-leeks, 

 bear berrv, periwinkle, Geum, Sanguisorba, Indian strawberry, prairie 

 rose, Rosa lucida, R. Witchuriana, R. spinosissima, Kerria Japonica, Rubus 

 xanthocarpa, Ajuga reptans. Genista tinctoria, Stachys lanatus, Astralagus 

 maximus, Mentha crispa, thyme. Origanum, gill-over-t he-ground, green 

 briars, asparagus, five kinds of yucca, Ampelopsis arborea, Torrey's Pent- 

 stemon, Symphoricarpos pauciflorus, Lonicera Morrowi, L. Japonica, L. 

 Standishii, L. Halleana. Viburnum plicatum, V. dentatum, Y. Lantana, 

 ^'. molle, V. prunifolium, ten or more kinds of barberries, two phloxes, 

 evergreen ferns, such as Dryopteris marginale, D. Filix-mas, D. aculeatum, 

 D. acrostichoides, Polypodium vulgare, Scolopendrium, hepaticas, green 

 hellebore, gi*ound hemlock, sweet fern, a dozen kinds of Iris, swamp blue- 

 berry, Acanthus spinosus, Polygonum dumetorum, mignonette, daisy of 

 Europe, pansies, several kinds of privet, purple oxalis, Alyssum Wierz- 

 backii. Erysimum rupestre, a dozen sorts of Dianthus for foliage, Arenaria 

 graminifolia, Cerastium arvense. Geranium sanguincum, Saxifrage cordata, 

 S. crassifolia, horned poppy, Rhus" Canadensis, Euonymus obovatus, two 

 St. Johnsworts, Anchusa officinalis, three wild Senecios. milk thistle, two 

 species of Acanthus, eleven cudweeds in variety. Coreopsis delphinifolia, 

 C. tripteris, Aster multiflorus, Rudbeckia trilobata, golden pyrethrum, 

 Scandix, Heracleum asperum, furze, Psoralea Onobrychis, and a great 

 manv more almost as eood. . 



