THE 



GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



AND 



HORTICULTURIST. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 



Edited by THOMAS MEEHA.N. 



Yol. XX. KOVEMBER, 1878. Number 239. 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground, 



SEASONABLE HINTS. ' ^^ ^^<^11 *« think of these things. And then 



another matter of interest in regard to collecting 



It is surprising how many elements of beauty hardy herbaceous plants is, that there are a large 

 we have around us of which we neglect to make number of rare native plants not yet in cultiva- 

 any use. Especially is this true of our beautiful tion, which many an owner of a first-class col- 

 Fall flowers and of our remarkably fine Autumn lection would give a good deal to possess. A 

 foliage. Of the latter we have often spoken, and collection from one's own neighborhood would 

 recommended that its peculiar features be therefore often be really one of the most valu- 

 studied with the view of using it in the artistic able one could have, and be the foundation of 

 decorations of our gardens. Of the former we a series of exchanges with others, which would 

 speak now through having seen in a country soon swell a little collection to one of the best. 

 "yard" a very pretty combination of very com- In the culture of herbaceous plants it is well 

 mon Fall flowers. The common Michaelmas to remember that generally a part dies every 

 Daisy — one of the loveliest of native Asters — year. They seldom come up in exactly the same 

 was growing in the midst of a little piece of place every year, but a bud or runner pushes out 

 grass near the cottage door, making a mass of and the old part dies. Though all herbaceous 

 bright purple and gold, probably three feet plants move in some such manner, they do not 

 over and three or four feet high. Around this all go directly under ground, but make bunchy 

 the common Golden Rod, Solidago Canadensis, stocks just above ground. In their native places 

 was placed, and then another circle of the corym- of growth they manage to get covered with de- 

 bose Aster — Aster corymbosus — with "white- caying leaves from the woods or shifting sands 

 brown " flowers. The writer has never seen on the plains, but in cultivation nothing of this 

 any combination in the stylish flower gardening, kind can be naturally accomplished, and unless 

 copied from foreign flower beds, that equaled art conies to aid the plants they soon die away, 

 this single mass of flowers gathered together An Auricula, a Primrose, or a Carnation is a 

 from the native woods. In the plannings for good illustration of this. In the two former a 

 next season's work, which is verj^ likely to be new crown is formed on the top of the old one, 

 among the "work for November," it may and as the lower parts in time die away, unless 



