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O. L. QRANT, Editor and Manager date Editor and Manager of the American Floristi, S30=S3S'Caxton Building, Chicago. 



Vol. I. 



CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, DECEMBER 9, 1897. 



No. 2. 



The Garden of Hardy Plants at Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



THE GARDEN OF HARDY PLANTS 

 AT LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 



The illustration shows the perennial 

 border in Lincoln Park, Chicago, as it 

 appeared Sept. 15th last. Most of the 

 taller native perennials were then in 

 bloom and the gorgeous leaf tints from 

 nature's glowing palette had begun to 

 reveal themselves. All the trees bore 

 exceptionally fine leafage this year and it 

 was comparatively free from the defacing 



inroads of destructive insects to the end 

 of the season. 



Beginning with the lowest group at the 

 right of the picture, the prominent plant? 

 in bloom are the tall western sunflower 

 (Helianthus orgyalis), New England 

 aster (rosea), tall strrate-leaved sun- 

 flower, perennial phlox, Golden Glow 

 rudbeckia, with Egandale canna and 

 bocconia in the center, and Perilla nau- 

 kinensis at the extreme left point. 



The second group at the right has in 



addition to the plants named a bunch of 

 the very .strong small headed sunflower 

 (H. microcephalus, Tor. and Gray — H. 

 parviflorus, Brunk.), with ricinus in the 

 center and phj-sianthus and ipomtea ( I. 

 rubro-ca;rulea i climbing over the shrub- 

 bery in the rear. Well to the front of the 

 group ma\' be seen the bold star - like 

 flowers of the giant yellow hibiscus ( H. 

 manihot ) which bloomed freely all 

 through October this year. 

 The third point at the right consists of 



