TLOeiSTS' PUBL.ISnirSG CO.. 520-535 Caxton Building, CtllCAGO. 



Vol. J. 



• CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JANUARY 27, 1898. 



No. 9. 





Bed of Penstetnons. 



PENTSTEMONS ALTERNA- 

 THERAS. 

 In the foreground of the accompany- 

 ing engraving appears a bed of Pents- 

 temon campanulatus bordered with 

 Alternanthera latifolia aurea, as seen 

 at Lincoln Park, Chicago, last sum- 

 mer. 



The pentstemons can be raised from 

 seed, but Head-Gardner Stromback 

 propagates them by ctittings. The cut- 

 tings are taken from bedded plants in 

 the latter part of September, and 

 placed in sand on the bench, without 

 bottom heat. They root in about threo 

 weeks, and are then potted in 2Y2 



inch pots, in which they are kept over 

 winter in a house with a temperature 

 of 45 degrees, water being given spar- 

 ingly, as with all plants kept in so low 

 a temperature. 



In January the plants are shifted to 

 3 inch pots and remain in these till 

 bedded out. The plants are placed 



