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THE GARDENER'S 3I0NTHLY 



[Sept.kmber, 



these Yuccas planted some three to four feet 

 apart, and interplanted with low-growing, red- 

 flowered Cannaa, banded with white variegated 

 grass. 



Antin-hinums, or Snap-dragons, treated as self- 

 Bown annuals and transplanted. The dark and 

 intensely colored ones I think the prettiest, 

 though the striped ones are the most sought 

 for. 



Callirhoe involucrata, the common Malva; a 

 procumbent and spreading plant, with a profu- 

 sion of showy crimson flowers. Suitable for 

 rockwork or border. 



Malva moschafa, vigorous; flowers rosy lilac, 

 and freely borne on tall, branchy stems. Shrub- 

 beries and mixed borders if staked. 



Betonica grandlflora, a pretty border plant with 

 whorls of purple flowers. 



Physostegia Virginica, a purplish labiate with 

 terminal racemes of crowded blooms. Wants 

 lifting, dividing and transplanting every second 

 or third year. 



Dracocephalum peregrinum makes a fine border 

 clump, 12 to 18 inches; flowers blue, in loose 

 whorls on arching or decumbent racemes. 



Erigeron speciosm, bluish, two feet ; handsome 

 as a border clump, or naturalized in wild places. 

 E. glabellm, one foot, flowers pretty, and, like 

 speciosus, a fine border plant. 



Coreopsis lanceolata, two to three feet, bearing 

 a profusion of bright yellow flowers; a desirable 

 border plant. C. tripteris, tall and handsome, 

 flowers showy, yellow with dark centre ; C. 2'>al- 

 mata and C. delphinifolia, good enough in their 

 way, in roomy borders and amongst shrubs, but 

 too rough for the select border. 



Lathyruslaii/olius, the everlasting pea, of which 

 there are pinkish-purple and white-flowered 

 kinds ; particularly pretty, and keeping in bloom 

 a long time. The white kind is very fine. In 

 clumps, on supports, or depending over rock 

 work they are very appropriate. 



Spirxa venusta, a handsome and very fine 

 perennial, with rosy-carmine flowers in terminal 

 compound cymes; two to three feet high. Also 

 8. Kamtschatica, pretty white flowers, in the way 

 of S. ulmaria which is also in blQom, and Astilbe 

 chinensis, two feet, with panicled clusters of pink- 

 ish flowers; fin^. 



Lythrum salicaria or Loosestrife, two to five 

 feet; flowers reddish-purple and in whorls on 

 long terminal spikes. A handsome and desira- 

 ble plant for borders or water margins. The 

 variety known as Roseum mperbum is the best. 



In addition to the above are many Salvias, 

 Scutellarias, Nepetas, Veronicas, Lychnises, As- 

 ters, Achilleas [A. millefolium roseum is the best), 

 Chrysanthemums, Anthemises, Centaureas, Con- 

 volvuluses, &c. » 



Chief amongst shrubs in bloom are Spirsea 

 Douglasi with dense terminal panicles of rosy- 

 pink flowers ; S. Meiiziesii, not unlike Douglasi ; 

 iS'. callosa, with thick terminal corymbs of pink- 

 ish blooms ; S. salici/olia, the American Meadow 

 Sweet, dull white, in crowded panicles ; and 

 S. corymbosa, with showy flat compound corymbs 

 of white flowers. There are likewise Ilea Vir- 

 ginica, with racemes of pretty white flowers; 

 double Deutzias, Hydrangea arborescens, radiaia 

 and hortensis, the Smoke tree Rhus cotinus. 



Calycanthus floridus, or Sweet Shrub, locally 

 known here as Pine-apple Shrub ; and, Rvbua 

 odoratus, a free-bloming shrub, good enough for 

 rough places, but not sufficiently attractive for 

 choice shrubberries. 



EDITORIAL NOTES, 



Public Adornmknts of Cities. — Americans 

 often wish that their public servants were " in- 

 telligent," and would attend to parks, squares, 

 and other public places "as they do in Europe." 

 But it appears they are no better off" than we, 

 and " societies " and outside pressure have to be 

 brought in to aid the public officers to walk in 

 the way they should go. This is an illustration; 



"Mr. George Dawson, in a recent lecture at 

 Birmingham, England, said that the office of a 

 man's house was not only to give shelter, food, 

 and meat, but also to surround his children with 

 those fair sights and sounds by which the sense 

 of beauty might be developed. There were 

 houses in that town in which not a poem was 

 read nor a song sung throughout the year, and 

 yet the people wondered why their children 

 were vulgar. Attention to the beauty of towns 

 was one of the most neglected duties and one of 

 the most deserving. If a town was beautiful, the 

 people took pride in it, like to live in it, and 

 were sorry to leave it. In Birmingham they 

 wanted a new society, to be called ' the Beauty 

 Society.' " 



The RHonoDEXPRON. — Mr. Waterer with his 

 Centennial Rhododendrons has stirred up the 

 folks with a vengeance. Four Rhododendron 

 articles in one number! The subject is well 



