1882. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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flowers for bouquets, and we have reason to be, 

 for we have greater choice. 



The taste for floriculture has grown rapidly 

 and almost keeps pace with the cultivation of 

 fruit, and I hope to see the time when every 

 yard will have its bed of flowers, as well as fruit 

 trees unmolested by the hatchet or pilfering 

 fingers of the modern traducers of the juvenile 

 George Washington. 



We are reminded of a venerable child-loving 

 grandmother who wished that all our public 

 roads might be lined with fruit trees, and I 

 add with flowers, that all might partake and 

 enjoy what has been provided as food and plea- 

 sure for the inhabitants of this, our earthly 

 home. 



HYDE PARK, ST. LOUIS. 



BY CHARLES CRUCKNELL. 



Hyde Park is situated in the northern portion 

 of the city and contains about fourteen acres. 

 The trees are young and do not afford sufficient 

 shade at present from the sweltering heat of the 

 summer sun. A beautiful fountain of marble is 

 erected in the centre of the grounds, and an ex- 

 tremely large basin surrounds it. Xymphseas 

 are growing near the edges, the admiration of 

 those familiar with them and a source of wonder 

 to those who "can't see how leaves and flowers 

 can grow on the top of water without roots." 



At the bottom of a deep depression on one 

 side of the park is a pond, and here is centred 

 all the floral beauties of the place. Many grasses 

 are growing, and conspicuous among them are 

 the Gynerium argenteum and Erianthus Ka- 

 vennse. The variegation of Arunda donax burns 

 out badly in summer. 



There is a perfect wilderness of roses. Many 

 old varieties and some of the newer kinds are to 

 be seen. Louis Philippe, Agrippina, Souvenir 

 d'un ami, Malmaison, Duchess of Edinburgh and 

 many others, vie with each other in the bounty 

 of their bloom, but the queen of them all is that 

 beautiful chaste rose " La France." 



A bed composed of Plumbago capensis and 

 Torenia Fourneiri superbum in bloom, attracted 

 my attention by the exquisite blending of the 

 colors. The lavender blue of the Plumbago 

 intermingling with the brilliant darker blue of 

 the Torenia is something worth remembering. 

 Probably the shape of the flowers had also some- 

 thing to do with the illusion. Most growers are 

 familiar with the little stove-house gem Torenia 

 Asiatica, and its wonderful way of blooming with 



generous culture under glass. Just such a gei» 

 is Torenia Fourneiri in the open ground. Plum- 

 bago Larpenta3 used as an edging or border to a> 

 bed of Coleus, showed what a useful plant this i» 

 when placed in good company. 



Manettia cordifolia an old greenhouse favorite^ 

 planted in the open ground and growing over 

 rude trellises, was a mass of flowers early in July,, 

 a month or six weeks earlier than it generally 

 blooms under pot culture. Another old favorite, 

 Erythrina crista galli, rarely seen in gardens 

 now, was brilliant with its queer shaped flowers- 

 There is a large greenhouse in the park where 

 the plants are kept over winter, and this may in 

 a measure account fur the mass of flowers to be- 

 seen here during the summer months. 



THE ARBORETUM, DERBY, ENGLAND, 



BY WM. T. HARDING, MOUNT HOLLY, N. J. 



It is announced in recent advices from Eng- 

 land, that " applications will be made to Parlia- 

 ment for power to transfer the Derby Arboretum 

 grounds from control of the present trustees^ 

 and vest the same to the corporation of the Bor- 

 ough of Derby. And for the purchase of ad- 

 ditional land for the extension of the Arboretum 

 and new recreation grounds. To make rides, 

 drives, walks, gardens, shrubberies and other 

 ornamental work. To build offices, lodges, 

 arbors, summer-houses, etc. Also, to include 

 Bass' recreation grounds and public baths, and 

 provide for the public use free of charge." 



It is possibly in the recollection of many of 

 your readers that the Arboretum was presented 

 to the town of Derby by the late Joseph Strutt, 

 Esq., in 1840. This munificent gift, after the 

 grounds were properly laid out, and the Arbor- 

 etum botanically arranged and planted with a 

 fine collection of trees and shrubs, correctly and 

 conspicuously named, was generously donated 

 to the public for the sake of ''sacred science,'' 

 healthful pleasure, and intelligent recreation. 

 Since that time the Arboretum has always been 

 a favorite resort for the pleasure seeker and 

 scientific visitor, who each enjoyed the boon, 

 according to their individual tastes or views of 

 what was most agreeable to their feelings. 



Besides the landscape effects, which were of » 

 high order, with here a group of trees, or clumj> 

 of shrubs, and there an isolated specimen, illus- 

 trative of some botanical family, among which 

 were judiciously placed handsome objects of 

 statuary, with beds and borders of flowers, suf- 



