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• GARDENING, 



Oct. 



panuJa. The cominou name is Chinese 

 bell flower, but it is indigenous to Japan 

 as well as China. My plants have been 

 in bloom since June 28, and are full of 

 promise yet. It is always good for a 

 month's continuous bloom. The flowers 

 two and one-half to three inches in diame- 

 ter at the tips of branches on stems three 

 feet high. The type is blue and there is a 

 variety with white flowers faintly pen- 

 cilled with blue. 



Funkia ovata withspikes of lilac tinted 

 blooms is out of bloom, while F. stibcor- 

 data, the best of the genus, is throwing 

 up its scapes of sweet scented white flow- 

 ers. This is the white plantain day lily 

 so much admired. It should be planted in 

 partial shade, or the leaves will get sun 

 burned. In rich soil, if undisturbed, it 

 eventually forms a circular cushion of 

 broad overlapping leaves attractive even 

 when not in bloom. 



Anthericum Liliago forms a graceful 

 grassy tuft of foliage six inches high, out 

 of which spring numerous stalks bearing 

 small six rayed star shaped flowers. It is 

 a graceful border plant. 



Clematis Daridiana is opening its pale 

 blue flowers that are produced in axil- 

 lary whorls, making them a little awk- 

 ward for cutting. This belongs to the 

 non-climbing set and is preferable to C. 

 stans, which is somewhat similar in habit, 

 and will bloom later. Both are strong 

 growing, reaching a height of four or 

 more feet, and require staking. 



Clematis integrifolia, a bush form reach- 

 ing a height of two ieet is still producing 

 a few blooms of its small dark blue re- 

 curved flowers. There is a hybrid form of 

 the above called Durandii, which departs 

 from the type in having five petals instead 

 of four and is larger and more flat in its 

 form, the flowers reaching three inches in 

 diameter and they are a rich blue color. 

 This plant attracted much attention on 

 the Wooded Island at the World's Fair 

 and is now blooming in my garden. Near 

 these plants are four more hybrids of 

 these plants having only four petals, but 

 they make a decided departurein coloring, 

 there being among them two shades of 

 pink and two of light blue. All the hybrids 

 require some support as they grow three 

 to four feet high. 



Hemerocallis Thanhergii is valuable, in 

 that it produces its yellow lily like 

 flowers long after the H. ffava has 

 departed. It growsabout three feet high 

 and seems to be as hardy as any of the 

 genus. 



Tunica SaxHraga is happy in producing 

 its numerous small fairy-like flowers of 

 a pinkish white color. It thrives in an 

 open sunny situation and makesan excel- 

 lent border, as it is dwarf in its habit. 



Heuchera sanguinea in a grou]) of a 

 dozen plants will have some blooms 

 nearly all summer. The plant forms a 

 rounded low tuft of verdure, while the 

 deep red campanulate blos.sonis are pro- 

 duced in loose panicles a foot high. For 

 cutting they have no superior and they 

 last a very long time in water. To in- 

 crease stock of it I divide the old plants 

 in August. Each part will make a good 

 blooming plant next spring [Easily raised 

 from seed. — En.] Although a Mexican 

 plant it is hardy here with slight pro- 

 tection. 



Achillea /Egyptica with its silvery 

 foliage is a good border or shrubbery 

 plant where such foliage is wanted. Its 

 rich yellow flowers in densely packed 

 terminal corymbs rise two or more feet. 



Silphium laciniatum has tall stalks 

 bearing handsome yellow flower heads 

 and it presents a good appearance now, 

 when placed at the back of the borders or 



among the shrubs. The plant is indigen- 

 ous, btit improves with cultivation. 



Coreopsis lanceolata, when planted in 

 the wild garden and left to the ten- 

 der mercies ofchance,produceslarger,but 

 fewer flowers than under cultivation. I 

 am disappointed in this plant. Can it be 

 that I have a poor strain? 



Digitalis ambigua is a yellow flowered 

 fox glove of perennial habit from Europe. 

 Scattered among D. purpurea it prolongs 

 the flowering period of this group. It 

 grows about three feet and is similar in 

 habit to the common form. 



CBnothera Youngii, growing some 

 eighteen inches high, is freely producing 

 its bright yellow flowers. A mass of it 

 on the Wooded Island last summer was 

 pleasing. 



Gaillardia aristata grandiiJora is a 

 coarse, rank growing perennial. Sprawl- 

 ing in its nature makes it difficult to 

 stake with neatness. The variety Tem- 

 pleana is more compact in manner of 

 growth and requires no support. The 

 flower heads of both are similar in size 

 and coloring, some three inches in diame- 

 ter and of a deep orange yellow with a 

 band of maroon, while thecenteris adark 

 brown. They are borne on long stems 

 and last well in a cut state. 



One of the blazingstars(Liatrispjcnos- 

 tacbra) is a rather pleasing plant in a 

 mass, if one does not have to write its 

 specific name very often. Its tall cylindri- 

 cal spikes of small purple blooms will 

 remain a feature of the border for a long 

 time. 



Verbascums: V. phlomoides and V. 

 olympivum are past. With me, this s a- 

 son , the former was the handsomest plant , 

 one of the latter was over seven and one- 

 half feet high. These biennials are ver>- 

 decorative, but will only thrive when 

 standing in the open and having a plenty 

 of room. 



Eryngium giganteum with its steel 

 blue stalks and bluish ovate flower heads 

 has been very fine. There are two forms 

 on the Wooded Island that are finer than 

 this species. One labeled E. purpureum 

 has a flower head three-fourths inch diame- 

 ter of a deep purple and very' attractive. 

 Another labeled E. Americanum has 

 larger and more finely cut lea\-es than 

 most of the species. 



Belamcanda Chincnsis, but better 

 known as Pardanthus Chincnsis, has 

 proved perfectly hardy here, with ordi- 

 nary winter protection. Its peculiarly 

 spotted orange colored flowers are pro- 

 duced sparingly on iris-like stalks rising 

 to a height of four feet. They close at 

 night and eventually produce a seed so 

 like a blackberry that they are said to 

 deceive the birds. It is known as the 

 leopard lily, also blackberry lily, and is a 

 very interesting plant. 



Echinacea purpurea has been very at- 

 tractive as a shrubljery plant; it was 

 picturesque in its effect. Its flower heads 

 are terminal, on long stiff" stalks some 

 three feet high. The blossoms are three 

 inches in diameter and the petals are 

 reflexed and rose colored with abrownish 

 center an inch in diameter. E. angusti- 

 folia docs not grow as high and has paler 

 colored flowers, and there is a white 

 form. 



Callirhoe inrolucrata is a decumbent 

 poppy mallow that blooms all summer, 

 and is extremely useful in many situa- 

 tions. Planted as an tmdcr cover in the 

 shrubbery, or at the outer edge of a raised 

 rockery, it extends its rambling shoots 

 up and through low growing shrubs, and 

 opens its flowers in unexpected places. At 

 the base of my rockery is a handsome 



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it, among the rocks, is this mallow, which 

 has reached out and appropriated the 

 sumach for its support. Its bright crim- 

 son flowers, nearly two inches in diame- 

 ter, appearing among the lacinated 

 foliage, is novel and pleasing. In the 

 elevated soil of the rockery, subject to 

 frost from the sides, it is apt to perish, 

 but in the shrubbery it is hardy. 



Geum coccineum is another constant 

 bloomer suitab e for a border plant. The 

 leafage forms a rather tufted mass some 

 eight inches high, producing its terminal 

 flowers on stems about twenty inches 

 long that are more graceful if allowed to 

 bend with their own weight in imitation 

 of a semi-trailer. The flowers on my 

 plants are semi-double, an inch in diame- 

 ter, bright scarlet with yellow stamens, 

 and although sent out under the above 

 name seems to be allied to G. Cheloense. 



Dicentra e.v;m/a.— Although this species 

 can be classed among the flowers now in 

 bloom, its leaves are its chief charms. 

 They are as finely cut as a fern, and over- 

 lapping each other from a mound a loot 

 high of rather a light green and some- 

 what glaucous hue. For a border they 

 form a minature hedge clothed to the 

 ground. The flower stems arise above 

 the foliage and bear numerous drooping 

 reddish purple flowers, somewhat like the 

 old fashioned bleeding heart, to which it 

 is allied and which gives it the common 

 name of the Alleghany bleeding heart. 



Lathyrus latifolius, the perennial pea, 

 can be kept in bloom if not allowed to 

 produce seed. The white form is the hand- 

 somest, producing on long stiff" stems 

 flowers of the purest white, and of more 

 substance and better keeping qualities 

 than its annual cousin the sweet pea. The 

 vine grows about four feet and looks well 

 if allowed to ramble overa brush support 

 or some low open branched shrub. 



Aconitum Napellus, monkshood, with 

 its tall spikes of blue flowers is in its best 

 form, and is more at homein the shadiest 

 part of the shrubbery than almost any 

 species. It grows from five to six feet 

 high, and remains in bloom a long time. 

 Its companion ^.autumna/e is later in its 

 blooming and does not grow as tall. 

 These plants improve with age, and 

 should be kept outof reach of any liability 

 of children getting hold of their roots, as 

 they are a deadly poison. W. C. E. 



WILD PLANTS IN BLOOM OCTOBER 3. 



Asters and golden rods monopolize the 

 fields and woods at this time, making a 

 fine show. Coriifolius, prenanthoides 

 and patens are still crowded with flowers. 

 Others consist of surculosus, a violet pur- 

 ple, one found in wet pine barrens; lasvis, 

 smooth stemmed and with slender 

 branches beariuj blue flowers on their 

 ends, and concolor, found in pine barrens 

 and which has purplish blossoms. Be- 

 sides the golden rods named in previous 

 papers we have /lexicaulis, a lovely spe- 

 cies much like ca?s/a, and perhaps the best 

 of the late blooming ones; and serotina 

 and Canadensis, both from four to six 

 feet in height. 



hi waste places the Jerusalem artichoke 

 (Hclianthus tuberosus) has found a home 

 and makes quite a display with its yellow 

 flowers, so too does //. doronico'ides in 

 the hedge rows. Near a railroad track 

 here I came on to a clump-of H. mollis, a 

 western species with hoary leaves and 

 bright golden yellow flowers. 



For some time past the morning glor}- 

 (Pharbitis Nil) has been in bloom, and it 

 will keep it up till frost. Its pretty violet 

 blue flowers are seen among tall grass 



