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HARDY YUCCAS AT EGANDALE ILLINOIS 



The Flower Garden. 



yUOCflS {r:!:i>'„;,/osa) IN TflE OflRDEN. 

 This stately i)lant is very effective when 

 grouped in anirregiilarmaiiiieronalawn. 

 riie group illustrated in part consists of 

 twelve plants, eight of which bloomed 

 this year. They are planted in holes two 

 feet in diameter, and same in depth, filled 

 with sandy loam, slightly enriched with 

 old manure. Plenty of space between is 

 allow. (1 for the lawn mower. They are 

 ixrfectly hardy here; each fall they catch 

 the leaves blown by the wind', which 

 seems to be all the protection needed. 

 They arc shy bloomers; young strong 

 I)lants bloom and then for a few years 

 produce suckers but no bloom. I grow 

 these suckers elsewhere and each spring 

 transplant "promising" ones and get 

 Irom seven to nine bloomers out of the 



wclve each 

 Highland 1 



W. C. V.c,.\ 



after year. See a picture of some of them 

 in Garde.ning, page 20, Oct. 1, '92. We 

 let the plants getasbigandmultierowned 

 as they want to. But hardy as they are 

 they like shelter. They dislike wet ground, 

 but dearly love deeply worked, rich, sandy 

 land, By "deeply worked" we don't 

 mean a foot deep, but three or more feet. 

 They ripen lots of seed with us, and these 

 sown in spring in rows in the open gar- 

 ilen germinate as readily as do onions. 

 In three years they are flowering plants. 

 As yuccas are so very easily grown and 

 long lived we can recommend them as 

 being one of the best of hardy plants. 

 Our foremost landscape gardeners arc 

 using them freely as settings in front of 

 shrubbery jilanting and to set out among 

 rockwork, and in various other ways 

 where the land is sandv. 



DWARF flOERflTUM, flLTERNflNTHERfl, CflL- 

 CEOLflRlflS, ETC. 



J. J. 0. B.,\Villiamstown, Mass., writes; 

 1.' "The Tom Thumb ageratum I raised 

 from seed last spring proved to be a 

 nii.xture of many dwarf kinds, some with 

 small whitish flowers, others with coarse 



foliage, compact, but with scarcely any 

 flowers. The whole lot looked quite 

 shabby all summer, mostly on account of 

 the seed ripening nearly all the time. 

 What about Cop -'s Pet that I read about 

 recentlyin Garde.ning? I sent to a seeds- 

 man for seed of it last spring, but could 

 not obtain it. 



2. "I am thinkingof planting the same 

 bed (100 feet long by 5 feet wide) next 

 summer with a carpet arrangement made 

 up of dwarf alyssum, golden feather fever- 

 few, blue lobelia and Cope's Pet ager- 

 .-ituni. All of these I can raise myself 

 from seed in the hotbed and they won't 



:alternanthera 

 or other dark colored plants to corre- 

 S])ond in height with the former? 



+. "Please tell me about growing 

 shrubby calceolarias for out of doors. 1 

 have a moist shady border in which 1 

 think thev would do well." 



1 . Ageratum raised from seed must 

 contain an uneven assortment of plants 

 of uneven quality and variety; at the 

 s;ime time strains are often reduced so 



