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GARDENING. 



Nov. /, 



fine that thej' come fairly true from seed. 

 The only way to be sure of Cope's Pet is 

 to raise the young ones irom cuttings or 

 division of the old plants; as it grows 

 and multiplies readily this isn't a very 

 formidable task. 



2. Be careful in arranging yellow and 

 blue. In lobelia and ageratuiii you have 

 two shades oi blue; we think the ager- 

 atum alone will give j-ou a more pleasing 

 and lasting efiect 



3. Altcrnanthera paronvchioides major 

 and the crimson leaved creeping oxalis 

 called in gardens O. tropwoloides will 

 suit your purpose. 



4. The varieties kept by florists and 

 perpetuated from cuttings often do nicely 

 in June and July. Our experience with 

 them from seed 1 as not been satisfactory. 

 From seed sown indoors in March we 

 can get up nice plants to set out late in 

 May, but then the trouble comes, they 

 come uneven in size and blooming and 

 seldom make show enough to justify the 

 care and ground they take. Their floweis 

 are mostiv brown or brownish yellow. 



CROZY'S AND OTHER NEW CflNNflS ftT 

 BOSTON. 



The grounds of my neighbor Mr. James 

 Farquhar, at Clarendon Hills, are just 

 now specially attractive to admirers of 

 these magnificent plants, for there maj- 

 be seen the novelties of M. Crozy's estab- 

 lishment for 1894. They mark a distiiact 

 advance in these flowers. Of those more 

 distinctivel}' of the Madame Crozy type 

 are Baron M. de Hirsch, Souvenir d' An- 

 toine Crozy, James Farquhar, M. For- 

 geot. Van den Berg, Jr., Paolo Radaeli. 

 These all have the j-ellow markings of 

 Mme. Crozy but usually more pfainly 

 defined and wider, and a few of them 

 seem to surpass it in brilliancy of color. 

 Paolo Radaeli, a dwarf of two and one- 

 half feet, is of a superb garnet velvet color 

 with wide brilliant yellow edge, and on 

 the whole perhaps the most attractive 

 canna of the collection. Van den Berg, Jr. 

 is distinct in color; a sort of vermilion 

 scarlet suffused and dotted with carmine, 

 with the base and edges of the petals a 

 brilliant shade of yellow, the whole flower 

 has an iridescence similar to that on a 

 pigeon's neck. 



In the apricot shades we find Ingegnoli 

 Fratelli and Arairal Avellan, both with 

 dark foliage and large flowers, the latter 

 is likely to prove a formidable rival to 

 that grand sort J. D. Cabos. These will 

 l)e possibly four to four and one-half feet 

 high. General deMiribel, a dwarf two and 

 one-half feet has large flowers of a light 

 shade of apricot. 



In the crimson shades the noticeable 

 ones are John Laing. Madame Ch. Molin, 

 a beautilul flower, plant dwarf, two and 

 one-half feet; and Ami Pichon, also dwarf 

 but with a flower five inches across, deep 

 crimson or vermilion with deeper crimson 

 or carmine stripes and dots. It is a superb 

 flower. Rose Unique and Treye Marie arc 

 good flowers of a deep rose shaded 

 slightly with cannine. They are odd, but 

 may be passed where there are so many 

 better. There are no self yellows, but 

 three good onos of the faintly spotted 

 sorts are President Chandon, a brilliant, 

 showy, orange yellow witli brick red 

 spots and the objectionable droo])ing 

 habit of Bouvicr; Madame Camille Dugas, 

 a large flower similarly marked but of up- 

 right and much better habit, and Madame 

 Montefiore a tall grower of five to five 

 and one-half feet, like in color of flowers 

 to the well known variety Captain P. de 

 Suzzoni, but so far its sui>crior in every 

 particular that the lattcr's days are num- 

 bered when Madame Montefiore can Ik- 



bought at a reasonable price. The flower 

 spikes are numerous, erect and well fur- 

 nished wi h long stemmed lovely flowers 

 of immense size I measured several a few 

 days ago and found them overfive inches 

 across, with the broad rounded petal of 

 Madame Crozy. The spots are faint and 

 the general effect at a short distance is 

 that of a clear yellow. 



The above are the most prominent of 

 Mr. Farqubar's Crozy collection. He has 

 howe\er several grand seedlings of his 

 own, mostly products of Madame Crozy, 

 one of which, named Victor, is a remark- 

 ably brilliant flower surpassed but by few 

 in the collection from M. Crozy. Should 

 any of your readers interested in these 

 plants chance to be in the "Hub" a visit 

 to Mr.Farquhar's grounds will sureh' 

 repay them. This can be easilj- done by 

 train from Park Square Station, Boston 

 and Providence R. R., to Clarendon Hills 

 Station, whence a walk of a few minutes 

 brings one to Mr. Farquhar's place. 



At Newton Highlands Mr. Arthur 11. 

 Fewkes has now in flower quite a number 

 of seedlings from Mme. Crozy, three of 

 which are of great merit. One named 

 Mrs. Cowing is a beautilul yellow faintly 

 spotted with crimson or terra cotta. It 

 IS ol dwarf habit, about two and one- 

 half feet, and has fine erect spikes of large 

 flowers well carried on long stems. I have 

 measured several individual flowers of 

 this variety, and found a spread of five 

 and one-half inches with one and one- 

 fourth inch breadth of petal Its Crozy 

 blood crops out in rather an interesting 

 way, inasmuch as there is a distinctly 

 marked border to the petals of an almost 

 orange tint, while the body of the flower 

 is rather of a lemon shade. The Mass. 

 Horticultural Society gave Mr. Fewkes a 

 silver medal for this fine canna last sea- 

 son. When we include this with Mme. 

 Montefiore and Florence Vaughan, there 

 seems to be but little to be desired in this 

 color. But predictions are risky in these 

 days of horticultural activitj- and hybrid- 

 izing skill. Mr. Fewkes' other two seed- 

 lings are self crimsons, dwarf growers 

 and with erect spikes of inagnificent flow- 

 ers. One resembles Bouvicr in color but 

 is even better, and "holds its head up." 

 The flowers of the other are I think the 

 largest I have met with, spanning some- 

 times six inches with one and one-half 

 inch petals, color magnificent. The petals 

 lack a little in substance and have not the 

 fimmess of Mme. Crozy, but the flower is 

 notwithstanding imposing. It looks a 

 little as though Mme. Crozy might live to 

 see herself outshone by her children, but 

 that is the common fate of mortal and 

 flowers. It would appear that we have 

 about reached the limit of desirable size 

 in cannas though I know the fad of late 

 years has nm in that direction. But too 

 often quality has suffered in this scramble 

 for quantity. W. H. C. 



West Roxburv, Mass. 



LILY DlbEflSE. 



This lily disea.se we now have is a differ- 

 ent one fiom what was introduced ^ itli 

 the auratum lily. The auratums used to 

 rot, beginning at the bulb and extending 

 up the stem, and I have seen it a chase 

 between the rot and the flowers whether 

 the rot would get to the flowers before 

 they expanded. This disease seems gone, 

 my auratums do fairly well, and certainly 

 the old blacking rot of the stem does not 

 show. The tiger was the first other lily 

 struck with this auratum rot when it 

 was introduced, and it now is the fir.-t to 

 suffer from the Bermuda lily disease, 

 which affects my lilies all over at once. 

 The tigers are wiped out. and the rubrums 



just about so. I propose to dig out and 

 throw away the rubrum bulbs in a bed 

 fifty by five feet, dug four feet deep, with 

 good drainage, which up to last year was 

 a scene of the utmost luxuriance. Now, 

 will the Bermuda disease follow the ex- 

 amole of the auratum one, and die out of 

 itself? \\. W. 



Hulton, Pa. 



LILIUM flURflTUM IN POTS AND IN SHADE. 



Last year I tried bulbs of Lilium aura- 

 tum in pots covered with ashes under a 

 deep outside cellar stair, and also under 

 a cover of oak leaves in a drj' area in 

 front of a basement window. I mulched 

 the oots with grass from the lawn and 

 jjlaccd them under some evergreens, and 

 the3' were fine. In the field they do 

 poorly. They live but they have poor 

 color and poor bloom. I am now quite 

 convinced chat what ails them is the lack 

 of sufficient shade. I have a few on a 

 shelf in a ravine densely shaded and 

 hardly a promising place for anything 

 but spring bulbs which are ripening by 

 the time the trees are in full leaf, and in 

 this place auratum does finely, fully as 

 well as in pot culture. In Japan itgrows 

 on the wooded hillsides resiing on the 

 clay or loam, but under a cover of six to 

 eight inches of leaf mould which the frost 

 never penetrates. C. L. M. 



Milwaukee. 



WEEDS IN THE LflWN. 



I have had difficulty in getting a lawn 

 started about mv hotise at Setauket, L. 

 I In the spring 'of l.S9,3 I planted the 

 ground with lawn mixture, but the sea- 

 son was dry and it did not do well. Last 

 spring I plowed it all up and following a 

 suggestion in Gardening I planted a 

 mixture of Kentucky blue grass and 

 Rhode Island bent grass. It came up very 

 well, but another long dry season killed a 

 good deal of it. With the fall rains, how- 

 ever, it has grown considerably and looks 

 as if there was enough to make a good 

 stand were it not for the we ds. I might 

 add that the soil is a sandj- loam with a 

 fair topsoil,th;land having been formerly 

 cultivated for farm crops and in the two 

 plantings mentioned I used commercial 

 fertilizers. During the past summer a 

 vast quantity of rag weed, wild carrot 

 and a weed we call "nigger head," of 

 which I enclose a specimen spray, came 

 up. I kept the tops well cue so that 1 

 assume next year the two former will not 

 re-appear. The latter, however, as I re- 

 call it in other places is a perennial which 

 grows stronger each year and as the 

 lawn is very full of it I am at a loss what 

 to do I tried cutting it off just under 

 the ground but found it grew up with 

 several new heads in place of the former 

 one. As the lawn is about four acres in 

 extent it would be a great labor to take 

 all these weeds up b_v the roots, and I do 

 not wish to plow it all up again next 

 s])ring. Can vou advise me what to do? 



Wall St., NeW York. C. B. 



The "nigger head" plant sent is rib 

 grass or lance-leaved plantain (Plantago 

 lanceohita). Your land must have been 

 rather foul, that is full of the seeds of 

 weeds, to begin with. The seeds are in 

 the ground and only require to be brought 

 near enough to the surface to give them 

 a chance to grow, so after every plowing 

 you would be apt to have a fresh crop of 

 weeds. If the lawn is kept well cut down 

 all summer, annual weeds like rag weed, 

 she|)herd's purse and the like won't be as 

 troublesome next year; and while vour 



