CHICAGO, JUNE 15, 1896. 



No. 91. 



BED OF PETONIAS. 



The Flower Garden. 



COMMON FLOWERS. 



Ourillustration is engraved from a pho- 

 tograph of a bed of petunias in a Chicago 

 garden taken last summer. The bed was 

 mounded up, and in the middle was a tub 

 rising above the mound, and all filled 

 with petunias. The plants grew well 

 and made a bright show all summer and 

 fall, and that, too, with very little care. 

 Taking everything into consideration we 

 have no more showy continuous bloomer 

 than the petunia. Among the dwarf 

 striped we have some very beautiful va- 

 rieties and they are profuse and continu- 



ous bloomers, then we have kermesina, 

 superbissima, and other large plain and 

 frilled flowers that are quite attractive, 

 and the bigger flowered ones called giants 

 of California. All are easily gotten up 

 from seed. By the same means we can 

 also get up a stock of double-flowered 

 varieties, but because of the uncertainty 

 of the quality so obtained and percentage 

 of good flowers we usually increase our 

 double petunias from cuttings. 



The petunia is everybody's flower and 

 it will grow most everj'where. Among 

 other common flowers that brighten up 

 a yard wonderfully are nasturtiums, 

 portulacca, French marigolds, stocks, 

 China asters, mignonette, globe ama- 

 ranths, sweet alyssum, poppies, Drum- 

 mund phlox, balsams, pansies, and scar- 



let salvia, and all are easily raised from 

 seed. 



PLANTS IN BLOOM T«E 9Tfl OF JUNE. 



Truly, June is the month of roses, for 

 everywhere you look in the garden you 

 see roses. A hedge of Madame Plantier 

 rose we have here is a great show just 

 now; it is about three hundred feet long, 

 six feet high and about the same through. 

 This rose is easily grown. While the 

 others in the garden are infested wiih 

 insects this rose is comparatively clean. 

 This hedge has been planted about four 

 years. Among other roses in the garden 

 Climbing Jules Margottin is quite conspic- 

 uous; it is good in bud or full flower. 

 The Uawson rose is a mass of flowers, 

 and it is rather nree too with its showy 



