i8g6. 



GARDENING. 



293 



JAPAN TREE LILAC (Syriiiga Japo 



get a check which it takes them several 

 weeks to recover from. [And better still 

 when the bulbs are planted out the j'oung 

 leaves grow up perfectly inured to the sun, 

 wind and air, and are not injured because 

 of too early or sudden exposure. This 

 point applies to several tropical bulbous 

 and tuberous plants, and so as to carpet 

 the ground in the meantime till the cala- 

 diums appear we may cover it with pan- 

 sies, spring mignonette, alyssum or other 

 plants which we may pluck out when the 

 caladiums need the room.— Kd.] The 

 variegated anthericums in three varieties 

 are not so common as they deserve to be, 

 as they stand a lot of rough handling in 

 kieping them over winter. Fuchsias are 

 a puzzle to most people here, they give 

 glorious effects in the parks around Lon- 

 don and Paris where they can be planted 

 out in the full sun, but here they must be 

 planted in the shade, where they do fairly 

 well if they are kept in a growing state 

 for a few weeks after being planted out 

 by i)inching off the ends of the shoots and 

 treating them frequently to manure 

 water. The new strobilanthes is quite a 

 satisfactory plant, butit must betrimmed 

 occasionally or it is apt to get out of 

 bounds. Abuttlon Souvenir de Bonn is 

 one of the best of the new bedding plants; 

 it keeps its color beautifully, which is 

 more than can be said of most of the 

 variegated plants when put outside. 

 Crotons have been planted largely for 

 several years here, they color up even bet- 

 ter out of doors than thev do inside. 



Cuttings are taken off about the middle 

 of September and rooted without bottom 

 heat; there is an idea that cuttings unless 

 they have well colored leaves will not 

 make well colored plants, but m\- exjjeri- 

 ence is just the reverse, these cuttings 

 naturally root more freelj' than those 

 with highly colored leaves, and when 

 planted out they color up just as brightly. 



AT THE WHITE HOUSE. 



On the south front of the E,\ecutive 

 Mansion, the grounds are enclosed by a 

 4 foot high stout wire fence, that affords 

 a capital place on which to train vines of 

 different kinds. At the present time the 

 Jackmannii and lanuginosa clematises are 

 a mass of flowers, the fence is about 200 

 yards long and there are about seventy- 

 five of these clematises on it, and one can 

 imagine the 1 ffect. Plants of eoccinea 

 show up conspicuously at intervals. 

 Later on in the season there is not a 

 square foot of this fence vacant, it is cov- 

 ered by such plants as aristolochia, 

 ipomoea, manettia, antigonon and stig- 

 maphyllon. To any lover of flowers this 

 is one of the most interesting spots in the 

 whole city, as the plants are grown 

 under the best conditions. Near one end 

 of this fence and trained up so as to cover 

 an entrance to one of the plant houses 

 there is a large specimen of the Crimson 

 Rambler rose that has given so much 

 pleasure that the intention is to grow it 

 more largely in the future. Just in front 

 of the house are several round beds filled 

 in the middle with crotons and edged 



with rows of the variegated anthericum 

 and echeveria. Near the large fountain 

 there are two imn ense beds tilled with 

 scarlet geraniums bordered with white 

 flowered varieties and scarlet alternan- 

 thtras; in each bed there are about a 

 dozen tall standard lantanas which are 

 quite effictive. The finer flowered her- 

 baceous plants are grown extensively, 

 and they do magnificently. There are 

 campanulas enough to satisfy a botanic 

 garden. Delphiniums, aconitumsand the 

 native cardinal flower arc growing side 

 by side with the new Tupa montana, 

 which has not bloomed as yet. The 

 large fountain basin is filled with nym- 

 phicas, principally hardy ones; the large 

 plants are in comparatively small stone 

 boxes, yet the number of flowers on the 

 plants all the time is wonderful. There 

 are other two fountain basins on the 

 grounds filled with a miscellaneous col- 

 lection of aquatic plants all in the very 

 best of health. G. W. Olivek. 



Botanic Gardens, Washington. 



CflMPflNULfl FERSICflEFOLIfl VflR. BflCK- 

 tiOUSEI. 



This lorni of the peach-leaved bell- 

 flower is an English introduction, and 

 well deserves a place in every garden, 

 especially the white forms of it. At this 

 season of the year (June 1) outside of 

 what the shrubs give us a pleasing white 

 in flowers is a rarity, in fact at any 

 season we cannot have too much of it in 

 attractive forms. This perennial grows 

 some two and a half feet high, sending 

 up numerous stalks well equipped with 

 side branches from which hang in pro- 

 fusion campanulate shaped flowers an 

 inch and a half long and of equal width. 

 Of four plants produced from seed last 

 July three are white and single and one 

 of a pleasing blue and semi-double. Stand- 

 in a bay in the shrubbery with the dark 

 loliage behind them they present a very 

 pleasing picture. Being but small plants 

 last fall they were wintered in a cold 

 frame, which has undoubtedly caused 

 them to bloom earlier than they will 

 next year after remaining outside all 

 winter. 



[We raised a lot of it at Dosoris last 

 summer and left the plants out in the 

 open garden all winter, and thev sur- 

 vived perfectly .-Ed.] W. C. Egan. 



ERECT WfllTE CLEMATIS. 



W. M. J., Hackensack, N. J., asks: 

 "What clematis isthis? It grows in bush 

 form about three feet high and as you see 

 blooms early in June. A large clump of 

 this makes a showy and pleasing effect." 



It is Clematis recta, a strong, erect- 

 growing species that forms large clumps 

 with sheaves of airy white flowers that 

 appear in early summer and are very 

 effective. A stout stake about three feet 

 high should be driven in alongside of each 

 clump in spring, and the sheaf of stems 

 tied up to it, but the support should be 

 only as high as the leaves and not upinto 

 the flowers. There is a double flowering 

 form of this clematis that is whiter and 

 of more refined bearing than the common 

 recta but it is scarce. Both are perfectly 

 hardy. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



TAB TREE LILflC 



(Syritiga Japonica). 



We have a set of late-blooming lilacs 



from China and Japan whose flowers, 



foliage and habits are distinct from that 



of the common or Persian lilacs and not 



