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vol. IV. 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, JULY 1, 1896. 



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NATURAL GARDEMIKG A (J0LOn\' OF TKILLIUMS. 



The Flower Garden. 



NflTURflL GflRDENING. 



Our illustration is engraved from a 

 ptiotograi)li of a bit of natural gardening 

 ill tlic rear of two old apple trees close by 

 Mr. Dunbar's house in Highland Park, 

 Rochester. This is the kind of gardening 

 otic never gets tired of. The ground is 

 rarpeted with a host of pretty wild 

 jilants, some of which are in bloom all 

 the time, and they arc in quantity enough 

 to make each one a feature in itself, lor 

 instance, when it is trilliums, the prevail- ■ 

 ing flower is trillium. But there is no 

 isolation, for between and under the tril- 

 liums may be lots of violets, a spread of 

 wood anemone, or many others. And 

 bigger plants may also be intermingled 



with them or planted in proximity to 

 them. There must be no monotonous 

 sameness, however, that is all of the 

 ground mustn't be planted in this way 

 we want variety of scene as well as of 

 plants and this we get abundantly in 

 Highland Park where every kind of shrub 

 hardy in Northern New York is grown. A 

 word about trilliums: Why are they 

 dotted about so and not in big clumps? 

 some liny ask. Because such an arrange- 

 ment would be unnatural, trilliums don't 

 grow that way in their wild state, but 

 instead just as they are shown in our 

 picture, sometimes spread in gregarious 

 colonies and then again scattered broad- 

 cast through the woods. 



Many of ourcommon wild flowers make 

 pretty' effects when grouped together 

 under suitable conditions. The picture 

 shows a colonv of several hundred tril- 



liums with a group of lungwort (Merten 

 sia Virginica) at the back on the right, or 

 to the left of the babies. They are grow- 

 ing with more than native luxuriance 

 under the shade of two useless, old spread- 

 ing apple trees (not seen in picture) atthe 

 rear of the house. We would have 

 chopped the apple trees down long since, 

 but saved them for the shade they gave 

 our early spring wild flowers that grow 

 only in shaded places, .^long with the 

 trilliums are many hepaticas, rue 

 anemones, dog's tooth violet, spring 

 beauty, crinkle root, barren strawberry, 

 some of the crowfoots, violets, cypripe- 

 diums, star grass, habenarias, winter- 

 green, prince's pine, gold thread, poly- 

 galas. Phlox divaricata, mitrewort, etc. 

 It is not an ideal place for growing wild 

 flowers, perhaps, but one usually is hard 

 to obtain in connection with dwellings. 

 However, if the surroundings in this case 



