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Von Sion, so much grown and appre- 

 ciated by florists for forcing in winter, is 

 charming when so grown, but when 

 planted out of doors it isn't at all so sat- 

 isfactory; its flowers then are green or 

 greenish yellow. It may he good enough 

 for forcing, but the single flowered ones 

 are the best for the garden. 



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THE JAPAN WEEPING ROSE-FLOWERED CHERRY 



manent quarters; while they need room 

 in early summer, verbenas, mignonette or 

 or other low growing plants may run up 

 pretty close to them in late summer. Pan- 

 sies are at their finest now, and being of an- 

 nual duration and low-growing they can 

 occupy the ground most anywjhere before 

 the greater plants grow up to cover it. 

 Perennial poppies are over by midsummer 

 and may be succeeded bv annuals of many 

 kinds: annual poppies are transient plants , 

 after midsummer their place is vacant 

 and may be occupied with other annuals 

 or summerplants. Sweet alyssum may be 

 grown as an edging to beds or borders. 

 Portulacca is a bright little annual to 

 scatter around where the ground is warm 

 and dry and other things won't grow 

 well, but it isn't good enough to fill 

 prominent flower beds with. 



thriftier, are better fitted for landscape 

 effiscts. In the flower garden or border or 

 for cut flowers, though, the double holly- 

 hocks hold popular favor. — Ed.] 



H. A. Cap.\kn. 



SINGLE flOLiyflOCKS. 



These are of the class of neglected but 

 valuable plants which are now and then 

 recalled to memory by somebod\' who 

 protests against their being kept in ob- 

 scurity. Hardly any plant of their class 

 is more striking and picturesque. Except 

 for cutting purposes, like most other 

 single flowers, they are better than the 

 double forms in every respect — more 

 artistic, vigorous, free from the hollyhock 

 disease, and when once established need- 

 ing little or no attention. Vet no florist 

 seems to catalogue them, and nobody 

 seems to remember or notice them except 

 now and then to admire their beau y in 

 some old-fashioned garden which modern 

 improvements have spared. One day 

 some shrewd florist will rediscover and 

 advertise them, and there will be the ex- 

 citement and satisfaction of another 

 gardening novelty. 



[Double hollyhocks are short-lived, 

 usually biennial to triennial, therefore 

 usekss for permanent planting. Single 

 hdllyliocks, being longer lived and 



TRftCTflBlLITY OF CflNNflS. 



As a reserve plant of immediate eft'ect 

 few can outclass the canna. If removed 

 with care, even in a blooming state it 

 shows no resentment. I start my eannas 

 in a hotbed of moderate warmth, first 

 dividing the clumps and then packing the 

 divisions as closely together as bricks are 

 laid in a pavement. When the main hot- 

 bed is vacant and the canna beds proper 

 are filled, the surplus is transplanted to 

 other portions of the spent hotbed, where 

 they remain until wanted elsewhere. Oh 

 how they do like to send their roots down 

 through the thin layer of soil and ramble 

 in among the manure in the hotbed. They 

 require frequent watering in this situa- 

 tion. When needed elsewhere, a thorough 

 soaking of the soil is given, and then with 

 a sharp spade deep cuts are made on three 

 sides w^ithout any lateral pressure, the 

 fourth cut being slightly oblique, with a 

 pressure down on the handle, when the 

 plant is lifted with soil adhering. This 

 can be done any time in summer and they 

 can be used to replace late blooming 

 tuUps, Canterbury bells, or fill gaps in 

 the border occasioned by accident or dis- 

 ease. I use chiefly Madame Crozy for this 

 purpose. " W. C. Egan. 



Daffodils. — How lovely they are now. 

 The little trumpet minor, the greater 

 trumpet major, Horsfieldii, Emperor and 

 Empress are all fine, and although the 

 three named last are by far the finest and 

 a little more expensive, they also have 

 the advantage of being very hardy, very 

 easy to g^ow and sure to bloom, (at 

 them by all means. 



TilKDoi'iiM-: Fi,n\vi:Ki:i) i)Ai-i--(»i)ii.callci! 



Trees and Shrubs. 



IflFflN WEEPING ROSE PLOWERBD CHERRY. 



I lur illustration is a truthful likeness of 

 OIK- of the most striking and beautiful of 

 ikcorative trees. We are indebted to the 

 loiutesyof Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry 

 of Rochester, N. Y., for the use of this 

 picture. In (Jardeninc, just a year ago, 

 we had a picture of a 1 7 feet high by 20 

 feet through, specimen at Dosoris in 

 bloom. It will be at its best this year 

 May 1, for it is now (April 25) beginning 

 to open its blossoms. 



Our illustration shows the habit of the 

 plant very correctly, the branches spread 

 outward and droop to the ground, but it 

 is MOta flatheadedtree like a Kilmaniock 

 willow, it assumes more of the character 

 of a weeping beech. Its blossoms ar» 

 rose-colored, single, an inch or thereabout 

 across, and borne before the fohage comes 

 and in the greatest profusion. In factthe 

 golden forsythias,snowyYulan magnolia, 

 and rose Japan dierry are a very marked 

 trio in our gardens at this season. It is 

 quite hardy with us, easy to grow, and 

 sure to bloom, even small plants never 

 fail to make a display. It bears some 

 fruit with us, but it is worthless. This 

 tree is one of the good things we unhesi- 

 tatingly recommend to amateurs. 



TRBBS AND SHRUBS FOR THE SEASIDE. 



J. D. S., Stamford, Conn., writes. 

 Please name for me one-half dozen or so 

 varieties of trees and a dozen or so of 

 shrubs that will do well on a seashore 



^that possibly at times is swept by salt 



'spray. 



Trees.— Yellow locust, white oak, red 

 oak, tupelo or sour gum, red maple and 

 bald cypress. In fact we find that oaks 

 generally, and beech, red cedar, American 

 wild plum (Prunus Americana), seedling 

 apple trees, and mulberry trees too do 

 well by the seaside, where their roots 

 often come in contact with the saltwater. 

 At Dosoris we have found that Norway 

 maples, sycamore maples, ginkgo, lin- 

 dens, larch, cercidiphyllum and several 

 other common garden trees are rather 

 impatient of salt water at their roots, 

 especially between April and midsummer. 

 In fall or winterthere is not near somuch 

 dang:er of injury to our trees by inundat- 

 ing tides as when the rootlets are young 

 and tender, .-^nd the same is true as re- 

 gards shrubs. There is a bed here filled 

 with different kinds of hardy hydrangeas 

 and in the center is growing probably the 

 largest specimen of the American form of 

 the Venetian sumach {Cotinus Ameri- 

 caniis) in cultivation; a few years ago an 

 extra high tide in spring covered this bed, 

 killing (or so injuring them that they 

 were worthless) everj- hydrangea, but 

 the cotinuswas not injured in the least. 



Shrubs.— Beach plum, groundsel tree, 

 button bush, baybeny, sea buckthorn, 

 t M-liii.i wild ros'cmatrimony vine,tam- 

 :i]i (iiiiiiii. Iinvcd smnachs, as the 

 ^11 -( h iimI -I .mliom sorts, but not the 

 III iiiu ^iiiii.uli [ Rhus aromatica), com- 

 nion barhirry. periploca, Japanese celas 



