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TWO PLACES LAID OUT AS ONE. 



hut p/umosHS is much the better one of 

 the two. 



Bouga'mvillea glabra and B. speciosa 

 are show plants completely covered 

 with lilac-rose flowers (or floral bracts) 

 in early spring In time they will run 1 2 

 to 20 feet high. And the new variety 

 Sanderiana will make a fine column lOor 

 12 feet to top. 



Bignonia vemista, orange-red flowers 

 in fall and winter is a magnificent vine; 

 and so is B. Chamberlaynii, wliich has a 

 profusion of yellow blossoms in summer. 



Cereus triangularis, the largest flow- 

 ered of our night blooming cacti, grows 

 easily to 20 feet in height, luxuriates in a 

 palm house, and blossoms abundantly 

 every year, the flowers being 14 to 15 

 inches wide. 



Clerodenclron Balfouri grows rapidly, 

 is of a cleanly nature, and you can have 

 it in bloom every day in the year. When 

 its roots are in a box, and under complete 

 control so far as keeping moist or dry is 

 concerned, by a little timely manipulation 

 in the way of keeping them dry to rest 

 them, and pruning, we can have a great 

 flood of bloom at any particular season 

 of the year we wish. 



Ipotnoea Horsfallias with rose-purple 

 flowers, and its white flowered form 

 Thompsoni make fine fall or winter 

 blooming vines in a warm house. 7. 

 paniculata may be had in bloom most all 

 the year round. /. Leari is often used 

 indoors too, and fine it is, but its vines 

 are a little weedy. 



Nepenthes distillaioria is the common 

 pitcher plant, and in a warm shaded 

 comer it will make a vine of 10 or 12 feet 

 easy and add variety and interest to the 

 house. To begin with though it is slow 

 glowing, and it would be better to have 

 its roots confined in a pot or box than 

 allowed the freedom of the bed. 



PassiHora racewosa with drooping 

 clusters of red flowers makes an excellent 

 indoor vine in the lightest part of the 

 house. The Granadilla vine( P. quadranu- 

 l.iris), of rank growth, is often grown in 

 l)alm houses, but it is coarse. The fruit 

 however, would be interesting. 



Quisqiialis Znd/ca, the Rangoon Creeper, 



is a capital shrubby vine for such a place. 

 It will run 10 to 30 feet up to get to the 

 li.Lrht. It bears a profusion of long- 

 tiihtil, Ijiiiwnish fragrant flowers, which 

 .•illlidiuh not showy, are quite pleasing. 



Stiiinuiiihyllon ciliatuni, the ISrazilian 

 golden orchid vine, will twine 10 or 12 

 feet high, but no more with certainly, and 

 bear a profusion of oncidium-like yellow 

 blossoms. It loves the light. 



Thunbergia laurifolia is an Indian spe- 

 cies of vigorous nature and the easiest 

 cultivation, and at this season of the year 

 bears a great profusion of large, showy, 

 bluish flowers. 



A FLUE HEATED GREENHOUSE — Is it 



possible to grow flowers successfully in a 

 lean-to greenhouse heated with a flue? 

 asks one of our readers. Ans. Indeed it 

 is, and we speak from practical experi- 

 ence. But we do not recommend flues. 

 An}' deficiency in the flue by which gas 

 may leak from it will cause serious trou- 

 ble to your plants Flues areeasily built, 

 easily heated, easily stoked, and they 

 need no deep furnace-pit, and their first 

 cost is less than that of hot water, but 

 the difference Is not so great that it should 

 be considered. By all means put in a hot 

 water heater. 



Landscape Gardening. 



TWO SMALL PLACES TREATED AS ONE. 



It is now (|uite eonnnon in suliurban 

 neighborhoods to do away witli all fences 

 and make one continuous lawn in front 

 of the houses of an entire block. 1 am op- 

 posed to this except for small lots of less 

 than one hundred feet frontage. The in- 

 closure need not be a fence, a wall or bet- 

 ter still a hedge may be used. The con- 

 tinuous lawn plan does not permit 

 grounds to have individual character or 

 privacy and I think ]:]ii\,n \ 1 .1 >l( ^iia- 



ble on a lawn as it is ill 1 i. i: n ns 



of the house. Sometiin' ! i tlic 



grounds of two or tlmi in ill i.l u > ^ m.iy 

 be combined and treated as uiic pln-cand 

 tine landscape cflccts obtained which 



would not be possible with the separate 

 places. The present plan made tor Mr. 

 W. J. Buttfield of Plainfield, N. J. illus- 

 trates this very well. 



E.XPLANATIQN OF PLAN. 



I. Edge of woods back of grounds. 

 2 and 33. Rows of old Norway spruce, 



twenty feet high which were allowed to 

 remain, as they protected the grounds on 

 the north and west, but the regularity of 

 their outline was broken by ad<litional 

 planting. 



3. Purple beech. 



+. Border for H. P. roses, herbaceous 

 plants and spring-flowering bulbs. 



3. Group of Japanese maples, retino- 

 sporas and specimen shrubs, ground 

 carpeted with Hall's and golden honev- 

 suckles. 



0, Magnolia conspicua. 



7. Sciadopitys verticillata. 



S. Magnolia parviiiora. 



9. Shrubs. 



10 Abies concolor. 



II. Nordmann's fir. 



12. Colorado blue spruce. 



13. European beech. 



14. Massed planting of shrubs, ever- 

 green and deciduous. 



15. Cut leafbirch. 



16. Paulownia imperialis. 



17. Abies concolor. 



18. Mugho pine. 



19. Nordmann's fir. 



20. Massed planting of deciduous and 

 evergreen shrubbery. 



21. Fern leaved beech. 



22. Magnolia Lennei. 



23. Japanese snowball. 



24 Specimen rhododendron. 



25. Picea alba cocrulea. 



26. White-leaved weeping linden. 



27. Magnolia stellata. 



2 S . Cedrus A tia n tica gla uca . 



29. Weeping hemlock. 



30 S ecimen rhododendron. 



31. Magnolia Soulangeana. 



32. Group of white birch. 



34. Pliiladelplius and Wcigela Candida. 



35. Pin oak. 



36. Tulip tree. 



J. Wilkinson Elliott. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



