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CYPRIPBDIUM SPBOTABILB. 



h-^caiise they do well and are effective. 

 The prominent varieties are: Mnie. Crozv 

 and Queen Charlotte, scarlet bordered 

 vi^ith gold; J. D. Cabos, light scarlet; J. 

 C. Vaughan, darker scarlet, Alphonse 

 Bouvier and Chas. Henderson, darkest 

 scarlet; Egandale, dark red; Florence 

 Vaughan, yellow with scarlet dots; Nich- 

 olson, vellow; Paul Marquant, salmon. 

 Of these J. D. Cabos, J. C. Vaughan and 

 Egandale have bronzed or purplish foliage 

 and they would look well grown together 

 were it not that the flowers of Egandale 

 do not harmonize in color with that of 

 the other two— Vaughan and Cabos shad- 

 ing together perfectly. 



FOLIAGE PLANTS. 



Variegated geraniums: Mme. Salleroi, 

 Mountain of Snow, Earl Rqslyn. 



Altemanthas: A. rosea. A. aurea, A. 

 aurea nana, A. paronychioides, A. versi- 

 color, A. latifolia, the latter being especi- 

 ally liked as a border plant. 



Coleus: Her Majesty, Golden Bedder, 

 Fire Brand, Velvet Mantle, Acme, Ver- 

 schaffeltii. Admiral, Wonderful, Spotted 

 Gem, Jay Gould, South Park Gem, Bril- 

 liant. 



Glaucous leaved: Cineraria maritima 

 candidissima, Centaurea jrymnocarpa, 

 Ecbeveria glauca. 



G ay-green plants: Santolina.dullgreen 

 and variegated thyme. 



Plain green plants: Sedum acre, Othonna 

 crassifolia, Sempcrvivum soholiferum. 



Vel'ow plants: Pyrethrum aureum or 

 golden feverfew; (see also coleus and 

 altemantheras.) 



Red, or red and yellow: Acalypha Wil- 

 kesiana, A. tricolor, Iresine Lindeni, I. 

 wetallica, Ecbeveria rosea, E. metallica, 

 Oxalis tropieoloides. 



Both plain and variegated American 

 agaves are largely used and Pennisetum 

 longistylum, an' ornamental, feathery 

 grass is also in use to some extent as a 

 border plant for canna beds. It is espe- 

 cially good for this purpose when planted 

 in alternation with scarlet zinnias. 



Vines ior vases and rock work: Vinca, 

 plain and variegated, Lobb's nasturti- 

 ums, Maurandia Barclayaoa, Lophos- 

 pcrmum scandens, Pilogyne suavis or 

 muskvine, Japanese hop, plain and vari- 

 egated. F. C. Seavkv. 



Chicago. 



LILY DISEASE. 



Some of our lilies— particularly L. can- 

 f/iV(/m— are becoming badly diseased with 



a kind of bUght which strikes first at the 

 leaves, cousing them to turn brown. 

 The trouble has been spreading from caii- 

 didum to other species. A paragniph 

 which appeared on p. 307 of Gardening 

 makes it seem altogether likely that this 

 is lily disease — something vi e have not 

 had before. We sprayed recently with 

 Bordeaux mixture, but cannot j'et tell 

 how far that treatment will check the 

 disease. Will you kindly state what you 

 would advise to be done? The lilies are 

 growing in large beds in well drained soil 

 and with full exposure to the sun. Where 

 this disease is not at work they are very 

 vigorous. C. E. S. 



Ottawa, Canada. 



It looks very much like lilv disease. 

 Candidly this disease has completely baf- 

 fled us. We have tried several fung cides, 

 beginning with them as soon as the lily 

 stems peeped above ground and continu- 

 ing till well int-i summer, but the treat- 

 ment was neither a cure nor a positive 

 preventive, it might have tempered the 

 evil, however, and we think it did, lessen- 

 ing its virulence. While Lilium candidiim 

 is quite subject to the evil it is seldom 

 killed out altogether; superbum is the 

 easiest prey of any; Hansoni never has 

 been affected so far as we have seen; spe- 

 ciosum. Japoaicum and elegans suffer a 

 little but not enough to discourage one in 

 growing them, and so on. As soon as 

 your candidum lilies bloom dig up the 

 bulbs and examine them, if they are rot- 

 ting or show signs of decay at the core 

 burn them up, stems and all, and don't 

 plant any more lilies in that piece of 

 ground; if they are quite sound wash 

 them and store them by in dry cork dust 

 and a little sulphur for a month, then re- 

 plant in fresh soil. Use fungicide sprays 

 on the speciositm, aiiratum and Wallacei 

 lilies. 



Old Von Sion Daffodils— F. X. B., 

 Indiana, writes: "The pecond blooming 

 of the double daffodil Von Sion is verj' 

 poor indeed; it has reverted to many 

 green petals. Are those bulbs worth 

 keeping at all after blooming?" .Ins, 

 They are not. The Von Sions the first 

 season after being imported from Holland 

 bear good, full, double, yellow flowers, 

 and they grow well and bloom again the 

 following spring, but at this time the 

 blossoms are greenish yellow, and so 

 they continue to be ever after. In fact, 



bulbs of it we have had from England 

 had green flowers the first season after 

 planting here. We used to grow some of 

 it for foliage, that is when we used to cut 

 a lot of narcissus flowers of any kind of 

 course we had to have some foliage with 

 them, and rather than pluck their own 

 leaves we cut the Von Sion leaves instead, 

 and in this way we got some good of it. 



Lawn Mowings Feu to Chickens.— 

 Vour note in Gardening prompts me to 

 tell you what I do with them. We feed 

 them to the fowls. I have a small grass 

 cutter that chops up the mowings as fine 

 as I wish for chicks, and an inch long for 

 mature birds. During long summer days 

 green food is necessary to preserve good 

 health in the fowls, "and also to make 

 their flesh plump and juicy; it should be 

 kept before them in a basin of water. 

 The mowings can be used, a <|uantity 

 each day, if spread on a rack to prevent 

 heating and they are slightlv sprinkled. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. ' M. H. C. 



Marguerite Carnations— P. T. B , 

 (ieneva, N. Y., asks: "Will you please 

 tell me the botanical name of Marguerite 

 carnations." Ans. This carnation is 

 generally supposed to be a cross between 

 Diantbus Sinensis and D. Caryopbylhis, 

 or in other words between the Indian 

 pink and some one of the summer bloom- 

 ing carnations, but to us on the outside 

 the origin, as a certainty, is unknown. 



The Long-spurred Blue Columhine. 

 —In the June 15th number of Gardening, 

 after deservingly praising the American 

 columbines, you ask: "Who can send us 

 some seed of the genuine coeru/ea?' This 

 year I have had beautiful flowers of the 

 long-spurred blue columbine, and enclose 

 you seed of the same. S. N. Warfel. 



Lancaster Co., Pa. 



[Thank you. — Ed.] 



Orchids. 



CYFRIFEDIUM SPECTflBILE. 



The generic name of this species is a 

 compound word signifying "Venus' slip- 

 per" and the specific one latinizes the 

 term "showy." It bears in this country 

 the common names of the pink lady-slip- 

 per and the pink moccasin flower. It is a 

 terrestrial orchid indigenous in the north- 

 ern United States, and was first described 

 in 1731. It this section its habitat is 

 mainly on the upper sloping banks of 

 deep shady ravines, where moisture at the 

 roots is abundant during the growing 

 time in spring and very dry^ during the 

 summer months. The soil in which it 

 grows is a yellow clay loam with but 

 little leaf loam on top. It se^ms to choose 

 situations some fifteen to twenty feet 

 down the bank, where the overhanging 

 shade of the ravine trees prevent the 

 growth of rampant plants, and will not 

 stand the crowding in the wild garden as 

 well as its more dwarf and earlier bloom- 

 ing yellow sister, C pubescens. It is 

 somewhat shj' in cultivation unless con- 

 ditions are favorable, and is yearly be- 

 cott ing more interesting as it is gradu- 

 ally disappearing from its habitat. 



The plants illust ated were gathered 

 when in bloom during June, 189-1-, and 

 were placed in their present position, as a 

 temporary resting place until they could 

 be planted with some others in the fall, 

 but during that summer I noticed that 

 my plants in the wild garden could not 

 fight the battle against the asters and the 



