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M. P. RiSBouRG.— A verv showv, lively 

 (lark rose. 



L'AvENlR. — Fine glowing dark rose, 

 guard petals cup-shaped, center pa-ony 

 formed of lively salmon red. Attractive. 



AuGisTE Le.monier. — Xot very full but 

 a very brilliant showy scarlet, about the 

 same shade as Gen. Jacqueminot rose. 



Ch.\s. Vebdier.— Another flower with 

 the same brilliant shade Very fine form. 



M. Dii RiBERT —Very fine, violet purple. 



M. GiBRAiN.— Good garden variety, 

 well shaped red or dark pink flower. 



Etien.N'E Mechi.n.— Brilliant effective 

 cherry red. Oce of the verv showiest of 

 all. 



In conclusion would say that I did not 

 have the assistance of F. Schuyler 

 Mathews in describing the colors of these 

 flowers. To compare the flowers with 

 their descriptions in catalogues, especially 

 the French, I saw would lead to hepeless 

 bewilderment, and so 1 bethought me of 

 my good wife, whose color sense I here- 

 tolore placed the greatest reliance in. But 

 the various blendings of pinks, rose, car- 

 mine, scarlet, etc. were so endless thatshe 

 would not even attempt a description. 

 So I had torch- on myself. But the newer 

 varieties are so beautiful that descrip- 

 tions do not describe. Vou must see for 

 yourself. Cn.vs. L. Ma.n.n. 



Milwaukee. 



Let us urge our readers to plant some 

 I)a-onics and as Mr. Mann describes, give 

 them good, deep, rich ground to grow in, 

 and plenty ot moisture. Starvation and 



a lack of moisture in summer are often 

 the cause of the non-blooming of paeonies 

 the following year. Jf youlook backinto 

 Gardening, page 5, September 15, 1892, 

 you will there see a fine clump of the old 

 fashioned double early flowered pa;onia 

 Mr. Mann says should be one of three if 

 limited to this number. The Chinese 

 sorts behind it are far behind, not a bud 

 is near ready to open. And they are so 

 hardy and live so long that they appeal 

 to us all. For our illustration we are 

 indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Ell- 

 wanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., w ho 

 have a capital collection ot these fine 

 flowers. 



fl GOOD flflRDY VINE (Dolidios J„po,acH.s). 



I send you under another cover the 

 leaves of a hardj' vine which has demon- 

 strated its great usefulness and beautv 

 on a neighbor's porch. It leafs early, is a 

 very vigorous— remarkably so— and very 

 cle-in,but flowerless. The owners do not 

 know its name and neither do the pro- 

 fessors in the botanical section of the 

 agricultural department. They said it 

 evidently belonged to the bean family but 

 wanted to see its fruit. I have hunted 

 twice for seed pods in August and again 

 in October. I could find none an 1 the 

 owner said it had none. The bark is 

 grey. The central leaf projects Vo inch in 

 front of the other two. What is its name, 

 as I want some plants? C. M. C. 



Washington, D. C. 



It is Dolichos Japonicus or as the bot- 



anists now call it Pueraria Thunbergiana. 

 It is the most vigorous-growing vine at 

 Dosoris, often throwing out shoots 30 or 

 40 feet long in one season. For some 

 years after we planted it it died down to 

 the ground every winter, but now the old 

 wood lives over for ten or twenty leet; at 

 Washington even the old wood is hardy. 

 It is a coarse-looking vine but it keeps its 

 leaves well all summer. It belongs to the 

 bean family and has purplish flowers, but 

 tl-ev are not very attractive. The plants 

 seldom bloom when young. 



CAMPANULA PVRAMiDALis.— A reader 

 asks: "Do you treat it as a biennial or 

 not? Is it hardy with you?' .4ns. Asa 

 biennial. It may be kept as a perennial, 

 but with some difficulty. Besides it is so 

 easily gotten up from seed and it makes 

 such fine big plants as a biennial, better 

 than ever after, that there is m advan- 

 tage in keeping it longer than the second 

 year. Some plants ordinarily called bien- 

 nials if sown early bloom the first vear, 

 but this isnotoneof them. Underamulch- 

 ing of sedge or leaves as we keep holly- 

 hocks and foxgloves it is hardy with us, 

 but altogether we have better success 

 with it when we plant it in a cold frame 

 over winter as we do Canterbury bells, 

 and plant it out again in early spring. It 

 doesn't blossom till after midsummer, 

 sometimes not till late in the season. It 

 is an excellent plant well worth growing, 

 and the compact variety introduced a 

 year or more ago is an additional desider- 

 atum. 



