For September, 1921 



715 



planted as soon as they can be carefully 

 handled, two and a half to three inches 

 apart in hot beds. The hot beds should 

 be protected by sashes during wet season, 

 especially for Canterbury Bells as their 

 foliage is heavy. Damping is more often 

 the cause of trouble than is frost. — H. AI. 

 — \. J. 



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USEFUL EDGING PLANTS. 



Away from the formal garden with its 

 prim grass-edged walks the paths in the 

 wild garden, the Rose garden, and the 

 kitchen garden are never more pleasing 

 than when bordered on either side with 

 plants of a dwarf habit. Despite those 

 of recent introduction, none are more fitted 

 for our purpose than the well-known older 

 kinds, because there is no question of their 

 hardiness, and the majority are far from 

 being fastidious in their requirements. 

 Near path sides the soil, for obvious reasons, 

 is never so rich as that further away, but 

 this rarely has any ill-effect on well-chosen 

 kinds. At this season, though the beauty of 

 the old border Pinks is on the wane, their 

 beauty is still fresh in the memory, while 

 for their fragrance they are esteemed 

 wherever plants are cultivated. In common 

 with other interesting subjects there are 

 varieties, the result of much careful labor, 

 that bear little comparison to the original 

 type, but for permanent edging I shall for 

 some time yet cling to those that bear the 

 moderate-sized flowers, because ihey hold 

 themselves more erect than do many of the 

 newer varieties. It is possible that in the 

 near future we may find the new hybrids, 

 the result of a cross between one of these 

 Pinks and the Perpetual Carnations, a valu- 

 able addition for our purpose, because there 

 is no doubht they have a future before them 

 in the outdoor garden. Secondly only to the 

 Pinks are the Aubrictias, unrivalled as they 

 are for a mass of color in their season. One 

 never minds these plants trespassing on to 

 the pathway, as they are never so charming 

 as when irregular in their outline. Where 

 rough stones are used to edge the walks 

 then Aubrietias are seen at their best, for 

 it is surprising how quickly they ramble 

 over them, and the effect is even more 

 pleasing than when they are used in the 

 ordinary edging style. This also applies to 

 the single Anibis alpina. In Spring it never 

 fails to produce a neat profusion of flowers, 

 rivaling snow in their purity. Neater in 

 appearance and flowering throughout the 

 Summer we have in Armeria vulgaris, pop- 

 ularly known as Thrift, one of the best 

 edging plants. Kept to small tufts they are 

 models of compactness, or. if so desired, 

 they may be allowed to run together and 

 form one continuous line of refreshing 

 greenery which is only relieved by the pink 

 flowers in Summer. Everyone knows, and 

 most of us take more than ordinary interest 

 in Lavender, but how seldom do we lind it 

 only in some out-of-the-way corner in the 

 flower border. The common form, ad- 

 mittedly, could only be used as an edging 

 to a very wide pathway, but this cannot be 

 said of the dwarfer varieties.— G'(0-rf<;»i)iP 

 Illustrated. 



HORSECHESTNUTS. 



Many Horsechestnuts and P.uckeyes are 

 now in lilooni in the collection of these trees 

 and shrubs on the right hand side of the 

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 chestnuts ('.Veculus hippocastanuni) it is not 

 necessary to speak, for one of the most 

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.American tree lovers, at least in the northern 

 and eastern states, where it has been grow- 

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 noble specimens can be seen in Salem, Mas- 

 sachusetts, and other seaboard towns. The 

 red-flowered Horsechestnut-tree (.^esculus 

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 species, probably A. Pavia, which originated 

 in Belgium many years ago. The hand- 

 somest of these hybrids, that is the one with 

 the darkest red flow^ers. was raised in France 

 and is known in nurseries as .\. Briottii (.\. 

 carnea var. Brlotti). There are small but 

 well flowered specimens of this variety in 

 the collection. Of the American species, the 

 first to bloom is the form of the Ohio Buck- 

 eye, on which the leaves are composed of 

 seven instead of five leaflets (X. glabra var. 

 Buckley! ). a rare tree most abundant in 

 Jackson County, Missouri. The flowers on 

 the typical A. glabra open a little later, and 

 are followed by those of the variety from 

 southern Missouri and Arkansas " (var. 

 Icucodcrmis). distinguished by its smooth, 

 pale bark. The largest trees in the Arbo- 

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 hand side of the South Street Gate and are 

 still covered with flowers. The yellow- 

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 lachian forests is now in bloom. Hybrids 

 nf this tree and .\. Pavia, first raised in 

 Europe more than a hundred years ago, to 

 which the general name of -\. hyhrida .should 

 be given, are conspicuous from their red 

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 Iiybrids are now flowering in the collection 

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