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HARDY PERENNIALS IN PAIRMOUNT PARK. PHILADELP3IA 



ing C. paniculata is a failure here, even 

 when well protected. The root will live 

 and produce growth fifteen or more feet 

 in one season, but it blooms entirely on 

 old wood which I can't save. 



Clematis integrifolia var. Durandi, a hy- 

 brid non-climbing variety, grows to three 

 and a half feet high, and blooms all sum- 

 mer if the faded flowers are cut off. Mine 

 commenced blooming in June and still has 

 flowers. The type is a small herbaceous 

 perennial with deep blue nodding flowers, 

 while this variety has open flat flowers 

 often larger than Jaekmanni. It is a very 

 satisfactory plant to grow, evidently be- 

 ing free from disease. C. Yirginiana 

 rambles at will in some of the wilder 

 parts of the garden and almost becomes 

 a weed. Coccinea is the most satisfactory 

 for winter decoration as its leaves dry 

 green and its seed balls are attractive. 



Highland Park, 111. W. C. Egan. 



HARDY PERENNIALS IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



One of the most attractive spots in 

 Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is the old 

 fashioned hardy flower border shown 

 above. [Then what on earth is that gera- 

 nium bed doing in front of it? If the 

 hardy plant border is so attractive — and 

 we know that it is — don't the geraniums 

 between it and the walk help to ridicule 

 it? Aw y with them, put them where 

 they belong, that is no place for them 

 there. If there isn'tenough between your 

 hard}' plants and the walk widen the 

 border, not in mass but in effect by a 

 scattering of clumps of yucca, white day 

 lily, tritomas, paeonies, or the like, but 

 don't kill its effect by "bedding plants" 

 intruders. Geraniums are lovely and 

 highly proper in their right place, but 

 judging by the picture it is not there. — 

 Ed.] Here from early spring until late in 

 the fall, flowers are always found in 

 abundance. Aquilegias, dielytras, digi- 



talis, funkias, hollyhocks irises, paonies, 

 sedums, spiraeas and a number of other 

 pretty subjects succeed each other and vie 

 with one another in making the gardens 

 bright. 



A little formal display in connection 

 with the hardy bord.r is n t always out 

 of place; indeed it has the charm of pleas- 

 ing many, as does the long bed of bright 

 colored geraniums edged with tricolored 

 leaved sorts. It always looks well, rain 

 or shine [ f your borderof hardy plants 

 needs the support of the geraniums then 

 there is something the matter with the 

 make-up of the border. — Ed.] 



Our parks however, are slow in taking 

 hold of even good new plants such as 

 spiraea Anthony Waterer, Caryopteris 

 Mastacanthus, Rudbeckia Golden Glow, 

 Vitis Coignetiw and a number of others 

 which certainly ought to take the place 

 of the wretched beds of petunias, mari- 

 golds and euphorbias we so often find 

 in them. Not only do the managers refuse 

 to buy them but they are even unwilling 

 to accept them when offered free of 

 charge. A. B. 



FINE FOLIAGE PLANTS IN THE FLOWER 

 GARDEN. 



Ouite a number of -foliage plants are in 

 cultivation suitable or summer use out 

 of which are not commonly met with 

 simply because they are not so easily got- 

 ten up in large quantities as are coleus, 

 alternantheras, and the like. Pandanus 

 Veitchii is a good example, it fairly revels 

 in our hot sun, sending out its thick suc- 

 culent roots in all directions and putting 

 on a color in the leaves which cannot be 

 equaled in the greenhouse. Phyllanthus 

 takes on a growth, the leaves of which 

 are more beautiful than many flowers, P. 

 roseus pictus is one of the showiest, the 

 young leaves are of a delicate shell pink, 

 P. atropurpureus has darker foliage, P. 

 nivosus has the young leaves beautifully 



mottled with snow white. These plants 

 are shrubs, and when full grown about 

 from throe to five feet high; thev are 

 natives of the South Sf a Islands. When 

 the plants have < ompleted their growth 

 take well ripened wood for cuttings. 



The croton is fast becoming a popular 

 outdoor plant. It is unsurpassed for rich 

 and varied foliage markings, there are 

 hundreds of varieties and most of them 

 are desirable. The plants can be treated 

 much in the same way as geraniums, only 

 they need a little more heat. We root our 

 cuttings for the following season, before 

 the hot weather is over and without arti- 

 ficial heat, merely by coveringthecuttings 

 over with some panes of glass. Let the 

 cuttings be wellro ted before potting off. 

 The fancy leaved caladiums are also get- 

 ting better known for out door use, some 

 of the older kinds, that is those which are 

 not too highly colored, are best or this 

 purpose. Wightii, Uranus, Dr. Lindley, 

 Triomphe de l'Exposition, Rossini and 

 Canaertii are all good, the highly colored 

 kinds do not stand the sun well. They 

 need lots of water. A good place for them 

 is by the margins of lily ponds. Keep 

 over winter by storing the tubers in dry 

 sawdust in a warm place, they won't 

 stand cold. Abutilon Souv. de Bonn is 

 one of the best of the recently introduced 

 foliage plants, it keeps its variegation 

 well and erows into a neat symmetrical 

 bush. Sanchezia nobilis has a different 

 appearance altogether when planted out, 

 from what we are accustomed to see in 

 the greenhouse; it has large variegated 

 leaves, slightly resembling some of the 

 variegated aucubas. 



Rex begonias do nicely in the shade, 

 thriving well by the north side of a house 

 where the soil can be kept damp, but out 

 ofd ors they lose their distinctive color- 

 ings to a certain extent. 



Euphorbia hasmatodes has dark brown 

 leaves with a metallic sheen the veins are 

 rose colored; does grandly outside. A 



