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culata grandiflora, can be used in place 

 of oak leaves when filling a box to place 

 over some tender plant, but the box must 

 be water-proof. 



In manuring your lawn, put it on more 

 thickly under the trees for a space fully 

 equal to the diameter of the head, espe- 

 cially under surface rooted trees like the 

 elm, for the soil here near the surface has 

 to support both the tree and the grass. 



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EUPHORBIA OOROLLflTfl. 



This flowering spurge is found wild 

 along the railroad banks and in dry 

 open fields. Yet when brought into the 

 garden it furnishes one of the most useful 

 cut flowers we have. It blooms almost 

 continually all summer, sending up 

 flower stems about two and a half feet 

 high. These generally send out at' the top 

 fine wiry branches, each of which again 

 branches into three or more smaller 

 stems, that once more send out dividing 

 branches, each ot which bear panicles of 

 very small white flowers. Thetop whorl 

 of one main stem must contain some- 

 where near two hundred and eighty of 

 these small white flowers, all held 

 nearlv clear of each other. At the base of 

 these dividing stems are placed small, 

 light green leaves which with the green 

 furnished by the wiry stems, produce all 

 of that color needed in decoration. Side 

 branches, all divided and panicled as 

 above described start from the main stem 

 at intervals from the bottom up. 



As white goes with almost any color, 

 this flower can be used to lighten up 

 heavier forms. Its staying qualities when 

 cut is first-class. Its only fault is the 

 milky juice its cut stems exude when first 

 cut. A group of eight or ten planted in 

 one corner of the vegetable garden for 

 cutting purposes would be appreciated 

 by those who make their own floral 

 decorations. R. A. 



VASE OF LONG-STEMMED CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT THE BOSTON EXHIBITION. 



and increase and bloom profusely. It 

 fliwers in the latter part of July, about 

 the same time as the tiger and the specio- 

 sum varieties. The flowers are held erect, 

 the petals opening out well, and expand- 

 ing fully five inches, recurved. The color 

 has been described as a vermillion-orange, 

 and as an orange- yellow. When the 

 petals are laid alongside of Mr. F. 

 Schuyler Mathews scale of colots, they 

 seem to compare with a shade between 

 his pure orange and his salmon. The 

 petals are spotted at the base and centre 

 with slightly raised small maroon spots. 



With me the flower heads stand some 

 eighteen inches high, one stem clothed 

 with dark green lanceolate leaves that 

 are smaller and shorter as they near the 

 flower. The flower isagood keeper when 

 cut, needs no foliage but its own to set 

 ofl its beauty and the color is pleasing 

 either in the davtime or under artificial 

 light. 



It is still an unsettled question whether 

 this lily is a species from Japan or a gar- 

 den hybrid, but whatever its origin be it 

 certainly is one that all should grow. It 

 is one of the lowest-priced lilies in the 

 market. W. D. F. 



Coal or wood ashes is excellent to put 

 over any semi-hardy herbaceous plant 

 not evergreen in its leafage. 



If you have no evergreen boughs with 

 which to cover evergreen perennials such 

 as Heuchera sanguinea, perennial porpies, 

 candidum lilies, etc mulch around the 

 neck of the plants with good short man- 



COSMOS BIPINNflTUS. 

 This beautiful Mexican annual has here- 

 tofore had the reputation of blooming in 

 October no matter how or when seeded, 

 self-sown plants in the open garden bloom- 

 ing at the same time as those started in 

 heat in March. This year I noticed some 

 plants from seed advertised as "Early 

 Cosmos." They were planted in a spent 

 hot bed and really bloomed all summer. 

 They were a poor excuse for the lovely 



VERY DWARF SINGLE STEM PLANTS AT THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION 



FLOWER GARDEN NOTES. 



If you have clematis or other herbaceous 

 plants near your house where the snow 

 swept ofl" the porch is apt to accumulate 

 over them and thaw and freeze, place a 

 board or box over them, allowing a little 

 air underneath. 



ure, and then lay small tree or shrub 

 brush thickly among the plants and cover 

 with long straw or coarse grass. The 

 branches prevent the crowding down of 

 the covering when wet. 

 The old blooms of the Hydrangea pani- 



autumn flower that Jack Frost once in a 

 while alio ws us to see. The feathery foliage 

 so abundant in the type was almost miss- 

 ing on the=e summer bloomers and made 

 one think of a young chicken during 

 moulting time. 



