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GARDENING. 



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VIEW IN THE HERBACEODS GARDEN, LINCOLN PARK. CHICAGO. 



people who admire them, and it is the 

 people who are taxed for their mainte- 

 nance, the designs should be limited to 

 geometrical figures, and no attempt made 

 to produce representations of animate 

 objects. Such attempts are not in taste 

 and are always objects of ridicule. These 

 formal beds being necessary should not 

 be scattered here and there, but confined, 

 as one would a ferocious animal where it 

 may be admired by those who do admire 

 them and still not endanger the surround- 

 ings. 



On the other hand colonks of bulbous 

 plants or groups of perennials can be 

 scattered here and there along the mar- 

 gins of the shrubbery or ot wooded banks, 

 as one sees them in the wilds, and in some 

 quiet nook away from the public road. 

 In just such a place as Mr. Pettigrew 

 chose should be the perennial border. 



TfllHflRlX fllWURE-NSIS. 



A good old shrub is the Tamarix amu- 

 rensis. The leaves are small on long 

 wirey stems, and surmounted with long 

 sprays of light pink blooms. It was in- 

 troduced from Russia and has proved 

 perfectly hardy here while T. gallica and 

 T. indica freeze down to the ground most 

 every winter. With its small light green 

 foliage and rose-colored flowers blooming 

 in midsummer it is an ideal elegant shrub. 



Davenport, la. J. T. T. 



One bi'lb of Lilium auratum was 

 planted several years ago in a hole not 

 over six inches in diameter, cut in the sod 

 and clay loam, within one foot of a cellar 

 wall. It has ever since shown every evi- 

 dence of perfect health but not the ro- 

 bustness some specimen have been known 

 to exhibit. Each year it sends up two 

 stems about three feet high bearing each 

 four or five goodjsized flowers Itretair.s 



its foliage down to the ground until quite 

 late, never turning yellow. For the last 

 two years it has sent up its flowering 

 stems outside the original hole, through 

 the clay loam and sod. Near it in sum- 

 mer is placed a large tub of Zanzibar 

 water lilies, which overflows quite otten 

 in the early summer, part of the over- 

 flow reachirg the L. auratum. This 

 abundance of moisture during the grow- 

 ing season, with the quick drainage af- 

 forded by the cellar wall, may be the 

 secret of success with this most lastidious 

 lily. 



Roses. 



SINGLE ROSES. 



So many readers of Gardening seem to 

 appreciate Rosa setigera,R. Wichuraiana 

 and other single roses that I am wonder- 

 ing why my favorite the single white 

 Cherokee rose does not come in for a 

 share of their praise. 



Because its roots are so strong and its 

 growth so rich must it be termed "rank"? 

 And where among single roses will you 

 find handsomer leaves and flowers? Here 

 we need just a such luxuriant, quick- 

 climbing rose to shade porches and 

 verandas from hot southern suns, yet so 

 often I see the Cherokee's vigorous root 

 supporting roses not half so beautiful as 

 its own and for years have seen no men- 

 tion of it in any horticultural joural. 



On the walls of northern greenhouses I 

 have occasionally seen the Cherokee 

 climbing and blooming gloriously as if 

 tn'ing to make the most of the old pro- 

 verb about a prophet without honor. Its 

 great single flowers have the rich waxen 

 •whiteness of a magnolia cup, and for a 



part of summer, the plant is one drift of 

 them. 



Another pretty little single rose that I 

 have found brilliantly beautiful for bed- 

 ding is Madame Eugene Resal, a true 

 "daily," or Bengal rose, of the favorite 

 Hermosa type. Its flowers are very light 

 and airy looking, but you do not half 

 appreciate their beauty until you see a 

 whole bed of them open at once. The 

 growth is low and spreading and the 

 bloom very free and constant, keeping the 

 bed one even, continual wave of carmine 

 rose, coppery red and yellow tints. The 

 long fragrant buds are lovely. 



North Caiolina. L. Greenlee. 



FIFTEEN CHOICE ROSES 



George Bancrolt, the historian, was a 

 great lover of roses and had several 

 thousands of fine plants on his estate at 

 Newport, R. I. In a letter to a friend, he 

 gave the following varieties as his favor- 

 ites: Mme. Gabriel Luizet, La France, 

 Etienne Levet, Baroness Rothschild, 

 Alfred Colomb, A. K. Williams, Duchess 

 of Edinburg, Capt. Christy Mine, Victor 

 Verdier, Marquis de Castellane, Pierre 

 Notting, Marie Baumann, Ullrich Brun- 

 ner, Mrs. John Laing and Jean Liabaud. 



Next to Clothilde Soupert the old rose 

 Caroline Marniesse was the best all sum- 

 mer bloomer in the garden. Even in the 

 hottest weather it produced its double 

 white fair-sized flowers that remained 

 either on the bush or when cut i n good 

 condition a long time. It is one of those 

 old roses that teemed set aside lo lrjjike 

 room for the newer productions, having 

 been introduced in 1848. It is a Noisette. 

 rather dwarf and quite hardy. It should 

 be grown more extensively as a garden 

 rose. 



