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CONTENTS. 



trees and shrubs. 



Exochorda grandiflora (lllus.) 97 



Transplanting evergreens 97 



Cladrastis lulea (illus ) . . . ... .98 



Vose of hardy tree and shrub bloom (illus.) . 98 



Native shrubs ... 98 



Trees and shrubs with co'ored twigs 100 



Flow of sap in trees ll'O 



Kerosene killing trees 100 



The June berry . 101 



Hydrangea pauiculata . . 101 



the flower garden. 



Fruit of the Akebia quiuata (illus.) 101 



Sub-tropical effects (lllus.) 101 



China asters (ulus.). 102 



Keeping cannas over winter 102 



Vase of hardy flowers and foliage (illus ). . . .102 



HespeiismBtronalisfl.pl 103 



Growing tender bulbs in cold frames 104 



The herbaceous garden, Lincoln Park (illus ) . 101 



milium auratum 105 



ROSES. 



Single roses (illus.) 105 



Fifteen choice roses 105 



Caroline Marniesse 105 



the fruit garden. 



Cherries and peaches 107 



Berries 107 



mushrooms. 



Growing mushrooms 108 



Mushrooms in a basement 108 



Diseased mushrooms 108 



miscellaneous. 

 Our nation's flower 108 



The arrangement of flowers to secure 

 the best possible effect is an art and one 

 worthy the study of any person of refine- 

 ment. Carry the beauty and fragrance 

 of the garden into the house, but study 

 the composition of your floral eflects as 

 ah artist would. 



A writer in an English journal states 

 that the new form of Rosa rugosa known 

 as R. rugosa calocarpa colors most beau- 

 tifully in the fall, the leafage being a 

 bronzy-crimson gradually turning to a 

 clear yellow-orange and crimson. There 

 is room in this country for more hardy 

 roses of this character. 



Ipomea "Heavenly Blue," while still 

 in pots before planting out time, gave a 

 few flowers ot more than usual beauty. 

 When planted out in good soil, they 

 spent all summer in producing vines and 

 were caught by the early fall frosts still 

 making growth, but no flowers. A vis- 

 itor stated that she had had it in bloom 

 nearly all summer in a window box. 

 This would seem to prove that it requires 

 either poor soil or root restriction to 

 flower wel' in our northern clirrate. 



Buhach Powder.— Replying to E. V. C. 

 Buhach powder is an insecticide made 

 from pyrethrum flowers. It can be had 

 at most any drug store. 



Abutilon Souv. de Bonn proves to 

 be a good summer bedder, its variega- 

 tions standing the hot sun well. Used as 

 an edging to a large bed of the canna 

 Egandal; the effect was fine. 



The variegated tobacco plant, sent out 

 as Nieotiana folius variegatus, needs fur- 

 ther selection, as only a small percentage 

 of the seedlings showed the white mark- 

 ings. It possesses the merit of not burn- 

 ing in the sun and can be used with effect 

 in sub-tropical gardening. It flowers 

 freely, producing a dull pink cluster not 

 over attractive. 



Among the novelties of this year ap- 

 peared the dwarf form of Lobb's nastur- 

 tium. There is still room for improve- 

 ment, as some of the plants ran largely 

 to leafage. Others, undergoing the same 

 method of culture, flowered freely above 

 the foliage, and made handsome compact 

 plants, some nine inches high and twelve 

 broad. There is opportunity for the spe- 

 cialist with this plant. Should it be so 

 improved that the best forms can be 

 retained, it can be largely used in ribbon 

 borders. 



A gentleman who is well known for 

 his successful business career was looking 

 about for an undeveloped country home 

 and had several places offered him. His 

 business training had taught him that 

 there must be specialists in all lines, and 

 that for a moderate sum he could buy 

 the results of their experience. He wisely 

 secured the services of a competent land- 

 scape engineer who examined the places 

 offered him, reported the capabilities of 

 each, and enabled him to make an int.lli- 

 gent selection. 



In Japan there is a tradition regarding 

 the Indian Saint Daruma, who is repre- 

 sented in Japanese art as sitting, a mon- 

 ument of patience, with his hands in his 

 sleeves. He is called the father of the tea 

 plant. After years < f sleepless watching 

 and prayer he suddenly got drowsy and 

 at last his eyelids closed and he peace- 

 fullv slept. When he awoke he was so 

 ashamed of this pardonable weakness 

 that he cut off the offending eyelids and 

 threw them on the ground. They took 

 root, sprouted, and grew into a shrub 

 whose leaves now produces our tea, that 

 ever since has a tendency to keep the 

 world awake. 



The China aster of our gardens is 

 botanically speaking not an aster, but 

 the Callistephus chinensis, and has been 

 known in its original form since 1731. 

 The type bore dark purple flowers, and 

 received its name from "Kallistos." most 

 beautiful, and "stephos," a crown, in 

 allusion to the appendages on the ripe 

 fruit. It is strictly an annual indigenous 

 to China and is represented by only one 

 known species. The true aster received 

 its name from the resemblance of the 

 flowers of some species to a star. While 

 the greater number of species are found in 

 North America, the old world has its 

 quota. 



NOTES IN JAPAN. 



Alfred Parsons' "Notes in Japan" gives 

 many interesting facts conceding the 

 flora of that country. In the parks at 

 Nara "were scentless violets, some j-ellow 

 and white dandelions, etc." In speaking 

 of the cherry blossoms of the Yoshino 

 grove he states that the colors vary from 



white to crimson and mentions a double 

 blossom of a "pale yellow with a pink 

 flush on the outer petals, like a delicate 

 pink rose." 



He writes: "A little damp gulley just 

 behind the bamboo, was full of deutzia 

 bushes in bloom, and under them grew a 

 clump of pale pink lilies (Lilium Krameri) 

 which seemed to me the loveli st flower I 

 had ever seen." "The lily is not one of 

 the flowers the Japanese themselves par- 

 ticularly admire, nor do they use it in 

 their decorations " He mentions a native 

 artist, eminent in his profession, who 

 characterized one of their lilies as "foolish 

 flowers" because its flower stems were 

 bare of leaves. 



He states that the Lilium auratum is a 

 common wild flower, and its bulbs boiled 

 in sugar is a favorite vegetable. Other 

 lily bulbs are used as food. Among dishes 

 that seem odd to us are "young bamboo 

 shoots," also chrysanthemum leaves fried 

 in batter. The eulalias grow in open flat 

 spaces on the hillsides. He mentions one 

 place "where there were abundant wild 

 flowers, purple iris, white and mauve 

 funkias, yellow orchids, clusters of white 

 roses, hydrangeas. St. Johns wort, 

 meadow rue and bocconia appearing 

 here and there half hidden among rank 

 herbage." 



In describing his ascent of the Fujisan 

 he writes: "When all cultivation had dis- 

 appeared and the road was a mere cinder 

 track over a moorland of ashes, the flow- 

 ers and bushes still grew in clusters here 

 and there. The most abundant plant 

 was a bushy knotweed covered with 

 sprays of white blossoms, and this grew 

 far up the mountain side. There were 

 also tall clumps of bocconia, a campanula 

 with large pink or lavender flowers 

 sprinkled in each bell with tiny ink spots, 

 and some less showy flowers." 



"The cottages in the country round 

 Kamakura are thickly thatched and on 

 top of the thatch is laid a mass of earth 

 held together by iris plants, which form 

 a roof crust of spiky green." 



There are several versions of what the 

 Japanese term the seven beautiful flowers 

 of late summer, the ones given him 

 being as follows: "Convolvulus, wild 

 chrysanthemums, yellow valerian, les- 

 pedeza, Platycodon grandiflora, Eulalia 

 Japonica. and a rather insignificant 

 aster." Sometimes the large flowered 

 hibiscus is substituted for the aster. 



In speaking of Japanese gardens he 

 says: "The gardens of the tea-houses and 

 temples were gay with azaleas, camellias, 

 magnolias and cherry blossoms, and with 

 the young leaves of maples and andro- 

 meda, as bright as any flower. The 

 cherry trees and magnolias are let grow- 

 as they choose, but the others are trimmed 

 into more or less formal shapes consid- 

 ered suitable to the species or helping the 

 carefully studied arrangement of forms 

 which is the ideal of a Japanese gardener. 

 There are no beds for flowers. In the lit- 

 tle ponds the iris and lotus bloom and in 

 odd corners there maybe a clump of lilies, 

 chrysanthemums or other plants, but 

 these are more accidental. The designer's 

 aim is a composition of rocks, shrubs, 

 stone lanterns, ponds and bridges, which 

 will look the same in general features all 

 the year round, and conform to estab- 

 lished rules." 



"One of my Japanese friends told me of 

 an instance of the complexity of the land- 

 scape gardener's art that if a certain 

 shrub was used, it would be necessary to 

 place near it a stone from Tosa, the dis- 

 tant provincewhere itcommonly grows." 

 "The decorative garden is quite distinct 

 from the flower garden, where the fine 



