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ishment several feet below the surface. 

 Annually in November or December a 

 heavy topdressing of good stable manure, 

 not only helps to protect the roots and 

 insures an early and vigorous start in 

 spring, but also keeps the soil in its orig- 

 inal fertile condition Young plants will 

 not grow to their full height for a year 

 or two but the third year and ever after, 

 if the right conditions are kept up, we 

 will see them attaining a height of 5 or G 

 teet, stout and stiff, requiring no support 

 whatever, and bearing their lovely flow- 

 ers by the thousand. 



The old rose-colored semi-double variety 

 is a fair companion for it and several 

 whites, like Lady Ardilaun and Whirl- 

 wind, showing the same characteristics, 

 have been introduced and are very desir- 

 able, yet at a short distance the number 

 of petals can not be distinguished and 

 for general purposes the older kind is as 

 effective as any. Lady Ardilaun we only 

 had for two years and will not say as yet 

 that it is not an improvement on the old 

 variety, for by all appearances the flow- 

 ers are of larger sizeand better substance, 

 holding on to their petals more tena- 

 ciously than the pretty and free-blooming 

 Whirlwind, but withal we shall keep on 

 growing the old single white for show as 

 well as for cut flower purposes, though 

 in a collection of herbaceous plants all of 

 them should find a place. 



Rochester, N. Y. J. B. Keller. 



A BOUQUET OF RUDBBCKIA LACLNIATA PL. PL. 



CLEMATIS. 



There is a clematis covering two sides 

 of a house at Burtonon-Trent, Eng- 

 land that is remarkable for its size. It 

 covers a space seventy-eight feet long by 

 thirty high and is supposed 10 have been 



DOUBLE FLOWERING RUDBECK1A LflCINIfl Ifl. 



In our issue of September 15, last we 

 illustrated a plant of this new flower as 

 grown on a lawn. We now give an illus- 

 tration of an arrangement of the flowers 

 for indoor decoration. 



The flowers being produced on long 

 wiry stems, hanging semi-pendent, and 

 in open branched sprays, renderit availa- 

 ble for graceful decorations, and its keep- 

 ing qualities being unsurpassed place it 

 among the desirable cut blooms. 



ANEMONE JflPONIGA ALBfl. 



The accompanying photograph was 

 taken last September aftera good supply 

 of flowers had been cut for weeks from 

 the row which is several hundred feet in 

 length and has been planted four years. 

 As these anemones are such free bloomers, 

 producing an immense quantity of buds 

 from every joint in their tall, stiff and 

 branchy flower stems, opening out in un- 

 interrupted succession day after day, the 

 cutting of one day is made good again in 

 the next 24 hours 



Though an old plant and grown in 

 many commercial places for cut flower 

 purposes, it is not met with as frequently 

 in private collections as it deserves. As 

 a late summer and autumn bloomer it 

 has few equals either in the mixed border 

 or in beds alone and by itself, sending up 

 its long stemmed pure white flowers con- 

 tinuously from August until the frost 

 puts an end to further growth. A large 

 clump of four or five plants, standing 

 isolated on a lawn not too far away from 

 a walk or driveway is exceedingly orna- 

 mental; even in the earlier part of the 

 season theluxuriantfoliagehasits attrac- 

 tions. The ground below them would 

 only be bare for two or three weeks in 



ANEMONE JAPONICA ALBA. 



early spring, which fault may be reme- 

 died by permanently planting some 

 spring flowering bulbs, such as scillas, 

 snowdrops, crocus, etc., over the little 

 plot. 



Anemones will grow most anywhere if 

 they get a fair amount of sun, but they 

 do best in well enriched soil and in an 

 open situation. The ground should be 

 well and deeply prepared for them, for 

 their roots seek for moisture and cour- 



planted at least a hundred years ago. 

 There are five main stems that measure 

 about twenty-four inches in diameter 

 some three feet from the ground. Our 

 authority states that he does not know 

 the variety but it evidently belongs to 

 the small flowered species. 



Undoubtedly the greatest impetus given 

 to the garden cultivation of the clematis 

 was the production of the variety Jack- 

 manii, a cross between the European vine 



