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disseminated. It is almost naturalized in 

 some parts of Australia. In the southern 

 states, and perhaps California, it will 

 flourish. As an outdoor ornamental 

 foliage plant it is well worthy of cultiva- 

 tion in any section of the country. 



It is destined to be a peoples' plant as 

 one-half inch of the root will grow and 

 form a good plant the first season. It 

 has survived most winters for the past 

 five years in thiscity (Washington, D. C). 



ROSA MULT1FLORA JAFONIGA-GLEMATIS. 



Where can I get plants of Rosa multi- 

 flora Japonica described in a recent issue 

 of Gardening? 



How can healthy plants of Clematis 

 Henryii be obtained? Effort after effort 

 of mine has failed. Can I get seed and so 

 raise healthy plants? 



Baltimore. Despairing Amateur. 



Rosa mu lti flora Japonica can be ob- 

 tained from Ellwanger & Barry, Roches- 

 ter, N. V. and Storrs & Harrison Co., 

 Painesville, 0., and probably from other 

 advertisers in Gardening. We happen to 

 know that both the above named firms 

 have stock from the plant illustrated. 



The question 'how can healthy plants 

 of Clematis Jackmanii and Henryii be ob- 

 tained," is one that even the largest and 

 most experienced raisers would be glad 

 to have answered. There are a number 

 of old plants scattered here and there 

 over the country, planted at a time when 

 the disease that now causes so much 

 havoc, did not seem to be so prevalent, 

 that seem perfectly free from it and there 

 are also plants that seem to have out- 



lived any tendency towards it. A good 

 plan to pursue where one has the room, 

 is to obtain several plants, and for a few 

 years grow them in a trial ground until 

 one or more shows a disposition to over- 

 come the trouble, and when strong 

 enough carefully remove them to their 

 permanent quarters. 



Scientists have held this trouble to be 

 the work of a fungus. It is said that in 

 Germany experiments have been carried 

 on for some time in hopes of finding an 

 effective cure, but so far without success. 

 One scientist there puts forth a new the- 

 ory, claiming that the trouble is caused 

 by a fly depositing its egg upon the stem. 



Win. Thompson, Ipswich, England, 

 advertises in his catalogue seeds of C. 

 hrbrida, hybrids of C. Jackmanii, but as 

 it takes from six to twelve months for 

 these seeds to germinate, and then some 

 time before they amount to anything, it 

 hardly pays to bother with it. As a rule 

 the c'ematis is increased by grafting on 

 to C. flammula or some of the hardier 

 forms, and by layering. 



Festuca glauca is an ornamental 

 grass from southern Europe that is not 

 in common use, although it lends itself 

 readily to garden work. It makes a very 

 neat border along walks, and can be used 

 effectively in ribbon gardening or in rock- 

 ery work. It forms a glaucous tuft of 

 grass about six inches high, not spread- 

 ing rapidly, and always neat and tidy in 

 appearance. It is perfectly hardy and 

 increases readily by division either in 

 spring or autumn. Its seed stalks are 

 not ornamental and should be clipped off 

 when in bloom. 



Landscape Gardening. 



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It is usually thought that the small 

 suburban place is unworthy of the land- 

 scape gardener's skill, but I think the 

 accompanying plan made for Mr. Chas. 

 D. Armstrong, of this city, proves the 

 contrary. This plan gives what is not 

 always found in larger places, small but 

 good lawn effects, a considerable variety 

 of choice plants and shrubs, changing 

 effects from spring until fall and out-door 

 privacy for the family and its friends, and 

 I hold that privacy is as desirable in the 

 grounds of a home as it is in its living 

 rooms. The common mistakes in plant- 

 ing small suburban places are the cutting 

 up of what little lawn there may be with 

 formal beds for bedding plants, the plant- 

 ing of too many large shade trees, which 

 makes the best results with grass, shrubs 

 or flowers impossible, and the irregular 

 dottingof shrubbery alloverthe grounds. 

 By massing the shrubs a far greater vari- 

 ety and quantity can be grown and much 

 better effects produced. 



The present plan ignores bedding plants, 

 but ample space is provided for hardy 

 herbaceous plants, spring flowering bulbs, 

 summer blooming bulbs and annuals in 

 the flower garden which is isolated as 

 much as possible from the balance of the 

 grounds and is intended to provide 

 plenty of flowers for cutting from early 

 spring until late fall. 



The walks between the beds are to be 

 grass ones, which aremuch more pleasing 



