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CHICAGO, JUNE i, 1897. 



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No. 114. 



EDLALIA GRACILLIMA UNIVTTTATA. 



The Flower Garden. 



EULflLIfl ORflClLLlMfl UNIVITTflTfl. 

 In Gardening, September 1,1896, there 

 were illustrated and described two forms 

 of the eulalia. We now illustrate E. 

 gracillima unirittata, a more recently in- 

 troduced species, and one that may be 

 grown in more exposed situations than 

 the others, as its growth is more tough 

 and wiry, and it stands up well against 

 strong winds. In habit it differs from the 

 other members of the family in being 

 more upright, and the leaves form more 

 of an arch in their outward bend- 

 ing. The leaves are light green in color 

 with a faint narrow light-colored stripe 

 running through the center. Planted as 

 an individual it is a very graceful ap- 

 pearing plant, perfectly hardy. 



PLANTS IN BLOOM MAY 15. 



Since my last notes of May 1 , quite a lot 

 of bulbous and herbaceous plants have 

 come in flower. In the tulip line we have 

 had some showy and beautiful ones. 

 Among the single species we have had T. 

 Batalini, T. linifolia, T. saxatilis, T. 

 Clusiana, T. Eichleri, T. Greigi, and 



others. Among the showy May flower- 

 ing single tulips we have had f. Billkti- 

 ana, T. elegans alba, T. Gesneriana 

 spathulata, T. G. alba-oculata, T.macro- 

 speila, T. G. alba marginata, Picotee, 

 Striped Beauty, Fairy Queen, and many 

 others. All of these are choice and beau- 

 tiful tulips, some of them quite rare, but 

 if choice tulips are wanted grow a few of 

 them. Some are of very dwarf growth 

 and the coloring in the flowers all that 

 could be desired. The breeder tulips have 

 flowered well; the colors are mostly dark 

 and some of them are more odd than 

 beautiful. 



Among other bulbous plants in flower 

 Camassia Cusickii is making a nice show- 

 ing. This grows about three feet high 

 and has large spikes of pale blue flowers; 

 it is considered to be the best one of the 

 group C. Fraseri and C. esculenta were 

 both showing flower but the slugs got at 

 them and every flower spike is gone. 

 They are all hardy with us and well 

 worth a place in the herbaceous border. 

 Scilla campanulata and its varieties are 

 now nicely in flower. These wood hya- 

 cinths are very accommodating little 

 plants, growing freely most anywhere. 

 They are useful to naturalize among 

 shrubs, and coming in flower when most 

 of the bulbous plants are past, thev help 



to keep the garden gay a longer period, 

 as there is always a scarcity of flowers in 

 the garden between the early bulbous 

 stock and summer blooming plants. 

 Ornithogalum exscapum is a dwarf grow- 

 ing bulbous plant about two inches high. 

 It has umbels of large white flowers; a 

 good spring edging plant for beds or 

 borders. O. nutans is a larger growing 

 kind; the flowers are also white and they 

 are useful for cutting; it will grow most 

 anywhere and both are quite hardy. 

 Erythronium grandiflorum has done very 

 well this spring; our plants are carrying 

 four flowers to a stalk. This is the 

 choicest one of the whole group, and 

 well worth growing. They like a half 

 shady place to grow in. Some of the 

 newer varieties have not flowered this 

 spring, but as they were planted only last 

 fall it may take them a year to get estab- 

 lished. The hoop-petticoat narcissi are 

 now in fine flower; they stood the winter 

 well, although they are not quite hardy 

 with us, but they are well worth planting 

 every year as they are pretty little flow- 

 ers. Brodieea Howelli lilacina is the first 

 bulb to flower in the bulb frame, but it 

 will be a week or ten days before any 

 show of them is had. They wintered 

 over nicely in the frame and the same can 

 be said of thecalochortus.freesias (we are 



