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GARDENING. 



June is, 



florens looks something like the preced- 

 ing; both are good and easy to grow. 



Anthericum Liliago (St. Bernards' Lily) 

 has showj' spikes of pure white bell- 

 shaped flowers, resembling a small lily. 

 The foliage is grass-like, forming neat 

 clumps. A choice plant for the border. 

 Lenaria dalmatica is a plant that lasts 

 for months in flower and is very hand- 

 some. The spikes of bright yellow flow- 

 ers are very showy. It soon spreads into 

 a big bush if left to itself and grows about 

 four feet high. When in flower it looks 

 something like our native snapdragon. 

 Lychnis alpina is a good plant to cut 

 from, its showy heads of bright rose-pink 



nearly a month and they are still good. 

 C. venustus sanguineus is a new variety 

 and is a tall grower, the color light to 

 dark red. C. venustus roseus was the 

 earliest one to flower; this variety is 

 highly colored and is very showy. C. 

 eldorado pictus is one of the most beauti 

 ful we have still in flower, the color pure 

 white with a red spot on yellow ground. 

 Brodixa coccinea has also done well in 

 the frame. It grows ab ut two feet high 

 and bears fine heads of scarlet flowers 

 tipped with green on a thin wiry stem 

 and lasts for some time in perfection. 

 Freesia Leichtlini major in the bulb frame 

 is now in flower. It does not grow so 



SINGLE WHITE DATURAS 



flowers being very pretty. Armeria 

 cephalotes and its variety alba have 

 showy heads of flowers on long stems. A 

 good edging plant for the border. Thyme 

 is an old fashioned plant now a mass of 

 flowers, and we are very fond of it. It 

 should find a place in every garden. 



Iris siberica is now in good flower. 

 This forms a stout bushy clump and 

 flowers very freely, the flowers being car- 

 ried well above the foliage on long clean 

 stems, which makes them very useful for 

 cutting; the colors are mostly blue and 

 white. The double herbaceous preonias 

 are now quite conspicuous, their big 

 showy flowers making them favorites 

 with all. Salvia argentea is now in 

 flower. This is a beautiful border plant, 

 its large showy hairy silvery foliage and 

 tall spikes of white flowers making it 

 very attractive. 



Centaurea montana resembles the 

 cornflowers but is of dwarfer growth, 

 and is well worth growing. Campanula 

 rotundifolia (Blue bells of Scotland) is 

 a free flowering showy plant growing 

 about a foot high. The foliage is narrow 

 and the plant compact, the flowers blue 

 and in clusters. 



Lilium tenuifolium is our first lily to 

 flower, and it is a little beauty. It grows 

 twelve to eighteen inches high and has 

 bright scarlet flowers on slender stems. 

 If grown largely it would be fine for cut- 

 ting. It will be another week or two be- 

 fore we have many lilies in flower. 



In the bulb frame we now have a fine 

 show of calochortus with beautiful mark- 

 ings. The varieties are not yet all in 

 flower but some have been in bloom for 



tall as when forced in the greenhouse, but 

 we cannot say it has been a success, 

 although it has grown well, scarcely a 

 bulb rotting. They will not all flower as 

 some of the bulbs were very small, but I 

 think a success could be made of them, 

 and the flowers last much longer than 

 when grown in the greenhouse. 



All the plants named have come into 

 bloom since the 15th ot May, but we still 

 have many that have been giving us 

 flowers for some time. Among these are 

 the pansies, daisies, mulleins, forget-me- 

 nots, perennial flax, Viola cormita and 

 many others. 



Among shrubs in bloom we have Spiraea 

 Van Houtteii, Viburnum plicatum and V. 

 Lantana, Tamarix parviilora and Loni- 

 cera tartarica, Weigelia rosea and variety 

 alba, and Deutzia gracilis is a sheet of 

 white. David Fraser. 



Mahwah, N.J. 



SINGLE WfllTE DATURAS. 



Few out-of-door plants are more effect- 

 ive than the single white datura, and 

 perhaps no annual makes a greater show. 

 Certainly a big, bold plant with seventy 

 large and striking flowers open at one 

 time, does seem large returns from one 

 particularly husky and unpromising look- 

 ing seed after only about four months' 

 growth. Yet this is the record of the 

 plant seen in the foreground in the accom- 

 panying illustration. 



All of the plants shown are seedlings, 

 from seed self sown the preceding fall. 

 In early spring they were transplanted 



to iorm a mask planting for the founda- 

 tion of the dwelling. While these plants 

 were in flower the effect was immense, 

 and the blooms proved attractive to the 

 interesting hawk moths, but I would not 

 again use the datura for the same pur- 

 pose for three reasons: First the plant is 

 too coarse and weedy for so prominent a 

 position; second, the leaves and stems ex- 

 hale the distinctly disagreeable odor of 

 the wild stramonium when the dew 

 begins to rise; third, its flowering season 

 is too brief. But at the back of a border 

 at some distance lrom the dwelling, yet 

 where its architectural habit and great 

 white flower trumpets can be seen to ad- 

 vantage, I would assuredly give it space 

 for it is really fine in such a position, and 

 its peculiarly handsome blossoms are 

 useful in certain arrangements of cut 

 flowers. 



The subject of suitable material for 

 amateurs' use in masking house founda- 

 tions deserves consideration, as the ap 

 pearance of very nearly every dwelling 

 can be greatly improved by such plant- 

 ings. The space filled with daturas as 

 shown in the cut will this year be occu- 

 pied by Madame Crozy cannas inter- 

 spersed with scarlet zinnias and the whole 

 faced with Pennisetum longistylum a 

 tender ornamental grass that bears 

 pretty, feathery heads. This combina- 

 tion is copied from some nice effects 

 shown by Mr. Stromback on the upper 

 terrace in front of the palm house at 

 Lincoln Park, Chicago. Just under the 

 windows of the bay, however, where the 

 tall growing cannas might prove unde 

 sirable, miniature annual sunflowers will 

 be massed as a background for the zin- 

 nias and pennisetum, thus giving variety 

 yet limiting the coloring to red and yellow. 

 Fanny Copley Seavey. 



Brighton, 111. 



COLUMBINES. 



Aquilegias are almost indispensable in 

 the garden and we can scarcely praise 

 them too highly. They flower abund- 

 antly and for a long time, with only ordi- 

 nary treatment, are extremely hardy and 

 very useful for cutting, very elegant in 

 habit and form and rich in color - all 

 shades of lilac, blue and purple, white, 

 rosy red and pale pink, copper and bronzy 

 hues, yellow and scarlet are represented 

 in the various specie6 and varieties. 



Probably A. vulgaris, the common col- 

 umbine, is the best known in this large 

 iamily and where nearly every color is 

 represented, numerous hybrids with 

 larger flowers, double and single, are 

 classed among them, Yikealba, alba plena, 

 ccerulea plena, hybrida and the dwarf 

 section A. v. hybridanana in many colors; 

 their height is only 10 to 12 inches, while 

 the taller section grows as high as 1V4 to 

 2V2 feet. A. sibirica, s. bicolor and s. 

 /lore pleno are erect flowering, rather 

 dwarf, generally less than one foot high, 

 compact growing and free flowering 

 plants, in shades of blue and lilac, some- 

 times combined with white. 



A. alpina has very large flowers of a 

 deep blue or blue and white with rather 

 short spurs, is a very showy species, 

 growing about 18 inches high. A. Olym- 

 pics, another large flowering kind, gener- 

 ally of a delicate blue shade with a white 

 center, though some dark purples are 

 among them; the spurs are short and 

 stout and the foliage is glaucous; height 

 18 inches. 



A. ccerulea, the Rocky Mountain colum- 

 bine, sometimes called .4. macrantha, is 

 one of the loveliest large flowering species, 

 skv blue and white in color with very 



