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GARDENING. 



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feet high and remain in bloom for some 

 time. Alstromeria aurantiaca is a choice 

 border plant, the clusters of orange col- 

 ored flowers being very beautiful. It is 

 also a fine plant to cut from. It is quite 

 hardy with us with no protection. Geum 

 atrosanguineum has small double scarlet 

 flowers and when grown in a clump it is 

 quite showy and lasts a long time in 

 flower. 



Rudbeckia speciosa has dark yellow 

 flowers with purple cone-like centers, each 

 flower on a stiff wiry stem, which makes 

 it nice for cutting. Coronilla varia is a 

 handsome flowered and foliaged rampant 

 creeper growing about a foot high. The 

 flowers are pea-shaped and are very 



every year, putting them in about the 

 15th of September and wintering them 

 over in a cold frame, as they are not 

 hardy. They are well worth the room in 

 the frame, as they are a showy class of 

 plants and bloom all summer. They can 

 also be raised from seed, and the cut- 

 tings taken only from the best of them. 

 Sow now to have plants for another 

 year. 



Delphinium formosum ccelestium is a 

 lovely larkspur. It grows about five feet 

 high, the flowers dark blue with a 

 white center. Hemerocallis fulva, the 

 tawny day lily, is a common garden 

 plant which has naturalized itself along 

 the roadsides hereabout, and is met with 



LILIUM ELEGANS VAR. ERECIUM. 



showy; a good plant to cover unsightly 

 places as it will grow most anywhere. 

 CEnothera Lamarckiana is one of the 

 best and showiest of the evening prim- 

 roses. It forms quite a bush, covered 

 with its large cup-shaped yellow flowers. 

 It should be grown from seed each year 

 and when once you have it in the garden 

 it is there always, as it seeds itself so 

 freely. Campanulacarpathica is a dwarf 

 form of the bell flowers and blooms freely. 

 It makes a good edging to the perennial 

 border. The colors are blue and white. 

 Lathyrus latifolius (everlasting pea) is a 

 showy, easily grown plant that should be 

 in every garden. It flowers very freely 

 and grows about six feet high. It needs 

 brush to climb on, and is seen at its best 

 when grown in a clump. The flowers are 

 red; the variety alba has pure white flow- 

 ers and is very choice. 



Lythrum salicaria is a rough growing 

 plant with long spikes of rose-colored 

 flowers. This is a good plant to natur- 

 alize as it will grow most anywhere. It 

 is also good for cutting. The Japanese 

 irises have not done so well this year, 

 owing to being lifted and divided last 

 fall. It always takes such plants as these 

 a vear to get established. Iris Monnieri 

 is the last of the irises to flower. It is a 

 tall growing species with bright yellow 

 flowers of large size. Pentstemons in 

 great variety of color are now making 

 quite a show. We raise them cuttings 



most everywhere. Sedum Aizoon grows 

 about nine inches high and bears broad 

 heads of yellow flowers; a good plant for 

 dry places. Delphinium chinense is one 

 of the smallest of the larkspurs. It has 

 finely cut foliage and large open panicles 

 of blue flowers. This is one of the 

 best delphiniums for cutting and should 

 find a place in every garden. Spiraea 

 palmata is one of the showiest of the 

 whole group, the large heads of crimson 

 flowers making it quite conspicuous. The 

 perennial phloxes are now beginning to 

 flower but it will be a week ortwo before 

 they are their best. Some of the early 

 flowering P. suffruticosa have been in 

 flower for some time. They are of a 

 dwarfer nature than the late flowering 

 ones and are very desirable as they come 

 in handy for cut flowers. Hollyhocks are 

 making a good display but they are not 

 yet at their best. We treat them as 

 annuals, raising a new stock each year. 

 With us the disease of the leaf is very 

 troublesome, and this is the only way to 

 keep clear of it. The seed should be 

 started early so as to get good strong 

 plants before winter sets in. Achillea 

 ptarmica ft. pi. will bloom from now on 

 till cut by frost. It is a good plant to 

 grow where cut flowers are wanted. The 

 flowers are small, double white and car- 

 ried in dense heads. Mimulus cardinalis 

 is now flowering freely. This plant is not 

 hardy, but if sown in January and kept 



growing on will bloom the first season. 

 The flowers are scarlet. 



Among other hardy plants which I 

 have noted before, but which are still in 

 good flower, are the verbascums, delphin- 

 iums, sweet williams, foxgloves, mullein 

 pink, scabiosas, coreopsis, achilleas, and 

 many others. 



Among garden lilies we have now a 

 good display. L. Hansonii came in flower 

 June 19, and is still in good shape. This 

 is a strong vigorous growing lily, easy to 

 grow and sure to flower when it gets well 

 established. It grows about three feet 

 high. The color is orange dotted with 

 brown. The petals of this lily are very 

 thick and heavy, having the appearance 

 of wax. It is said that this lily is very 

 scarce, but we can't see the reason why, 

 as with us it multiplies very fast. L. 

 pardalinum is a California lily of great 

 beauty. The color is bright and showy 

 and its habit graceful and striking. It is 

 very hardy and will grow most anywhere 

 in shade or in open, but it is noticeable 

 that where grown in the shade the flow- 

 ers are not so large as when grown in the 

 open. The color is orange red spotted 

 black. L. Thunbergianum{ Alice Wilson) 

 is a dwarf growing lily and one ot great 

 beaut}'. The flowers are large, lemon 

 color. It only grows about a foot high. 

 L. candidum, the old garden lily, is still 

 one of the best, its tail spikes of pure 

 white flowers being quite conspicuous 

 when grown in a mass. The bulbs are 

 very cheap and where cut flowers are in 

 great demand it should be grown largely. 

 L. concolor is one of the smallest flowered 

 lilies, color scarlet, and it only grows 

 about a foot high. It is a beautiful little 

 lily and should be in every collection. L. 

 excelsum (sometimes called testaceum) 

 grows about four feet high and has droop- 

 ing fragrant buff colored flowers. This is 

 a fine lily but one that is sometimes hard 

 to grow as it is subject to the lily disease 

 and hard to keep clean. L. Brownii is 

 one of the choicest lilies we have. It does 

 well with us and flowers freely, growing 

 about three feet high. The flowers are 

 large, trumpet shaped, white inside, out- 

 side brown. L. croceum is a vigorous grow- 

 ing lily with large orange-colored flowers, 

 dotted black. An old lily but still one of 

 the showiest. L. Batemanniae grows 

 about four feet high and has rich glowing 

 apricot-colored flowers. A very beautiful 

 lily. L. martagon dalmaticum catani is 

 a tall, vigorous growing lily of great 

 beautj T , the flowers a deep, rich velvety 

 crimson, nearly black. We still have a 

 great many lilies to flower and they will 

 last till well into September. 

 Mahwah, N.J. David Feaser. 



LILIUM ELBGflNS VflR. EREGTUM. 



I'nfortunately the number of species of 

 the lily family that take kindly to ordi- 

 nary garden culture is limited. In the 

 Lilium elegansgrovp we have as sturdy a 

 race as the old fashioned tiger lily, which 

 they resemble somewhat in color. Some- 

 times some of the forms a re catalogued as 

 L. umbellatum, more often in the Ameri- 

 can catalogues than those of Europe, and 

 were at one time generally classed as 

 Th u 11 bergia nums. 



Among the stronger growing forms are 

 the varieties erectums, growing 2' ._■ feet 

 high, "Grandiflorum," 2VS feet, flowers 

 scarlet and orange; "salmon," of the 

 color its name indicates, and growing only 

 one foot; Biligulatum, dark blood red; 

 punctatum, light red, spotted. 



The flowers of all are erect, cup-shaped, 

 well opened, and range in number from 

 oneto seven. Thev will grow in almost 



