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GARDENING. 



Aug. 



up moderately well, while the soft, suc- 

 culent growth which is made in July and 

 August will droop in a few minutes. E. 

 S. P. should cut the sprays of lemon ver- 

 bena in early morning and as soon as cut 

 place the stems in ajar of water and keep 

 for a few hours in a dark, and if possible, 



at least eighteen inches down in the soil. 

 The box should be of the same width, if 

 not more, so as to allow enough root 

 growth to maintain a vigorous plant. 

 The most suitable position, however, for 

 it is an isolated one in the margins of the 

 lawn, where its bold and handsome out- 





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cool room or cellar. After once absorbing 

 the water the sprays will last for days. 

 This rule would not be bad for almost all 

 our garden flowers as well as the 

 products of the greenhouse. 



William Scott. 



line can be seen untrammelled by conflict- 

 ing foliage. It is perfectly hardy, and 

 easilv grown in anv ordinary soil. 



W. C. Egan. 



ROSA LUGIDA flLBfl. 



BOGGONIfl CORDATA. 



( Plume-Poppy). 



This showy member of the poppy 

 family is a native of China, and received 

 its generic name in honor of Paolo Boc- 

 coni, M. D , a Sicilian botanist. It is per- 

 fectly hardy, grows about six to eight 

 feet in height, blooming in July and 

 August. The flowers are a light buff 

 color, quite numerous and borne in 

 feathery terminal panicles. 



It is not, however, as a flowering plant 

 that it is noted, but for its stateliness of 

 form and its handsome glaucous leaves. 

 These are large, lobed, and deeply cut. 

 The plant requires no staking and will 

 stand, even in isolated situations, with- 

 out damage from the wind. It is one of 

 those good things that wants the earth 

 and if placed in with other plants, it soon 

 monopolizes all the ted. 



If desired to grow it in this manner it is 

 easily controlled by planting it within a 

 bottomless box, having the sides extend 



I was much pleased with your picture 

 of this beautiful single rose. Jt may beof 

 interest to know that it has done well at 

 Humboldt Park, Chicago, for two years 

 and was in magnificent bloom this spring. 

 The plant came from the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum, Boston. Jas. Jenson. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



MAGNOLIA GRAND1FL0RA. 



I referred to the beautiful evergreen, 

 Magnolia grandifiora, in some notes sent 

 you last season. I do so again now be- 

 cause a large specimen is flowering in 

 Germantown at the present time, the first 

 one that has flowered here, to the best of 

 my belief, though not the first in Phila- 

 delphia by a great many. 



This tree, the one now flowering, is 

 about eight feet in height and as many 

 feet in width, and it may be ten years 



old. Usually this species flowers in five 

 to six years, a great deal depending on 

 the soil and situation. As with all trees, 

 when growing vigorously there is but 

 little disposition to flower, but let it be in 

 poor ground, and the blooms come earlier. 



The flowers are very large, some meas- 

 ured to-day recorded ten inches in diame- 

 ter, and the fragrance is delightful. But 

 as with glauca, the individual flowers do 

 not last long. The mode of flowering 

 seems to be this. The flower expands 

 early in the morning, it closes partly at 

 about noon, remaining closed until the 

 second morning, when it again opens. It 

 does not close on the second day, but 

 remains expanded, and by the close of 

 the third day the petals fall. The flowers 

 are of a beautiful white, and at the base 

 of the stamens there is a band cf crimson, 

 such as appears in hypoleuca and I think, 

 Watsoni, two Japanese species. 



I cannot say how far north this fine 

 evergreen will thrive, but I am sure it is 

 not planted nearly as much as it might 

 be. There are several trees about this 

 city, some ot them of very large size. I 

 am told that some years ago, in a very 

 severe winter, some of them lost their 

 tops, but this occurs sometimes in Vir- 

 ginia. Some thirty years ago all the 

 large trees about Washington were killed 

 back almost to the ground. And in 

 recent years I have seen some in the Na- 

 tional Cemetery, Arlington, Va., with the 

 foliage scarred in winter just as badly as 

 ever occurs in Germantown. 



I would repeat what I have said before 

 as to how to treat young plants. Keep 

 in mind that it is the sun in winter that 

 must be guarded against. Therefore if a 

 situation where but a little morning sun 

 will reach it presents itself, that is the 

 place for it. If this cannot be, then when 

 Christmas time comes get evergreen 

 boughs and place about it, to break the 

 sun's rays. There is not power enough 

 in the rays to harm it until after New 

 Years. 



I have one of my own eight feet high, 

 which I did not cover until January 9, 

 last winter, and it wintered in fine condi- 

 tion. Before placing the boughs around 

 it, get forest leaves or long manure and 

 place enough of it about the base of the 

 bush to keep frost from penetrating far. 

 Treated in this way, I am sure this lovely 

 evergreen could be in many more collec- 

 tions than it is. Joseph Meehan. 



Philadelphia. 



DBGUMAR1A BARBARA. 



Among self climbing vines not over well 

 known which should be muchused in gar- 

 dens is the one of the above name, which 

 comes to us from the southern states. It 

 is closely related to the In-drangea, being 

 in a botanical way but little different 

 irom it. But to see its foliage no one 

 would suspect the slightest relationship. 

 The leaves are small compared with 

 hydrangea, and entire, thick and of a 

 shining green. The flowers, while not be- 

 ing showy, are sweet scented and are pro- 

 duced in cymes on the side twigs. 



Besides its beauty as a vine, it will be 

 more planted on account of its clinging to 

 walls and buildings, as ivy does. It holds 

 itself, and will run to the top of the high- 

 est building. There has been a great 

 scarcity of vines of this character. Among 

 evergreens there arebuttwo, the common 

 ivy and the euonymus, neither of which 

 is entirely satisfactory. Common ivy 

 will not flourish well in the sun, and the 

 euonymus is subject to the attack of an 

 insect which disfigures it so that there is 

 a temptation to cut it down. 



