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GARDENING. 



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RHODODENDRONS AT MR H H. HUNNEWELLS. WELLESLEY MASS 



15, plant them in the garden. It is also 

 easily raised from seed. 



Coreopsis lanceolata a.nd grandiSora are 

 still in good form and promise to last for 

 some time to come. They are very useful 

 for cutting, in fact are the best yellow 

 flowers we have for the purpose, as they 

 are liked better than the sun flowers. 



Platycodons both tall and dwarf sorts 

 are giving a wealth of their blue and 

 white bell-shaped flowers. The double 

 form is also in flower, but we do not like 

 it so well as the single ones. Marguerite 

 carnations in many colors keep us well 

 supplied with cut flowers and nothing 

 could be better for the purpose. If some 

 of the best of them are lifted and potted 

 up next month they will bloom nearly 

 all winter. 



Salvia splendens is a fine plant for a 

 bold effect. Masses of it planted here and 

 there in the garden help to brighten it up 

 greatly in the fall months when color in 

 in the garden is scarce. 



Linum perenne gave us a mass of flow- 

 ers in the early part of the season, and 

 when it was past we headed it in some- 

 what; it has broken away nicely and is 

 now a sheet of blue. 



Among bulbous plants a mass of double 

 and single tiger lilies are very fine; 

 although a common lily still it is one of 

 the showiest. 



L. Wallacei is also in good flower. It 

 is an easily grown lily and increases very 

 rapidly. L. Leichtlinii, both yellow and 

 red, is now at its best. The speciosums 

 are not yet in flower except those in pots. 

 Quite a few auratums are still in flower, 

 and Henryi is also lasting well. 



Zephyranthes Candida, Z. rosea and 

 Cooperia Drummondi are quite nice, but 

 these little bulbous plants are not hardy 

 and have to be taken up every fall. 



The montbretias are now very fine and 

 how nice there slender spikes are for cut- 

 ting! The annuals now make the most 

 conspicuous display in the garden. Al- 

 though many are past a late planting 

 will last until frost makes us a visit. 



Mahwah, N.J. David Fraser. 



HERBACEOUS PLANT NOTES. 



In the latter part of summer and in 

 autumn yellow flowersare very abundant 

 among the herbaceous plants. Coreopsis, 

 anthemis, achilleas, actinomeris, trollius, 

 senecios, arnicas, rudbeckias, Oenotheras, 

 Hypericums, heliopsis, inulas, heleniums, 

 chrysoeomas and others are in bloom 

 then and the borders are amply supplied 

 with all shades of that color, still I must 

 say a few words in favor of another yel- 

 low flower, which deserves to be grown 

 more largely than it is at present. The 

 several species and varieties of helianthus 

 are greatly neglected, though in some 

 commercial places we may find occasion- 

 ally one or two kinds growing in rows 

 along with other hardy plants, which 

 are useful as cut flowers. For this latter 

 purpose they are especially well adapted; 

 the flowers posess unrivaled lasting 

 qualities, can alwa^'S be cut with long 

 stems, and are very easily managed in any 

 kindofsoil inthefieldoriuthegarden. As 

 a border plant orin isolated clumps in the 

 lawn they are equally desirable or they 

 can be used effectively in the shrubbery. 

 All the helianthus have bright yellow 

 flowers of medium to rather large size, 

 their general habit is bold and erect and 

 most of them grow from 3 to 5 feet high. 

 H. Buttaris is one of the lowest growing, 

 being but little over 3 feet high; it is a 

 small flowered species and blooms from 

 the latter part of July until September. 



H. decapetalus multiflorus, fl. pi. is one 



of the best known varieties, with medium 

 sized, very double flowers and narrow 

 ray florets. It begins to bloom in August 

 and continues in good shape throughout 

 September; its height is about 5 feet. 



H. rigidus idiffusus), sometimes called 

 Harpalium rigidum, is one of the very 

 best single flowers, with broad and sub- 

 stantial rays one and one half inch long 

 and a small disk, is in bloom during 

 August and September and attains a 

 height of 3 or 4 feet. 



H. soleil d'or belongs to the multiflorus 

 section, but has much broader rays than 

 the ordinary double variety. It is also 

 dwarfer in habit, hardly ever growing 

 over 4- feet high and blooms at the same 

 time as the other. 



H. orgyalis is the tallest among them, 

 never less than 6 feet, in very rich and 

 moist soil often 10 feet. The tall stems 

 are clothed thickly with very narrow, 

 long and recurving foliage. From the 

 upper part of the stems a number of 

 slender branches are sent out, terminat- 

 ing in so many flowerheads, the whole 

 forming a large and well shaped panicle 

 of medium sized flowers. The plant has a 

 very graceful appearance in all stages of 

 growth and is an ornament in any posi- 

 . tion, but when exposed to strong wind 

 each stem should have the support of a 

 strong wire stake as soon as it attains a 

 height of about 4 feet, else the first storm 

 may break them down; planted among 

 shrubs or when surrounded by other 

 strong growing plants no such support 

 is required. 



H. laztiflorus is very much like H. 

 rigidus, but some of its flowers come 

 semi-double. 



A few more may be tcentioned here, but 

 they are perhaps inferior in some respects 

 to the above. H. atroruhens, is distin- 



