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AVENUE TO SOUTH STREET GATE. ARNOLD ARBORETUM. BOSTON. 



from seed and a stock of it is soon worked 

 up in this way. 



Helianthus orgyalis in bold masses is 

 very conspicuous. This grows eight to 

 tenfeet high and is exceedingly graceful 

 and beautiful. H maximus grows about 

 six feet high, has very large flowers and 

 is very striking. H. multitiorus fl. pi. is 

 now past its best. This is the best for 

 cutting and it lasts a long time in water. 

 H. maximiliana is just beginning to 

 flower. It grows about six feet high and 

 the flowers are quite large. All these late 

 flowering sunflowers are very showy, but 

 some of them are rather rough for the 

 perennial border; still, planted amongthe 

 shrubbery where they are protected from 

 the high winds they do nicely, and as the 

 most of the shrubs are flowerless at this 

 season they help to keep that part of the 

 garden gay. 



Verbena venosa has been in flower all 

 summer long, and will last till frost. This 

 is a nice plant lor the borders or beds, 

 and is much used in England for bedding 

 purposes. It seems to do just as well 

 here. We will have a few beds of it 

 another year, so well do we like it; the 

 flowers are blue. 



In Prrethrum uliginosum we have the 

 finest autumn flowering plant one could 

 have. It grows about five feet high, bear- 

 ing innumerable large, single, white flow- 

 ers with yellow centers, resembling the 

 daisies but much larger. Theflowersare 

 well adapted for cutting, the plant lasts a 

 long time in perfection, and is indispensa- 

 ble in all collections of hardy plants. 

 Another plant which blooms at the same 

 time is Helenium autumnale superbum. 

 This is a fit companion to the last named. 

 For some time it has been a mass of 

 flowers, which areyellow. It also grows 

 five feet high. If anyone wishes a big dis- 



play of flowers in the fall months, by all 

 means get these two plants; both are 

 very hard}' and increase fast. 



These are but a few of the flowers we 

 have in bloom. We could mention many 

 more, such as the cannas, salvias, specio- 

 sum lilies, begonias, petunias, cornflow- 

 ers, scabiosas, four o 'clocks, violas, antir- 

 rhinums, penstemons, tea and hybrid tea 

 roses, and many others. We are now 

 thinking of another year and getting 

 many new lilies planted, and if all of our 

 pets do as well next summer as they 

 have this year, we will indeed be well 

 pleased. David Fraser. 



Mahwah, N.J. 



PLAN FOR GARDEN OP HARDY PLANTS. 



It would be of interest to the writer 

 and perhaps of general interest to your 

 subscribers if you would publish a plant- 

 ing scheme for an old fashioned garden. 

 Plot it say for 50 by 50 feet and indicate 

 the grouping of the plants as well as giv- 

 ing a full list of names, introducing only 

 hardy plants, H. F. N. 



Long Island. 



The dimensions of the plot as given by 

 H. F. N. (50x50 feet) do not exactly suit 

 my taste it a regular herbaceous garden 

 is wanted. The ideal place for the latter 

 would be along a shrubbery, hedge or 

 fence covered with vines to serve as a 

 back ground, and a longer strip of land, 

 say 25x100 or 20x125 feet would surely 

 be more satisfactory in many respects 

 than this square plot, but on a small 

 sized country place it is not always possi- 

 ble to have everything according to our 

 own ideas. In the herbaceous garden of 

 today straight lines and regularity are 



avoided as much as possible, while in a 

 so called old fashioned flower garden we 

 may see circles or half circles cut up by 

 narrow straight paths and a similarity 

 of beds are looked upon as desirable 

 rather than otherwise. 



It is an easy matter to lay out a design 

 for such; as an example I will suggest 

 the following. Find the exact center of 

 the plot and draw a circle 14 leet in 

 diameter; this will form a fair sized center 

 bed which will not becutupby any paths; 

 2 1 •_■ feet from the edge ol this circle draw 

 another one; the space between these two 

 lines forms a walk around the middle 

 bed. The next circle to be drawn is 4- feet 

 from the former and another again 2M> 

 feet outside of this for another walk. The 

 band or strip 4 feet wide is to be divided 

 into four beds of equal lengths by walks 

 leading to the inside circle; either one or 

 several of these four walks may be con- 

 tinued to the outside limit of the plot and 

 thus form an entrance to the ground. We 

 have now a center bed 14 feet in diameter, 

 tour curving beds around it, 4 feet wide 

 each and about 20 teet long on their 

 longest side, and a large border all 

 around the sides ranging from 9 feet wide 

 in its narrowest parts to twice that 

 width in the corners, which together 

 with the two circular walks 2% feet wide 

 each is just the 50 feet either way. All 

 the paths should be excavated 6 or 8 

 inches and then gravelled; the soil 

 removed from the walks may go on the 

 beds or the border. 



The beds must now be spaded over 

 digging in a liberal quantity of well 

 decayed manure for we have to consider 

 that the plants to be set out are to 

 remain in here for some years without 

 disturbance and most of them are gross 

 feeders. Begin in the center of the middle 



