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GARDENING. 



June 15, 



roots. It is with us perfectly hard y with- 

 out protection, never freezes back, and 

 when once planted will last forever ap- 

 parently; we have a few very old plants 

 which never were disturbed since first 

 planted; each of these measures about 

 eighteen inches across, a dense mass of 

 delicate pink. A few plants on the half 

 shady part in the rockery do not grow 

 quite so compact as those in the open 

 border; theirgrowth islongerand thinner, 

 but, rambling loosely over the rocks, the 

 beauty of every individual flower on the 

 plant is shown to advantage; and pro- 

 tected as they are here from the hottest 

 sun, they last much longer in perfection. 



Hormium Pyrenaicum is a low free 

 growing plant which sends up numerous 

 spikes well furnished with deep blue salvia- 

 like flowers. I lark blue at this season is 

 quite scarce among the cut flowers, and 

 with us, at least, everything in this color 

 is used up as fast as it comes out; the 

 stems are about ten inches long and the 

 spikes thickly set with showy flowers to 

 their very tips. The foliage is short and 

 broad, rather rough to the touch, but 

 neat and evergreen; the habit is compact 

 and clean; no dead or decaying leaves 

 show beneath the younger growth; it is 

 easily propagated by division in spring 

 or fall and extremely hard}*; light soil is 

 best for it, though good results were ob- 

 tained in a stiff but rather dry loam, 

 while in wet places the plants are gener- 

 ally short lived. Another very useful blue 

 flower is the ordinary Campanula glom- 

 erata, but when you want the deepest 

 and brightest shade C. glomerata Dahur- 

 ica is the one to plant; it will not 

 reproduce itself from seed and must be 

 increased by division or from cuttings. 

 The stems grow up to a height almost of 

 two feet on old, well established plants; 

 the big, many flowered, close heads are 

 really beautiful and remain in perfection 

 for a long time; new flowers open out as 

 the older ones fall off The Cheddar pink, 

 Dianthus ca?sius, is freely used here as a 

 cut flower and is very popular, principally 

 perhaps because of its very decided and 

 lasting clove perfume; the color is a soft 

 shade of pink, the flowers not very large 

 but well shaped with deeply fringed edges; 

 no other of the whole family is so delight- 

 fully fragrant, though the flowers in many 

 of the various species are superior to it in 

 size and shape. 



Heleniutn Hoopesii is one of the very 

 best deep orange yellow flowers at the 

 present time; it can be cut in long sprays 

 and keeps well in water. After the doro- 

 nicums are gone this superior flower is 

 ready to take their place. Thalictrum 

 aquilegifolium produces long feathery 

 plumes of handsome lilac, pale purple, 

 pinkish or, though rarely, white flowers. 

 It is an excellent keeper and comes handv 

 for large vases and in all decorations. 

 J. B. Keller. 



THEAustralasian governments are wag- 

 ing vigorous war against the importa- 

 tion of diseased or insect-infested fruits 

 from other quarters. A Tasmanian jour- 

 nal asserts that "there were landed on 

 the Hobart wharf recently no fewer than 

 800 cases of apples, rejected by the New 

 South Wales inspectors, out of 4-000 cases 

 shipped. The fault again found with the 

 fruit was that it bore traces of mussel 

 scale and black spot. This makes 1300 

 cases of Tasmanian apples sent back from 

 Sydney within a month. One steamer 

 took altogether 7.000 cases, but 3000 of 

 these were for Queensland and other 

 ports, and as they have a vegetable dis- 

 ease act in Queensland also, it may oe that 

 some of these consignments will meet 



with the same fate, though so much hos- 

 tility to our fruit growers is not expected 

 to be displayed thereas is the case in New 

 South Wales." It is evident that the 

 Iruit-pest troubles are not confined to 

 t'ncle Sam's dominions. 



ORNAMENTAL BEDDING. 

 PART V. 



To lay out a diamond (rhomb), we 

 should know the length of the two diago- 

 nals. If for instance, they are nine feet 

 and six feet, then set two pegs a and b 



Fig. 19. — A more complicate design for 

 same dimensions. 



l*ig. 19. 1, Alternanthera paronychi- 

 uides; 2, A aurea nana; 3, Santolina 

 incana; 4, Alternanthera paronychioicles 

 major. 



Next we will turn our attention to 

 ellipses and how to lay them out. In 

 Fig. 20 a-b is called the major axis, d-e 



Fig. 16. 



in the ground where you want the bed 

 nine feet apart; with any desired radius 

 draw curves from a and b to both sides as 

 indicated in Fig. 16, set pegs at intersec- 

 tions, tie a piece of twine between these 

 two pegs and a piece between a and b, 

 where they meet set a peg, c, and from 

 this to each side measure half the distance 

 of the short diagonal, in this case three 

 feet, and set the pegs d and e. The pegs 

 at the intersections and the twine can 

 then be taken away and a-b-d-e mark the 

 diamond, peg c will come handy in laving 

 out the design. 



Fig 20. 

 the minor axis, c is tbecenter,y"and g the 

 focii; the distance from the center to either 

 focus is called the eccentricity; any 



Fig. //"• — A design for the above diamond. 



Fisr. 17. 1 , Alternanthera amoena spec- 

 tabilis- 2, ,4. aurea nana; 3, Santolina 

 incana; 4, Achyranthes Lindenii. 



Fig. _=>/. 

 straight line through the center with 

 vertices in the ellipse is a diameter. The 

 relations of the focii to the ellipse are 

 that the sum of the two straight lines 



Fig. jS. — A design for a diamond 9x12 

 feet. 



Fig. IS. 1, Alternanthera amoena spec- 

 tnbilis; 2, Pilea nana; 3, Alternanthera 

 aurea nana; 4, A. spatulata; 5, Coleus 

 Golden Bedder. 



Fig 22. S 1-2x12 feet. 

 drawn from any point of the ellipse to 

 the focii is always the same. To lay out 

 an ellipse for instance nine feet (major 

 axis) by six and one-halffeet (minor axis) 

 choose the place for line a-b and put pegs 

 at these two points nine feet apart. Pro- 



