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Vol. VI 



82.00 a Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, AUGUST i, 1898. 



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NATURES GROUPING. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



NATURES GROUPING. 

 Our illustration shows an excellent 

 example of nature's grouping, one hav- 

 ing breadth, excellence ot detail and, 

 withal, unity of design. At the base of 

 abruptly rising ground the scar of a little 

 land slide is faced by a well balanced 

 group of common elderand sumach, both 

 handsome decorative shrubs that are 

 suitable lor use in certain parts of home 

 grounds. Up the steep bank back of this 

 group a mass of climbing wild roses 

 scramble. In the middle distance a single 

 shapely tree breaks the sky line, while on 

 one hand, by means of a low, branching 

 oak, the shrubbery is carried on to meet 

 a larger plantation along the brow of the 



hill, and on the other a specimen syca- 

 more of symmetrical form balances the 

 planting. Even the single tall weed, and 

 "the fennel, with its yellow flowers," 

 that carpets the bottom land in the fore- 

 ground, are agreeable features in the 

 picture and serve to show how more 

 desirable herbaceous perennials may be 

 effectively used to blend some parts of a 

 shrubbery plantation with surrounding 

 lawns. Fanny Copley Seavkv. 



NEW HYBRID GLEMATIS. 



I have seldom made an addition to my 

 garden that has afforded me so much 

 satisfaction as have the two hybrid 

 clematis, Duchess of Albany and Coun- 

 tess of Onslow. To Messrs. Jackman & 

 Sons, of Surrey, England, are we indebted 

 for the introduction of the Clematis 

 Jackmanni, that has caused so great 



pleasure to its owner, when free from the 

 mysterious disease so prevalent, and so 

 much sorrow at its loss when afflicted. 

 To them we are now indebted for a new 

 variety that should not only prove hardy 

 but be' entirely free from disease. They 

 have crossed our native Texas Clematis 

 coccinea, a variety of C. Viorna, with 

 Star of India. This latter is a hybrid 

 belonging to the large flowered Jack- 

 manni type. 



The flowers of C. coccinea have been 

 classed as scarlet, as its name implies, 

 and again as a vermilion, and are com- 

 posed of tour fleshy sepals, campamilate 

 at the base and sharply pointed at the 

 tips, which are somewhat reflexed resem- 

 bling a vase that broadens out from the 

 base draws in at the neck and spreads 

 out at the top. The flowers of Star of 

 India open out flat and are in color, a 

 reddish plum, with red bars down the 



