DEN. 



Vol. VI. 



82.00 a Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER i, 1898. 



Single Copt m. ... 



A PLANTATION OF LILIUM CANDIDDM. 



The Flower Garden. 



BEDDING PLANTS. 



Ed. Gardening:— Will some of your 

 practical readers give a list of the most 

 suitable material to plant in a circular 

 bed from twelve to fifteen feet in diame- 

 ter or a foot or two larger if necessary in 

 order to contain a suitable number of 

 plants. Name the plants, give the mini 

 ber required, situation and distance apart. 

 It is desired that the bed be sub-tropical 

 in effect, tall and imposing. The mate- 

 rial should be limited to that which may 

 be obtained at a reasonable cost, or 

 raised in a small greenhouse. 



Chicago. J. C. Morgan. 



In reply to Mr. Morgan's inquiry I 

 have figured on a bed eighteen feet in 

 diameter, which I think will be more 



effective than a smaller bed. For the 

 outside circle a foot from the grass border 

 I would use Caladium esculentum. With 

 the plants eighteen inches apart it will 

 take thirty-four of them. Next, a circle of 

 Canna Chas. Henderson, thirty-one 

 plants, eighteen inches apart and the same 

 distance from caladiums. Fill the remain- 

 der of the bed with Canna Alphonse 

 Bouvier, forty-three plants eighteen 

 inches apart, leaving rc>m in the center 

 of the bed for a plant of Ricinus Zanzibar-, 

 ensis. 



A sheltered situation with plenty of 

 sun is the most desirable. If the bed is 

 well enriched with rotted manure the 

 plants can be planted farther apart, say 

 about two feet. All of these plants can be 

 started in an ordinary greenhouse or hot- 

 bed. To be successful with them it is neces- 

 sary to have good strong growths when 

 time arrives to plant outside. Use good, 

 rich soil, and a mulching of three inches 

 of rotted manure on the bed. Keep it 



well watered especially in dry weather, 

 and you will have a bed that you will 

 admire and be proud of. 

 Ithaca, N. Y. Robert Shore. 



BULBOUS PLANTS. 



Sure returns from small investments of 

 time, money and labor seems to be the 

 rale in relation to flowering bulbs. The 

 succession of spring blooming Dutch 

 bulbs begins the display secured in this 

 simple way, which may be continued till 

 fall by the use of gladioli, montbretias, 

 lilies, etc. 



At {he proper season the smooth, husky 

 or plump and scaly bulbs are tucked com- 

 fortably away in good garden soil and 

 almost before one thinks of them again 

 they send up a growth of blooms sur- 

 prising in size and number, and almost 

 invariably having splendor of coloring 

 and perfection of form, to which is fre- 

 quently added rare fragrance. 



