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GARDENING. 



Sept. 



There is no more striking display of 

 plants in flower than a belt, bed or row 

 of stately Lilium candidum in full bloom. 

 The accompanying illustration shows 

 fifty-seven stalks of blooms that had been 

 opening for ten days during the hottest 

 part of June, 1897, when the thermome- 

 ter registered between 95° and 100° every 

 day for more than a week. When the 

 photograph was taken, on June 21, the 

 first flowers that opened had either fallen 

 or are seen to be withered, but the won- 

 der was that any withstood the fierce 

 heat. They were deeply planted and no 

 heating manure was allowed to come in 

 contact with the bulbs. 



Fanny Copley Seavey. 



RUDBEGKlfl GOLDEN GLOW. 



In the issue of Gardening forSeptember 

 15, 1896, this plant, then a novelty, was 

 illustrated. Nearly two years later I 

 again photographed the same group and 

 the picture is here reproduced. This spe- 

 cies has now been widely disseminated, 

 forming one of a trio of most excellent 

 recent introductions, Hydrangea panic- 

 ulata grandiftora and Clematis panicu- 

 lata being the other two. It is a singu- 

 lar fact that they all bloom late in the 

 season, when most needed, and are all of 

 the easiest culture. Each requires an 

 ample supply of moisture for the best 

 results, and are perfectly hardy. Luckily 

 they combine three divisions of plant life, 

 the shrub, the perennial and the vine. 

 Japan furnishes two of them and the 

 western prairies the third, the Rudbeckia 

 laciniata ft. pi. 



We are all familiar with the black-eyed 

 Susan, the Rudbeckia hirta of the botan- 

 ists. R. laciniata is a near relative, and 

 in its typical form somewhat resembles it, 

 except that the disk flowers, those minute 

 blooms covering the cone, are a dull 

 greenish color, instead of yellow, and the 

 whole flower larger. In the doubling up 

 df the Golden Glow, these disk Bowers 

 have changed into ray flowers. The 

 black-eyed Susan will thrive in dry soil, 

 but the other being indigenous to tin- 

 borders of swamps and low meadows, 

 requires a fair amount of moisture. The 

 origin of this double form is yet unsolved. 

 About 1894 John Lewis Childs found it 

 in his grounds among some unknown 

 plants sent him by some of his customers. 

 Prom it he increased the stock that has, 

 in the main, reached the gardens of the 

 United States and Europe. 



While I bought three plants in the 

 spring of 1896 from Mr. Childs, I had 

 three given me in the fall of 189." by Mr. 

 Jensen, the superintendent of Humboldt 

 Park, Chicago, who called it a double A'. 

 laciniata. Mr. Childs gave it the name 

 Golden Glow, and I bought from him in 

 order to compare it with those received 

 from Mr. Jensen. They proved identical. 

 Mr. Jensen had seen, in the fall of 1895, a 

 large clump of it in the garden of a ( Ger- 

 man in Chicago who had received it a 

 year or so before from a relative, and 

 traded some geraniums for a few roots. 

 This traces it back to 1893 or 1894. At 

 this later date it was blooming both in 

 Mr. Child's place and in Chicago. 



A writer in an English paper about a 

 year ago claimed that it was introduced 

 to English gardens nearly twenty years 

 ago under the name R. laevigata. Mr. 

 Falconer in an editorial note in Garden- 

 ing dispels this illusion in a clear and 

 forcible manner. The mere fact that a 

 plant so attractive in all its parts, so 

 hardy in constitution, so readily grown 

 and rapidly increased, was unknown in 

 this country until within the past few 

 rears, even in the largest collections and 



among the most intelligent professionals 

 and amateurs, is evidence enough that it 

 was not known in English gardens twenty 

 years ago. 



The group illustrated is composed of 

 the three plants obtained from Mr. Childs 

 which were placed in their present posi- 

 tion in the spring of 1896. Some young 

 plants from the outside of the group have 

 been taken away. The group is sup- 

 ported and protected from damage by 

 the winds by an iron hoop four feet in 

 diameter placed about four feet from the 

 ground and fastened to four strong stakes 

 set among the plants. This is put in 

 place when the plants are some five feet 

 high. The hoop — which is of round iron 

 — is slipped over nearly all the plants. 

 Enough of the outer row of stalks are 

 left outside the hoop to hide it and the 

 stakes; these are then distributed evenly 

 along the hoop and tied loosely, allow- 

 ing each stalk three or four inches play. 

 When a heavy rain accompanied by winds 

 comes they are apt to become top heavy 

 and may break. In such cases I run tem- 

 porarily a heavy but soft string around 

 the whole group, well up towards the 

 top, and draw it in quite closely — thus 

 bunching it as one would a sheaf of 

 wheat. This is removed when the storm 

 is over and the blooms dried off. In this 

 way one stalk supports the other and 

 damage is seldom done. It is such a 

 striking ornamental group upon the 



lawn, that it pays to devote some extra 

 care to it. The drip from a lawn hose 

 connection is carried under this group by 

 tiles, thus affording it an extra amount 

 of moisture. Where plants are not given 

 enough water the blooms are much 

 smaller. 



Mr. A. Herrington, of New Jersey, is 

 blooming this year the English plant 

 under the name of Autumn Glory, and we 

 would like to hear from him. 



W. C. Egan. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



It seems strange that these very useful 

 plants are not more generally grown by 

 florists, especially such as afford good 

 flowers for cutting. Perhaps one reason, 

 if not the chief, is the general impression 

 that spring is the only proper time for 

 planting all herbaceous perennials. This 

 is not the case, as a large proportion do 

 much better if planted during the last of 

 Augu >t and the whole of September; 

 others if planted in October and first half 

 of November. The spring here is so short 

 as a rule, and the early flowering species 

 and varieties start so quickly into growth, 

 that quite often a season is lost by put- 

 ting off planting till spring. 



We have had great success in planting 

 spring and early summer flowering plants 

 during August and September; late sum- 

 mer and fall flowering plants in October 



RUDBECKIA LACINIATA FL PL. 



