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GARDENING. 



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and first half of November. There have 

 been so many notes on herbaceous plants 

 in these columns in which time of flower- 

 ing and descriptions have been given that 

 it only seems necessary to give lists of 

 some of the plants we have successfully 

 planted at the seasons named. 



August and September— Achillea, aconi- 

 tum, alvssum, anthemis. anthericum, 

 aquilegia, arabis, campanula, centaurea, 

 cerastium, Clematis erects, coreopsis, del- 

 phinium, dianthus, dicentra. echinops, 

 ervngium, gaillardia, geranium, gypso- 

 phila, Helenium Boulanderii, hemerocallis, 

 iberis, iris, supinus, lychnis, ^lertensia 

 Virginica, monarda,myosotis, Oenothera, 

 papaver, pentstemon, phlox (spring 

 flowering), primula, pyrethrum, ranun- 

 culus, sedum, Spiraea hlipeniula R. pi., 

 thymus, trollius, veronica and viola. 



October and November — Aconitum au- 

 tumnale,AscIepias tuberosa, aster, astilbe, 

 boltenia, campunula (late flowering), 

 eulalia, funkia, Helenium autumnale, 

 helianthus, heliopsis, hibiscus, liatris, 

 paeonies, Phlox decussata varieties, Phlox 

 sutlruticosa varieties, rudbeckia, spiraea, 

 and many of those that will plant well 

 in August and September, 



Following are descriptions of some oi 

 our newest Phlox decussata varieties in 

 bloom during the week ending July 30: 



Coquelicot — Certainly one of the bright- 

 est, if not the brightest, phlox yet intro- 

 duced; it was awarded a first class cer- 

 tificate of merit by the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society of England. Flowers of 

 good size, bright salmon tinted with 

 orange, several shades brighter than 

 General Chauzy and Lothair. 



Esperence— Large flower, pink, light 

 center, solid rounded truss. Hardly 

 bright enough. 



Fernand Cortez— Catalogued as light 

 bronze, very good, but one has to look 

 very closely to see the bronze; large finely 

 shaped flowers, dark pink with bronze 

 tint toward the center. Trusses rounded 

 and very full. 



I.umineux — Large well formed flowers, 

 clear bright pink, lighter towards center; 

 solid rounded clusters. Somewhat like 

 I,e Soleil, but much brighter. 



Mars-le-Tours — Beautifully formed 

 flowers, bright carmine shaded to white, 

 solid pyramidal truss. The most distinct 

 of the set. 



Parachute — Dwart; crimson with light 

 center, panicles much branched. Distinct 

 in having the petals reflexed in the young 

 flowers. 



Rodin — Dwarf; well formed flowers, 

 lavender and white; trusses much 

 branched. Distinct but not very bright. 



Evenement — Large well formed flowers, 

 clear pink; good solid clusters. 



Fantasie— White, marbled with purplish 

 violet; rather dull and not distinct enough 

 from manv others. 



Lord Rayleigh— Large well formed 

 flowers, dark violet shading to blue. 

 The nearest to blue yet introduced. 

 Awarded first class certificate of merit 

 by the Royal Horticultural Society <>t 

 England. 



Mme. Miolan-Carvalho — Very large 

 flowers of good substance, creamy white, 

 slightlv feathered with pink. 



The following varieties are some we 

 imported from Scotland on account of 

 their extra large panicles: 



Bicolor— Flowers medium size, well 

 formed, light salmon pink with large well 

 defined bright crimson eye; trusses 

 pyramidal and branched. 



"Airs. Keynes— Flowers small, white, 

 slightly feathered with pink; large, well 

 branched pyramidal heads. 



Massachusetts. R. N. 



DEUTZIA SCABRA. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



SHRUBBERY NOTES. 



We are not quite within the Arctic cir- 

 cle at Builington, Vt., and we often think 

 that this is one of the prettiest towns in 

 the United States, but we all miss many 

 of the pretty shrubs and trees which are 

 hardy and thrifty in warmer climates. 

 When we go as far south as New York, 

 even, in the spring we see Forsythias and 

 Lonicera fragrantissima, which, though 

 the3 r grow here under protest, have a 

 strange look to us when we see strong, 

 thrift3' flowering specimens in Central 

 Park or in Prospect Park or at Morning- 

 side Heights. And a little later the mag- 

 nolias, rhododendrons and paulownias 

 look still stranger to our eyes. 



Hardiness against cold weather is an 

 important quality in shrubs for our gar- 

 dens, and we have a good opportunity to 

 judge which species are thoroughly relia- 

 ble. Among the spiraeas the Van Houttei 

 and S. aurea are by far the best. S.pruni- 

 folia and S. Thunbergii are planted in all 

 good borders, for they are almost indis- 

 pensable in spite of the fact that they 

 both usually kill back severely here. The 

 deutzias are commonly reliable here. This 

 spring they were especially fine, both D. 



gracilis and D. scahra carrying the finest 

 and heaviest loads of blossoms I ever 

 •saw. Lonicera Tartarica is hardy and is 

 frequently planted. The large snowball, 

 Viburnum Opulus, is frequently planted, 

 and though it does not kill back much, it 

 seems always to be unhealthy and much 

 subject to attacks of aphides. 



Probably the greatest favorite among 

 all hardy shrubs in this place is Hy- 

 drangea paniculata grandiSora, of which 

 one sees hundreds of plants in all sorts of 

 situations, good, bad and indifferent. 

 This beautiful plant is very frequently set 

 singly on the open lawn, a position in 

 which it almost never looks well. Single 

 plants must belargeand widely branched, 

 full clear to the ground, to look well; but 

 instead of that, it is the unfortunate prac- 

 tice to trim them uplike standard currant 

 or gooseberry bushes, leaving them naked 

 and graceless. They are best when thickly 

 planted in borders and when massed up 

 in front with some small plantlikeSp/ra?a 

 Thunbergii. Rosa rugosa seems to do 

 well here, but has been planted only a 

 little. The native dogwoods, of course, 

 are hardy and fine, though not often 

 enough used. Very few of the privets do 

 well here, and I think there is not a good 

 privet hedge in this vicinitv. 



F. A. Waugh. 



[Deutzia scabra is perhaps better known 

 as D. crenata. — Ed.] 



