JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER. ]9y 



frequent companion of the Milla hifiora, and has 

 graceful little clusters of pumpkin-orange flowers 

 striped with cream-color ; the leaves are also grass- 

 like. Both flowers bloom in summer. The Cyclo- 

 hothra flava is a pretty little russet-yellow flower 

 which I grow with the foregoing in one of the large 

 tubs of my garden, where these dainty characters will 

 show to the best advantage. Its slim stems remind 

 one slightly of carnation stalks ; the flowers are 

 shaped like tiny inverted tulips. It is a native of 

 California, and belongs to the Lily family. 

 Spanish Bayonet, ^he yuccas {fiUmentosa and aloi- 

 j ucca filamentosa folio) are Southern plants, extend- 

 « oi;io HI. j^^^ ^^^^^ Mexico, and are cultivated 



for ornament; they are not quite hardy in the ex- 

 treme IS^orth, but in I^ew York and southward they 

 stand the winter cold well. Y. angtistifoUa and 

 gloriosa are less frequently met with. The flowers 

 are all a beautiful cream- white color ; sometimes they 

 are tinged with purple. They bloom in summer. 



Tritoma. Ti'itoma is an old-fashioned favorite 



Tritoma Uvaria. -^yliich goes by the popular name of 

 red-hot-poker, aiid warms up the garden by bloom- 

 ing in late summer. It comes from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. The flowers are most peculiarly graded 

 through yellow into dull scarlet, without seeming to 

 touch orange ; they look like exaggerated grape- 



