FOR LOVERS OF FLOWERS. 



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Single Blue. — Blondin, . porcelain-blue, 

 large bells ; Queen of the Blues, light sil- 

 very-blue ; Grand Lilas, fine porcelain-blue, 

 large spike, the best blue ; King of the 

 Blues, deep glossy blue. 



Single White — Baroness Van Thuyll, 

 fine white, compact spike, early ; Albertine, 

 pure white, early ; LaGrandesse, pure 

 white, the best white. 



A Glimpse Into One of Perth's Lovely Gardens. 



The above illustration shows a lovely walk in the garden of one of The Horticulturist's readers 

 located in Perth. There are four of these walks in this garden, the one shown being about 115 feet in length. 

 This garden has been laid out since the first settlement of the town and is not unlike many old Scotch and English 

 gardens. It is in the very middle of the town with a narrow frontage on the street enclosed by a stone wall and 

 runs irregularly in the centre of the block in squares of fruit trees and vegetables. The borders of this walk as 

 well as the other three, are filled with roses and lilies, pcenies, ires, phlox, dahlias and many other flowers. In mid- 

 summer sweet peas fill in many gaps and a veritable bower of beauty is the result. Meetings of the Perth Horti- 

 cultural Society are sometimes held in the garden during the summer and always prove interesting. 



NARCISSUS FOR THE HOUSE — IN ORDER OP 

 FORCING. 



Single.— Chinese Sacred Lily, white, with 

 yellow cup ; Paper White, pure white ; 

 Trumpet Major, yellow perianth and trum- 

 pet ; Golden Spur, yellow perianth and 

 trumpet ; Emperor, large trumpet, yellow ; 

 Trumpet Princeps, sulphur-yellow perianth, 

 yellow trumpet ; Horsfieldi, white perianth 



and yellow 

 trumpet ; Sir 

 Watkin, sul- 

 phur-yellow pe- 

 tals, large cup, 

 yellow tinged 

 with orange, 

 sweet scented ; 

 Parri Conspic- 

 uus, pale yel- 

 low petals, cup 

 orange - scarlet, 

 "weet scented ; 

 Bicolor Gran- 

 dis, white peri- 

 anth and yel- 

 low trumpet. 



Double.~Van 

 S i o n. Double 

 yellow daflfo- 

 dil : S u 1 p h ur 

 Phoenix, beau- 

 tiful creamy- 

 white, sweet 

 scented. 



Plantain and Lilac Bushes 



PROF. H. L. HUTT, ONT, AGRI. COLLEGE, 

 GUELPH. 



Is there any way to rid a lawn of plantain 

 other than by digging up each plant separately? 

 If so, what should be done ? How can lilac 

 sprouts, which sipring up around and some dis- 

 tance from lilac busihes, be eradicated? — (Miss 

 F. G. Phelps, Mohawk, Ont. 



There is no practicable way of getting rid 

 of plantain in a lawn except by spudding 

 out each plant separately. This ir.ay re- 

 quire considerable patience and persever- 

 ance, but if persistently followed they 



can in a short time be eradicated. 

 Suckering lilacs can only be kept in 

 bound by digging up the suckers as they 

 spread. Some varieties spread in this way 

 much worse than others, and where the 

 bushes are not specially desirable varieties, 

 it may be well to dig them out entirely and 

 plant others not so likely to spread by suck- 

 ering. It is difficult to give information as 

 to which varieties are most subject to suck- 

 ering, as various kinds are used for stocks 

 upon which the choi^ce varieties are budded. 



