Flo^H 



AND LAWN 



TIMELY TOPICS FOR THE AMATEUR.— XIII, 



'N the February, number of the Horti- 

 culturist a list was given of what may 

 be very properly termed iron-clad and 

 ^j easy-to-grow varieties of herbaceous 

 perennials, or permanent border plants, as 

 well as a short list of annuals suitable for 

 young" beg^inners, or those inexperienced in 

 plant culture. Many of the varieties there 

 mentioned are possibly well-known to readers 

 of the Journal, and may, perhaps, have 

 been g-rown by them, as with a few excep- 

 tions most of them can be fairly classed 

 amongst what are generally styled as old- 

 fashioned flowers. But this is no reason for 

 discarding or rejecting them from our gar- 

 dens of the present day, more especially as 

 this class of plants are again becoming pop- 

 ular with the flower-loving public, chiefly for 

 ornamenting lawns and flower gardens. 

 The production of a better type of plant and 

 flower than the originals, as well as the in- 

 troduction of new species and varieties, has 

 doubtless aided greatly in bringing these 

 pretty and useful plants into deserving pop- 

 ularity again, after a period of apparent 

 neglect. 



Some of the plants mentioned may not, 

 perhaps, be as suitable for town or city 

 gardens as the more choice greenhouse 



plants, but a judiciously selected and well- 

 grown collection of herbaceous perennials is 

 an acquisition to any lawn or flower garden, 

 whether in town or country. 



To the list of plants already referred to 

 may be added a few low-growing flowering 

 shrubs, provided there is room in the border 

 for them. The double flowering Spirea 

 prunifolia, Kerria Japonica, Wigelia rosea 

 and W. alba, Deutzia gracilis, Deutzia par- 

 viflora, Spirea bumalda, Spirea Anthony 

 Waterer — one of the premiums for 1901 — 

 and a plant of the herbaceous hibiscus 

 (Crimson Eye), will be found suitable for 

 planting in a mixed border of plants. 



The taller growing deutzias, forsythias, 

 lilacs, spireas, etc., might possibly be used 

 in a border of large dimensions, but for use 

 on small lawns these latter are better suited 

 for planting as single specimens, or to hide 

 from view some unpicturesque feature in the 

 back-ground, such as fences or out-buildings- 



No mixed border, however, would be 

 complete without a few hardy garden lilies. 

 One of the best of these is the grand old 

 Lilium tigrinum (tiger lily), a variety 

 seldom seen in gardens at the present time. 

 Lilium candidum, Lilium superbum, and L. 

 Canadense, are also among the best kinds 



