Fig. 2199. A Group of Tropical Plants in Queen Victoria, Niagara Falls Park, 



During the Summer of 1901. 



THE EULALIAS. 



tN a late number of your journal you 

 proposed securing- for your members 

 ^ Rudbeckia purpurea. I tried to grow 

 it at the Falls and failed. I blamed it to 

 the plant being- rather tender ; if so here, 

 then it would not give satisfaction in other 

 parts of the province. How do others find 

 it ? It may be that the excessive moisture 

 here does not suit it. 



In place of Rudbeckia purpurea, I would 

 recommend some of the Eulalias, of which 

 there is a number of varieties, and I am sure 

 all that went to the Pan American this sum- 

 mer could not fail to take notice of the 

 beautiful bed of them there. In my esti- 

 mation it was the best bed on the grounds, 

 and it contained Eulalia zebrina ; Eulalia 

 Japonica ; E. Japodica variegata, and E. 



geacillinia ; Gynerium argentium or Pampas 

 grass of South America; also Arundo donex, 

 of which there is a variegated variety. (See 

 Fig-. 2200.) I inclose you a photograph of 

 the green one if worthy of notice. The 

 above bed was bordered by the beautiful 

 Pennisetum ruppelianum, which is grown 

 from seeds in the early spring, although they 

 can be kept in a greenhouse and divided by 

 the roots in the spring. There are other 

 similar plants that could be added to this 

 collection, such as the Bamboos — the com- 

 mon, the golden and the variegated — and 

 even the sugar cane and many others. 

 Again what is more beautiful than a few 

 individual plants of the above standing or 

 planted here and there on any lawn ? 

 Niagara Falls. R. Cameron, 



