RUDBBCKIA. 



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ing, or in making changes, the matter should 

 be studied up from the front door steps, or 

 t'rom the most common point of view for 

 ;the family, and the work must be so done 

 ^that there shall be an unbroken expanse of 

 'green in the middle, with the trees and 

 'shrubs and flower borders around the out- 

 ride, thus getting 'the biggest handsome pic- 

 ture possible under the circumstances. We 

 •do not want a haphazzard, inartistic dotting 

 about of plants on our lawns, nor a Parisian 

 •rug, nor a set piece of mathematical patch- 

 work. Neither, on the other hand, do we 

 want a tangled wildwood. We want a 

 •solid background of dark green, with a scat- 

 •tered mass of lighter green flowering 

 •branches and the shrubbery nearer the eye 

 ■as a stand or set in our favorite place at the 



•house. If the neighboring lawns or fields 

 •are naturally or designedly beautiful, the 

 •boundary lines of the home grounds can be 

 •set sparsely with strips of grass between, so 

 •as to make the lawn seem to extend far 

 away. But if the adjoining areas are un- 

 sightly or neglected, then the boundary 

 •should be set so thickly as to hide the near- 

 by property, except where there is a fine dis- 

 tant scene, and then low shrubs can be made 

 to hide the near undesirable spots. In all 

 cases the arrangement should be as iniari:- 

 ficial as possible, unless the buildings are 

 large and architecturally ornate, when an 

 •artificial planting arrangement is proper and 

 often desirable. — D. A. A. Nichols, in 

 Weekly Illustrated Buffalo Express. 



RUDBECKIA, GOLDEN GLOW. 



IN the year 1898 I photographed a 

 group of Golden Glow, Rudbeckia, 

 and the picture is here reproduced. 

 •This species has now been widely dissemi- 

 •nated, forming one of a trio of most excel- 

 lent recent introductions. Hydrangea panic- 

 ulata grandiflora and Clematis paniculata 

 being the other two. It is a singular fact 

 that they all bloom la'Le in the season, when 

 most needed, and are all of the easiest cul- 

 ture. Each requires an ample supply of 

 moisture for the best results, and are per- 

 fectly hardy. Luckily they combine three 

 divisions of plant life, the shrub, the peren- 

 nial and the vine, Japan furnishes two of 

 them and the -western prairies the third, the 

 •Rudbeckia laciniata fl. pi. 

 • We are all familiar with the black-eyed 

 Susan, the Rudbeckia hirta of the botanists. 

 ;R. laciniata is a near relative, and in its typi- 

 cal form somewhat resembles it, except that 

 the disk flowers, those minute blooms cover- 

 ing the cone, are a dull greenish color, in- 

 stead of yellow, and the whole flower larger. 



Fig 2640, Golden Glow. 



