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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



In the doubling up of the Golden Glow, 

 these disk flowers have changed into ray 

 ilowers. The black-eyed Susan will 'thrive 

 in dry soil, but the other being indigenous 

 to the borders of swamps and low meadows, 

 requires a fair amount of moisture. The 

 origin of this double form is yet unsolved. 

 About 1894 John Lewis Childs found it in 

 his grounds among some unknown plants 

 sent him by some of his customers. From 

 it he increased the stock that has, in the 

 main, reached the gardens of the United 

 States and Europe. 



' While I bought three plants in the spring 

 of 1896 from Mr. Childs, I had three given 

 me in the fall of 1895 by Mr. Jensen, the 

 superintendent of Humboldt Park, Chicago, 

 who callfJ ii ;i douoic K 1 .ci. 1. .,. \\ , 

 Childs gave it the name Golden Glow, and I 

 bought from him in order to compare it with 

 those received from Mr. Jensen. They 

 proved identical. Mr. Jensen had seen, in 

 the fall of 1895, a large clump of it in the 

 •garden of a German in Chicago who had re- 

 ceived it a year or so before from a rela- 

 tive, and traded some geraniums for a few 

 Toats. This traces it back to 1893 or 1894. 

 •At this later date it was blooming both in 

 Mr. Child's place and in Chicago. 



A writer in an English paper about a 

 year ago claimed that it was introduced to 

 English gardens nearly twenty years ago 

 under the name R. laevigata. Mr. Fal- 

 coner in an editorial note in Gardening dis- 

 pels this illusion in a clear and forcible man- 

 lier. The mere fact that a plant so attrac- 

 ,tive in all its parts, so hardy in constitution, 

 so readily grown and rapidly increased, was 

 unknown in this country until within the 

 past few years, even in the largest collec- 



tions and among the most intelligent pro- 

 fessionals and amateurs, is evidence enough 

 that it was not known in English gardens 

 twenty years ago. 



; The group illustrated is composed of 

 three plants obtained from Mr. Childs which 

 were placed in their present position in the 

 spring of 1896. Some young plants from 

 the outside of the group have been taken 

 away. The group is supported and pro- 

 tected from damage by the winds by an iron 

 hoop four feet in diameter placed about four 

 feet from the ground and fastened to four 

 strong stakes set among the plants. This 

 is put in place when the plants are some five 

 feet high. The hoop — which is of round 

 iron — is slipped over nearly all the plants. 

 Enough of the outer row of stalks are left 

 outside the hoop to hide it and the stakes ; 

 these are then distributed evenly along the 

 hoop and tied loosely, allowing each stock 

 three or four inches play. When a heavy 

 rain, accompanied by winds, comes they are 

 apt to become top heavy and may break. 

 In such cases I run temporarily a heavy but 

 soft string around the whole group, well up 

 towards the top, and draw it in quite close- 

 ly — thus bunching it as one would a sheaf 

 of wheat. This is removed when the storm 

 is over and the blooms dried off. In this 

 way one stalk supports the other and dam- 

 age is seldom done. It is such a striking 

 ornamental group upon the lawn that it pays 

 to devote some extra care to it. The drip 

 from a lawn hose connection is carried un- 

 der this group by tiles, thus affording it an 

 extra amount of moisture. Where plants 

 are not given enough water the blooms are 

 much smaller. — Gardening. 



