16 MIDSUMMER AND AUTUMN FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



Gen, Canrobert Pure yellow. A fine full flower; early. 



Criterion Bright yellow. 



Aurore Boreale Orange and salmon. 



Paftlo Rose tinged with purple, beautifully fringed. 



Heda Bright amaranth, very showy. 



Rosina A beautiful pink variety. 



The Dahlia 



is still recognized as a most valuable fall flowering plant, but it is not nearly 

 so popular now as it was some years ago. The culture is so easy and so well 

 understood that I do not deem it necessary to refer to it in this article. 

 Neither will I occupy your time in naming and describing the many select 

 kinds now grown the names of which are to be found in the Trade 

 Catalogues. 



The Tritoma Uvaria, 



sometimes called the Red Hot Poker or Flame Flower, blooms in Sep- 

 tember. Its flower stems are from three to five feet high, and are terminated 

 with spikes a foot long, of pendent red and orange scarlet tubular flowers, 

 resembling the plumes of a soldier's cap. In the mixed border these plants 

 are very showy and effective, and they are also very useful in the centre of 

 beds, of autumn flowering plants. 

 A late flowering 



Spiraea, called Callosa Alba 



must not be overlooked in a collection of midsummer flowering shrubs. The 

 plant is of dwarf, compact habit, almost round, always forms a pretty speci- 

 men, and produces white flowers. It commences to blossom in July when 

 all the other Spiraeas are out of flower, and continues in bloom nearly all sum- 

 mer. For the edges of borders, or employed as a single specimen, I know 

 of no shrub that is more elegant and useful in a garden. 



Hardy Roses. 



A few of the finest autumn flowering varieties may be named as follows : 

 Alfred Colomb, Marguerite de St. Amande, La France, Countess of Serenye, 

 Paul Neyron. 



