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How to Make a Flower Garden 



Bedding plants — Continued 



White flowers: 

 Agcratuni coiiy^oidcs. 

 Alyssum, Sweet, Alyssitin inaritimum. 

 Phlox Druiniuo)idii. 

 Verbena spp. 



Red flowers: 

 Begonia Vernon. 

 Ciiphea tricolor. 

 Phlox Druminondii. 

 Salvia splendens. 



Perennials from Japan — Continued 



Petasites Japonica, var. gigantea. 



Sedunt Siebaldii 



Thcrinopsis fabacea. 

 Six hardy bulbs from Japan: 



Black Lil}', Fritillaria Camschatccnsis. 



Lilium speciosum. 



Lily, Tiger, Lilium tigrintini. 



Lycoris sanguinea. 



Lycoris squamigera. 



Narcissus Tasetta. 



PLANTS FROM JAPAN 

 (See Chapter XVI) 



Comparatively few people can afford a 

 "Japanese garden," but no one need deprive 

 himself of a "Japanese comer" or "Japanese 

 border" in which the most interesting plants 

 of Japan may be grown by themselves 

 according to American floricultural methods. 

 No equal area in the world furnishes so large 

 a list of desirable ornamental plants as Japan. 

 Ten of the flowers most popular in Japan: 



Apricot, Japanese, Primus Munic. 



Cherry, Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus. 



Chrysanthemum spp. 



Iris, Japanese, Iris laevigata. 



Lily, Japanese, Lilium auratum. 



Maple (autumn leaves considered as 

 "flowers"). 



Morning-glory, I pomoea spp. 



Peony, Pcconia spp. 



Plum, Japanese, Prunus iriflora. 



Quince, Japanese, Cydonia Japonica. 

 Six shrubs from Japan: 



Aucuba Japonica. 



Bamboo, Bambusa pygmcea 



Cherry, Flowering, Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus. 



Fatsia Japonica (Japanese rice paper 

 plant). 



Ligustrum Japonicuni. 



Rhodotypos Kerrioides. 

 Twenty perennials from Japan suited for the 

 hardy border: 



A)icinone cernua. 



Anemone Japonica. 



Aralia cordaia. 



Aquilegia Buergeriana. 



Aster Tataricus. 



Astilbe Japonica. 



Campanula punctata. 



Dicentra spectabilis. 



Epimedium ntacranthum. 



Eulalia, Miscanthus spp. 



Funkia spp. 



Hemerocallis spp. 



Iris Icevigata. 



Lily, Japanese, Lilium auratum. 



Ophiopogon spp. 



Peon3^ PcBonia officinalis. 



Peony Tree, Pceonia Moutan. 



WILD GARDENS (See Chapter XVII) 



Six choice wild flowers and ferns: 



These plants should not be taken from the 



wild even for garden purposes. If 



ordered from dealers, be sure they are 



nursery-grown, not collected. 

 All native orchids, especially Lady's- 



slippers, Cypripedium spp. 

 Arbutus, Trailing, Epigcea repots. 

 Fringed Gentian, Gentiana cri)iita. 

 Hartford Fern, Lygodium palmatum. 

 Laurel, Giant, Rhododendron maximum. 

 Walking Fern, Ca)npiosorus rJiizophyllus. 

 Six wild flowers of easy cultivation that 



bloom in eai-ly spring: 

 Bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis. 

 Everlasting, Antennaria plantaginifolia. 

 Hepatic a triloba. 



Squirrel Corn, Dicentra Canadensis. 

 Spring Beauty, Claytonia Virginica. 

 Wind-fiower, Anemone nemorosa. 

 Six robust-growing plants of the class which 



the beginner should start with: 

 Artichoke, Jerusalem, Helianthus iuberosus. 

 Elder, common, Sambucus Canadotsis. 

 Joe-Pye-weed, Eupaiorium purpurcuin. 

 Poppy, Plume, Bocconia cordaia. 

 Rudbcckia laciniata. 

 Teasel, Fuller's, Dipsacus fulkmum. 

 Six wild flowers that are easily grown from 



seed: 

 Bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadoisis. 

 Cardinal Flower, I^ohclia cardinalis. 

 Columbine, Aquilci^iu Canadensis. 

 Cone-flower, Rudbcckia liirta. 

 Aster, New England, Aster Novcc Anglce. 

 Sunflower, Graceful, Helianthus orgyalis. 

 Six hardy exotic perennials that are easily 



raised from seed and are suitable for the 



wild garden: 

 Aquilegia atro purpurea. 

 Larkspur, Delphinium formosum. 

 Poppy, Iceland, Papaver nudicaule. 

 Rock-cress, Arabis albida. 

 Rocket, Sweet, Hesperis matronalis. 

 Snapdragon, Antirrhinum ma jus. 

 Six wild flowers that will bloom in April or 



earlier: 

 Anemone nemorosa (wind flower). 



