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Best Twelve Perennials. 



TriUium grandiflomm Campanula persicifolia 



Merieyisia Virginica Papaver orientale 



Asclepias tuherosa Dictamnus Fraxinella 



Lupinus polt/phylhis Veronica longijolia siihsessilis 



Aconitum autumnale Helianthus mollis 



Anemone Japonica Lychnis viscaria, flare pleno. 

 with alternatives of Delphinium, Phlox, Iris, Pceonia, and Aqui- 

 legia. 



Best Twelve Ferns. 



Aspidium marginale Adiantuvi pedatum 



" acrostic hoides Phegopteris hcxaganoptera 



" Goldieanum Woodwardia angustifolia 



Osmunda cinnamomea " Virginica 



" Claytoniana Dicksonia punctilobula 



" regalis Onoclea Struthiopteris 



Mr. Orpet said that the Veronica longijolia, var. subsessilis was 

 one of the best hardy perennials and if he could only choose one 

 out of them all it would be this. Lilies have a habit of disappearing 

 after a year or two; also the new Japanese varieties of tree peonies, 

 with large single flowers, are not hardy and die out after a few years. 

 He said that no remedy was known for the hollyhock disease. He 

 did not approve of spreading manure on the flower-bed borders; 

 it was unsightly and hard to scrape off. The better way was to 

 thoroughly mix it with the soil at the beginning and to renew it in 

 the same way when necessary. 



Mr. Orpet stated that Ajiemone Japonica is a doubtful plant, and 

 he left out Lilium candidum because he had found a better one to 

 put in. He never dreamed of planting Lilium tenuifolium in New 

 England; he knew of no more treacherous plant. It would be all 

 right if you could grow it but it is certain to die out. He recom- 

 mended instead Lilium pomponiuvi. He doubted if there was a 

 bulb of the new Lilium Sutchuense in this country. Lilies should 

 be planted a spade's depth, or about twelve inches, so as to get the 

 stem roots which are emitted above the bulb. 



