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less varieties. What a variety of form in the narcissuses ! What a 

 wealth of colors in the tulips ! Their season is fully a month, and 

 before it is done the early flowering herbaceous plants are showing- 

 bloom, and the flowering shrubs have begun a display that will 

 end only with fall. By May scores of hardy shrubs and plants 

 are in bloom — creeping Phloxes, Columbines, Doronicums, Ori- 

 ental Poppies, German and Siberian Irises, and in shrubs. Lilacs, 

 early Spirseas, Japan Quinces, Magnolias, and Mollis and Ghent 

 Azaleas, and we must not forget the hardy climbers, of which the 

 Clematis, in its numerous splendid varieties, covers a season of 

 fully six months and with which alone a most charming and 

 interesting garden could be made. June brings such a wealth of 

 bloom that we are at a loss as to what to use and what to reject. 

 Rhododendrons in many varieties and colors, Kalmias, Candidum 

 and Elegans Lilies, and hardy Roses are the flowers, perhaps, that 

 hold the greatest share of our admiration at this season, and if 

 June gave us hardy roses alone, our garden should be satisfactory. 

 The memory of a fine collection of hardy roses in full bloom is 

 worth more than all the ribbon and carpet beds ever devised, and 

 and in saying this, it is with full knowledge of the much advertised 

 rolls of carpet, vases, worlds of flowers, etc., with which South 

 Park delights the citizens of Chicago. 



I fear that much of the benefit of the example of Mr. Olmsted's 

 and Mr. Codmau's work at the World's Fair was lost. It was so 

 well done and so naturally done that a majority of the visitors 

 never suspected that a landscape gardener had been employed. 



After the glorious beauty of June we might be content to have 

 our garden tame for a month or two. But there is no need for 

 tameness. At the beginning of July the magnificent Japanese 

 Irises are in bloom, than which there is nothing finer. Wealthy 

 men build and maintain glass houses at great expense to shelter 

 things not half so fine. After the Irises come the Japanese Lilies, 

 and with a little management these will give a brave show of 

 bloom throughout the summer and fall until frost comes. To 

 carry us through the summer we have also tall Phloxes, Yuccas, 

 Rudbeckias, Gaillardias, Tiger Lilies, Hollyhocks — single and 

 double — Campanulas, Rugosa Roses, Day Lilies, Althaeas, 

 Hydrangeas, Tamarix, hardy Sunflowers, and a host of other good 

 things that the time at our disposal will not permit us to consider. 

 That is one trouble with a paper on hardy plants and shrubs ; a 



