254 Calendar of Plants and Shrubs 



of the shoot ; this often has the desired effect — although it is 

 frequently the case that the plant, by thus stopping it, is stimu- 

 lated to make lateral growths. Yours, 



J. W. Russell. 

 Mount Auburn, Cambridge, May, 1836. 



Art. V. Calendar of Plants and Shrubs in bloom from the 

 monthof Mayto October, inclusive. By the Conductors. 



We frequently hear the question asked, what plants and shrubs 

 are in flower dm-ing the months of May, June, July, &c., in the 

 open garden ; and what kinds, especially of perennials, will pre- 

 sent a good display in a small garden, in each month tlu'oughout 

 the season ? With the hope that we may in a measure answer 

 these questions, and at the same time contribute some informa- 

 tion to our readers, we have looked over our horticultural memo- 

 randa, where we have noted down much that is useful as well as 

 interesting, and selected such plants and shrubs as we have, 

 upon the average of several seasons, found in bloom in each 

 month. Frequently, from the prevalence of cold easterly winds 

 in the month of May, or from the effects of late frosts, many 

 plants, which, in some years, are in full flower early in the month, 

 do not expand, in others, until the latter part, or even until June. 

 But as these backward seasons are few, and do not occur oftener 

 than once or twice in the course of several years, these observa- 

 tions may be considered as applying to seasons in general. In 

 July and August, we have never observed scarcely any difference 

 in the period of the blooming of plants, however so early the 

 season commenced, or how protracted during the months of 

 April or May. In July, vegetation is sufficiently rapid to make 

 up for the slowness of growth in the spring months, and it is 

 only through the former that occasionally our gardens are unat- 

 tractive, and barren of bloom. 



We have often thought that a catalogue of perennial herbaceous 

 plants, drawn up, with the season of the flowering of each spe- 

 cies and variety, would be very useful to persons who are desi- 

 rous of purchasing plants to ornament a small garden ; and we 

 were in hopes that some of our correspondents, more able, per- 

 haps, from local circumstances, to do so than ourselves, would 

 have sent in a paper upon this important subject ; but as we 



