406 Calendar of Plants and Shrubs 



to this little shrub: the other species, S. glomer^ta, is quite or- 

 namental. 



Hydrangeas yet remain in beauty, although not in so high a 

 state, as in the previous month. Annuals are in general in the 

 greatest perfection this month, and expand a profusion of flowers. 

 It is hardly necessary to particularize any, as they are nearly all 

 beautiful in a greater or less degree, and should b« in every garden 

 where there is sufficient room. We may here, however, be per- 

 mitted to mention a few of the choicest, though we may have, in- 

 cidentally, done so before. 



All the varieties of double asters must be grown for a display 

 of flowers in the months of September and October: the yellow, 

 white, and purple sweet sultans, are very elegant: balsams are 

 showy: poppies, if good sorts are selected, are extremely splen- 

 did when planted in patches or beds by themselves: the tall 

 branching double, and the rocket larkspurs, have a fine appear- 

 ance; white and purple petunias, nemophilas, clarkias, gilias, 

 particularly that fine species tricolor, eternal flowers, zinnias, 

 stocks, marygolds, hibiscuses, candy-tufts, madias, coreopsis, the 

 dwarf convolvulus, verbenas, globe amaranthuses, calendrinias, 

 schizanthuses, and, indeed, many more well known kinds, which 

 it would be superfluous to enumerate, should be cultivated. 



The herbaceous climbing plants in flower now are Calampelis 

 scabra, exceedingly beautiful, Lophospermum erubescens, Mau- 

 randya Barclaydna, Cob^'a scandens, Ipomas^a Quamoclit, both 

 the red and white convolvuluses, &c. Of shrubby kinds, Bignon- 

 ia radicans; in the early part of the month Clematis virgini- 

 ana, and in the latter fuU as ornamental with its seeds. 



October. — Quite a change now takes place in the aspect of the 

 garden: if, however, the weather remains warm and pleasant, this 

 change is less perceived until late in the month; but in seasons 

 Hke the present there will not be much to admire. We do not 

 anticipate such cold and backward years as the present one has 

 been, and we shall therefore intend our remarks to apply to more 

 favorable ones, as we in the first paper of this series hinted; 

 there would then be many plants in fufl beauty. Dahlias still 

 continue to flower well, and are the finest ornaments of the gar- 

 den. Among the herbaceous plants. Delphinium exaltatum and 

 elatum are in flower; Potentilla RusselKdna and nepalensis, 

 Pentstemon ovatum, roseura and pulchellum: ^tatice Gmelina 

 and latifoHa, valuable as flowering all summer: Catananche bicolor, 

 Campanula pyramidalis and carpatica. Lobelia speciosa and sy- 

 philitica, Dracocephalum virginianum. Coreopsis lanceolata, 

 -Reseda odorata var. frutescens, Eschscholtzia californica and 

 crocea. Phlox cordata, americana, decussata alba, pyramidaUs 

 penduliflora, roseum, and some others; O'xalis Deppei and 

 Bowiet: that elegant indigenous plant, Gentidna crinita, blooms 



