AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



Flowers for the Wild Garden 



(A) Choice wild flowers which should not be taken from the woods 

 even for garden purposes and which, if ordered from dealers, should 

 be nursery-grown, not collected: 



Native orchids, especially lady's Fringed gen- 

 slippers tian Gentiana crinita 



Mountain lau- (P) 



rel Kalmia latifolia Giant laurel . . Rhododendron 



Trailing arbu- maximum (S) 



tus Epigaearepens(P) 



(B) Common wild flowers that improve greatly in cultivation and 

 are easy to grow. These are in no danger of extermination: 



Yarrow Achillea Millefo- Oswego tea. . . .Monarda didyma 



Hum (P) 



Joe-Pye-weed .Eupatorium pur- Asters and gold- 



pureum (P) enrods 



Bugbane Cimicifuga race- Button snake- 



mosa (P) root Eupatorium ag- 



eratoides (P) 



Flowers for the Desert Garden 



The following have withstood twenty degrees below zero, F. 

 Good drainage in winter is essential. 



Yucca filamentosa Opuntia Camanchica 



Yucca glauca (angustifolia) Opuntia Camanchica, var. gi- 



Mammillaria Missouriensis gantea 



Mammillaria vivipara Opuntia fragilis 



Echinocereus viridiflorus Opuntia mesacantha, vars. 



Echinocactus Simpsoni Greenii cymochila, macrorhiza 

 Echinocactus Simpsoni, var. Opuntia phseacantha, var. major 



minor Opuntia polyantha, vars. albis- 



Opuntia arenaria pina and Watsoni 

 Opuntia arborescens 



Vines for City Walls and Porches 



Boston ivy. . . .Ampelopsis tri- 

 cuspidata 



English ivy Hedera Helix 



Virginia creep- 

 er Ampelopsis quin- 



quefolia 

 Dutchman's 



pipe Aristolochia mac- 



rophylla 



Ampelopsis Veitchii 



Trumpet creep- 

 er Tecoma radicans 



Clematis spp. 



Actinidiaarguta 



Akebia quinata 



Wistaria Chin- 

 ensis 



Lonicera Japon- 

 ica 



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