Round the Year in the Garden 



those that are at their best at this period the St. John's 

 Worts, or Hypericurns, late Ceanothus and Heaths are 

 prominent. But others are worthy of notice. The Syrian 

 Mallow (Hibiscus syriacus), for instance, is covered with 

 showy single or double flowers, white, blue, purple or red. 

 Clerodendron trichotomum, a large bush from China and 

 Japan, is another attractive shrub at this time. It grows 

 12 or 15 feet high, and is conspicuous by reason of its large 

 heart-shaped leaves and flat heads of white flowers, which 

 contrast finely with the red calyx lobes. There are 

 certain Spiraeas, too, which call for notice, such as japonica, 

 salicifolia and Menziesii. Ligustrum Quihoui is a white- 

 flowered Privet now in bloom, while a showy red-flowered 

 shrub is noticeable in Lespedeza bicolor. Caryopteris 

 mastacanthus bears showy blue flowers during late August 

 and September, and a companion plant is its white- 

 flowered variety candicans. The tubular-flowered Cle- 

 matis of the heraclaefolia class is resplendent with blue 

 flowers, while various other kinds of Clematis are now in 

 bloom. 



A Useful Climber. One of the most useful of quick 

 growing climbing plants is burdened with the name of 

 Polygonum baldschuanicum ; it is now in flower for the 

 second time this season, and one is reminded of its value 

 in the garden. It forms long, slender shoots and makes 

 an admirable screen in the course of a year or two. It is 

 sometimes trained over evergreen trees, and there it looks 

 especially well. Its shoots are not sufficiently vigorous to 

 do the tree much harm, and against the dark foliage its 

 bunches of creamy-white blossom in May, and again in 

 late summer, show finely. A native plant, the Traveller's 

 Joy (Clematis Vitalba), is equally noteworthy ; it is of most 

 rampant growth. It is now in full bloom, though its chief 

 attractiveness will not be apparent until the silky fluffy 

 fruits have developed. The Virgin's Bower (Clematis 

 flammula) is another luxuriant climber bearing white, 

 sweet-scented flowers at this season. 



