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THE HERBACEOUS BORDER. 
ASTER MAACKIL 
MONGsT the most yo ap. озн looking and 
ir, Daisies now ower, Aster 
Maackii (Regel), а native of Japan, ан favo 
height is about 4 feet, t 
good, and the flower as large as that of A. nove 
anglie, the rays are — and е of a 
pale purplish-blue. It ə to m ars ago 
as a novelty from Mr. W. — ot I9seic, 
and spreada very moderately. I observe in Mr. 
son's seed catalogue Amur-land given as the 
habitat. C, Wolley Dod, Edge Hall, Sept, 29. 
Tun Нкввлскооѕ Puroxss, 
The Phlox being my favourite plant, and having 
grown it for years with some degree of success, I waa 
уаз by Мг, нане remarks at p. 325 concern- 
them. I that Mr, Douglas is writing 
t the shrubby Phlox es, viz., P. suffruticosa, or the 
garden form (P. omniflora), at "m since the greater 
portion of his notes bears no reference to this section, 
viz., P. decussata, The ections are too distinct 
to ixed by anyone, even esire it 
who require Phloxes ee are mostly п 
пре from 1 to 2 feet high, and а few kinda 
i 0 
hat we fiad in the herbaceous Phloxes, viz., 
the varieties P. decussata, The shrubby Phloxes 
more delicate; slugs are 
g the youn 
wise with the ед Phloxes, these growing 
arden. The 
in almost an fine variety Etna 
ымыр) 38 by Mr. Douglas, has saing 
кэш» очив whatever, This 
oubtedly belongs to 
Tae pr varieties mentioned ky am 
— 
with, Mr. Douglas says that the Paloxes of twenty- 
five years ago were too tall, and this was true 
enough of ше — but 
kinds also, 
ment of the dwarf kinds wig simis years since 
that figure among the bes to-da ut 
believe that height of stem is Tee due te кыйы 
as I find numbers of the old varieties which I h 
grown, fully 4 feet high, and completely folisged. i 
the ground at that height, emen in catalogues at 
the present time at 1j foot. These herbsceous 
Phloxes, when well grown, are йд the grandest 
ornaments of the garden, and those that require to be 
“masked by other plants” are certainly not well 
means, Phloxes which in dry seasons 
rowded shrubbery, or have been afforded insuf- 
fieient quantities of water, any one of which is quite 
to render them unsightly. I do not know 
e plant 
near to the water-tanks, and in summer-time, twice, 
and sometimes thrice weekly, the beds were flooded ; 
it во that the water should not run „атау, ^ ridge 
‘oth Жу f 
1з apparently a forgotten fact ese Phloxes, or 
at least the original species, Us mis if not es 
bog or plant, At any rate, there is n 
position in the garden that in summer time will suit 
them so well, I must also confess that ы _ little 
faith in pc reputed dwaríness of the kinds. 
Given the requisite treatment for full нне, 
there is — &Dy variety of this section known to 
me which will not, in the second year after plantipg, 
attain toa height of from 3 to 4 feet, These Ph 
although they flower well the frst, 
perfection till the second year, and this only when 
let alone. Mr, аргана — Matan if it is 
intended to ca n a second year. This is 
one of уы greatest pu errors ia Phlox culture, 
and is simply and surely the undoing of the first 
year’s 2m Such a system not only keeps the 
plants unnaturally dwarf, but it also, and that most 
— ually, — the development of the flower- 
heads ; and it ie oubt in a large degree due to 
this or — Кола that we eee these Paloxes 
so poorly grown generally, for it must assuredly 
w that &ny cultural treatment robbing the plant 
of * natural development уа the 
of these e ae Phloxes will produce emen 
panicles of bloom 1 to 14 foot through when well 
grown, irrespective of laterals ; but to get gns ee 
nt places, 
we 
om 
left undisturbed, and soaked with moistur 
summer, will, in 1897, produce from Pie to 
twenty-four much finer heads of bloom than ever, 
I note that Mr. Dougias would restrict the heads of 
bloom to three on = plant, 
stand the reason w To obtain th 
Em oung pla * from cut trae if ees 
slog thene, the fresh young g the out- 
cla 
s fro 
side of lar ia car —— Mil the hard 
** pot plante are shake 
i | free Е A ET 31 P TY 
aay 
them Dis FS ving any ашап 
suckers, reduce to one strong shoot, and in i 
planting 
spread the roots horizontally. The old stem should 
be buried at leaet 2 ee as the plants are great 
surface-rooters, Phloxes may be planted over a 
; en 
time supply them abandantly with water, and liquid- 
manure in plenty; and while a heavy malch of 
manure -— p^ ат — moisture must always 
ery essential to successful 
eee E. елй, ee Hill. 
THE WIZARD OF HORTICUL- 
TURE, 
Tun name and fame of Luther Burbank are world- 
wide, He was born in Lancaster, Worcester County, 
cima of plant life" and "The wizard of horticul- 
at eighteen years of age, after having received a 
liberal “фанер, Mr. orden nk went to Worceater, 
Mass., to wood-tur a 
fruits, 
Finding the clim ate of New England too severe 
for some of the 1 with which he was working, 
he removed to a Roea, California, са he has 
since lived, and pim his creative work i 
ducing new fruita, flowers, vegetables, trees, M 
and grasses has made his name famous; the tenente 
conferred by this work will be better known & 
^ Mei for it is a pioneer work, and the life 
of o n is too short to show the full € 
The a which Mr. Burbank is now would 
seem to be enough to occupy the tim d “abilities 
of a dozen men, and, not being satiated with the 
hardiness or habita of the m 
struggle with a brief summer perature of 
to 80° below zero [?]. Desert and mountain top, 
swamp and field, each have to ibute to his 
omnivorous p'ant workshop, and when the finished 
cross-bred Plum, a frost-reaisting berry, or a charming 
new Rose or Lily, he finds ready sale for it at prices 
which seem fabulous to those who do not know the 
coat of time, thought, and labour necessary for its 
production. 
From the multisude of — e each year, 
he selects a very few which, by their growth, show 
improvement over others a. their a sends heretofore 
cultivated, These are tested for several years before 
their characteristics can be definitely sscertained, 
iprove- 
menta may be expect е абад * next gene ration, The 
best pov these are, in their turn, selected for pro- 
ducing still others, and, after a ace. by thie carefal 
руден, great im provement is the — result. 
Another means employed ia to select the beat 
ne й and eross them with others. Br this plan 
valuable varieties are sometimes obtained, The 
National Nursery man. 
BELGIUM, 
ORCHIDS AT THE BELGIAN EXHIBITIONS, 
On the same day, September 22, two exhibitions 
other 
were beid i in Belgian, one at Br ussels, the 
edu At 22 ä 
p - Soc é é; cg Fiore et la Linnéenne, M. Lui 
showed thirty Catasetums in bloom, all fine 
M. Jules Hye-Leyson showed a pretty miscel- 
abium Biuniei ic 
pripediam 
Morganiæ X, remarkably fine; C. Blunti — 
with five aplendid flowers; Cypripedium macrop- 
terum, with two flower-stems and six good flowers; 
. Annie "^ easures; C. — Canham, with seven 
splendid b 
in — s: E онем. means and: — 
sen mong M. Peeters’ collection ren mentioned 
urbank ” Cypripediama, inelu. 
1 peri- colour; C. Charleaw 
С. y = F 
orthi, and C. Sallieri Hyeanum. 
M. Vuylsteke staged C. Rothechiidianum, with three 
flower-steme and nige superb flowers; the plant 
atrong and fine 
At аем. Antwerp, M. Fior l'auwels staged a 
remarkable collection of miscellaneous Orchids; 
among them oted— Epidendrum rani- 
i » 
éridea s, with tw 
аа] Dimas (C. у A irs 
