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red-skinned variety ; Southport Yellow Globe is also a splen- 

 did onion. Large onions are not always in demand. Small 

 varieties ripen early and make a convenient size for boiling. 

 Adriatic Barletta is a very good small onion, and sown thickly 

 in drills it comes in splendidly for pickling. 



The Mohawk is a very early and hardy Snap Bean. It is flat- 

 podded, and, like all of this kind, is not equal in table qualities 

 to the round-podded varieties, which are not so hardy. We 

 have a new one, the Warwick, which bids fair to rank high in 

 quality for an early bean. The Lyonnaise is also new to us. It 

 is a poor, rambling grower, and not very prolific, but the beans 

 are of excellent quality. To those who prefer a wax bean, the 

 Valentine Wax is a splendid article. 



Strawberries have had a favorable season. None excel 

 Bubach No. 5 in productiveness, or Triomphe de Gand in 

 quality. Parker's Earle is healthy and wonderfully prolific. 

 The berries have a sharp, pleasant flavor. It is probably the 

 best all-round berry for family use. Salamander and Mignon- 

 ette Lettuce stand better than any, and both make good solid 

 heads. 



Wellesley, Mass. T. D. Hatfield. 



and become a feature of the scenery if the flowers were not so 

 persistently destroyed. 



Campanula persicifolia — This beautiful Bellflower grows 

 wild in grassy and open deciduous woods in most countries of 

 Europe. It delights in partially moist ground around springs 

 and rivulets or on rocky hillsides, where it grows in scattered 

 tufts among the grass. The species itself has pale blue flow- 

 ers, but there is also a pure white variety common in a wild 

 state. The stems are simple, bearing a few very large termi- 

 nal and axillary flowers at the top. The root-leaves, which 

 give the species its name, are broadly lanceolate, slightly 

 acuminate ; the stem-leaves, on the other hand, are quite 

 small, linear-lanceolate, very dark green. There are double 

 and semidouble varieties with white or blue flowers, common 

 in gardens, but the species itself and its simple white variety 

 are the best for general use. They may be grown in rich soil 

 in thickets and shrubberies or in open spaces in woods. Both 

 are readily increased by means of seeds, and should be raised 

 in a nursery-bed to be planted out the second year. 



Convolvulus tricolor. — This dwarf and floriferous annual 



Fig. 40.— Oaks in the Churchyard at Paxtang, Pennsylvania. — See page 293. 



A few Good Garden Plants. 



Hesperis matronalis. — The many varieties of the Dame's 

 Rocket, as this beautiful plant is often called, are well known to 

 everybody. Not so the species itself, which, however, is both 

 more attractive and graceful than any of its popular forms. It 

 grows to a height of about two feet, bearing loose terminal 

 racemes or panicles of violet-red flowers, which are very fra- 

 grant, especially in the afternoon and evening. The stems 

 are slender and covered with bright green leaves from six to 

 eight inches long, mostly lanceolate, radical ones stalked and 

 largest, those of the inflorescence bracteate. It flowers late in 

 spring, in May or June, and is especially effective when run- 

 ning wild in old gardens and orchards, or in groves and hedge- 

 rows. This is one of the most easily naturalized plants, and it 

 increases rapidly by means of self-sown seeds where they are 

 allowed to ripen. In the vicinity of New York it grows in cer- 

 tain parts of Bronx River Park, where it would rapidly spread 



deserves a more general culture, as it is one of our most beau- 

 tiful summer-flowering plants. It is now seldom seen any- 

 where, and if reintroduced would be considered a novelty In- 

 many. For summer bedding several of the hardy annuals are 

 far superior to many of the greenhouse plants grown for (his 

 purpose, and Convolvulus tricolor is among the best of them. 

 The flowers are produced from the axils of the leaves in great 

 abundance throughout the summer. The corolla measures 

 nearly two inches across, the limb being of a beautiful blue, 

 the throat bright yellow and the intermediate part pure white ; 

 the flowers are beautiful and effective. The leaves are chiefly 

 ovate or spathulate on the lower half of the stem, rather thick 

 and hairy. The stem grows a foot or more high, ami when 

 the plant is used for bedding purposes it should he pinned 

 down to the ground so as to form a uniform mat of leaves ami 

 flowers. The seeds should be sown on the spot very early in 

 spring. 



Arnebia echioides.— Few hard} herbaceous plants are more 



