446 



Garden and Forest. 



[Number 296. 



What could be more gay and more satisfactory, for instance, 

 than a garden of Nasturtiums ? There does not seem to be 

 any sentiment connected with these, but in every other respect 

 they seem among the plants with which one would last dis- 



^Eii^beth, N. J. 7- ^- Gerard. 



New and Rare Plants at Baden-Baden. 



KNIPHOFIA NATALENSIS has been spoken of by a cele- 

 brated Dutch nurseryman as worthless because of its lax 

 spike and lack of brilliant color. The plant, however, is ex- 

 ceedingly variable, and a few may be found in every hundred 

 which are very beautiful in form as well as in the color of the 

 Iflovvers. Besides, it seems capable of producing hybrids of a 



is charming just now. The color of its flowers is a most deli- 

 cate lilac. 



Among shrubs Crataegus Korolkowi(syn.C. Tartarica major) 

 is a picture of beauty, the bright crimson fruits, each as large 

 as a big cob-nut, are arranged in clusters of from six to twenty- 

 five, and the trees are laden with these clusters. It is a striking 

 small tree for autumnal decoration. 



Baden-Baden. Max Leichtlm. 



Late Flowers on Woody Plants. 



'HPHE second or continued and late flowering of woody plants 

 -'- should not, as a rule, be too much desired for, because it 

 often leaves the plants ill prepared, on account of the imma- 

 turity of their wood, to withstand the severe winters which 



Fig. 66. — The Avenue of Cryptomerias at Nikko, Japan. — See page 442. 



striking new race, the spikes of which become longer and 

 more loose and show very pleasing color. 



Gladiolus oppositiflorus has been flowering freely for some 

 time past. Apart from its value for the purpose of the hy- 

 bridizer, it is a very showy plant, the spikes growing to a height 

 of five feet, the flowering portion being from one to two 

 feet long. The flowers, which vary from white to rose or pur- 

 ple, more or less pale or deep, are comparatively large, delicate 

 in structure and arranged in two opposite rows. I have 

 counted on one spike twenty-one flowers open at once. 



Scabiosa Caucasica alba is a first-rate novelty which flowers 

 very freely, and promises to be of much use for cutting pur- 

 poses. Salvia Hydrangea is another striking novelty which 

 I have been successful in securing from Persia. The flow- 

 ers are arranged in a thick spike ; they are pink, and each 

 one IS surrounded by two large bracts of a brilliant deep rose 

 color. Crocus pulchellus, a variety from the island of Thasos, 



closely follow in northern latitudes. This, of course, applies 

 mainly to such plants as normally produce their regular crop 

 of bloom earlier in the season. The second bloom is pro- 

 duced on new shoots, and the act of flowering out of season 

 means that just so many flower-buds are lost to the normal 

 flowering of the following summer. It is true that some of 

 these plants are practically confinuous in their flowering from 

 the time the first blossom-buds open until further develop- 

 ment is checked by cold weather. Such species are, perhaps, 

 not so likely to feel the effects of winter as those which make 

 an unnatural, so-called second growth. Young plants in rich 

 soil are also more likely to produce late flowers than are older 

 plants which have been long established. 



Hall's Japanese Honeysuckle is one of the best examples of 

 the ever-blooming class, as it shows no cessation and little 

 diminution in flowering from the time that its first buds open 

 in June until many of our deciduous trees are leafless in the 



