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Garden and Forest. 



[March 14, iSS3. 



A View in Central Park. 



THE view on this ]:>a,t;e is talien from a point in the Ramble 

 in tlie Central Parle of tliis city, looking southward, and in- 

 cluding- a ijortion of the Terrace. Of course, it is much more 

 than a picture of the Terrace, but it clearly shows how much 

 tlu's l)it of architecture adds to the composition. The distant 

 horizon line of trees has an attractiveness of its own. Nearer 

 by are the upper Terrace lines contrasting with tlie masses 

 of foliage above them. Below tliese are the open arches with 

 deeper'sliadows, then the lower lines of the Terrace, the lake 

 shore and the passage of water separating more distinctly the 

 extreme distance from the middle distance. All these, with the 

 lines of the shrubljery about the little lawn, mark the succes- 

 sive planes of the composition and help to bringout the grada- 

 tions of light and shadow. In the Park the observer would 

 enjoy in addition the ever varymg tints of the sky which 

 would also be reflected in the water, while he could look up 

 to and into the leafv . framework in the toregroand forever 

 without exhausting its interest. The illustiation is a good ex- 



Plant Notes. 



Lilium Parryi, and its Habitat. — This line Lily appears to 

 have won its way in tlie ten years of its gardeii career to 

 a high rank among cultivated species. The pure lemon 

 yellow of its flowers, an unusual shade among Lilies, and 

 their peculiar form, as well as their fragrance, combine to 

 make it a uniciue species. Its range is from the springy banlcs 

 and swampy canons of the San Bernardino Mountains of 

 southern California, where Dr. Parry discovered it in 1876 

 southward towards Lower California, eastward to the higher 

 mountains of southern Arizona and thence southward, I am 

 confident, along the western slopes of the Sierra Madre of So- 

 nora. In these arid regions it is only by mountain brooks and 

 springs that it can find the water its roots reciuire, and shelter 

 from scalding sunshine. So its habitat is the narrow sandy or 

 peaty alluviums of these brooks, or their mossy margins, or 

 even the ledges, over which they glide, where its bulbs are 

 scarcely hidden from view amidst tufts of moss. Seeing 

 It always in such wet situations I gained the impression 



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ample of wluit can be accomplished by framing in a dist.uit 

 object witli foliage, so as to make a complete and consistent 

 picture, and there is no reason why such planting as it shows 

 should he confined to public parks. Many a lawn could be 

 made the foreground of a picture quite as attractive, and it 

 could be graded and planted so as to emphasize the interest 

 and increase the pictorial effect of some important object, 

 natural or artificial, and trees could be disposed about it so 

 as to concentrate the attention which would otherwise be 

 distracted Ijy surrounding objects. 



"One beautiful way in which flowers can be used, espe- 

 cially those distinguished for the brightness and clearness of 

 tlieir coloring or for their tall stalks, is to plant them in moss and 

 among wild vegetation along the edge of a brook or some 

 other piece of water. The reflections in the water and the 

 play of their movements thus doubled clothes with a new 

 charm this scene which is altogether natural." — IlirscJiffld' s 

 " TJieorie der Gartenkuiist" Leipzig, lYTj. 



that it would need wet soil. But northern brooks woultl lie 

 too cold, and with our frequent rains oixlinary soil suffices for 

 it, since I have flowered it from Dr. Parry's seed in my garden. 

 In its native haunts, crowded upon by other plants, especially 

 beset by grasses and shrubs, its stature is from one to three 

 feet and the number of its flowers one to si.x. In cultivation I 

 have seen these figures nearly douljled. 



A New Morning Glory, Ipomca PriiigUi, Gray, collected in 

 1886 on cool, grassv hillsides near Chihuahua, and distribute^l 

 among my Plantce Mcxicance of that year, was admired by Dr. 

 Asa Grav even in dried specimens, and by him recommended 

 for cultivation. The species is perennial from a thick root, 

 with an annual stem, erect, diffusely branched, two or three 

 feet high and broad, with inconspicuous leaves and flowers of 

 the largest for the genus, three inches broad, purplish blue, 

 with a metallic lustre, and in their throat lighter blue or nearly 

 white. The plant is common over the hills and high plains 

 between Chihuahua and the Sierra Madre. As seen by the 

 traveler in those lone regions, profuselv covered with bloom 

 throughout the morning, it is a bright and pleasing object. 



C. G. Pi-in^U. 



