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Garden and Forest. 



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A New jersey Pine Forest. — See Page 166. 



southern Europe, and one of the handsomest and most satis- 

 factory plants of its class in the rockery. It has dark g-reen, 

 linear, obtuse leaves, one to two feet long, and tall slender scapes, 

 bearing at the summit a cluster of four to eight pure white, 

 nodding, bell-shaped flowers, nearly one inch long, the tips of 

 the segments marked on both sides with a green blotch. The 

 Summer Snowtlake will thrive in ordinary garden soil. The 

 deep blue and the white flowered varieties of the Grape 

 Hyacinth {Muscari botryoidcs) are in bloom. They are hardy 

 little bulbous plants, from central Europe, with very short, 

 dense racemes of small, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, and 



linear, erect, glaucous leaves. They are well suited for the 

 wilder parts of the rockery, and for naturalizing along the mar- 

 gins of woods and wood-walks. 



Several native plants now in bloom are worth mention as in- 

 teresting inhabitants of the rock-garden. The Moss Pink 

 (Phlox "subulata), a conspicuous feature in early spring on 

 rocky hills in some parts of New Jersey, is common and well 

 known in gardens ; but Phlox reptans is seen more rarely. It 

 is a dwarf species, with long and prostrate, creeping, runner- 

 like stems, sending up low flower-stems, six to eight inches 

 liigh, bearing a few-flowered cvme of handsome reddish 



