November 28, 1888.] 



Garden and Forest. 



473 



Fit2;. 73- — Pcntstemoii rotundifolius. — See page 472. 



and Mrs. N, Hallock, white; Julie Lagravere, Cullingfordii and 

 J. Delaux, crimson; Lakme and R. Walcott, red; Brazen Shield, 

 Source d'Or, Early Red Dragon, and Incomparable, golden 

 bronze; and Roseum Superbum, Mrs. Talford, Admiration 

 and M. Panchenan, shades of purple. For an abundance 

 of blossoms the named varieties are far inferior to our 

 this-year's seedlings. Some of these are poor enough and 

 some are good, but the unusual vigor of the plants and 

 the immense masses of flowers they are bearing more 

 thao compensate for their ordinary quality. 



A few years ago a large-flowered form of 

 Clirysanthcmum se'getu/ii, the European Corn 

 Marigold, was introduced by seedsmen as a 

 novelty. Although it is a very bright and pretty 

 flower, it is a bad weed, and self-sown seedlings 

 come up all about the garden where the old 

 plants grew. Just now it is one of the brightest 

 flowers in our garden, and the frost has not hurt 

 it a particle. 



The Meteor variety of the Pot Marigold is finer 

 now than it has been before this year. It is from 

 midsummer sowings. This flower. Mignonette, 

 Sweet Alyssum, Pansies and Czar Violets, keep 

 on blooming throughout the month of Novem- 

 ber, or even longer if they are not subjected to ' 

 more than seven to ten degrees of frost. Zinnias 

 and Heliotropes have been destroyed by frost, 

 and African Marigolds, of which the Eldorado 

 strain is a good type, have been considerably 

 injured. The dwarf striped French Marigolds, 

 however, keep on blooming as if it were yet 

 only Sei>tember, instead of November. Frost 

 injures the flowers, but the unopened buds es- 

 cape, and soon bloom out and renew the display. 

 Among Gaillardias all the annuals are so far 

 past as to be not worth keeping longer, but the 

 handsome large-flowered varieties of G. aris- 

 tata ai'e still in excellent bloom. Two Cen- 

 tauridiums, C. Drummondii and C. Tcxanitm, 

 both yellow-flowering composites, have been in 

 bloom since midsummer, and are now in finer 

 flower than they have been at anyformer period. 

 Coreopsis coronata, and C. tinctoria still supply a 

 fair display of blossoms, but all of the otlier 

 annual and perennial species are done blooming. 

 Ri'.dbcclcia bicolor from June sowings is very 

 showy and full. Erigeron spcciosum is yielding 

 a fair second crop of flowers; so, too, are the 

 Red Valerian, Double White Feverfew and In- 

 dian Pinks. Summer sown Snapdragons have a 

 few good flowers, and Tagetts lucida is finer 

 now than it has been all summer. 



The dwru-f blue Alkaiiet is very fine; so, too, 

 is Cosmos bipinnatus. For October flowers this 

 Cosmos is one of the finest things ever intro- 

 duced to cultivation. It blooms abundantly ; 

 its flowers are large, showy white or rose-purple, 

 and last well when cut. The greatest fault of 

 this noble Mexican annual is its habit of bloom- 

 ing so late in the season and its tenderness, for 

 a degree of frost will ruin it. 



One of the brightest and prettiest red flower- 

 ing plants now in bloom in our garden is Alonsoa 

 Warsccuiiczii. It can be treated as an annual 

 raised from seed sown in spring and planted 

 out over summer. It is now blooming more 

 copiously than it has been at any other time of 

 the year. Slight frost does not hurt it. Druni- 

 mond Phlox is still abundant, but the plants are 

 mildewed, and therefore the flowers are cur- 

 tailed in proportion. 



Christmas Roses [Hcllebonis nigcr) seem to be 

 a little early this year; bunches' of white flower- 

 buds have risen some eight or nine inches above 

 ground, but none of them are quite open yet. 



Most of the summer tender vines have been 

 killed down and cleared away. But Mancttia 

 bicolor is still studded all over with yellow-tippetl 

 scarlet flowers, and purple blossoms hang tlnck- 

 ly upon the Maiirandia Darclayana growing on 

 a fence. Cobtra scandens raised from seed sown 

 last March has nm more than twenty feet over 

 and along a high trellis fence, and is still full of 

 its purple bell-shaped flowers and drooping seed- 

 pods. A stretch of Lobb's Nasturtium {Tropao- 

 lum Lobbianum) along a fruit-tree border in front of a south- 

 facing wall had the'leaves scorched a little by frost, but 

 all fife flowers that were protected by the peach shoots and 

 Nasturtium foliage are bright and perfect. 



Sphcralcca Einoryi is a little plant which is still in good 

 bloom, as it has been for a long time. It is a hardy perennial 

 from the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, and has small 

 terra-cotta red flowers in copious quantity. Perennial Lark- 

 spurs Tritomas and Salvias still yield some flowers. 



Glen Cove, L. I.. Nov. ^Ih- ^■^"'- F'^icOIUr. 



