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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 494. 



number of species, know their place and never encroach on 

 our cultivated grounds. 



The little foreign yellow Bedstravv, Galium verum, is 

 here, too ; it has numerous bright yellow flowers, and is a 

 more slender, delicate plant than the former and can scarcely 

 become a pest. Another handsome weed growing abun- 

 dantly on our roadsides and coming into our lawns, is the 



Plant Notes. 



Platycodon Mariesii. — As recently noted in Garden and 

 Forest, Platycodon grandiflorum is one of the best of the 

 old purple garden flowers, being perfectly hardy and relia- 

 ble in flowering and readily increased by seed or division 

 of root. The white-flowered forms, which are usually 



4 -. — A Decrepit White Oak in the Arnold Arboretum. — See page 31 



European Hawkweed, Hieracium aurantiacum. It has a 

 cluster of deep bright orange heads of flowers, and when 

 not too abundant is a welcome sight. Its cluster of leaves 

 lie flat on the ground below the reach of the lawn mower, 

 and, following the example of the Galium, it is now forming 

 the habit of sending out flowering shoots on the ground to 

 escape the mower. 

 vineiand, n.j. Mary Treat. 



more or less flecked with purple, are even more attractive. 

 But while in flower these plants are apt to become over- 

 weighted by their large blooms and prostrated unless staked 

 up. On account of this drawback this species is not as 

 satisfactory as P. Mariesii, which produces flowers fully as 

 large and as attractive as those of the ordinary type on stems 

 only a foot high. The white form of P. Mariesii is a hand- 

 some flower, and there are also semidouble forms of the 



