PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS 



autumn, though on one occasion a belated bun- 

 dle of bulbs and roots remained unpacked all 

 winter, and the Bleeding Heart portion all sur- 

 vived the experience, though they did not bloom 

 the first year, I have never been able to get the 

 seed, though some of my plants have cast their 

 own seeds to a considerable distance, to grow 

 and thrive in a stump-corner devoted to climb- 

 ing Nasturtiums. The proper method of in- 

 creasing the stock is to take up the roots in 

 the fall and divide them. 



Dielytra is said to be a name erroneously given 

 to Dicentra. If this be so, why not drop it once 

 for all ? Yet we see it constantly used in the cata- 

 logues and even in books on botany. I remem- 

 ber once Steve Hubeley, my then head gardener, 

 asked me whether that Bleeding Heart up by 

 the house was the same as that down by the 

 wharf, and upon my telling him that it was, 

 he remarked with evident relief, " I thought 

 it was, but that one down by the wharf has a 

 terrible comical name on it." And some of our 

 botanical names may well be called comical. 



I wish I were able to report better success 

 with Roses in this cold climate. I have set out 

 scores of so-called hardy varieties, and though 

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