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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1907 



Mock orange (2) 



Philadelphus coronarius 



6. 



Chinese wistarias (2) 





Wistaria Chinensis 



Lilac (2) 



Syringa vulgaris 



7- 



Common barberry (5) 





Berberis vulgaris 



Fortune's golden bell (2) 



Forsythia Fortunei 



8. 



Japanese barberry (3) 





Berberis Thunbergii 



Rose of Sharon (2) 



Hibiscus Syriacus 



9 



Variegated dogwood 





Cornus slolonifera, 



Hardy hydrangea (2) 



Hydrangea paniculata, var. 









variegata 





grandiflora 





Price of 



plants 



$100.00 



Plan 4. Even some of the flowering shrubs will succeed in a city backyard having five hours sunlight 



become established and even then may die 

 out after a year or two. 



THE ROSE GARDEN (PLAN 3) 



If you spend the month of June in town 



and have five hours of sunlight you may have 

 a rose garden. Fifty dollars may seen a lot 

 of money for a little rose garden combined 

 with a small bulb show in New York, but 

 just as sure as you beat down the price you 



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1. Crimson Rambler rose (3) 



2. Dorothy Perkins rose (2) 



3. Autumn clematis (3) 



4. Virginia creeper (2) 



5. Chinese wistaria (2) 



6. Trumpet vine (2) 



7. Sea pink (24) 



8. Thomas Hogg funkia (20) 



9. Lily-of-the-valley (30) 



10. Double orange lily (4) 



11. Spiderwort (6) 



12. Meadow Sweet (5) 



13. Large -flowered plantain lily 



14. Cardinal flower (6) 



Plan 5. Seven hours sunlight. With increased sunlight, a larger variety of perennials can be grown 



Rosa midtiflora, var. 



IS. 



Japanese spiraea (5) 



Spirata Japonica 



Rosa mulliflora, var. 



16. 



Japanese anemone (5) 



Anemone Jatoonica 



Clematis paniculata 



17- 



Monkshood (3) 



Aconitum Napellus 



A mpelopsis quinquejolia 



18. 



Marie Stuart phlox (4) 



Phlox paniculata, var. 



Wistaria Chinensis 



TO. 



Perennial larkspur (7) 



Delphinium formosum 



Tecoma radicans 



20. 



Ever-blooming torch lily (5) 



Kniphofta Pfltzerii 



Armeria maritima 



21. 



White loosestrife (5) 



Lvsimachia clelhroides 



Funkia marginata, var. 



22. 



Mme. Langier phlox (5) 



Phlox paniculata, var. 



Convallaria majalis 



23- 



Perennial tickseed (4) 



Coreopsis lanceolata 



Hemerocallis fulva, var. 



24. 



Shasta daisy (5) 



Chrysanthemum Leucan- 



Kwanso 







themum 



Tradescanlia Virginica 



2S- 



Japanese speedwell (5) 



Veronica longijolia, var. 



Ulmaria palmata 







subsessilis 



(4) Funkia subcordata, var. 



26. 



Pearl achillea (5) 



Achillea Ptarmica, var. The 



grandiflora 







Pearl 



Lobelia cardinalis 





Price of plants, $75.00 



will rue it, for the nurseryman will give 

 you smaller plants which will never be satis- 

 factory under these conditions. Get the very 

 best, and you will enjoy success the first year. 

 Among the vines for this garden are five 

 well-known climbing roses which must be 

 cut back severely after flowering. City people 

 who have had no experience in gardening 

 will be afraid to do this and consequently 

 the roses will be fewer every year and covered 

 with insect enemies. A Crimson Rambler 

 flowers on the new wood and if you leave 

 the old canes the plant will waste strength 

 in ripening the old wood when it ought to 

 be making new wood. Cut down these 

 climbing roses after flowering and by 

 October you will have new canes as thick 

 as your finger. The same applies to Clem- 

 atis paniculata. 



SHRUB GARDEN (PLAN 4) 



This plan is better than a rose garden for 

 a family that has to stay in town all summer, 

 because it provides a longer season of bloom, 

 beginning with the forsythia in AprM and 

 ending with the hydrangea, the huge tresses 

 of which will remain attractive even in 

 October, though the size will decrease and 

 the colors become duller. I make no pre- 

 tense, however, that it will be an absolutely 

 complete succession of flowers. 



I have included barberries for winter effect, 

 because the red berries last until April. 

 You cannot expect barberries or any other 

 red-berried shrubs to fruit very freely in such 

 conditions, but even if they produce few 

 berries, the delicate tracery of the Japanese 

 barberry's slender branches is a welcome 

 sight in winter. 



You cannot expect that red-barked shrubs 

 like Cornus stolonifera to produce their 

 lightest color without more sunlight than 

 this. Still they are worth trying and if the 

 bushes are strong you need have no fear 

 about cutting them right down to the ground 

 in March every second or third winter. Do 

 this and you will be rewarded with much 

 brighter color, for in all dogwoods and 

 willows that are valued for winter effect the 

 brightest colors are invariably produced on 

 the new growth. 



This garden is necessarily the costliest 

 of all, for you must get large specimen shrubs. 

 Five hours of sunlight is the minimum for 

 a shrub garden. Conifers will not thrive in 

 a big city, much less broad-leaved evergreens. 

 Both are very sensitive to soft coal smoke. 



The price includes thirty plants of English 

 ivy to be used as a ground cover under the 

 shrubs for its winter beauty. These are 

 not shown in the plan. 



THE GARDEN OF PERENNDALS (PLAN 5) 



This is for the Harlem yards that have 

 seven hours' sunlight. Here one may have 

 a fairly permanent garden of perennials 

 without extravagant cost. Any perennial is 

 worth trying under such conditions, but 

 remembering the seven-foot fence, I have 

 specified only kinds which I am sure of. 



This is the only part of town I know in 

 which one may hope to do almost as well with 

 flowers as in suburbs or country. 



