SEPTEMBER, 1908 
Hibiscus militaris sown in fall will make plants next 
season, flowering the second summer 
eral varieties of the shrub are wild over many 
states. Seed planted in the fall will grow 
the next spring and be a flowering bush two 
or three feet high the second summer. 
In my garden Hibiscus militaris freezes 
down to the ground every winter. It grows 
three or four feet high, however, during every 
summer, coming along after the low growing 
plants in the beds are past blooming and 
filling their places in late summer. It is a 
fine flowering shrub that is well worth more 
cultivation. 
Pokeweed, in spite of the fact that it is a 
common weed, is most satisfactory growing 
with hollyhocks close about the house wall. 
It is easily and quickly grown from seed. 
Its silky green leaves and red stalks are 
pretty all summer and its berries are attrac- 
tive to winter birds. 
We all know and love the masses of wild 
asters that enrich the autumns. These 
are decorative in their proper place in a 
garden. So isthe fall anemone, which proves 
that a plant is only a weed when it is out of 
place. 
I have been very successful raising our 
native ampelopsis from the seed, and that 
other finer leaved one which is wild in China 
and Japan. If the seed is planted in the 
fall the vine will be three feet high by the 
next fall. Wild clematis shows about the 
same growth from the seed. 
Hepaticas may easily be raised from seed. 
The seed can be gathered in the woods in 
late May or early June. Planted at once 
the seedlings may appear the same summer, 
though often not before the following spring. 
If it does grow at once the seedling will be 
too small to produce more than a flower or 
two the first spring, but the second spring 
it will bear quite a cluster. Seedlings should 
be planted close together at first if a good, 
heavy border is desired. The plants can 
be reset as they grow. 
Pale corydalis (Corydalis glauca) is one of 
the most attractive plants of the Pennsylvania 
woods. Its pale green foliage is decorative 
all summer. It grows two feet high. It 
‘and bachelor’s buttons. 
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bears dainty pink blossoms tipped with 
yellow which show its relation to the bleeding 
heart. It blooms off and on from early 
spring to frost when it has good soil and 
plenty of water. Seed planted in early 
summer will germinate at once if conditions 
are favourable. Often the seedling will 
bloom the first summer. Its great flowering 
time, however, is the second summer, after 
which it dies. 
The wild flower that is the glory of my 
garden in early summer is meadow rue. 
It stands three or four feet high, and is a 
mass of foamy white when in bloom. Grow- 
ing with pale pink peonies no combination 
could be more attractive. It forms the 
centre of a bed of California poppies. It 
banks in behind the blue English delphiniums 
Wherever white 
is wanted in early summer the meadow rue 
adapts itself. After the flowers are gone the 
tall stalks can be cut down to make way for 
other plants. 
The blackberry lily and the lemon lily 
are practically wild flowers to-day. The 
seeds from which my blackberry lilies grew 
came from woodlands in Virginia, while the 
The wild balsam apple makes a great growth 
of vine and is really useful for covering unsightly 
objects. It is an annual and self-sows 
lemon lilies had escaped from an old garden 
and were roadside tramps on a Pennsylvania 
mountain. These seeds, if sown as soon as 
they ripen, will start seedlings as soon as 
the ground thaws the next spring, but, like 
the young plants of the Turk’s cap lily and 
the irises, they will not bloom for two years. 
Milkweed is another plant that is slow to 
bloom. 
I have large beds of violets grown from 
the seed of common, blue, meadow violets. 
The flowers from these garden raised plants 
are as large as the California violets sold 
in our city streets every spring. They bloom 
through April and May. 
Following is a list of the plants now grow- 
ing in my garden from seed collected from 
the wild. I sow columbines in July and 
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This border of hepaticas was raised from seeds 
gathered in the nearby woods and sown in June 
hepaticas in June: all the other named here 
are sown in September or October. 
PERENNIALS 
Seed sown as soon as ripe. Young plants 
appear next summer; bloom the following 
year. 
Hepaticas Clematis 
Violets Pokeweed 
Columbines Hibiscus 
Wild cranesbill Virginia creeper ° 
Tris Ampelopsis hetrophylla 
Meadow rue Wild asters 
SLOW BLOOMING PERENNIALS 
Seed sown as soon as ripe. Seedlings 
appear next season, but do not bloom for 
three years. 
Lemon lily Escaped from old gardens 
Blackberry lily to the wild 
Turk’s cap lily Milkweed 
ANNUALS 
Seed sown when ripe. Plants bloom and 
die the following year. 
Touch-me-nots Wild balsam apple 
BIENNIALS 
Seed sown when ripe. Plants will grow 
next year. And die year following. 
Pale corydalis Evening primrose 
Herb Robert 
Crimson Eye hibiscus is quite at home and blooms 
the year after sowing 
