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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



August, 190 9 





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For 30 years a Strawberry Specialist 



this variety is that it is a parent of the famous 

 Jackmani. 



The word "lanuginosa" means woolly, referring 

 to the appearance of the flower buds. The flowers 

 of this species are the largest of all, being six inches 

 across, while those of the purple Virgin's bower are 

 only one inch to two and one-half inches in diameter. 

 They also differ in having five or six sepals instead 

 of four, and the drawback to them is that they are 

 leathery in texture and the natural colors are only 

 lavender and bluish gray. The species has another 

 advantage over the purple Virgin's bower in having 

 long feathery fruits. This plant climbs only five 

 or six feet high, while the purple Virgin's bower 

 attains twelve feet. 



THE PURPLE JACKMANI 



The famous Jackmani is a cross between Hender- 

 sonii and lanuginosa and resembles the Chinese 

 parent in its habit, foliage, and size, also in having 

 from four to six sepals, but its color of flower must 

 have been derived from the European species. Its 

 purple is exceptionally rich and pure, and the color 

 is much enhanced by the velvety texture. It origin- 

 ated in 1858. 



The accompanying picture shows Clematis 

 Madame Andre, a variety with carmine-violet 

 flowers which originated about 1893. It is obviously 

 nearer the Chinese thaii the European species save 

 in color of flowers. By a singular limitation of 

 photography, the small flower buds are more 

 conspicuous in the picture than the large, expanded 

 flowers, but on second glance these will be clearly 

 seen. 



Pennsylvania. W. E. Pendleton. 



Odorless Ornamental Onions 



AN ODORLESS ornamental onion with 

 astonishingly large flowers is Allium albo- 

 pilosum, which I saw at a London show in June, 

 1908. It has purple flowers, each one and a quarter 

 inches across, in clusters fully eight or ten inches 

 in diameter and borne on stems over two feet high. 

 If you wish to import it, do so now or you may 

 lose a year. It has by far the largest flowers of any 

 member of the genus I have ever seen or heard of. 



I wish some one would try to hybridize this giant 

 purple allium, with the best white and yellow flowers 

 of the genus, which I will briefly review. 



The common yellow-flowered onion of gardens is 

 Allium Moly, which blooms in June, not in "early 

 spring" as Bailey's Cyclopedia says. The blossoms 

 are borne in a dense umbel of great symmetry and 

 beauty. They are excellent for cutting, as they have 

 long stems. In New England the bulbs must have 

 some covering in winter. The bulbs are very cheap, 

 costing less than $1 a hundred. 



The favorite white flowered allium is A . Neapoli- 

 tanum, which has the same type of beauty as the 

 Paper White narcissus and costs only half as much. 

 The florists use it somewhat for forcing, especially 

 the variety catalogued as A. Hermettii grandi- 

 florum. Bulbs cost a cent each by the hundred. 

 Outdoors they bloom in June. They need winter 

 covering in the North. 



The hardiest white allium for garden beauty 

 is the Siberian, A. Victorialis, but the flowers are 

 only greenish white. 



There are so many rosy, pink, purplish and lilac 

 alliums that we cannot pretend to say which is best 

 and we must confess that there is great room for 

 refinement of color in this group. 



I should like to hear from anyone who is willing 

 to make a collection of ornamental alliums. 



New Jersey. Thomas McAdam. 



