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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1913 



When you buy LUMBER, say" CYPRESS"— & 



NOW'S THETIME OF HAPPY PLANNING 

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I ever saw was a bank of white lilies (trillium) in a 

 country school house. The boys and girls had 

 gathered hundreds of the lilies in the wood, and had 

 massed them before the platform in four rows, the 

 stems in cups, pint, quart, and 2-quart fruit jars, 

 the cups in front being hidden by the lacy leaves of 

 Dutchman's breeches that drooped from them. The 

 bank stretched entirely across the school platform, 

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 Michigan. Gladys H. Sinclair. 



About Hydrangeas in General 



THE most widely known hardy hydrangea is 

 H. panicidata, var. grandijlora originating 

 in Japan. Many gardeners, in cultivating it, 

 endeavor to obtain flower heads of enormous size, 

 by cutting back severely each spring, and by freely 

 watering and manuring. This produces heads of 

 bloom so heavy that the stems are unable to sup- 

 port them, and so weak in the neck that even 

 staking cannot prevent their being broken off in 

 stormy weather. Their appearance is lumpy and 

 unnatural. 



Professor Charles S. Sargent once saw at a 

 distance, on semi-public grounds, a large group 

 with their inflated blooms. He quietly re- 

 marked "What breed of sheep have you over 

 there?" 



In this form (var. grandijlora) nearly all the 

 flowers are sterile, and it seems as if all the nutri- 

 ment intended for the pistil and stamens, now 



A specimen H. ■panicidata. The flower heads are 

 strong and resist winds and storms 



absent, went into the remaining petals, for they are 

 much larger than those of the perfect flower. A 

 few of the latter may be seen if one looks down into 

 the panicle. 



To my mind the type — just plain Hydrangea 

 panicidata — is much more desirable in a garden 

 sense. In it, the sterile flowers, which are com- 

 paratively few, are scattered here and there, usually 

 at the margin of the panicle. The flowers are held 

 up above the foliage in a stately manner, resisting 

 storms of rain or wind. 



Somewhat resembling the variety grandiflora, 

 but a much better all-round shrub, is the recently 

 found sterile form of our native H. arborcscens, 

 the tree hydrangea. This shrub which commences 

 to bloom in June, continuing well into August is 

 known in the trade as Balls of Snow. At first the 

 flowers are white; but 'soon turn to a pleasing 

 sea-green, both colors being often on the plant at 

 the same time. This plant will grow in partial 

 shade or in full sun. 



Soon after the discovery- of this plant, a sterile 

 form of another American species was found, 

 H. cinerea, var. sterilis, which closely resembles it. 



H. vcnusta is hardy here, blooming early, in flat 

 headed cymes. The oak-leaved hydrangea, H. 

 qacrcifolia, is not hardy here. 



Chicago, Illinois. W. C. Egan. 



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