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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 191 S 



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although doing well in the sun. It has one fault,, 

 however. Its flower heads, which resemble H. 

 paniculata, var. grandiflora, are too heavy to stand 

 up well. 



Some years later there was found growing wild 

 on the rocky bluffs near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a 

 sterile form of Hydrangea radiata, catalogued as 

 H. cinerea which is now upon the market, and by 

 some considered as good as any of the above. I 

 have not grown it, so can express no opinion of its 

 worth. 



Rhus typhina, var. laciniata is a sport of the tall 

 growing "stag-horn sumach," so-called because the 

 "fuzz" on the new growth resembles the velvet on 

 a stag's horn. Quite a number of years ago, the late 

 Jacob W. Manning, father of the eminent land- 

 scape architect Warren H. Manning, found on the 

 ledgy shore at York Beach, Me., one specimen of 

 this sumach with finely cut, or laciniated foliage. 

 He brought it home to his nursery at Reading, 

 Mass., where it was propagated, and sent out to the 

 gardens of the world. Sometimes a natural sport 

 will show evidence of a reversion to the type or 

 original form, but this sumach never has. 



RUDBECKIA "GOLDEN GLOW" 



This is a form of a well known prairie plant, 

 Rudbeckia laciniata, belonging to the black-eyed 

 Susan family, and known as one of the cone flowers. 

 In this, as in all of the cone flowers, the true flowers, 

 many in number, are situated around the cone, 

 while the yellow or orange ray florets produce 

 the color shown at a distance. In the golden glow 

 the majority of the true flowers have changed into 

 ray florets, thus producing what we call a double 

 flower. Undoubtedly, to my mind, it originated on 

 the prairie near Chicago, where one plant was 

 found sometime prior to 1894. In the summer of 

 that year Mr. Falconer, then editor of Gardening, 

 saw it in the hands of Mr. John Lewis Childs at 

 Floral Park, Long Island, who intended [to intro- 

 duce it to our gardens the following season under 

 the name of golden glow. Mr. Childs did not 

 know where it came from; some one had sent it 

 to him, but he had lost track of its donor. In the 

 fall of 1894 Mr. Jens Jensen, the leading landscape 

 architect of the West, found some plants of it in 

 the garden of a German on the west side of Chicago, 

 and procured a stock of it, sending me three plants. 

 I had secured some from Mr. Childs, and as Mr. 

 Falconer's description and that of Mr. Jensen's 

 tallied I was convinced that both "finds" were 

 identical, and made one group of both lots, which 

 was illustrated in Gardening, September 15, 1896, 

 that being the first illustration of it in America. 



Illinois. W. C. Egan. 



Two Companion Planting Ideas 



POPPIES and carrots. — In my opinion, there is 

 no blooming plant that combines more grace- 

 fully with vegetables than the Shirley poppy. 

 Plant a few seeds in the carrot row; the foliage of 

 the carrots sets off the pink and red of the poppy to 

 the best advantage and also supports the poppy 

 plant. 



Sow some of the seed along the edge of the 

 asparagus bed just enough to give a touch of pink 

 or red to the feathery greenness of the asparagus 

 tops. Do not put them closer than a foot apart. 



Be sure to remove all mature blossoms to pre- 

 vent a broadcast sowing of the seed and to stimulate 

 the plant to produce more blossoms. 



Shirley poppies should be cut with long stems 

 in the morning, before the warm sun strikes the 

 blossoms, or at night. They will last in water for 

 forty-eight hours. 



Pansies and Parsley. — After the pansy plants 

 are established in the bed, drop a few seeds of parsley 

 or put in a few parsley plants. The parsley will 

 send up long, bushy, frond-like leaves; the result 

 is that the ground about the pansy plants is so 

 shaded that the pansy roots are always cool and 

 moist. The pansy, in its endeavor to reach the 

 sunlight, will send up branches sometimes a foot 

 high. 



Pick the parsley freely, and remove the pansy 

 blossoms daily by reaching down close to the ground 

 and breaking off the branch of the plant that bears 

 the flower. In this way you will have pansy blos- 



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