The Garden Magazine, September, 1921 



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of Jacob who had to stand for daddy's pet Joseph 

 with his Neapolitan ice-cream coat! Viburnum 

 tomentosum, the unvaried species, is far finer than 

 the "double" plate-book pet that has crowded it 

 back for many years, and others of the family are 

 nearly as good. It is the Hydrangea "p. g." story 

 over again. 



Annual Transplantings 



THE showing of Boltonia and Asters I have re- 

 ferred to, and some other successes, have settled 

 into a belief a hint 1 had that certain plants need 

 transplanting every year, to do their excellent best. 



These perennials I have mentioned were far finer 

 after being moved than they ever were when two 

 years or more in the same spot. I found, too, that 

 the somewhat irritating Achillea The Pearl became 

 tractable and far more usable when transplanted, 

 even late in the season when 1 had to cut off the 

 tops. More bloom, better bloom, better stems and 

 far less root rambling resulted. 



The Red Sneeze-weed (Helenium autumnale 



AN INDEFATIGABLE LILAC 



Graceful in habit and flowering when very young, Syringa pubescens is a Lilac 



of unusual quality. Though not at all stocky in appearance it possesses great 



vitality and has been known to show bloom three times a season 



TWO PLANTS WHICH TAKE KINDLY TO MOVING 



Sneeze-weed (Helenium autumnale) shown above 

 on left and Boltonia or False Chamomile on right 



rubrum) has also proved itself better after 

 a move, as has Physostegia virginica. This 

 latter plant if not moved tends to become 

 a pest, while under the restraint of trans- 

 planting it is a prize, with its distinct 

 and rich glossy foliage, and its spikes of 

 successively opening pink flowers. 



A Three Times Blooming Lilac 



A GOOD plant of that most distinct 

 and desirable Lilac Syringa pubescens 

 is not far from the "chinks," and when I 

 was patiently pinching apart the burs of 

 the nut tree in late September I happened 

 to get a glint of a flower on the Syringa. It 

 was small, to be sure, but no less welcome 

 and surprising. It is, I think, the third 

 showing of bloom on this plant this year. 



Seemingly no disseminator of hardy 

 plants has as yet taken up this lovely 

 Lilac, though it is easy to propagate, 

 flowers when very young, and is the sort 

 of thing that ought to make a nurseryman 

 happy! It differs notably from other Lilacs 

 in its habit of showing bloom from the 

 ground up, all the way, so that it is literally, 

 by reason of its regular rounded conical 

 form, a pyramid of bloom. The flowers 

 are individually small, but in large clusters 

 of pale lavender, with a pleasant and in- 

 dividual odor. The bloom comes a bit 

 later than the vulgaris hybrids — I find it 

 recorded at Breeze Hill as decorating the 

 first and second weeks of May for several 

 years. 



My plant was a little one from the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum when it was set on No- 

 vember 10, 1913, and it was notably fine 

 in bloom by May 15, not failing since, and 

 twice giving a scanty second crop. The 

 foliage is small, and sometimes in fall turns 

 to a fine bronze color. 



This fine Chinese native ought to be a 

 find for the hybridizer, introducing as it 

 would several desirable qualities — in color, 



