Autumn. So it is with specimeu standard (trees) of Fuchsias, 

 heliotropes and lantanas. 



There is a little vine I must speak of, the lathvrus White 

 Pearl (or f riant White) ; it has white flowers, that when grown on 

 a white lattice placed firmly in good soil in a twelve-inch pot, with 

 one or two of the plants set close to the lattice, by Midsummer 

 create the effect of a miniature white-flowered Wistaria. This 

 lathyrus is uncommonly lovely and as easily grown as a pot of 

 marigolds, and if the flowers are removed as they fade, others will 

 be produced continuously The foliage is charming and the pure 

 ■white flower panicles are really beautiful. The crude edge of the 

 pots can be bordered with alyssum B.enthami, white-flowered 

 showering lobelia or the white California poppy. The effect 

 should naturally be light and airy, therefore only three or four 

 little masses are all that are required, for room is needed for culti- 

 vating the surface soil ( with the two-tined fork ) . A little pulver- 

 ized sheep fertilizer should be worked in several times during the 

 Summer preferably before watering. On no account use liquid 

 manure on these "near at hand" specimens. 



Specimen plants of English ivy are welcome on tlie terrace 

 and in the sun room. They are particularly pleasing when trained 

 in obelisk or pyramidal form, or simply tied to a wire "tower" 

 and allowed to shower. They are distinguished, handsome and 

 formal. I saw a dozen or more quaint little standards of English 

 ivy growing as half glol>es ; it is easily done, being merely a matter 

 of training. What cunning twelve-inch little things they were in 

 their blue and white Japanese boxes I There were five or six in 

 each box, all set in a straight, prim row, and I admired them very 

 much. 



Wherever we spend many hours, wherever we receive our 

 friends, there we should, if possible, grow specimens of the love- 

 liest varieties and things procurable. Standard rose trees straight 

 of stem, with broad rounded heads, let us say of Ophelia, Mrs. 

 Charles Eussell, Mme. Eavary or Mrs. Aaron Ward, will bring 

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