GARDENING FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 



ing contrast to it. Back of the clump of Thunberg's 

 barberry is a mass of the taller European barberry, with 

 foliage still as bright green as in summer, and bearing not 

 coral-red berries like Thunberg's, but clusters of deep, 

 dull crimson berries. Behind the dark-hued viburnums 

 and golden nine-barks is a mass of the common nine- 

 bark, taller than the golden, its light green foliage giving 

 still another pretty contrast. A bush of Robinia hispida 

 grayidiflora and two of Judas-tree or red-bud also stand 

 in this bed. They take on golden hues distinct from 

 those of other leaves, and enliven the whole bed. Thus 

 we have a mass on the lawn which, handsome as it was 

 all summer, attracts special attention all through these 

 autumn days, and makes us pity the gardeners who sol- 

 emnly but mistakenly conclude that all garden beauty 

 ends when frost comes. Not one of the shrubs occupy- 

 ing the bed described is famous for autumn beauty, sim- 

 ply because none of them are well known. They are 

 all dwarf-growing shrubs that suit lawns too small to 

 sustain trees noted for fine autumnal coloring. 



Planting for Autumn Effects. — Walking through 

 our grounds on October 25, we found much beauty be- 

 sides that already described. Maples, oaks and liquid- 

 ambars wore brilliant qolors. The rhuses, staghorn, 

 cut-leaved and R. copallina were a rich crimson, the 

 latter a very dark shade. Japan blood-leaved plums, 

 large-flowered dogwoods, privets, weigelias and forsy- 

 thias were of a strongly contrasting green color, and the 

 variegated weigelia was as handsome as at any time in 

 the season. Golden oak gleamed here and there, and the 

 strawberry-tree was gay with its bright rose-colored fruit. 

 Some of the spiraeas were decked in gold and crimson, 

 Spircea frunifoUa and .9. Thunbcrgii hemg especially^ 

 beautiful. In the flower borders the four eulalias st 

 were handsome, and Maximilian sunflowers standing in 

 bold clumps about 9 feet high supported hundreds of 

 rich golden flowers. The rose and white-flowered Japan 

 anemones are perhaps the most effective of all autumn 

 bloomers, the autumn monkshood ranking as next best. 

 Chrysanthemum lacusire, verbenas, petunias. Phlox 

 Drummondii, pansies and sweet-peas, all were still in 

 bloom. 



We suggest to our readers a lawn-mass planted espe- 

 cially for autumn show. In the center plant several roots 

 of Maximilian sunflower at from 4 to 6 feet apart, for 

 they love roominess. Around the sunflowers set from 6 

 to 12 clumps of autumn monkshood 5 feet apart, for it is 

 not desirable that the clumps form a connected band. 

 Measuring across the sunflower center, the monkshoods 

 should not stand closer than 8 or 10 feet. Just outside 

 the monkshoods set a heavy band of Japan anemones, 

 using about two plants of the white variety to one of 

 rose-color, but massing them somewhat irregularly. 

 These anemones may be set from 2 to 3 feet apart. Out- 

 side of the anemones plant a line of verbenas, Phlox 

 D )■ lemmondi ! B.Vid petunias arranged in respective masses. 



What would it cost to stake such a bed ? The expense 

 would be light. Japan anemones can be bought for from 

 I1.50 to $2 per dozen, the sunflowers at $2 a dozen and 



the monkshoods at $2,50 a dozen, these prices being 

 taken from the catalogue of a leading American nursery- 

 man. Verbenas, phloxes and petunias can be cheaply 

 grown from seed which might be sown in May directly 

 where the plants are to stand. 



A New Boltonia. — Usually the boltonias have been 

 classed with their near relatives, the perennial asters, in 

 point of desirability for garden culture. One of the 



Fig. I— Autumn Monkshood {Ac 



newer species that has been tried at Woodbanks is Bol- 

 tonia latisquama, and it is certainly a fine September- 

 blooming plant for any place except in the foreground of 

 fine borders. The flowers are between one and ten in- 

 ches across, and composed of many ray florets of a deli- 

 cate rose-color, very agreeable to the eye. The plant 

 grows about 4 ifeet in height, and has about the same 

 diameter, and bears hundreds of blossoms. We think it 

 would naturalize well along with the golden-rods and na- 

 tive asters. 



The Japan Honeysuckle. —This admirable twiner 

 now finds a friend in every beholder of its rich autumn 

 foliage, which, indeed, is held until January. The foli- 

 age may be frozen stiff, but a few hours of warmth suf- 

 fices to thaw it out again, and it has the appearance of 

 being none the worse for the freezing. This quality in 

 the foliage, so conspicuous during the autumn season, 

 finely supplements the extreme attractiveness of the 

 plant during its extended season of bloom. 



