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ed appearance of the foliage on the roses there. Marechal flower, and which keep perfect several days before 

 Niel and other climbers grow there to an immense size, fading." 



but the thin and puny character of the foliage of all roses The identity of this plant with one of our worst weeds 

 in the hot sandy soil was particularly noticeable after ^as already been mentioned by several papers. An 

 seeing the rank greenness of our Raleigh plants. The article on this subject in the Ladies' Home Companion for 

 giant Marechal Niel rose on Dr. Shepard's laboratory, in M^^ch i was the cause of an inquiry sent to John Lewis 

 Charleston, probably the largest in America, hardly casts childs, regarding the truth of the Companion's statement, 

 an appreciable shade with its thin and sparse foliage. j^e Mayflo-oer for August, Mr. Childs replies as fol- 



The red clays on the granite formation of the Piedmont j^^^ . . , ^^-^^ ^^^^ //<,,«,r,^ pandurata is undoubtedly 

 country of the south grow much finer roses than the hot, confounded with the old Kentucky hunter or bindweed 

 sandy lands of the coast.-W. F. M.^ssev, N. C. {Calystegia sepium), which is a bad weed, though bearing 



Perennials as Bedding Plants. — After estimating a profusion of large, beautiful blossoms. The vines of 

 that 900,000 plants are annually used in decorating the /. pandurata spring from a large, tuberous root, which 

 parks and public squares of Paris, G. Lebrun, in Le is perennial. It is quite impossible for this to become a 

 Jardin, deplores the fact that annuals are so largely us- troublesome weed, as its roots have no more power to 

 ed for this purpose and in private gardens, and gives ' spread ' or ' run ' than have the tubers of a pasony or 

 the following list of perennials mingled with a few an- dahlia." 



nuals and biennials which are suitable for bedding pur- Few people have sufficient knowledge of botany to 

 poses. They are arranged in the order of flowering. know whether these vining weeds are Ipoiiura pandurata 



Helleborus niger, galanthus, narcissus, Fritillaria or C(7/)'^^t'^z(7 and might believe that the " hardy 



imperialis, tulips, lilies, irises, anemones, wallflowers. tuberous-rooted moonflower " of the seedsmen is some- 

 Centaurea m o tit a n a , 

 Heinerocaliis f u I v a , 

 roses, larkspurs, single 

 and double dahlias, 

 Lathyrus odoratus, her- 

 baceous and tree pseo- 

 nies, columbines, per- 

 ennial phlox and Phlox 

 Dritmniondii, gladiolus, 

 Pyretlirutn roseum, Tra- 

 descantia Virginica, sax- 

 ifrage, Gaillardia Lor- 

 enziana, potentilla, ver- 

 onica, campanula, 

 digitalis, asters, z i n - 

 nias, antirrhinum. Core- 

 opsis D r 11 m in 0 n di i , 

 Silene inJlata,Rudbeckia 

 maxima, pentstemon, 

 Lunaria biennis, pinks, 

 Agrostis elegans, etc. 

 For the back and cen- 

 ters of beds, spiraeas, 

 honeysuckles, lilacs, 

 syringas, berberry, 

 deutzia, laurel, privet, 

 etc. This collection 

 gives a succession of 

 flowers for all the open 

 months and demands 

 very little care. 



Ipomcea P a n d u - 

 rata. — A m o n g the 



"grand novelties" offered by seedsmen last spring, thing different from the vines which infest their farms. 

 Ipomcva pandurata takes a leading position as a "most That the reader may know for himself which of these 

 beautiful, rapid-growing vine, producing a great mass of plants grows on his premises, we give the distinguishing 

 handsome and graceful foliage, and thousands of large, characteristics of each, and illustrate them herewith, 

 white flowers, larger and finer than the ordinary moon- Ipoiuiea pandurata is a " troublesome weed," and one 



Ipomcea pandurata. 



