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Lobelia cardinalis and syphilitica hybrida (a selection 
of our native Lobelia) if planted in a moist, deep loam, 
are effective in September. 
Lythrum alatum, a compact plant, with crimson purple 
flowers, has just finished blooming. Montbretias are 
among the brightest of the late Summer flowering bulbs, 
and deserve to be planted extensively in Winter. 
Platyodons (blue and white) with cupped, star shaped 
flowers, are closely allied to the Campanulas, and when 
they are established each plant will have 10 or 12 stalks 
of lovely flowers and remain in flower a month. 
Pyrethrum uliginosum, the Giant Daisy, has flowers of 
glistening white on stems four to five feet high, and is 
most useful for cutting. The Golden Glow are about 
gone ; but Rudbeckia purpurea, Morganote, and the new 
variety, tubiflora, with their peculiar reddish purple flow- 
ers with remarkably large cone shaped centers of brown 
are still in their Autumn glory. 
The Rocky Mountain Salvia azurea, with sky blue flow- 
ers, and the much admired variety Pitched, which has 
larger flowers of a rich gentian blue color, also the new 
Salvia uliginosa, a stronger grower than the previous 
ones (growing five to six feet high and producing freely 
flowers of a Cornflower blue, with a white throat) are 
all splendid acquisitions in the Autumn border. The car- 
mine colored flowers of Salvia Gregii (a native of the 
mountains of Texas) are particularly bright from August 
on. 
Senecio pulcher forms a neat tuft of foliage, from 
which spring up — from July to October — stems carrying 
clusters of rosy purple flowers. To those of you who 
have grown the large round-leaved Senecios of heavy 
stem and have, after a trial, consigned them to the bog, or 
the border of a lake, I would recommend this variety. 
Silphium perfoliatum, with its large single yellow flowers, 
is a good subject for the shrub border. Solidago (or 
Goldenrod) has finished blooming. I also hope the Rag 
weed and Hay Fever have gone. 
The graceful pretty flowered Thalictrums, with finely 
cut foliage, are great favorites, and the new variety dip- 
terocarpum, growing about four feet high and carrying 
flowers of lilac mauve, brightened by the yellow stamens 
and anthers in September, is a novelty that merits its 
increasing popularity. 
There are few flowers that are more suitable than the 
Tritomas (call them "Red Hot Pokers," "Flame Flow- 
ers," "Torch Lilies" or what you will). The ever bloom- 
ing Tritoma Pfitzeri, in bloom from August to October, 
produces a grand effect in rich orange scarlet, planted 
either singly or in masses. 
'Extracts from an essay by Wm. Saville, before Philadelphia Florists' 
Club. 
DOGWOODS FOR SHADY PLACES. 
PHOSE who have observed the situation in which the 
several Dogwoods (Cornus) are found in their 
wild state, know that they are not averse to shade, and 
this character renders them of great value in plantings. 
The lovely Cornus florida is to be found thriving in 
woods where large Oaks and other trees so overtop it 
as to completely shade out the sun's rays from it. The 
only times when the sun reaches it are in its flowering 
days, in Spring, and in Winter, yet it flourishes, becom- 
ing a small tree in the course of years. Cornus alterni- 
folia and Cornus sericea are also found in our woods, 
not always in the denser portions where Cornus florida 
may be found, but on the outskirts of them, often where 
no sun reaches them of any account, but more light does. 
Cornus paniculata is still another species — a lovely one 
too — which grows in thickets on the margin of woods, 
and it makes a pleasing display of both flowers and fruit. 
The most valued of all our native sorts is Cornus 
florida, without doubt, as not only will it thrive in the 
shade, but plant it in the full sunlight and it flourishes 
equally well. Notice it thriving in open places on lawns 
and how well it appears in both flower and foliage. And 
now, with the three varieties added, the pink, the weep- 
ing and the double flowered white, there are four of 
them, all as well suited for planting in the shade as on 
a lawn. 
Any one at a loss to think of a suitable shrub or small 
tree to plant in a shadv place would often find what 
to plant by observing the Dogwoods and other kinds 
flourishing in a wood. 
All Dogwoods have hard seeds, so the best way to 
treat them is to place them in boxes of sand in Autumn, 
keeping them moist until a year has passed, then sow- 
ing them. 
Cornus florida varieties can be increased by budding 
them on the common stock in July, or by grafting them 
in Spring. Other kinds are increased by cuttings, layers. 
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CLINGING VINES. 
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l HE one vine that can always be depended on is the 
Ampclopsis Veitchii, popularly known as the Bos- 
ton Ivy. The Ampclopsis Virginica, or Virginia Creeper, 
does not adhere so closely to the wall, and unless the 
stonework is rough, or it can drape over a cornice, it is 
liable to become detached and is not nearly so good. 
The English Ivy is the best evergreen vine and is to be 
seen covering walls of a large area in the latitude of 
Philadelphia and south, but it is rather difficult to get it 
to climb on a wall with a southern exposure. The walls 
get too hot and the small tendrils will not adhere to it. 
In startling the English Ivy, and in fact any of the cling- 
ing vines, it is better to either cut the tops back and let 
them make a fresh start right from the ground up or 
else peg the tops along the base of the wall so that the 
new shoots can adhere to the wall surface from the 
ground up, as however carefully they are nailed or arti- 
ficially fastened to the walls, there is always some move- 
ment and it is not an easy matter to get the vines started, 
and even when they do start there is always a loose por- 
tion of the old stem not properly attached. 
Euonymus radicans is sometimes suggested as a good 
clinging vine. It is to be recommended for low walls, 
bases and copings, but is hardly to be recommended 
where height is expected, as it is very unusual to see it 
get more than eight or ten feet high, and being some- 
what subject to Euonymus scale, it is objectionable on 
that account, as when once an old plant is infested it is 
rather difficult to treat. 
A somewhat rare clinging vine is the Hydrangea scan- 
dens or Climbing Hydrangea. This, however, is very 
uncertain in its growth, but when it does get a position 
that suits it, it is remarkably free, making as much as 
eight and ten feet in a year. There are several plants in 
the vicinity of Philadelphia, covering the sides of two 
and three-story houses, and it is remarkably pretty, 
especially in the spring when the tender green of the 
foliage is unusually attractive. 
It does not flower while it is growing freely, but has 
somewhat the habit of the English Ivy when the growth 
becomes bunchy and it cannot climb any more, it will 
flower very freely. The flowers are white and flat, but 
it is the color of the foliage and pleasing habit that is its 
greatest attraction. 
It can be grown either from layers or from cuttings 
made from half ripened wood put in gentle bottom heat 
during August. — Exchange. 
