frantic days when I work from morning till night, just as the house- 
keeper will have frantic days of decorating and cleaning. There are 
catastrophic days when I rise at dawn, or go out in the rain by the 
hght of the porch lamp to tie things up after storms, just as there are 
nights when you stay awake with baby's croup. 
A garden is a Uving thing to be loved and you cannot love by rule. 
But it repays for every bit of care a thousandfold. 
List of Naturalized Wild Flowers 
(All Natives of Cook County, Illinois) 
Hepaticas 
Vines 
Claytonia Virginica 
Bttter Sweet 
Smilacema racemosa and stellata 
Wild Grape 
Jack-in-the-Pulpit 
Wild Smilax 
Green Dragon 
Menospermum 
Sweet Ctcely 
Red Honeysuckle 
Wtnd Anemone 
Buttercups 
Asarum 
Shrubs 
Vibernum 
Bloodroot 
Dogwood {four varieties) 
Rue Anemone 
Wild Rose 
Blue Phlox 
Elder 
White Dog-tooth Violets 
Wild Plum 
Yellow Violets 
Wild Cherry 
Blue Violets 
Wild Crab 
Mitella {three varieties) 
Shad Bush 
Whiti Trillium {two varieties) 
Hazel 
Wake Robins (Dark Red Trillium) 
Sassafras 
Dutchman's Breeches 
Feb^s 
Squirrel Corn 
Royal 
Interrupted 
Osmunda 
Uvularia 
Twin-leaf 
Ajuga Replans 
Dodocatheon 
Maiden Hair 
Columbine 
Native Trees 
Wild Geranium 
Elm {two varieties) 
Mertensia 
Cottonwood 
Lobelia syphilitica 
White Oak 
Pentstemon Barbalus 
Mulberry {self sown) 
Butter and Eggs 
Thorn {three varieties) 
Blue Cohosh 
Sumach {two varieties) 
Eellenium 
Rudbeckia {three varieties) 
Cultivated Shrubs 
Eupatorium Ageratoides 
{three varieties) 
Spiraea Van Houttet 
Joe Pye Weed 
Common Lilac 
Golden Rod {five varieties) 
Cut-leaved Persian Lilac 
Blue Aster {six varieties) 
Forsythia suspensa 
Michaelmas Asters — white 
{four varieties) 
Flowering Almond 
Some Late-Blooming Peonies 
Mrs. Edward Harding. 
It gives me much pleasure to send you a list of late-blooming 
Peonies for pubHcation in the Bulletin or the Garden Club of 
America, This Hst of fifteen is made for the benefit of those gardeners 
who, for various reasons, cannot have the earlier varieties, but would 
not miss the Peony season entirely. 
All of these roots, except Solange, are of moderate cost. Solange, 
however, is so wonderfully beautiful and of such rare colouring that 
I have included it. 
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