Departments 
The Garden Club of America's List of Nurseries and Seedsmen 
(Subject to addition and revision.) 
Nurseries 
Reasoner Brothers, Royal Pa!m Nurseries, Oneco, Florida. Palms, Shrubs, Trees, Vines and Plants 
suitable for planting in Florida or in Cool Greenhouses in the North. 
Julius Roehrs , Rutherford, New Jersey. Popular Catalogue of Stock Divided by Tens. (For the 
wholly ignorant beginner.) 
Seedsmen 
S. F. Stokes & Co., Moorestown, New Jersey. (Unusually good Catalogue) 
Chester Jay Hunt 
Little Falls, New Jersey. 
Bulb Specialists 
John Scheepers 
2 Stone Street, 
New York. 
A. T. Boddington Co. 
1 28 Chambers Street, 
New York. 
(All the larger Seedsmen carry bulbs and send out special bulb catalogues. It is more important 
than ever to order bulbs early for September delivery because of the shortage caused by the Quarantine.) 
We have been asked the name of the large perennial Scarlet 
Ground Cherry that is dried for winter decorations. It is Physalis 
Franchetti. An easily grown, satisfactory plant which is Hsted by most 
of our Nurserymen. It is better to get the plants if the pods are wanted 
for this Christmas, but it is also easily grown from seeds which if sown 
out of doors in May will bear their " Chinese Lanterns" the following 
year. 
Our members are. reahzing the decorative qualities of the Hybrid 
MuUeins, or Verbascums, which are used so much in England. Sutton 
carries the seed which germinates easily and the young plants are 
simple to raise, needing only a sunny well-drained spot and plenty of 
room to spread. The Wolcott Nurseries, Jackson, Michigan, have 
ten choice varieties of which A. M. Burnie and Miss Wilmott are 
especially beautiful. 
Mulleins should be used as exclamation points at the end of a 
border or in isolated groups against a wall or a group of cedars; but 
seldom dotted around in a mixed border as they are very tall, con- 
spicuous and need thoughtful placing. Their large velvety leaves 
of a beautiful shade of grey are very telUng planted in front of Climax 
Michaelmas Daisies, 
We have had some queries about the six most useful varieties 
of Aconite or Monkshood. All are of easy culture near the sea or in 
any sandy soil. The earhest blue variety is the old Napellus, ob- 
tainable everywhere. Its dull grey-purplish-blue flowers open towards 
the end of June. There is a whitish variety also. The pale yellow 
Aconitum Lycoctunum blooms about this time and is good with the 
darkest larkspurs. 
Neither of the above are as valuable as the dark purple branching 
variety called "Spark's" which blooms the latter part of Juty, just 
The 
Garden 
Miscellany 
Physali 
Verbascums 
Aconites 
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