There is a tiny white Plantain Lily called Funkia minor alba 
which is very hard to secure. It is dainty and decorative and 
well worth having. I found a good stock of it at the Andorra 
Nurseries, Germantown, Pa. 
The Wall Hairbell Muralis has proved itself very hardy this 
year. It is a dense, tufty-growing, nearly evergreen kind, with 
small purple blossoms forming dense mats of color. Useful for 
the edge of the sunny border or in the Rockery. It can be got- 
ten at the Palisades Nurseries, Sparkill, N. Y., under the tre- 
mendous name of Campanula Port ens chlagiana. 
A whole bulletin could be written about Mrs. Louise Beebe 
"Wilder 's new little Rock Garden at Bronxville. It is the result 
of wide knowledge and long experience and I never saw rock 
plants look so happy and healthy as hers. She has a Tulip 
which seeds itself — a choice, dainty little creature ; and a Poppy, 
rupifragum, even better than the Iceland Poppy. She grows 
everything from choicest seed which she gets from Europe and 
California, and starts them in her cold-frame nursery. If any 
of us think we know the rarer plants, a short visit to those 
frames will send us away humbler and wiser women. 
By the way — all the choice rock plants in the Boston Botanic- 
al garden were grown from seed from Thompson & Morgan, 
Rock Garden Specialists, Ipswich, England ; also Henry Corre- 
von, Floraire, Switzerland, lists hundreds of rare seeds which 
cannot be gotten here — do send for their catalogs — and Theo- 
dore Payne of Los Angeles has seed of all the rare California 
Annuals; which latter should be planted in late fall. 
July and August are times to study gardens, not read about 
them, and wherever we go let us never pass a Nursery without 
a few moments, at least, of inspection. The very plant that you 
have been searching for for years may be flourishing in one of 
the many Nurseries passed unheeded in your motor. 
A. G. H. 
Landscape Gardening. Three lectures a week. 5 :00 to 6 :00 P. 
M. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Room 619 Schermerhorn. 
This course outlines the general principles of Landscape Garden- 
ing ; the composition of the soil suited to specific plants ; selection 
and culture of deciduous and evergreen trees; shrubs, annuals, 
biennials and hardy perennials ; the planting and care of lawns, 
rock and water-gardens, rose and wild-flower gardens. Considera- 
tion will be given to the control of common insects and diseases 
attacking plants used in landscape. 
Special observation field trips. Arrangements can be made 
for conferences on special landscape gardening problems. 
Anyone interested in courses given in the Summer Session 
are referred to the complete Summer Session Announcement 
which will be sent upon application to the Secretary of Columbia 
University, New York. 
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