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HYDRANGEA HORTSNSIA. HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRANDIFLORA. 
gust is the native one, Ceanothus 
Americanns. It makes a great display 
of white flowers, and is a small, shape- 
ly bush. 
Trumpet ' vine, Bignonia, makes a 
great display this month. Its trum- 
LATE SEASON 
As the “golden stars of summer 
night” are enhanced by their dusky 
background, so a cold, late spring 
seems to be the most effective foil for 
hardy herbaceous perennials. 
The so-called spring of 1907 might 
have been especially calculated to em- 
phasize the advantages of this class 
of vegetation — certainly the most im- 
portant of all classes, since it does 
more than all others combined to 
.clothe the world with its green gar- 
ment of beauty. The earliness and 
excellence, of perennials is so pro- 
nounced in parks and gardens this 
year, as compared with the tardy ap- 
pearance and slow growth of annuals 
and the commonly seen summer bed- 
ding plants, that their value and great 
usefulness should be impressed on the 
most casual observer. But, unfortu- 
nately, it is lost to those who most 
need the lesson that they plainly 
teach because the majority are ig- 
norant of the character of such plants. 
Many intelligent people who like 
flowers and really notice them, know 
nothing of these simple matters. For 
instance, nearly every one recognizes 
an Oriental Poppy as a poppy, but 
only those informed in horticultural 
matters are aware that it differs ma- 
terially in character from other pop- 
pies. They are awed by its size, and 
wonder what kind of a poppy it is 
that grows so large, and even wish 
pet-shaped flowers are in several 
shades of scarlet, having in mind the 
native species, radicans. There is also 
a new one, yellow, a sport of this 
popular native vine. Bignonia grandi- 
fiora is a Chinese species. Its flowers 
that they could get it, but not know- 
ing the difference between the annual 
and perennial varieties, they are en- 
tirely at sea when it comes to trying 
to buy it. 
Would it not 'be well, in the light of 
this undoubted fact, to add to the 
names of plants in public gardens, 
which are and should be educational- 
ly useful to the people, the words 
“hardy perennial” on each label? I 
should advise going still farther and 
are of a yellowish scarlet, and are 
broader at the apex than our native 
sorts. The Bignonia is a self-clinging 
vine; and when desired as a shrub it 
soon becomes one if set out and tied 
to a stout stake. Joseph Meehan. 
OF PERENNIALS 
have such gardens distinctly marked 
at each entrance, “Perennial Garden.” 
This matter has been brought to 
my .attention very directly by a re- 
cent experience. A neighbor has the 
good fortune to occupy the home of 
a flower lover who has passed on to 
the gardens of paradise (let us hope, 
since one cannot conceive of such an 
one being happy in any other future 
world), and has each year enjoyed the 
splendor of a dozen or fifteen gorge- 
THRBE GOOD PERENNIALS: ENGLISH DAISIES, FOR- 
GET-ME-NOTS AND LILY OF THE VALLEY ALL GROW- 
ING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PENCE. 
EMPHASIZES JOY 
