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PARK AND CE-ME-TKRY 
The Narrow-Lobed Tick-Seed (Bidens trichosperma 
teniloba), until recently classed with the genus Core- 
opsis, is a most showy native Michigan annual, cov- 
ering many of the swamps of Michigan with its beau- 
tiful flowers in late summer and autumn. 
It is a very branching plant, three to five feet tall, 
with many narrow-lobed leaves somewhat suggesting 
those of the Cosmos — very much like them, indeed, 
and very numerous flower-heads of the richest orange- 
yellow. It takes very readily to cultivation, grows as 
readily from seed as the INlarigold or Cosmos, and 
transplants with greatest ease, growing in any soil 
or location, shade or sunshine, although in its native 
wilds found only in wet swamps. Having grown it 
mvself in my own flower-garden, I most heartily 
recommend it. As we may not have a yellow Cos- 
mos, we have a very excellent substitute in this plant. 
The color is very rich and very pleasing. For mass- 
ing or growing singly it will surely give much satis- 
faction. 
Consider its flowers handsomer than those of Core- 
opsis lanceolata, and they are less coarse and the plan; 
is very graceful indeed. 
We should not be prejudiced because it is a wild 
flower. All flowers are wild somewhere, and besides, 
among our choicest ornamentals we have such Ameri- 
can wild flowers as Phloxes, Lobelia Cardinalis, Gail- 
lardias, and very many others. 
Wilfred A. Brotherton. 
THE ORIENTAL PERENNIAL POPPY 
It is taken for granted that all poppies are annu- 
als. This is a mistake. This one will flower from 
the same root for 20 years or more. After blooming 
the foliage dies, and one would think the plant was 
dead. But it is only going into a dormant condition 
for rest after the exhaustive effort of bearing such 
enormous flowers. The blooms are flame color — of 
dazzling splendor — and arc often eight or even nine 
inches across. I keep about 10,000 of them, and when 
in full bloom they are like a sea of fire; people drive 
miles to see them. 
The wonder is that such showy and hardy flowers 
are not more freely planted. It is difficult to raise 
them from seed, and none but an expert need try. But 
the roots are not expensive, and if you get them you 
save a year or two m time and avoid the vexation of 
failure in attempting to raise them from seed. One 
trouble with people is they are too stingy. They do 
not get enough. Perennials should be planted in 
masses. The individual blooms of these poppies will 
last but a few days, but if you have a-plenty you will 
haA^e a succession for a month. The roots resemble 
a small parsnip. When they are about the size of a 
lead pencil they will bloom. Fall is the best time for 
THE ORIENTAL PERENNIAL POPPY. 
planting', or very early in the spring. 
They are vdry hardy. I have seen them growing 
in a small garden in the Yellowstone National Park. 
They succeed in the Dakotas, in Minnesota, and even 
in Manitoba I saw them growing finely when they 
had no winter protection. They bloom with the 
peonies and make a superb addition to the floral at- 
traction of the season. Take a field of 30,000 peonies, 
with the blooms so thick that you can see neither 
ground nor plants, and liave this field of splendor 
flanked by glowing masses of these flowers, it would 
seem as if a section of Paradise was let down to us as 
a sample of the “glory to be revealed.” 
So, plant these radiant flowers in masses. 
We are on the eve of remarkable developments 
with these flowers. It is said that Wizard Burbank 
is producing miracles from them, giving us bloom of 
rare beauty and great size. I note wide and striking 
variations in my own field. I have secured quite a 
number of deep crimson, and also several with sal- 
mon color ; seeds from these will be saved and the 
choicest ones will be selected. Florists claim to have 
some of mahogany color, and there is one called Silver 
Queen. In a large field you will notice a striking 
variation in the character of the flowers. Some will 
be single, som.e will be semi-double, and there will 
be various shades of color. Taken all in all, they 
give us a splendor of beauty and great possibilities 
for the future. C. S. Harrison, 
The contract for the McKinley national memorial 
to be erected in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, O., 
has been awarded the Harrison Cranite Co., of New 
York. 
