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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The ground is usually moist in the spring when these 
early bulbs and tubers flower, but as summer ad- 
vances it becomes very dry and hard, which does not 
affect these plants, they then being dormant, not a trace 
of them on the surface of the ground, but they resume 
growth with the coming of the autumn rains. They 
must be dug as soon as the plants above ground show 
signs of decaying, but may be kept until time for fall 
growth to begin, buried in not too dry soil, in a rather 
shaded place. Trilliums may, however, be kept as easy 
as canna tubers. With proper care in packing they may 
be shipped long distances though the weather be hot. 
Remember the season when they are dormant is the 
only proper time to handle them. A few may be 
handled in the spring, even when in flower, but at best 
in small quantities, and not with much satisfaction, par- 
ticularly if gotten from any considerable distance. 
We will now describe those found in South Eastern 
Michigan. 
Allium Canadense, Canada Onion. This plant is 
very conspicuous in Michigan forests in early spring, 
densely covering the ground, the long narrow leaves ris- 
ing straight about two-thirds of their length, then grace- 
fully recurving, indeed very pretty and conspicuous. 
Flowers white, not pretty. Bulbs and young plants 
edible. Two varieties: i — Leaves very long and very 
narrow, deep rich green. 2 — Leaves broader, glaucous. 
Allium Tricoccum. Leaves lanceolate, glaucous, pretty 
in early spring. Flowers white in June, not very pretty. 
Anemone Nemorosa. Wood Anemone. This is de- 
cidedly a very pretty plant when growing in dense 
masses as it does in its native wilds, but a single plant 
would not make much of a display. Grows three to six 
inches high, with a whorl of three trifoliate leaves and 
a solitary white flower of about three-fourths of an inch 
wide, purple outside. .Sandy shades. Very hard to col- 
lect before maturity of fruit, as the long, thickish rhi- 
zome is then very brittle. 
Aralia Trifolia, Ground Nut Ginseng. Grows 
3 to 6 inches high with a whorl of three, three to five, 
parted leaves and a cluster of white flowers early in 
May. The round tuber very deep in the ground, yel- 
low, edible. Has both pistillate and staminate plants. 
Not showy enough for extensive planting, though pretty. 
Arisaema Dracontium, Green Dragon. Con- 
spicuous, very odd and quite pretty, foot or more high, 
with large leaf, divided into seven to eleven long, nar- 
row leaflets. Spadix five to seven inches long, white, 
extending beyond the green spathe. Root a large corm, 
exceedingly acrid. Not recommended for extensive 
planting, yet decidedly attractive and interesting from 
its oddity. Looks best scattered about among lower 
growing plants. Berries red. 
Arisaema Triphyllum, Indian Turnip. Jack in 
the Pulpit.] An odd, handsome, interesting, easily 
grown aroid, one to three feet high, with two large 
three-parted leaves, and at the summit a large, rich deep 
brown purple or green recurved spathe, enclosing a thick 
club shaped spadix, bearing a cluster of either pistillate 
or staminate flowers at its base, the former followed by 
a large cluster of bright, scarlet berries. Flowers in 
May. Root a large corm, very acrid; medicinal. An 
interesting and attractive plant, worthy of being planted 
quite extensively in parks, etc., rich, moist woods. 
Shows better mixed with low plants. Scattered about 
in large masses might be monotonous in this case. 
Bicuculla Canadensis. Dicentra Canadensis. “Squir- 
rel Corn.” This beautiful little plant is one of the 
handsomest of all the wild flowers of Michigan, and is a 
great success in cultivation. Excellent anywhere as an 
out-door ornamental for forcing or for cut flowers. 
Growing in dense masses in its native wilds, covering the 
ground wdth its beautiful finely divided glaucous or sea 
green foliage. The flowers are very fragrant, very odd 
and handsome, white, in racemes, attaining a height of 
6 or 8 inches above ground. The root bears bright 
yellow tubers like large grains of Indian corn. Flowers 
early in May. A fine bouquet flower. Can be handled 
late in May and early June. 
Bicuculla Cucullaria ; Dicentra Cucullaria, 
Dutchman' s Breeches. Leaves larger and coarser but 
still very beautiful, flowes larger and still more odd in 
form, white, yellow-tipped not fragrant, in April and 
May. Root bears red scale-like tubers. The two 
species rank among the best of our native ornamentals, 
and are very easily cultivated. Both prefer rich shades. 
Both are fine for cut flowers or forcing. In their nat- 
ive wilds they form large flower beds completely cover- 
ing the ground with beautiful foliage and flowers, each 
growing by itself. In the same forest we may also find 
large beds of Isopyrum biternatum, Erythroraium Ameri- 
canum, Cardamine purpurea, Sanguinaria Canadensia, 
Deutaria disphylla, D. laciniata, etc. While the rest of 
the ground not occupied by these natural flower beds is 
nearly all covered by Claytonia Virginica, with however 
many low-growing early flowering perennials, as Violets, 
Uvalarias, Phlox divaricata, Hepatica, Hydrophyllums, 
etc. A hilly forest thus covered surpasses in beauty 
any park the writer ever saw. 
Rochester, Mich. Wiljed A. Brotherton. 
( To be continued .) 
THE TWO FOUNDERS OF MODERN GARDENING. 
The eighteenth century was a century of revo- 
lutions. Along with a growing democracy and a 
new conception of things in the political world, and 
flowing out of a new thought in literature, came the 
peaceful revolution in the art of gardening, a trans- 
formation from the formal, stately, architectural 
method to the modern natural style. 
The credit of the first executions of this work of 
revolution belongs chiefly to two Englishmen, Kent 
and Brown, who may be called the pioneers of their 
art. The former, William Kent, was a painter, 
sculptor, architect, and landscape gardener, who 
did nothing well until his genius perceived the prin- 
ciples of natural gardening and his boldness ac- 
quired the force to bring them forward. He was 
born in 1684 in Yorkshire, and was apprenticed to 
a coachmaker in his fourteenth year. Later, he 
