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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
duliflorum has flowers on large peduncles which bend 
down and hang below the leaves. Variety album has 
white flowers. Have never met in south-east Michigan ; 
or any form having flowers of any but the usual dusky, 
purple shade. 
TRiLLiUM grandiflorum, Great Flowered Trillium. 
This is the grandest of all our Trilliums, the most beau- 
tiful and popular species, valuable for garden, park, 
forcing or cut flowers. Very variable. The common form 
has flowers 2*4 to 3J4 inches wide ranging from pure 
white to pink or rose, the color not varying because of 
the age of the flower as some botanists have supposed, 
but often being pink or rose from the bud. Rich sandy 
fields, hills and woods. 
Swamp form. This has the largest tubers and plants 
of any form, the flowers ranging from 334 to 4J4 inches, 
almost universally pure white ; grows in rich shady 
swamps, Tamarack or arbor vitae. Highland variety. 
Grows on wooded hills in dry soils ; flowers about size 
of last, but often pink. Variety Maximum. The grand- 
est type of Trillium, rare. Flowers 334 to 6 inches, 
wide, white, rose or beautifully variegated. The tubers 
smaller than in most forms. Trillium grandiflorum 
flowers from May 10 to June 1st, ha^ white fruit and de- 
cays above ground in July and August, and by Septem- 
ber cannot be found. Like other plants of this class it 
should not be planted out until after the flowering sea- 
son, when the tubers have matured, say in June or July. 
A small number may be shipped a short distance and 
successfully transplanted in April but a large number 
at distance would fail. 
The object of this article is to call to proper atten- 
tion one of the most beautiful classes of our native or- 
namentals, and remove such obstacles as may hinder 
their successful culture. He who attempts to plant 
them before blooming in early spring, be he park or 
cemetery superintendent, gardener, florist or park lover, 
cannot meet with any great degree of success, as a rule 
meeting but vexation, trouble and loss. A few can be 
successfully planted in May, others in June, while July 
and August are the proper months for planting others. 
Unless one obtained a supply before the stems decayed 
, it is useless to think of planting any after the stems de- 
cay which may be in any month from May to August, 
according to kind, for so completely do they disappear 
that no one would suspect that a few days or weeks be- 
fore they had clothed the ground with beauty. He who 
would succeed with them must give up all preconceived 
ideas about planting them in early spring or autumn, or 
that “if shipped in hot weather they will die on the 
journey,” etc. Of course it would be foolish to trans- 
plant or ship shrubbery and ordinary herbaceous peren- 
nials in the summer, just as foolish as to plant early 
flowering bulbous and tuberous flowers in early spring 
or autumn. The fact is law governs everything. If we 
would succeed with any class of plants or with any 
plant, we must cast aside all our preconceived notions 
and confront the laws which govern each particular 
case. 
With very few exceptions they are best planted in 
masses, each kind by itself or much better by some 
shrub, or herbaceous perennial that reaches its glory 
when these early bloomers no longer appear above the 
soil, or they may be mixed with low perennials that re- 
tain their foliage all summer. 
THE OLE BULL MONUMENT, LORING PARK, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
The statue of Ole Bull, of which an illustration 
is given herewith, is erected on a conspicuous site in 
Loring Park, Minnea- 
polis, Minn., to which 
city it was presented 
by the N orwegian 
Americans of the N orth - 
west. The figure was 
modelled by the late 
Jacob Fjelde, the Nor- 
wegian sculptor of 
Minneapolis, who died 
soon after the comple- 
tion of the work, and 
indeed the model was 
completed under sad 
circumstances. The 
figure is cast in bronze 
and is nine feet high, 
mounted on a pedestal 
of Barre granite, the 
base of which is six feet 
square . 
On the back of the 
die, is the inscription 
in raisedletters: “Erect- 
ed by Norwegian Amer- 
icans,” and another in- 
scription is cut on the 
front. Total cost of statue and pedestal was 
$8,000. 
It was unveiled May 17th last and formally pre- 
sented to the city of Minneapolis by the Ole Bull 
Monument Association. 
Another effort to stimulate the energy and en- 
terprise of the French people is being made by the 
Colonial Union, who propose to create in Paris or 
the suburbs a colonial garden for the purpose of 
experimenting with plants which can be suitably 
acclimated in the newly acquired French colonies. 
To some extent this has been attempted before. 
All the vanilla beans that come from the East In- 
dies, for instance, are the product of trees whose 
ancestor stands to-day in one of the greenhouses of 
the Jardin des Plantes. The Colonial Union has 
also begun the publication of the periodical giving 
all possible information in regard to the agricultural 
possibilities of the colonies. 
