PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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The foliage plants of the group shown on the 
accompanying engraving are grown in cold beds 
and are given plenty of water and liquid fertilizer. 
They grow very slowly during the summer and are 
: ust about fully developed in the beginning of fall. 
Although these plants are not given any particularly 
special care, or set out in warm locations or green- 
houses, like most other plants of their class, the 
groups in the park at Weinburg when fully grown 
attain a good height. Musa Ensete is grown in a 
temperature of from 50 to 60 degrees Fahr. , during 
the winters. The larger plants are about twenty- 
three, and the smaller ones from ten to sixteen feet 
in height. The group illustrated contains Musa 
Ensete, Arundo Donax, Canna Ehmanni, several 
kinds of Ricinus, Solanum Marginatum and Cala- 
diums. 
The group is irregular in form, and the plants 
are also set in an irregular way so as to obviate 
a stiff appearance, and produce a more ar- 
tistic effect. Translated from Moller' s Dentscher 
Gartner-Zeitung, Erfurt. 
SOME HANDSOME MICHIGAN ANNUALS. 
Coreopsis trichosperma tenniloba, Golden 
Glory Coreopsis. This is positively the most brilliant 
and showy annual found in Michigan. In habit it re- 
minds one of a Cosmos, but more branching, and more 
floriferous, being] covered in September with brilliant 
golden yellow flower heads 1 y 2 inches wide, open 
in the sunlight, but closed at night or when it rains, al- 
most as pretty when closed as when wide open. Leaves 
deep green, finely divided ; also very pretty. The height 
of the plant varies according to the moisture and rich- 
ness of the soil, ranging from three to seven feet in 
height. This brilliant and beautiful annual is very 
abundant in Oakland and Lapeer Counties, southeast 
Michigan, often covering great swamps, these swamps 
in September being a brilliant mass of golden yellow, 
presenting by far the most conspicuous and brilliantly 
showy portions of the landscape, visible at a long dis- 
tance. The seeds germinate in stagnate water or in 
moist or dryer soil early in May, the plants becoming 
large by August or September. The writer has tested it, 
taking plants directly from a swamp and planting them 
in a dry sandy flower garden in the full sunshine, and 
found this showy flower a success anywhere in the 
flower garden, and excellent for cut flowers. 
The great brilliancy and beauty of the swamps cov- 
ered with this plant establishes the fact that few plants 
can excel it for planting in masses, particularly in moist 
locations, though it will succeed well in most soils and 
locations where there is sufficient sunlight. But it will 
flourish wherever a Marigold would. 
Chenopodium capilatum, Strawberry Elite. Plants 
and flowers not pretty, but the long clusters of scarlet 
strawberry like fruit are very ornamental. Easily 
grown. 
Gentiana crinita. Large Fringed Gentian. Another 
glory of our autumn landscape, one of the handsomest 
of our American wild flowers. Plant very branching, 
one to two feet high, with large bell-shaped, beautifully 
fringed rich purplish blue flowers. From August to Oc- 
tober 1 or thereabouts. 
Gentiana serata (G. cretousa), Smaller Fringed 
Gentian. Flowers nearly as lai ge, quite as handsome, 
less fringed and blue. Quite different in appearance. 
Collinsia verna, Innocence. A beautiful little wild 
flower. Only about six inches high, with handsome 
blue and white flowers. A bed of this is truly beautiful. 
Impatiens fulva, Tawny Jewel Weed, Touch-Me- 
Not A relative of the balsam, three feet high, branch- 
ing with orange-red spotted flowers in August. Pretty. 
Rich, moist woods. Masses. 
Impatiens pallida, Pale Jewel Weed. Taller, less 
branching. Flowers equally as odd in form, bright yel- 
low, about one inch long. Both are pretty and have 
pretty foliage. Called “Touch-me-not,” because the 
pods when ripe burst at the slightest touch. 
Gerardia purpurea, Purple Gerardia. This is a very 
pretty branching plant, one foot high, with very pretty 
odd purple flowers in August or September. Grows in 
wet*places, clay or limy soils. Think it difficult to trans- 
plant. It would be better to sow seeds of this and the 
next in the fall in places suitable for their growth. 
Gerardia tenuifolia, Slender Gerardia. Much 
more delicate. Very pretty purple or white flowers. 
Grows ‘in dry, sandy places, particularly hillsides and 
banks,' more or less shady. One foot high, branching, 
Rochester, Mich, Wilfred A. Brotherton, 
