PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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A CALADIUM BJ.OSSOM. 
the benefit of those who have not seen this beautiful 
flower. I wish I were able to offer also the fragrant 
odor that fills the air around it, but photography 
falls short so far when it comes to color and odor. 
The bloom shown in the photograph is the third 
from this leaf stock and three more buds were 
forming at time of taking the picture. The flower 
is thirteen inches long, and in color is an orange 
yellow on the outside and a cream yellow within. 
The bulbs from which these blooms came were 
only 2 y 2 inches in diameter and were planted on 
the margin of a lily lake, where an abundance of 
moisture and a very rich soil aided it in perfecting 
its blossoms. — Sid. J. Hare, Forest Hill Cemetery, 
Kansas City, Mo. 
VINCA MINOR. 
For cemetery planting few things in nature sur- 
pass the Vinca, or Periwinkle. It is so called from 
the Greek, meaning to “bind,” and the strong, wiry 
stems that greedily take hold upon the soil at every 
joint and send up fresh shoots that for a while are 
like blossoming plants, but that in time spread 
over the surface of the ground and make strong 
roots and send up fresh colonies, well merit the 
descriptive name. One of the names under which 
vinca major and minor are alike listed is “creeping 
myrtle,” but the most common synonym is the 
familiar periwinkle. Few vines are better known, 
and none more popular. 
Cemeteries in all sections are so generally plant- 
ed with vinca minor that by association it has be- 
come, in a measure, sacred to the purpose. Vinca 
major is also a handsome vine in smooth, shining, 
green folicge, but it is too free in growth to be 
otherwise than common. Vinca minor is dainty in 
appearance although a very free grower. The ob- 
long-ovate leaves are not over half an inch long, 
and in pairs not over an inch, or less, apart all 
along the stem. There are two varieties, differing 
only in the color of the bloom. Vinca alba is 
snowy white and vinca cerulea is a gentian blue. 
These blossoms have circular, saucer-shaped corol- 
las and funnel-shaped throats, in texture as fine as 
gossamer, and with a faint perfume suggestive of 
the sweet flag. 
Clipping or pruning the vinca adds much to its 
beauty. Every little shoot that branches up 
will be of tender green and will bear its blooms. 
The blooms, however, are the secondary matter, as 
it is the finely enameled green leaves, shining and 
bright, at all times, but sparkling like diamonds 
after every shower of rain, or of the watering-pot, 
or hose, that commend it. 
Added to its many charms the periwinkle is 
perfectly hardy Impervious to cold and indifferent 
to heat of summer, it covers every inch of ground 
allotted to its growth, and so dense is the foliage 
that not an inch of the soil nor of the wiry stems are 
to be seen. It mats so thickly that moisture is 
husbanded for its roots and under sides of the 
bright, flat-lying little leaves. During the winter 
the shade of green deepens, but is always shining. 
Like the arbutus, vinca minor in white and blue 
flowers, peeps up from under a blanket of snow 
when the first notes of the blue- bird trills upon the 
air of returning spring. 
G. T. IJrcnnan. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— XXXV. 
CAMPANALES. 
THE CANDOLLEA, LOBELIA AND CAMPANULA AL- 
LIANCE. 
This is a small Alliance of 5 Tribes, 77 Gen- 
era and 1 , 395 species. They were often included 
under the previous Alliance by the older bot- 
anists, but are now separated because, among 
other things, they have ovaries with two or more 
cells. The majority of the species are sub-tropical, 
those of. the first two tribes being largely from the 
southern hemisphere. When they enter the tropics 
it is usually at considerable altitudes. The Cam- 
panula, however, have one center of production, 
on the mountain ranges of Europe and Asia; from 
the Alps, through the Caucasus, the Himalayas, 
the Altai range, and the mountains of northern 
China to Japan ; and another in the Cape Colonies 
of South Africa. So far as I know there is not a 
