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few feet from the trunk. Numerous small r oots 
will form which will make the trees c amparatively 
safe to remove in a year’s time. 
Cuttings of Tea’s Weeping Mulberry made from 
hard wood in fall and planted and covered with 
leaves for winter, root readily. Plants so raised 
form a prostrate shrub of singular appearance, run- 
ning over the ground like a creeper. 
The female paper mulberry appears to have 
been unknown in this country until a quite recent 
period. It bears round balls of fleshy, deep pink 
flowers, in August, making a tree of singular 
beauty. No one will make a mistake in planting it. 
In the herbaceous garden Platycodon (Camp- 
anula) grandiflora is one of the most attractive 
plants of the season. It exists in both blue and 
white sorts, As the plants grow eighteen inches 
high and the numerous flowers are two inches in 
diameter, it makes a great display. 
p'lorists do not care to make coleus cuttings in 
the fall, but prefer to lift a few plants from beds 
reiving on these to furnish enough cuttings towards 
spring. 
Roses for winter blooming are selected from 
plants raised in spring. They are usually planted 
in shallow beds of about four to six inches in depth. 
Such plants, given a temperature of about 6o de- 
grees in winter, grow and flower freely. 
Joseph Meehan. 
A UNIVERSAL FLOWER. 
The genius and patience of the florist have 
evolved a new world of beauty. 
The dozen or so of native varieties of pa:onies 
have been crossed and recrossed, so that we have 
marvels of beauty with delicious fragrance. Such 
amazing results would not seem possible a few 
years ago. There are now about 2000 sorts cata- 
logued and many are yet to be added to the list. 
The wonder of it is that this flower is every- 
where succesful — from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
from the sunny south to Manitoba, we hear only 
praise for it. The old-fashioned paeony of our 
mothers, with tubers like sweet potatoes, is not 
always hardy, but the newer kinds are. Prof. 
Green, of the University of Minnesota, writes me 
that they do remarkably well with him, only it 
pays to mulch with coarse manure in winter. Dr. 
Saunders, superintendent of the experiment sta- 
tions of Canada, speaks in high praise of their 
beauty and hardiness. 
Last winter on a mild day I cut up a lot of roots 
for spring planting, leaving the rubbish on the 
ground to freeze and thaw all the winter. 1 was 
surprised in the spring to find a dozen buds, so 
small as to be overlooked, leafing out and starting 
roots. No other flower could do this. In color 
they range from deep purple to snowy white, 
which in Madam Schroder culminates in a large 
ball so puffy and ethereal it seems as if it would 
float away. 
In England, France and Germany florists have 
long been experimenting and they ha\e given us 
splendid results; and in our own land great ad- 
vance has been made. Years ago, Mr. Richardson, 
near Boston, succeeded in producing very strong 
plants with gorgeous bloom. 
Miss Sarah Pleas, of Dunreith, Ind., has spent 
years in raising new varieties, one of which she sold 
for $100 last spring, and since then she has sold 
several hundred dollars’ worth. I have in my care 
some 80 kinds yet to be developed, and among 
them some of wondrous beauty. Dainty is the 
only really variegated one I ever saw. It is semi- 
double, petals satin pink, striped with silvery 
white and from its heart of gold there is a varie- 
gated petal rising from the stamens. 
Little Maiden is pink, edged with white, with 
a tremulous heart of gold and odor of the helio- 
trope. 
Mr. H. A. Curry, of Crescent, Iowa, has been 
hard at work for thirty years creating new sorts. 
He has developed about 70 kinds of rare merit, 
among them seme singular freaks. Clara is a 
flower of rare beauty with stamens growing out of 
the ends of the petals. One is a regular “double- 
decker,” a symmetrical flesh-colored flower, per- 
fect in itself, and in its lap sits another just like it. 
Grover Cleveland is a flower of glowing crimson, 
full orbed as the man whose name it bears. Prin- 
cess Ellen is of splendid beauty. 
The wonder is that more are not planted. They 
are a success everywhere, while millions of dollars 
are annually lost on flowers which fail. With care 
they double every year and one plant in ten years 
makes a thousand. One wealthy man last fall 
bought Mr. Thurston’s whole stock of two acres for 
$7,000 to adorn his fine grounds at Peoria, 111. 
He could not have used his money to greater ad- 
vantage than to plant a wilderness of loveliness. 
They should have a place in every flower garden 
and in every park and cemetery. 
C. S. Harrison. 
Large additions to the planting of Schenley 
Park, Pittsburgh, are to be inaugurated and con- 
tracts for some 8,000 trees are reported, at time of 
writing, as about to be let. After Schenley is 
advanced attention will be given to Highland 
Park. 
