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of fl )\vers, leaves and fruit, and which even in 
wintertime soften the outlines of a landscape and 
often catch and hold the snow in a delightful way. 
They are as important in the real pictures which we 
try to form as children are in the family. Let us use 
them with boldness, creating broad, quiet effects, 
and by so doing make the cemeteries more truly 
resting places. 
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
Plant bulbs for spring flowering this month. 
See that the soil is good as better results follow 
than when it is poor. Florists who desire bulbs 
for cut flower purposes place a dozen or more in 
flat boxes, then place the boxes outdoors covered 
with leaves or soil, to remain until desired to bring 
them indoors for forcing. 
■aThe Fuonymus scale, which attacks all euony- 
mus, whether evergreen or deciduous, is easily de- 
stroyed by washing with kerosene emulsion or 
whale oil soap. Where badly infested it is often 
better to wholly destroy the plants by burning, 
starting with a new lot free from scale. 
Most all Daphnes are sweet scented but none 
are more so than the creeping, evergreen one, 
Cneorum. This species likes a somewhat light 
soil and to be under the protection of leaves in 
winter. When suited, it flowers almost as freely 
in the fall as it does in spring. 
The verbena shrub, Caryopteris mastacanthus, 
strikes readily from green cuttings. Place a plant 
in a pot and introduce it to a greenhouse, making 
cuttings from the green shoots as they grow, and a 
good supply will soon be on hand. 
Elseagnus umbellata is the silver thorn bearing 
ripe fruit now. All other kinds have fruited earlier 
in the season. The salmon colored berries are 
produced in great profusion. These berries, washed 
of pulp and kept in slightly damp sand, germinate 
well when sown in spring. 
The green shoots in Ligustrurn tricolor should 
be cut out before the fall of the foliage makes it 
impossible to distinguish them. They weaken the 
bush in the line of maintaining the golden foliage 
portion. 
.Sedums are usually thought of for rockeries and 
like situations but they need not be confined to 
such places. In good situations in a garden the}'- 
do well. Plant them in fall or spring. One of the 
best, if not the best for late September is S. spec- 
tabile. The pink flowers ate in flat heads, and are 
produced in great abundance. 
Hydrangea Hortensia will not flower if its 
shoots are destroyed by frost. A good way to 
winter them is to dig them up and bury tliem root 
and branch in some h'gh situation for the winter. 
Or dump a load of sawdust over them where they 
stand, removing it in spring. 
Gelseminm sempervirens, ti e Carolina jasmine, 
which rambles over trees in the south, adorning 
tliem in spring with sprays of golden flowers, can- 
not be termed a hardy vine in the north, hence is 
seldom seen in flower there. But treat it as a 
greenhouse plant and what a splendid show it 
makes! 
Both golden rods and asters grow readily from 
seeds sown either in fall or spring. Such beauti- 
ful asters as Novm-angl iae and its variety, rosea, 
are readily increased in this way'. In parks a hand- 
ful of seeds scattered broadcast along a bank will 
result in a lot of plants. 
Yucca gloriosa is a quite late blooming sort. 
It is common about the Capitol grounds, Washing- 
ton, flowering there in August and September. In 
Philadelphia, where it is quite hardy, it blooms in 
October. It is an arborescent species, as is its 
variety', recurva. These and all yuccas should be 
planted in spring. 
White oak, chestnut oak and chinquapin oak 
are among those the acorns of which sprout almost 
as soon as they fall from the tree. Gather them 
up and sow them thinly in a bed at once, as they 
soon lose their vitality if exposed to the air. 
Japanese Snowball forces well, and whether for 
the florist or the amateur is as useful a shrub as 
could be named for the purpose. This and all 
other kinds intended for forcing should be potted 
or boxed at once and kept under cover in a cool 
place for a few months until time to start forcing, 
which may be about February'. 
There is a general complaint of the death of 
white birches throughout the country. Though 
fungus has evidently got in its work on some 
which have been examined, a borer does not seem 
exempt from blame, as several dead trees gave evi- 
dence of the presence of many of them. 
Crimson Rambler rose is an eminently satisfac- 
tory one for forcing in winter. In many cities it 
has become much called for for Easter. Plants 
which have made long shoots are the ones which 
will flower. If plants are now in pots, so much 
the better, but those lifted from outside, potted 
and put under cover for a month or two are good 
for the purpose. 
Carnations for winter blooming should be 
housed in October or before the ground freezes. 
Though a tolerably hardy' plant and not hurt by a 
little freezing, they are the better for being inside 
to get roothold before fires are required at night. 
Joseph Median. 
