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is my recollection of the wax models at Kew. 
Hydnora Africana is another queer wonder. It 
is similar in aspect and growth to the fleshy, scaly, 
over-swollen spathe of an Aroid; it springs through 
the ground in the same manner and has the vile 
odor of the ‘ ‘skunk cabbage,” but with never a leaf. 
The Kafflrs roast it, eat it and enjoy it, more it is 
said than American soldiers did canned roast beef, 
but then in spite of the similar smell it may be 
better. There are about 27 known surviving spe- 
cies of these two strange tribes. 
The Aristolochieae affords the only examples of 
the group adapted to northern gardens. 
Asarum “wild ginger” has 13 species in Eu- 
rope, temperate Asia and North America. About 
four of the American species and the common A. 
Europaeum are in gardens, and I fancy here and 
there a few Asiatic kinds, some of which have 
white-veined leaves. A. Virginicum, too, shows 
some variety of spotted foliage reminding one of 
cyclamen. A. arifolium has rather striking shield- 
shaped leaves. I have seen it north but in the 
shade, and with the protection of a frame in winter. 
Aristolochia has 200 species widely dispersed 
over most warm temperate, sub-tropical and trop- 
ical regions. A. sipho “Dutchman’s pipe” is one 
of the most hardy and familiar. They are large 
climbers, low creepers or trailers, with a few 
ARiSTOLOCHtA CLYPEATA. — Gardener's Chronicle. 
shrubby representatives in the tropics, and several 
are herbs. Along the Mexican boundary there are 
narrow-leaved pubescent species. The tropical 
climbers are evergreen or deciduous, according to 
the character of the seasons, and some of them 
such as a A. Gigas, A. Goldieana and others have 
enormous flowers measuring two feet long by a 
ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. — Gardening. 
foot broad. These flowers have often a creamy 
ground variously mottled and veined with choco- 
late brown or tawny red. Several do well at the 
north when plunged during summer. A good 
group may be formed of the hardy kinds using A. 
sipho as a central climber, with the lower kinds 
and the various Asarums in matted beds around it. 
James MacPherson, 
‘‘Two qualities,” says Andre, “usually distin- 
guish professional from amateur productions — sim- 
plicity and breadth of treatment.” Remember 
this, and you will have a steady guide post, warn- 
ing you away from the pitfalls into which you are 
most likely to step. If your garden has not sim- 
plicity and breadth of effect, it is certain to be bad 
as a work of art. But if it has both, it is pretty 
sure to be good; for breadth means unity, as sim- 
plicity means harmony of effect. Unity, harmony 
and variety are the three essential qualities; and 
Nature may be relied upon to give you variety 
enough, no matter how broadly and simply you do 
your own part of the work. — Mrs. Schuyler Van 
Rensselaer in Art Out-of- Doors. 
♦ ♦ * 
“It seemed to my friend that the creation of a 
landscape garden offered to the proper muse the 
most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed 
was the fairest field for the display of the imagina- 
tion, in the endless combining of forms of novel 
beauty. — Poe. 
