PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
Out door clirysanthcmums should not be topped 
as those in pots may be or it throws the flowering 
so late that freezing weather may catch them. As 
a mass of flowers is what is looked for in them and 
not flowers of large size, it is as well to let them 
run at will. 
Make preparations to plant pseonies this fall in- 
stead of next spring, if you desire flowers next sea 
son. Spring set plants rarely bloom for a year. 
Give Japanese iris a bog, almost a swamp and 
magnificent blooms will result. Like the wild iris 
of our swamps, versicolor, they are evidently at 
home in such locations in many places. Sedums 
are in demand for coming graves, because of their 
thick, low growth. For July flowering, these three 
are good for the purpose; Acre, yellow; speciosum, 
rose violet; album white. These can be planted at 
almost any season when the ground will permit. 
Yuccas are in great demand for lawn planting. 
The first to flower is augustifolia, next filamentosa 
and quite late in the season gloriosa and variety re- 
curva. These plants are propagated by cutting up 
pieces of roots and setting them a tew inches under- 
ground. Hydrangea Thunbergii, as nursery plants 
h ive it, is a fairly hardy sort. The heads of flowers 
have the neutral flowers and rosy violet ray ones, 
a pretty contrast. It can be propagated by soft 
wood cuttings indoors or by outside layering. Large 
plants of it are most beautiful in July and August. 
The Orange yellow asclepias, tuberosa, makes 
a splendid appearance when set out where it can 
grow at will and form a large clump. It flowers in 
July. The flowers are unusually pretty for a native 
plant, which leads many to imagine it an exotic. 
Pieces of root set in spring grow readily, as do 
seeds sown at that time. The croton is now much 
used for out-door planting in summer. These plants 
delight in sun and heat. The great variety now 
in cultivation affords the chance for beautiful 
grouping. 
The beauty of a coleus bed is its regularity of 
outline. This regularity is obtained by constant 
nipping in of shoots desiring to outstrip others. If 
not done often a bed presents a stubby appearance 
when it is done which spoils its beauty. 
Borers of all kinds seem on the increase. Nor- 
way maple, birches, oaks and other trees are now 
being attacked by them. Should sap be seen ooz- 
ing from the trunk of any tree, examine it at once, 
as borers are sure to be there. If not gotten out 
they remain in a long time, killing large patches of 
bark and disfiguring and injuring the trees. 
Spiraea Bumalda and its offspring, A. Waterer, 
will bloom more or less throughout the season if old 
heads are cut away. The kinds can be increased 
by making cuttings of soft wood during summer, 
rooting them in greenhouses. The common bind 
weed of Piurope, a convolvulus, is quite a pest in 
some grounds. As its roots are very tenacious of 
life it needs hoeing off the whole summer through, 
to kill it, the same is true of poison ivy. But if 
persistently cut away, that no leaves are perfected, 
death will come to both in the end. 
At this season of the year the ripe berries of 
Tartarian honeysuckles are quite attractive. There 
are both yellow and red berried sorts, and this is 
the season to note which they are, that they may 
be properly placed for effect in the planting season. 
Some of the newer ones, such as bella albida and 
Morrowi are good, but they cannot displace the old 
sorts altogether. 
Retinisporas, arbor-vitaes and similar evergreens 
with small roots may be safely planted throughout 
August if a small ball of earth be retained and an 
unstinted supply of water given them fora few days 
after. Everygreens are quickly damaged if allowed 
to become dry before re-planting them. 
The Rivers purple beech is rarely as bushy as 
desired when young. The summer is a good time 
to prune in some of the stragling branches, looking 
towards bushiness. The copper beech is not al- 
ways as good a color as the River’s being seedlings, 
but they are always far more bushy and of prettier 
outline when young. 
These hot days will start the fall or crab grass 
on lawns. After many trials to rid lawns of it the 
best seems to be to encourage the desired kinds and 
clovers by feeding the lawn well in spring so as to 
have a thick sod in which the fall grass cannot make 
much headway. After mowing use a rake, to bring 
to the surface prostrate stems and then remow it. 
This is the time to spray trees for San Jose scale, 
as the young are now active. Kerosene emulsion, 
whale oil soap or some similar substance will settle 
them. Many ornamental trees of Pyrus and other 
rosaceous plants are subject to the attack of this 
scale. 
To have a satisfactory heap of potting soil for 
fall, prepare it now. Get thick sod from a pas'ure 
and start a heap. Over each layer of sod place a 
layer of manure. Build a square heap, convenient 
to where it will be required. By fall it. will be 
nicely rolled, and when dug out as required will be 
well mixed. 
Violets planted in the open ground, intended 
for winter flowering in frames, will need cultivating 
and perhaps watering, to have good strong plants 
for lifting in October. The same of carnations. 
These should be topped as they grow, or they run 
up to flowers before they are lifted, which is not 
desired. Joseph Meehan. 
