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popular method of planting in our own cities, 
wherever the nature of these iron clad bulbs is 
fully understood. 
From hundreds to thousands is the way to 
plant. From 35 to 50 and 75 cents per doz. , dis- 
count on large purchases is the rate at which the 
finest and healthiest of these bulbs are sold. They 
will all be sure to bloom, as a rule, but should 
some fail to bloom the first spring, wait until the 
next and flowers will be produced. This is asserted 
from the known fact that the daffodil bulb will 
never fail to bloom except from want of full-grown 
size or maturity. Winding in and out of drive- 
ways, in sunny spots, on straight, curved or circu- 
lar borders, in flickering sunshine and shade, or 
athwart the green sward, or bedded in fancy forms, 
this primrose yellow and gleaming gold of daffodils 
will be the very incarnation of spring, beautiful, 
ever welcome spring time. 
Jonquils are deeper yellow than daffodils. The 
bloom is all yellow, cup and saucer shaped. The 
perianth is broad and spreading and the cup in the 
center small, both cup and perianth deep chrome 
yellow. The foliage is more free than with the 
daffodil. Rush-like, abundant and as dark and 
rich as the bullrush by the river’s brink, the foliage 
of the jonquil is one of its pleasing features. Jon- 
quils 'are more decidedly fragrant than daffodils, 
although not as sweetly perfumed as hyacinths and 
white narcissi. Masses of the deep yellow flow'ers, 
gleaming in the sunshine before the leaves have 
put forth on deciduous trees and when evergreen 
trees are still sombre from the winter’s cold, are in- 
spiriting, delighting every sense of the beautiful. 
Daffodils and jonquils will grow in any ordinary 
garden soil. Park grounds fertile enough to sup- 
port velvety green grass wdll answer every purpose 
for their growth. In excavated places, trenches or 
prepared beds, though, good gardeners always be- 
stow some additional fertilizers for newly planted 
bulbs. Fall is the time to plant these hardy bulbs. 
Mr. Meehan gives the reason for fall planting when 
he says: “The daffodil (the same may be said of 
the jonquil) sends out its roots throughout the 
w’inter time, no matter how hard the ground may 
be frozen. The young fibres have internal heat, 
or they would not be alive, and this heat is suffi- 
cient to thaw enough moisture to keep the bulb 
alive. It is this work of the roots during the winter 
which makes it necessary to plant the bulbs in the 
fall of the year. The earlier they are planted the 
earlier they will flower the ensuing spring.” 
There are varieties and varieties to be had. 
All of them are gay and pleasing. Jonquils num- 
ber some lovely double sorts. The large white and 
yellow double is as handsome a flower as the spring 
ti me has to show. And the dwarf multiflora, borne 
in full clusters is in single and double form, the 
latter quite as full, as double and as beautiful as a 
Polyantha rose. Once planted, daffodils and jon- 
quils become a permanency. They naturalize them- 
selves in the soil, and if on grass-grown grounds 
not disturbed they will be nourished by the top 
dressing given the grasses, and annually brighten 
the park ways with blazing yellow, flame-like and 
brighter than the sunshine, far beyond the quarter 
of a century. G. T. Drcnnan. 
HYDRANGEA QUERCIFOLIA 
Everybody plants hydrangea paniculata grandi- 
flora, and indeed it is a very valuable shrub, the 
showiest of all shrubs that bloom in late summer. 
But it has a near relative that one does not very 
often see which is equally desirable for parks and 
private places and which has the advantage of being 
ornamental from the time its downy leaves appear 
early in April, until heavy frosts have stripped the 
bushes of foliage late in November. This shrub is 
hydrangea quercifolia, or the oak-leaved hy- 
drangea. It is a noble plant when well grown and 
is a native of Florida, Georgia and other southern 
and also some western states, where it is found 
growing in partly shaded places. It is, however, 
quite hardy at the north. I have seen it eight feet 
in height, more like a small tree than a shrub, with 
a spread of branches at least fifteen feet in circum- 
ference. 
The leaves are five-lobed and very large, sc me 
of them measuring ten inches across. It has a 
most picturesque habit of growth, the lower 
branches, with their huge panicles of bloom, rest- 
ing upon the grass of the lawn. 
The color of the foliage is a fine grayish green, 
and the underside of the leaves is downy. The 
petioles and young wood are densely covered with 
a rusty colored downy substance. 
But its chief charm is in its flowers. It begins 
to bloom here the first of June, many weeks earlier 
than H. p. grandiflora, and it has large cymes of 
showy flowers, which are, when they first open, a 
delicate sea-green in color, fading every day until 
they become creamy white. The heads are pyra- 
midal in outline and the sterile flowers are numer- 
ous and large. They surround the small fertile 
ones, which form the inside of the clusters. They 
remain cream colored for some time and then grad- 
ually change to pink and finally to russet red. 
They are very persistent, so that the plant remains 
in bloom for four or five months. Indeed, the 
flowers do not fall ofl until the leaves drop. One 
great merit of this hydrangea is its capacity to 
withstand drought We have them planted on a 
