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Rhus Cotinus or Purple Fringe, Cladrastis 
Tinctoria or Yellow-wood, Cornus Florida, 
the large, white, flowering dogwood, Cra- 
taegus or Thorn-Apples in variety, Fagus 
Ferruginea (native - ) . Fagus Sylvatica (Eu- 
lopean). Beeches and also F. Sylvatica 
Heterophylla and Incisa, Gleditschia Tri- 
acanthus or Honey Locust, Juglass Xigra, 
Cinerea, and Regia, the best Walnuts, 
Larix Europea, or European Larch, and 
so on indefinitely. 
In this connection a careful study 
should be made to determine which of the 
above grow to the greatest height and 
which will do best on wet ground, which 
on dry ground, which will take to clayey 
soil, which will prefer good loam, and so 
on. If planting is to be done on a large 
scale, always call in the best landscape 
architect your pocket will afford, for by 
going ahead without him you may get a 
mess which will require much money to 
undo. 
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS FOR OBTAIN- 
ING A SUCCESSION OF BLOOM. 
I can give only a few of the best here. 
Catalogues will give minute descriptions 
and investigations in the public parks will 
show the results they give. 
Amygdalus (Persica), Nana or Flower- 
ing Almond, is the “old fashioned’’ small 
bush flowering almond, really a peach, 
which everyone grew up with. It blooms 
just a trifle after Prunus Triloba, also 
called flowering almond, which, when 
small, resembles it slightly at a distance. 
Both flowering almonds are fairly early 
and pink, blooming along with the For- 
sythias or "Golden Bells,” our earliest yel- 
low flowering shrub. 
Cornus Mascula, or Cornelian (Indian) 
Cherry, has yellow flowers ahead of the 
leaves and very early. It grows to quite a 
tree, but slowly, and is fine for mixed 
plantations to give variety, with its flow- 
ers in early spring and its bright red 
fruit in the fall. 
Lonccra Tartarica, or Bush Honey- 
suckle, has masses of pink, red or white 
blossoms in the spring. It commences 
blooming shortly after the flowering al- 
monds start and lasts in full bloom about 
three weeks. It will not come into bloom 
exactly the same time each year, as it is 
very subject to early climatic conditions 
regarding blooming, although absolutely 
hardy. It grows into a very large bush 
and is especially good for obtaining quick 
results and in mass plantations. 
Philadelphus Curonarius and other spe- 
cies called the Syringas, Mock Orange, 
etc., are some of the most important 
shrubs, because they give you a late white 
succession, following the spireas and pre- 
ceding the hydrangeas. They are very 
large growing shrubs and must go in the 
background with the Lonicera Tartaricas, 
and Lilacs to tie in the tree core or back- 
ground plantation with the low growing 
plantation edgers. 
Spirea Van Houte (Houti, Houttei), 
Spirea Thunbergii, and many other spireas 
are of immense value to the landscape gar- 
dener. They give him early white shrubs, 
middle season pink shrubs, and late sea- 
son red ones, and all of them are usefully 
planted either to tie in high shrubs with 
low ones or in accent planting, as the fa- 
mous Van Houte, or else as edgers as 
Bumalda, Waterer, and Callosa. All pink 
and pink-red are used, and as Berberis 
Thunbergii, the dwarf Japanese barberry, 
used also for hedges, is used. 
Syringa Vulgaris and Syringa Persica, 
S. Josaekaei, and named varieties of S. 
Vulgaris are invaluable for handsome, 
large effects of pink, white, lilac and inter- 
mediate shades. Syringa here is the proper 
name for Lilacs; elsewhere it is given as 
the common name for Philadelphus or 
Mock Orange. 
W eigelia Rose and Eva Rathke also oc- 
cupy a unique position in landscape work 
because, especially at the North, no shrub 
of the size of the Weigelia blooming at 
the same time has been found to give the 
pink succession after the lilacs and Loni- 
ceras go out. 
The following are good color succes- 
sions, viz. : 
White — Spirea Van Houte (early), 
Phidalephus (midseason), Hydrangea Ar- 
borescens (mid to late), H. Paniculata 
Grandifl. (late), Hydrangea Paniculata 
(native, the latest). 
Y elloiv — Cornus Mascula and Forsythia 
Viridissima (early), Lonicera Xylosteum 
and Eleagnus or Wild Olive to follow'. 
Pink-Red — Pyrus Floribunda, Amygda- 
lus Nana and Prunas Triloba; Lonicera 
Tartarica and Pyrus Oensis Bechtilii ; fol- 
low'ed by Weigelia or (Diervilla) faced 
down with Spirea Callosa, Bumalda, An- 
thony Waterer, Plumosa and other pink 
plume herbaceous spireas. For scarlet 
flow r ers usually — in this latitude, northern 
New York Cydonia Japonica or Japan 
Quince is fine. 
PERENNIALS TO GET STARTED ONE 
YEAR AHEAD OF BLOOMING TIME. 
Aquilegia, or Columbine. Start the 
seeds either the season before, in July or 
August, or get the plants and set out the 
year before blossoms are wanted. 
Campanula includes Canterbury Bells, 
which bloom in the early summer with 
various exquisite shades of pink, white 
and blue and Campanula Grandiflora, 
which is the old-fashioned Platycodon or 
“Chinese Bell Flower.” These Canterbury 
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., has 
inaugurated an interesting and novel fea- 
ture of management in the form of an an- 
nual outing for the directors and stock- 
holders. Special trolley cars are provided 
for the party, an inspection made of the 
advancement of the cemetery during the 
Bells are biennials — i. c., bloom the second 
year after starting from seed, and should 
be freshly started every year so as ahvays 
to have a crop coming on. 
Beilis Perennis, or Double Daisy, same 
“Burns’ Daisy” and Mountain Daisy, is 
fine for borders, and if kept picked will 
bloom all summer in the East and in the 
spring and fall in other parts of the coun- 
try. 
Delphineum, or Larkspur. Get the hardy 
kinds which grow to a height of 4 to 6 
feet, which are fine for a background in an 
"English” style perennial treatment along 
an entrance walk or roadway. Incidental- 
ly, .the annual larkspurs of the stock flow- 
ered variety are very fine to start in a cold 
frame and face down perennial plantations 
with. 
Dianthus Plumarius, or old-fashioned 
single and double grass or garden pinks, 
are easily started any time before Septem- 
ber and will bloom sparingly the follow- 
ing spring. 
Dianthus Barbatus, or Sweet William, is 
easily started from seeds and some of the 
plants will prove to be ever blooming in 
character. 
Dianthus Sempcrdorens, or Florists’ 
everblooming, clove scented, grass pink, is 
\ ery valuable and the seed is quite dear, 
but worth the price. The flowers resem- 
ble the Scotch pink type. 
Dianthus Chinensis (Var. Japanese 
Fringed) are the best of the wide leaf 
(green, rather than blue foliaged) pinks. 
No garden is complete or half complete 
without all the pinks there are. 
The five leading types of “Iris” or “Fleur 
de Lis” or “Fiags,” which are Pumila 
(early and dwarf), English, German, 
Spanish and Japanese, the hardy phloxes, 
the anemones, peonies, etc., should be 
bought as plants and divided from year to 
year. 
Hollyhocks, Mallows, Oriental or Opium 
Poppy (enormous scarlet Poppy), Iceland 
(the best all-round hardy Poppy there is), 
Crocuses, Hyacinths and other leading 
bulbs should all be planted in the fall. 
In this article I have not intended to 
call attention to anything except what I 
find everybody wants and what is indis- 
pensable. 
In brief, in planting trees and shrubs, 
set them with the crown — place where 
roots leave the stems — not more than an 
inch further in or out of the ground than 
before and pound the dirt around plants 
and then pound some more when planting 
anything. 
year, and a typical Maryland dinner of 
soft crabs, fish and fried chicken served at 
one of the suburban hostelries. Such an 
outing took place on the 16th of June and 
was heartily enjoyed by ninety-five persons. 
All the details of cigars for the men and 
peanuts, candy and flowers for the ladies 
FIELD DAY FOR CEMETERY DIRECTORS. 
