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WORTHY OF GENERAL .. CULTURE.. -l¥ J ( A FEW FLOWERS TQ?ori(5}> of (BmeraC CuUutt AN EFFORT TO WIN FOR HARDY PLANTS A RECOGNITION OF THEIR GREAT WEALTH OF BEAUTY TENTH EDITION pn ^ tTBRARTd NEW YORK BOTANICAC GARDEN PITTSBURG, PA. B. A. ELLIOTT CO., PLANTSA\EN 1893 "God Almighty first Planted a Garden, and indeed it if= tho Pun-si of Human pleasures. It is the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirits of Man; without which Buildings and Palaces are but Grosse Handy works: And a man shall ever see thai when Ages grew to Civility and Elegancie, Men cdiiie in Build siiii.li/ rather than to Gardi n Finely; As il' Gardening were tin-1 ireater Perfection."—BACON. PRINTED BY JAMES MCMII.I.IX, 111 THIRD AVE., PITTSBURG, PA. Contents. PAGE. PAGE. The Garden of Hardy Flowers 7 Success with Hardy Roses 42 Landscape I hardening 9 The Iris Family 50 Dosoris 17 Decorative Possibilities of Hardy Climbers 51 Some Attractive Books 21 Tuberous-Booted Begonias 55 Hardy Plants of the Easiest Culture 22 Plans and Estimates Furnished 58 Hardy Plants and the Modes of Arranging Them • 24 The Making of a Hardy Border 58 Splendid Garden Effects with Hardy Lilies 34 I xiced Catalogue for 1893 61 Tr< ipical Garden Effects 39 Index to Catalogue. 'AGE. PAGE. Introduction and Terms of Business 63 Dahlias 103 Six New and Notable Hybrid Perpetual Roses.. 64 New and Choice Chrysanthemums 104 Six New and Notable Hybrid Tea hoses 64 Rhododendrons 100 Six New and Notable Everblooming Tea Roses. 64 Hardy Azaleas 100 New and Notable Koses of Special .Merit 65 A Few of the Finer Lawn Trees 107 The ('ream of Hybrid Perpetual Roses 66 Japanese Maples 109 Hardy Climbing Roses 08 Evergreens 109 P.est Everblooming Koses for Out-door Culture. Ii!) Evergreen Shrubs 110 The New Polyantha Roses—"Fairy Koses'' .... 71 (Ornamental Deciduous Shrubs 110 Moss Roses 71 Appendix 112 .Miscellaneous Koses 71 Hardy Herbaceous Plants 112 Hybrid Tea Koses 72 Clematis Paniculata 115 i ieneral (tollection of 1 lardy Plants 73 Anthemis Tinctoria (Chamomile) 115 [rfs The Superb "Orchid " Fleurde Lis 84 Ipomea Pandurata (Hardy Moon Flower) 115 Iris Ksempferi (Japanese) 84 The New Hardy Hibiscus "Crimson Eye" 115 Iris (iermanica 85 Pyrethrums 116 Miscellaneous Iris 86 Hibiscus Moscheutos (Kose Mallow) 117 Hardy Delphiniums 87 Liatris Graminifolia 117 Hardy Phloxes 88 Palms and Other Decorative Plants 117 Herbaceous I 'iconics 89 Xerophyllum Asphodcloidcs (Turkey's Beard)... 118 Single Paeonies 90 Laic Water Lilies and Other Aquatics 118 Tree Pa'onies 90 Dogwoods 121 Papaver (Perennial Poppies) 91 Superb New Varieties of Auratum Lilies 122 Tbe P.est and Most Easily < rrown Lilies 92 New Koses 123 Hardy Native Orchids 93 A Great Novelty in Trees (Fagus Purpurea Tri I lardy Native Ferns 93 color) 125 Hardy Bog and Aquatic Plants 94 Andromeda Mariana 125 Clematis for Climbing or Bedding Purposes. 95 Clethra Alnifolia 125 I lardy Climbing Plants 97 Sciadopitys Verticillata 125 98 Carnation Pinks Eleganus Longpipes 120 99 (iladioli Shrubs 126 LOO Tigridias Evergreens 127 100 Lawn Crass Seed Hedge Plants 128 101 Canna, Madame Oozy and other varieties Gladiolus Childsi 128 102 Tuberous-Rooted Begonias Gladiolus Snow White 128 List of Illustrations. PAGE. PAGE. Frontispiece Iris and Other Hardy Plants by Brookside 33 A Corner of Colonel John Hare Powell's Garden.. 8 Tritomas in tbe (irass 33 Japan Umbrella (Sciadopitys Verticillata) 9 I [eadpiece—Lilies 34 Lodge at Mr. Louis Lorillard's 10 Tiger Lilies Isolated in the Crass 35 Cut-leaf Weeping Birch Il I iroiip of Auratum Lilies 35 House and Grounds of Mr. Geo. Henry Warren .. 12 Candidum Lily in the Border 30 Weeping Beech 13 White Lilies Naturalized 37 Effect of Lilies. Planted Among Rhododendrons • • 15 The Turk's Cap Lily—Naturalized in the (irass.. 38 A < rrOUp Of Evergreens at Dosoris 10 Tailpiece—Lilies 38 Retinospora Filifera Pendula 17 Group of Yucca Filamentosa 40 A Lawn al Dosoris 18 Heracleum Giganteum—Giant Parsnip II Cedrus Deodara 19 Headpiece—Roses 42 Podocarpus Japonicus 20 Hybrid Perpetual Kose—Francois Michelon 43 Colony of Narcissus Poeticus (Poet's Narcissus) in Hardy Roses Growing on Fence 44 the Wild Carden 23 ('limbing Kose on 1 louse 45 Foxgloves ( Digitalis) 24 White Climbing Rose, Scrambling over Catalpa Evening Primroses (Oenothera) 25 Tree 46 Sedum Spcctabile 25 Hybrid Perpetual Rose—Eugenie Verdier 47 Group of White Japan Aneiuone (Japonica Alba, Climbing Rose, Isolated on (Irass 48 or Honorine Jobart) 20 Tailpiece—Roses 48 Pieonies in the Grass 20 Japanese I lis 49 Hay Lily (Hemerocallis) by Margin of Water .... 27 Aristolochia Sypho, Covering Porch and House . 51 Single Hollyhocks in ('ottage < iarden 27 Large Flowered Clematis 52 Columbines (Aquilegia) 28 j Clematis Flainmula 53 Group of Narcissus in Properly Spaced Shrubbery. 29 Field of Tuberous-rooted Begonias 54 Yuccas 29 Plant of Double-flowered Tuberous-rooted Begonia 55 Tree Paeonies .".0 Plant of Single-flowered Tuberous-rooted Begonia 50 Funkias—Showing the Advantage of Grouping as Tailpieot — Viola Cornuta—Alpine Violets 57 Compared with Dot!ing System of Planting. 31 Plan of Hardy Border, Showing the Method by Tall Delphiniums 31 which a Show of Bloom is Maintained 59 Aconitum (Monk's Hood) 32 Hardy and Tropical Plants on the Lawn 60 The Garden of Hardy Flowers. ^\ HIS BOOK is written to show the many advantages of gardening with hardy (lowers as compared with bedding plants. We have been very careful not to make a single exaggerated statement, and every illustration is an actual garden picture, and it is worthy of note that it is always the garden of hardy flowers, and never the one of bedding plants, that furnishes subjects for the artist's pencil and brush. Hardy nowers have all artistic advantages and all practical ones as well. Their first cost being their only cost and their greatly increasing in size and beauty year after year makes an investment in them yield an annual dividend of loveliness not to be computed in any ordinary way. llc:ilmos a,n tos entirl e exclusion (if the great wealth of hardy plants from American % iifto T !/or of a few—hardly a score — of tender ones has so impoverished them vr ivUfvP of gardenall reas l inbeaut favc y as to make them a monotonous and — when the enormous amount of f money and effort that is spent upon them is considered — distressing sight. In almost every garden are seen the same stereotyped carpet and ribbon beds, mere lines of color, that are as unchanging during their season of four months as the patterns of the carpets, and that perish entirely with the first frost. The entire labor and expense is renewed the next season, and the annual outlay is only limited by one's willingness or ability to pay. We have thought constantly of a garden—caught glimpses of it rarely — where early spring is ushered in with myriads of snowdrops, crocuses and violets peeping through the grass, with yellow daffodils and scarlet tulips, with rarest blue of scillas, and with odors of hyacinths; and later with lilies of the valley, and lilac, and hawthorns, and numerous flowering shrubs. June— Hie month of flowers—finds our garden fairly aglow with floral beauty, roses everywhere, in groups, on fences, sprawling on the grass with their wreaths of loveliness, clambering over bushes, and here and there covering even the tops of the trees with showers of pink or white bloom. Not only roses, but monarch poppies, columbines, early-flowering clematis and irises in a multitude, and Easter lilies in all their purity, and the grand rhododendrons, second only to roses, and with them, later, the glorious auratum lilies showing stately above their rich greens. With this grand June overture to summer our garden follows quickly with a succession of lovely and changing scenes—:of day lilies, hardy pinks, exquisite Japan irises, and a procession of stately lilies, commencing with June, ending only with frost; of poppies, hollyhocks — single and double—and clematises with their wreaths and garlands of purples, pinks and whites; of foxgloves, larkspurs and evening primroses; and our garden, daily, until frost, will have new attractions — and even with the snows of November will give us hardy white and yellow chrysanthemums, and, if the winter be a mild one, perhaps a bunch of pansies at Christmas. Arranged with some judgment at first, this garden might be left to take care of itself ; time would but add to its attractions, and the happy owner might go away for years and find it beautiful on his return. | A CORNER OK COLONEL JOHN HAKE POWELL'S GARDEN. Landscape Gardening. In its true meaning, the term " Landscape (iai'dcning." can be properly applied only to large estates or to lands of considerable scope, such as the great public parks in many of our cities. We use it here in its common accepta tion, as meaning all kinds of out-door decorative gardening. It is probable that in this country the landscape- gardeners art will always be in greater requesl for the adornment of comparatively small suburban grounds than foT large private parks. We therefore propose to offer a few bints for the laying out and planting of small lawns. Our best writers on this subject are agreed that it is impossible to lay down definite rules thai will be applicable to all cases; and it is our experience, as practical landscape-gardeners, that no two places can be treated in exactly the same way, with satisfactory results. And, though the principal features Of a plan for one place may lie modified to suit another, there must always be a considerable change made in the details.