. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GARDEN FLOWERS. 179. AMERICAN SENNA. (cassia marylandica.) white variety. Cassia Ma/rylandica (American senna), growing three to four feet high, is a native plant well worthy of a place in the garden, where it should have abundant room, as it forms very large and showy clumps. The light-green foliage is
. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. GARDEN FLOWERS. 179. AMERICAN SENNA. (cassia marylandica.) white variety. Cassia Ma/rylandica (American senna), growing three to four feet high, is a native plant well worthy of a place in the garden, where it should have abundant room, as it forms very large and showy clumps. The light-green foliage is attractive, and the bright, yellow, oddly shaped flow- ers grow in abundant clusters throughout July and August. Most of the clematises are climb- ers, but there are bush forms that make very attractive herbaceous plants. O. Damdmna bears large clusters of fragrant blue hyacinth-like flowers; gro\vs three feet high, and is quite erect in , It blooms a long time durmg summer. G. mtegrifoUa is another erect species, one to two feet high, with blue, very fragrant, solitary, nodding flowers one to two inches across, and blooming in Jiily and August. C. recta (upright virgin's bower) is an old, well-known species, two to four feet high, swith numerous white summer flowers. When any one speaks of larkspurs, my memory always carries me back to a charming old flower-garden that I knew long ago in an old New England town. The larkspurs, or DelpTiiniv/ms, make a numerous group, clearly marked and not easily confounded with either of their nearest relatives, the columbines,.or,monk's-hoods. A large number of rather variable forms are comprised among them. Their style of growth is bold mid, striking, and blue and purple, purplish-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New
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