. 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. 193 bisciis CalifomicuH is, howevei', the largest, growing five feet high, and bearing white flowers four to six inches across, with purple centres. Among the best fall plants, especially when mixed with grasses, such as the Artmido, etc., are Kniphofim or Tritomas, the red-hot poker pla
. 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. 193 bisciis CalifomicuH is, howevei', the largest, growing five feet high, and bearing white flowers four to six inches across, with purple centres. Among the best fall plants, especially when mixed with grasses, such as the Artmido, etc., are Kniphofim or Tritomas, the red-hot poker plant. Like the Arundo, it is better, although it sometimes winters well, to take it up and -winter it in a cellar. It blooms splendidly in autumn until frost. There is no more strange and intensely colored flower than that borne by this plant. It is like flame partially at white heat. Trito- ma aloides, often called JJvaria, is a well- known kind that grows three or four feet high. There is a variety, graThdiJlora, that grows five feet Mgh, and there is also a smaller species, eorallina, that grows only eighteen inches to two feet, and bears bright coral-red flowers. The Lathyrus latifolius, everlasting pea, is an unjustly neglected plant, looking well trailed over bushes or on the ground, where its pretty i-ose-colored flowers last nearly all summei'. There is also a pure white variety. Most of the everlasting peas have large roots, and if left undisturbed improve with age. Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower 13. CARDINAL FLOWER. (lobelia CARDINALI3.). 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 York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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