. 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. 50 SPRING EFFECTS ON THE LAWN. kind does uot liappen in the intelligent practice of lawn planting. Azalea mollis lilooms so early in May tliat late frt)sts in rare instances 8uccee<l in blighting its beauty, and ^vlien young the plant itself is sometimes killed by very severe winters. Generally, howe
. 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. 50 SPRING EFFECTS ON THE LAWN. kind does uot liappen in the intelligent practice of lawn planting. Azalea mollis lilooms so early in May tliat late frt)sts in rare instances 8uccee<l in blighting its beauty, and ^vlien young the plant itself is sometimes killed by very severe winters. Generally, however, the Azalea mollia is perfectly hardy after a little protection for two or three years. The. TREE PEONY, (p/eonia ahbobea. Ghent or American azalea, on the other hand, is one of our hardiest deciduous shrubs both in leaf and flower. The tree peony should not be forgotten. It is hardv and longdived, and, unlike tlie herbaceous peony, it has a solid bush form. The flowers are splendid in color and form, superi(u' to those of the hei-baceous kind. A Avoi'd in conclusion should be sAyhw the lilacs, or syringas. Some of them bloom profusely and others do not, but their flowers seem specially lovely in early spring,. 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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