. 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. 194 GA RDEN FL O WERS. of New England woods and waters, displays one of the brightest scarlets among herbaceous plants. It grows three to four feet high, and is easily cultivated. Mal/va Alcea, gai'den mallow, is a rosy-purple flowering plant that blooms in late summer. It gi-ows two to three feet high,
. 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. 194 GA RDEN FL O WERS. of New England woods and waters, displays one of the brightest scarlets among herbaceous plants. It grows three to four feet high, and is easily cultivated. Mal/va Alcea, gai'den mallow, is a rosy-purple flowering plant that blooms in late summer. It gi-ows two to three feet high, and has flowers two inches across. M. inoscliata alha is a similar species, -with pure white flowers. CEnotlwra speciosa, a late-blooming, evening prim- rose, Avith large, fragrant flowers, the Avhite petals of Avhich become rosy purple when fading. The garden phloxes, de- rived from Phlox paniculata, P. maculata, etc., have been much hybridized aud crossed. The height varies fi'om one to four feet, the foliage from narrow and shining to broad and dull. The flo\vers grow in a broad, pyramidal head, often six inches across, and continue in bloom in late summer and autumn for two or three months. There are colors, shades, and markings innumerable. Among the self-colored —/. e., all of one color, we find pure white, cream, salmon, rose, lilac, carmine, purple, violet, and crimson. In some varieties two colors combine, either beautifully shaded, or with a distinct centre of one color and the rest of the flower of another. There are also beau- tifully striped varieties. This is truly a magnificent group of flower- LEADwoRT. ^"S plants, and should be planted (plumbago LARPENT/E.) auioug declduous shrubs or among other large herbaceous plants where there will be other foli- age to support aud mask the lower portion of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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