. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 146 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. A Small Variety. bushy character, with small, golden-yellow flowers, brown centered, and with small, pointed, shiny, green leaves, somewhat like the foliage of the white birch. "The Dahlia," is a splendid, great flower, like a ball of gold ; it is extremely rich and hand- some when properly cultivated, and why it does not appe
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 146 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. A Small Variety. bushy character, with small, golden-yellow flowers, brown centered, and with small, pointed, shiny, green leaves, somewhat like the foliage of the white birch. "The Dahlia," is a splendid, great flower, like a ball of gold ; it is extremely rich and hand- some when properly cultivated, and why it does not appear more often in the foreground, I am sure I cannot tell. A bush of yellow dahlias is frequently directly beside us in some prom inent part of the garden, and its yield of gold is not nearly as great as that of the sunflower which is named for it; yet dahlias usually come to the front and sunflowers are left in the rear ! The other four varieties I mention are so beautiful that they deserve particular attention ; but we must them with a suggestion only regarding their treatment. Give the sunflower plenty of room and water. It is especially decora- tive, and deserves a prominent position to the front of the garden, and near some point , where its tall form may be seen against a dark background. This is a flower which pos- ZINNIA. , \ , sesses a most remarkable variety of brilliant and also aesthetic colors, but attempts no pro- nounced variety in form. It is a pity that a certain rigidity of stem and foliage bring upon it an imputation of stififnlsss; this is certainly a fault in the plant, but one which is easily over- looked. The most astonishing thing about the zinnia is its success in sustaining a palette (thus we artists designate a range of color peculiar to a particular jjainter),. 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 perfe
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