. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. TEMPLE OF FAME AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, D. C. bit of specialty in the way of carpet bed- ding which is not only handsomely done, but is also useful in that it imparts ac- curate and interesting information to visitors. This specialty consists of four beds, each about 6 feet wide by 40 feet long. They have been planted solidly with plants which form the following words and letters, viz.: "Established 1864;" "Interments 20,042;" "Unknown 4,611;" and "Known 15,431
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. TEMPLE OF FAME AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, D. C. bit of specialty in the way of carpet bed- ding which is not only handsomely done, but is also useful in that it imparts ac- curate and interesting information to visitors. This specialty consists of four beds, each about 6 feet wide by 40 feet long. They have been planted solidly with plants which form the following words and letters, viz.: "Established 1864;" "Interments 20,042;" "Unknown 4,611;" and "Known 15,; The letters and figures in the first two beds named have been formed with Santolina incana, the groundwork is alternanthera. Prospect park and the beds are edged with a border of Alternanthera aurea nana. The letters and figures in the two last named beds have Echeveria clavifolia through the center and an inclosure of Alternanthera rubra nana. The ground- work is A. Sieboldi and the beds are edged with A. rubra nana. S. E. Herbaceous Plant Notes. One of our handsomest, low, ground covering plants, and one that should be seen in every collection of any preten- sions, is the bright gentian blue Litho- spermum prostratum, sometimes called L. fruiticosum, a _ small, prostrate, branchy, dense growing sub-shrub with lance shaped, rough surfaced leaves an inch or so long. The deep glistening blue flowers are narrow, funnel shaped with an elongated tube, axillary, pro- duced on the ends or tips of the branch- lets in leafy spikes, the flowering season extending from May on throughout the summer months. An open, dry and airy situation and a light, well drained, fertile soil should be selected for it. I have seen it years ago in a wild state— the foliage often covered thickly with dust, the accumulation of months—on hillsides and mountains in southern Spain, in sun-parched, rocky ground where grass would not grow. The plants seemed to subsist and flourish entirely on the moi
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