. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. amples of bedding hardyshrubs effectually on our grounds. Figure 5shows one of the smaller beds of this kind,such as would from its extent be suitable forintroducing into grounds of almost any occupants in this case are as follows:Five Golden Bell (Forsythia viridinnmai in-dicated respectively by F; nine Variegated-leaved Weigelias, shown by W; seven Pani-cled-flowered Hydrangea, H in engraving;seven Mezeron Pink, shown by D; one Straw-berry bush (Euonymu)s\ shown by E. Thesel
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. amples of bedding hardyshrubs effectually on our grounds. Figure 5shows one of the smaller beds of this kind,such as would from its extent be suitable forintroducing into grounds of almost any occupants in this case are as follows:Five Golden Bell (Forsythia viridinnmai in-dicated respectively by F; nine Variegated-leaved Weigelias, shown by W; seven Pani-cled-flowered Hydrangea, H in engraving;seven Mezeron Pink, shown by D; one Straw-berry bush (Euonymu)s\ shown by E. Theselection is capable of affording bloom almostcontinuously from the time of the MezeronPink in April to the end of the Hydrangeaseason in October, while the fruit of theStrawberry Bush gives attraction to the bedin late autumn. The foliage of the bed isalso pleasingly varied from the light-coloredleaves of the Variegated Weigelia to the in-tensely dark foliage of the Golden Bell. Be-tween the shrubs at the edge of the bed arescattered Hyacinths, Verbenas and otherdowering plants. VEGETABLEGARDEN SMALLFRUITS. 5 i^ Taste and Tact in arranging Grounds. The upper plan,, , , J , ^ . i ,. , f <^ garden is unmtisfactory; the lower shows how the the well-developed plants up just before same garden might better be weather; crowding them together in boxes, roots covered with soil, to be kept in cellarnear the window. The Giant Daisy; Pyrethrum recent plant has been one of the most at-tractive subjects in our hardy border during thelatter part of September and early (Jctober. Theengraving, page 30, shows the bloom at two-thirdsthe natural size, and gives a very good idea ofits attractive character. The color is pure whitewith yellow center. The blooms borne on strongstems three to five feet high, present an appear-ance of picturesque ruggedness, which is veryattractive. The plant is of strong growth evi-dently, for ours has sprung up from a small rootimported
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