. 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. 190 GARDEN MEADOVy SWEET. (SPIB;«A ULMARIA.) dropwort, grows three feet high, has fern-like foliage and numerous double white flowers in summer. It is an old and favorite plant. Then there is the red flowering and fragrant S. lobata or vemista, queen of the prairies, and meadow-sweet, 8. JJlma
. 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. 190 GARDEN MEADOVy SWEET. (SPIB;«A ULMARIA.) dropwort, grows three feet high, has fern-like foliage and numerous double white flowers in summer. It is an old and favorite plant. Then there is the red flowering and fragrant S. lobata or vemista, queen of the prairies, and meadow-sweet, 8. JJlmaria, from Great Britain and Northern Europe and Si- beria, with fragrant white flowers and from three to four feet high, loving moist places and water-courses. There is a pretty speedwell blooming long in the summer-time. It is Veronica amethystina, a better kind than gen- tia/nfOides, twelve to eighteen inches high, and bearing showy amethyst-blue flowers in pyramidal clusters. V. longifolia, var. suhsessiUs, is, however, the best of the speedwells, bearing a larger flower-spike and larger indi- vidual flowers of a brilliant amethystine blue, which con- trast finely with the rich green foliage. It is Qne of the Japanese acquisitions Ytbccq, filatnentosa \ie\.0T[i^9, to the sum mer season,: with its tall spikes of bell like flowers and strange tropical-look- ing leaves suited for i-ockwoi'k. This plant is hardly ein herbaceous plant, and yet it seems to belong here i-ather than among shrubs on account of the ap- pearance of the great spikes of flowers. We come now to the fall-blooming, hardy, herbaceous plants, which give us so much enjoyment during the. 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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