. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. for enlivening shrubberies, and gar-dens. The foliage of this is more or lessdifl:used with golden yellow while some ofits parts are of pure yellow giving the plantaltogether a distinct and bright season when this variety comes in with flne effect is In midsummer and later afterthe shrubbery has lost much of its floralattractiveness. At that time this brightshrub, enlivened by sunlight and standingamong the green of other shrubs or in aclump upon the green lawn, is sure
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. for enlivening shrubberies, and gar-dens. The foliage of this is more or lessdifl:used with golden yellow while some ofits parts are of pure yellow giving the plantaltogether a distinct and bright season when this variety comes in with flne effect is In midsummer and later afterthe shrubbery has lost much of its floralattractiveness. At that time this brightshrub, enlivened by sunlight and standingamong the green of other shrubs or in aclump upon the green lawn, is sure to at-tract every eye within its range. Wherethere is a tendency in it to run too much togreen this should be discouraged by cut-ting back the greener growth. The Red-berried Elder (S. /w/jchs) is a dis-tinct native species that is not widelyknown. Its habitat is from the AlleghanyMountains southward, although foundsparsely as far north as Niagara persons esteem this as the most orna-mental species of the family. The choicer Elders can be obtained at amoderate price of all the leading nursery-. Fern-leaved. Variegated. Cut-leaved. LEAVES OF VARIOUS ELDERS. men who make a specialty of ornamentalshrubs and trees. Some Experience with Wild Flowersand Trees. T. L. B., COOK CO,, ILL. In a small way I have had some successand satisfaction in growing wild years ago I decided to see whatmight be done with our common wildorange-red Prairie Lilies, Philadelphicumwhich bears its blossom upright and ordin-arily only one on a stem, and Canadensewhich has nodding blossoms and fromthree to five on a stem, rarely more. Insummer when they were in full bloom Imarked a number of the finest I dug up in the fall, getting bulbsin no case larger than Hickory nuts,and many of them much smaller. Thesebulbs 1 planted in a rich spot in my gardenand they bloomed the next summer aboutthe same as in their wild state, but afterthat they increased in size, vigor andbeaut
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