. 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. GARDEN FL O WERS. 173 The summer-flowering irises ai'e also impoitant. I mean those that bloom in early summer. The Florentine iris, or the orris root, belongs to this time. It bears large fragrant white flowers with a tinge of blue, and a bright yellow- white tinged with pink or lilac when they have be
. 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. GARDEN FL O WERS. 173 The summer-flowering irises ai'e also impoitant. I mean those that bloom in early summer. The Florentine iris, or the orris root, belongs to this time. It bears large fragrant white flowers with a tinge of blue, and a bright yellow- white tinged with pink or lilac when they have been open for some days. There are generally many flowers com- pletely covering the stem. The Siberian iris is tall with narrow leaves, and white and blue and delicate-veined flowers. Iris Siherica, var. hcematophylla, is a very dark- leaved early flowering kind that often blooms the second and third time during the season. Linum per^enne, the perennial flax, is attractive all summer, with its tufts of narrow foliage and its bright blue flowers, an inch or more across, which seem, on their slender stalks, semi-detached and floating. No garden would, of course, be complete without its peonies and tall phloxes. The herbaceous peonies present eveiy shade of white, pink, rose, ^^ red, crimson, and dark purple among their scores of varieties. Their flowers are perhaps the largest and most showy of any we are likely to plant in our garden, and make a great display at a dis- tance. I will mention one kind because it is so unique. Pceonia ' ~ "'^'' ^ HERBACEOUS PEONY. tenuifolia, fl. pi., is different from (p/eoma oFRciNALrs.) all others on account of its abundant finely divided foliage, from the midst of which peer out large double brilliant dark-red flowers. The tall phloxes to be seen in gardens. 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 perf
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