. 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. FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE OF SUMMER. 99 must not overlook, so beautiful are they, and unique in their own peculiar way. One is Stuartia pentagynia and the other Oxydendrum arhoreum, or Andromeda arborea, the sorrel-tree. The first, bearing throughout the season foliage invariably bright and beautiful, is part
. 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. FLOWERS AND FOLIAGE OF SUMMER. 99 must not overlook, so beautiful are they, and unique in their own peculiar way. One is Stuartia pentagynia and the other Oxydendrum arhoreum, or Andromeda arborea, the sorrel-tree. The first, bearing throughout the season foliage invariably bright and beautiful, is particularly at- tractive at midsummer for creamy-white, orange-like clusters of flowers. The Andrcmieda arhorea^ noticed in detail in another place, has during the scarcity of flowers at midsum- mer the supreme attraction of white, swaying tassels of sweet-scented bloom. The little Hypericum^ studded with quantities of bright yellow flowers, is not to be despised at this season, and the delicate, feathery foliage and beaded pink flowers of the hardy Tamarisk Indica are in full perfection at about the same time. The rich, effective hues of the Alihea flowers also pertain properly to summer, although they last into September. But the now celebrated Hydra/ngea panicidata grandifiora, with its great trusses of white and pink flowers, hardly belongs to summer properly, for its richest and most varied tints of crimson only appear Just before the first approach of frost. Let us not forget either in assem- bling our summer lawn beauties to o _ DOUBLE FLOWERING ALTHEA. employ the old and neglected Lycium, (hibiscus syriacus, rupL.) barha/rum, or box thorn, with its curving masses of small, half-climbing foliage, studded in August with little elfec-. 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, 1844-1
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