Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . ^ and, in some degree, in beauty. Thesturdy stalk of flowers attains a height of from. X-^SSSJVJ^. _^*o**^»w ^fe^J>a/y Osrx/tSt^/^A PLAN OF HARDY FLOWER GARDEN. gardens of the olden time. These little flower knots, with their neat borders of boxor other edgings, were certainh- attractive forwhat they contained, though termed stiff andunnatural b\ the cultivated, artistic eye. There is, however, no reason wh}- a collec-tion of hardy herbaceous plants should not beso arranged as to have prett}, flowing lines tothe gr
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . ^ and, in some degree, in beauty. Thesturdy stalk of flowers attains a height of from. X-^SSSJVJ^. _^*o**^»w ^fe^J>a/y Osrx/tSt^/^A PLAN OF HARDY FLOWER GARDEN. gardens of the olden time. These little flower knots, with their neat borders of boxor other edgings, were certainh- attractive forwhat they contained, though termed stiff andunnatural b\ the cultivated, artistic eye. There is, however, no reason wh}- a collec-tion of hardy herbaceous plants should not beso arranged as to have prett}, flowing lines tothe ground they occupj. All that is requiredis for the landscape gardener to keep in mindthat the flowers have to be examined closeh,and that length, but not breadth, should pre-vail in the design. With this is given the plan of one on thegrounds of Dr. Chas. H. Thomas, of Devon, three to five feet, the white bell-shaped flowershanging gracefully in character, not unlike theYucca, though of course smaller. Like theflowers of most bulbs, thej^ are ver}^ lasting,and make a continuous display for at least fourweeks about mid-summer ; and occasionally asecond stalk
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