Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . ^ from twelve to fourteen inches the flowers are borne on top of the plant,and the proper way to treat this new type will be to plant seed in a row, to make a neat, evenhedge, when no support will be , in form and color, are a reproduc-tion of the famous Gray Friar^watered purple on white ground. THE IH!/^KI^T FLOWEl ^i^l^ HYDRANGEA PA N I CU LATA. —^oweis Pinkish white SrCCESSIONAL-BLOOMING BED QF IrIS. — vSeveral correspond-ents having inquiredfor information re-garding arrange-ment of
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . ^ from twelve to fourteen inches the flowers are borne on top of the plant,and the proper way to treat this new type will be to plant seed in a row, to make a neat, evenhedge, when no support will be , in form and color, are a reproduc-tion of the famous Gray Friar^watered purple on white ground. THE IH!/^KI^T FLOWEl ^i^l^ HYDRANGEA PA N I CU LATA. —^oweis Pinkish white SrCCESSIONAL-BLOOMING BED QF IrIS. — vSeveral correspond-ents having inquiredfor information re-garding arrange-ment of iris beds,borders, etc., the fol-lowing is given inresponse. A narrow bedalong the center of awalk is requested—dimensions 50 feetlong by 2 ]/?, feet would be sucha narrow bed, theplan must necessar-ily be carefully species ofiris vary in heightof growth from 3 or4 inches to 3 feet;and flowers may behad from early springuntil late bed as a wholeshould be made upof plants that range2 or 2 Yz feet in height,taller ones being in-terspersed, where de-sired, in ver> smallgroups or clumps,and the dwarf oneswill form the Japanese Iris(/. liPvigata) are among the tallest of thespecies, averaging perhaps two and a halffeet. The flowers of this type are distinctand remarkably beautiful. Either this orvarieties of the Germanica will be the promi-nent feature of the bed—th
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