. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. WILD GARDEN, ROCKERV, VINES, AND AQUATICS. 1 ^ I Discord to alyssum, to see the canna hold a vantage point somewhere on high ground. The wild garden with the rockery, in a word, should look wild ! There is no sense whatever in allowing flowers to act discordantly one upon the other ; that is the reason why I prefer to buy -^ separate packets of distinct varieti
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. WILD GARDEN, ROCKERV, VINES, AND AQUATICS. 1 ^ I Discord to alyssum, to see the canna hold a vantage point somewhere on high ground. The wild garden with the rockery, in a word, should look wild ! There is no sense whatever in allowing flowers to act discordantly one upon the other ; that is the reason why I prefer to buy -^ separate packets of distinct varieties ^ of seeds. Clarkia and argemone may be planted ARGEMONE. side by side, but silene and centaurea suaveo- lens should never come together, Cacalia is dainty and pretty, rising from a mass of sweet but gilia and convolvulus minor, both blue, would better be at extreme ends of the whole arrangement. The proper way of working out a scheme for the wild garden, is to make one's eye familiar beforehand with the forms and colors of the plants which will be pressed into service, and then plant the seed with the strictest regard for after appearances. Datura with CONVOLVULUS its great lily-like cup, is a handsome MINOR. , , . , , , ,, • 1 • • • plant which looks well in the vicinity of godetia or of the canna; the new dwarf calla is especially adapted to a rocky corner of the wild garden ; but I would take care to place it nowhere near the datura, as the similarity of character ^ (not structure) between the two would be prejudicial to their good appearance. The tiny little Swan River Daisy (Brachycome,) BRaCHYCOME is a dainty blue floweret which must be kept from. 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Fewkes, A. H. Philadelphia W. A. Burpee
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