. 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 FLOWERS. 199. bloom, with tlie expectation of lifting them when the flowers have gone. ColchiGum atUumnale, common meadow-saffron, is known as the autumn crocus, and is one of the latest flowers to appear in our beds and borders out-of-doors. The flowers appear alone \vithout leaves, and consist
. 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 FLOWERS. 199. bloom, with tlie expectation of lifting them when the flowers have gone. ColchiGum atUumnale, common meadow-saffron, is known as the autumn crocus, and is one of the latest flowers to appear in our beds and borders out-of-doors. The flowers appear alone \vithout leaves, and consist of six lance- shaped somewhat spreading petals, rosy purple in color, and supported only an inch or two above ground. The leaves begin to autumn crocus. grow after the flowers cease, and I'each *—-"-™-*^-> their fullest development the following spring and early siimmei'. They are lance-shaped, dark olive-green, and about nine to twelve inches long. The dahlias constitute a well-known class of late flowering-plants, and pre- sent a rich variety of color at a season when flowers are scarce. Their forms, however, are stiff and ar- tificial looking, and the more they are "perfected" by cultivation the stiffer they seem to become. These objections, how- ever, do not apply to SINGLE DAHLIAS. the sluglc dahHas, that have been desei'vedly increasing in reputation of late. Their colors are quite varied and their single petals 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, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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