. 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. in grow two to ttree feet high. Aquilegm vulgarlti (Muii- stead giant) is of garden origin, robust, growing three feet high, and producing pure white flowers in abundance. Armeria maritima, one of the sea pinks or thrifts, bears attractive rose-colored flowers and brpad foliage about a f
. 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. in grow two to ttree feet high. Aquilegm vulgarlti (Muii- stead giant) is of garden origin, robust, growing three feet high, and producing pure white flowers in abundance. Armeria maritima, one of the sea pinks or thrifts, bears attractive rose-colored flowers and brpad foliage about a foot high. Asperula odorata is the common woodruff of Northern Europe. It grows six to twelve inches high in dense tufts of slender stems with leaves mostly eight in a whorl, and has flat clusters of small white flowers in summer. When wilted this plant has the odor of new-mown hay. The Gam- panulas or harebells are of course well known for their dainty beauty. They are all summer-flowering, but per- haps Campanula rotundiflMa blooms somewhat earlier than some of the others. It is a beautiful native species, with, numerous deep-blue flowers. It grows only six to twelve inches high. To speak of the lily of the valley in praise, or dwell on its charms, would be superfluous, for all the world knows them. The dainty bloom pushes its white bells from the sheathing leaves during the latter part of May into June. And the no less dainty maiden's pink (Dianthus del- toides) comes in early summer also. It is an humble. LILY OF THE 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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