The Bedding System

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, in the Independent, has a vigorous article against the bedding system, which for the last quarter of a century has been a rage. Empty flower beds in spring, empty beds in early summer, empty beds all winter.she thinks poor compensation for a month or two of lively foliage made to look like a bad carpet. And the cost! 450,000 plants, she says, go for this few weeks' pleasure in the Boston twenty-four-acre public garden.

The Myrobalan Plum

This is getting some reputation in the old world as a hedge plant. They call them Myrobella hedges.

Persian Peach

Because it happened that Mr. Pissard happened to be gardener to the Shah of Persia, and found a purple-leaved Myrobalan plum among green-leaved ones, is no reason why western nurserymen should call Prunus Pissardi the Persian plum. A Hybrid Perpetual rose has now been called Rosa Pissardi, and perhaps we shall have this dubbed the Persian rose.

The Golden Larch

This Asiatic species, Larix Kaempferi, is getting popular in Europe.

Hybrid Rhododendron

It has been said that the common Mountain laurel, Rhododendron maximum, has not been used as a parent in producing the beautiful hybrids that adorn our gardens. The very pretty and very hardy kind, known as the Queen, looks as if it might have some of the Maximum constitution in it, and besides this appearance it flowers later than most others, bridging the period of flowering nicely between the two.

Value Of Tuberoses

It is said that first-class tuberoses which once sold readily for $20 per 1000, now bring in the south only $5. A few extra ones may bring $6 or $7.

Hollyhock Culture

It seems now to be generally admitted that the fungus that seized on the Hollyhock and for a time swept it out of English and American gardens followed impious methods of propagation. It was the same scurvy-treatment of the grape-vine which, nearly a quarter of a century ago, sent a death-chill through grape culture over this continent.

Madeira Vine

Amid the many candidates for summer vines, we must not lose sight of the good old Madeira vine, Boussingaultia baselloides. The tuberous roots are easily kept over winter, dry, safe from frost.

Noxious Properties Of The Laburnum

It has long been known that this very beautiful small tree has properties occasionally noxious to cattle. Other allied species are said to be equally blameable. We hear no complaints, however, though the plant is rather common in gardens.