. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1018 The American Florist, July 23, desirable kinds in the hardy section. Varieties noted were as follows: Pictu- rata, Roseum Elegans, Album Elegans, Bessie Parsons, Purpureum Elegans, Grandiflora, Parity, Snowflake, James Narsmith, Lady Cathcart. H. W. Sar- gent, King of Purples, Everestianum, Lady Armstrong, Bluebell, James Bate- man, Marchioness of Lansdowne, Selvia, Lady Sigismund Ruckart, Sir Thomas Seabright, Caractacus, Atrosanguineum. Another very interesting feature of these grounds is the series of rock
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1018 The American Florist, July 23, desirable kinds in the hardy section. Varieties noted were as follows: Pictu- rata, Roseum Elegans, Album Elegans, Bessie Parsons, Purpureum Elegans, Grandiflora, Parity, Snowflake, James Narsmith, Lady Cathcart. H. W. Sar- gent, King of Purples, Everestianum, Lady Armstrong, Bluebell, James Bate- man, Marchioness of Lansdowne, Selvia, Lady Sigismund Ruckart, Sir Thomas Seabright, Caractacus, Atrosanguineum. Another very interesting feature of these grounds is the series of rock gar- dens in which myriads of hardy ferns find a congenial home. The collection is very comprehensive, including every obtain- able species and variety of American, European and Japanese lineage. These are located in a cool, shady gfove of oaks and chestnuts where the ideal con- ditions for fern contentment seem to exist. Bordering a long walk is a rocky bank planted with miscellaneous varie- ties arranged in the "negligence of nature wild and ; This walk is shown in one of the views accompanying this arti- cle. Numbers of irregular rock groups, such as are shown in the other illustra- tions, are distributed throughout the woods. In these botanical classification has been followed in a general way only. Polystychiums, aspidiums, aspleniums, nephrodiums, lastreas and athyriumsare seen in bewildering profusion of forrns, Athyrium filix-foemina and Lastrea filix- mas being allotted entire beds in which to display the wonderful variety of crested, forked, frilled and tasselled plumes, and crispy, puckered masses into which the simple original forms have sported and which seem to flaunt defi- ance at everyone who would undertake to classify them. These plants are all from seed and so thorough is the mix-up that the attempt to name them has been abandoned as a fruitless task. Scarcely less contusing is the classification of spe- cies and, as to genera, the synonyms an
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