The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-30


The pretty claytonia, the true Spring
| beauty blossoms at about the same
time as the bloodroot, but it is hardly
effective enough for cultivation in
garden. Ii is toe nearly allied to the
| comman ."pusley" not 10 look like a
weed.
Trailing arbutus usually comes into
flower late in April. few days later
than the other flowers mentioned.
While the writer has had perfect sue
cess in cultiyating all the cypripediums.
except cypripedium acaule, and has
raised and brought into perfect flower
several orchids that rarely flower in
the woods the trailing arbutus has al
ways eluded all efforts 10 make IL live
in the garden. 1t can be easily grown
in a shaded border by removing the
plant from the woods in the Autumn,
and being careful not 10 disturb the
roots After planting ii in sandy
soil. protect il by a slight covering of
dry leaves. 1t requires. however. to
be under constant cover of leaves and
for this reason could hardly be made
a good lawn plant. The rue-anemone,
like all the Thalictrums, bears trans
planting we'll and looks well grown
among the grass under some tree. The
smaller meadow rues look well in a
shadeG border. planted with wild col
umbines. native ferns. especially maid
enhairs cardinal flowers, Lobelia car
dinals. actaes, spikenard. wild sarsa-
parillas and other plants, which come
into blossom and fruit al different times
in the year
The prettiest plant for a Spring Dor
der TO a wild bed is the dicentTa cucul-
laria. sometimes known by the familiar
name of white hearts. and again by the
poetic name OF Dutchman's breeches.
Its dainty. blueish green foliage. cut
like a delicate fegn, and its profuSion OF
white blossoms make il a desirable
border in April and May, when there
should be another border of small ferns
TO take its place. The polypodium
vulgare do well after the dicentra has
faded. and. being evergreen, last until
they are covered up for the Winter
with leaves. An exceedingly pretty
plant to put inside the dicentra bor-
der is the ordus spectabilis This may
be planted inside the dicentra border.
about inches apart 1t grows we'll,
blossoms profusely and increases rap
idly. Ii is the earliest of our native
orchids. and one of the most interest
ing of all our species to the botanist.
Ii agrees closely with the English or
CHS mascula. SO carefully studied by
Darwin. The pretty liparis litufOlia
comes up year after year, out IN our
wild beds does not seem to grow much.
The speranthes cernua, or lady's tress
es. has been repeatedly planted, but it
is apt to die. The cypripedium acaule.
or pink ladyslipper. is the only one Of
the ladyslippers which refuses to be
transplanted. 1t seems To be the gen
eral verdict of everyone who has tried
to transplant it that il seldom survives
the first year. Yet il is one of the most
common of all the ladyslippers in the
woods. though it does not seem To be
a lOng-lived plant.
The writer in the New York Tribune
has frequently marked a vigorous plant
in the Fail, only to find it gone the next
year. Calypso fboreaIis. a beautiful but
rare orchid in the East, but common in
Oregon, has been successfully trans
planted from that State to wild beds in
this State.