New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
FLOWERSIN CENTRALPARK
THOSE THAT WILL BLOOM WITHIN y
WEEK-BORDERS OF BRILL
IANT BLOSSOMS.

Fridays rainstorm demolished the last OF the
tulips which have made so brilliant showing IN
all the parks this and stripped the wfstarias
and the other early boomers of their last few
lingering flowers The azaeas. weigelias. deutzas,
haws sprfpas and snowballs taking their
turn In the sequence of display. A remarkably
beautiful effect is produced by a large bank OF
weigeas near Bow Bridge, in Central Park, where
its richness of bloom is repeated in the waters or
the lake a huge group Of azaleas at the bend
OF the main drive, near the SeVenth-aVe en-
trance and another the greenhouse. are ablaze
with rose, crimson and flame colored blossoms
Hardy azaleas being planted in various parts OF
Central Park. eight hundred of them having been
placed in the Ramble alone last year. The Rambe.
by the way, is yearly gaining in attractiveness
Eighty thousand bulbs. forty thousand of them
tulips were planted there last fall. Thr glowing
borders formed by them this spring now giving
way to summer bedding plants which will be re-
placed as the season advances with various varie-
ties until with the cold blasts of fall the last
chrysanthemum pershes, and the yearly march
of the flowers is at an end.
WILD TULIP BORDERS.
A new feature of the gardening in Central Park
this year is the planting of irregularly outlined
borders through the plots along the sides OF
the roads and walks N. Jonsson Rose, landscape
gardener for Manhattan and Richmond borouShs'
explains that he has adopted these borders Tor Two
reasons It is difficult, he declares, to make the
grass grow other than sparingly under the thick
foliage of the trees. and the grouping Of flowers
and grass is in accordance with natural scenery
where the flowers spring up everywhere. In the
Pyrenees Provence and Switzerland, for example,
he says the wild tulips border the roadsides and
cot the VINEYARDS and the they are ploughed
down the more profuse!y they flourish with pre-
cisely the spirit that the dandelion here shows
when it thrives frequent mowings. The borders
are now rich with masses of columbine pansies,
Iarkspur early phlox. candytuft rockcress DANES
rockets narcissus, an occasional poppy and yellow
and purple iris, the last named in profusion
THRONGs OF VISITORS.
Beds of flowers are being made around the green
houses, a part of the Park which has hitherto
been a dumping ground The work of COM
pleting the plaza of the Conservatives and the
drives and walks. with the necessary soddng and
planting will hardly be completed this But
by another summer that section will be of the
most charming not only in Central Park but in
New YORK The exhibition of hybrid rhododen-
drons orchids and bird-of- paradise plants in the
greenhouses is attracting throngs of visitors.
many as Fnfteen thousand having been in attend
| ance recent Sundays. Between forty and fifty
varieties of rhododendrons shown.
The hardy rhododendrons of Central Park al
though still young are among the delightful feat
ures there great mass OF them at , one SIDE slde OF
and Sixth and Seventh ave. entrance Will be vivid
While the wild character of the upper end of the
Park is being In no way impaired, general clean
! improved and rustic benches placed at frequent
Intervals A jet fountain is to be placed in one of
| the bays OF Harlem Mere just beyond the green
! Two large flower beds, which break the tedious
stretch of asphalt of the Plaza at the Fifty-ninth
St entrance are an innovation this year and give
| visitors to the Park hint of the glories awaiting
! them.
There vii! be displays Of flowers throughopt the
| season from Ninety y-siXth to One-hundred-and-
near ne raGs I0mb and at syentX
also be kept up in Madison, Union and Washington
squares; Battery. City Hall, Stuyvesant and Mount
! foliage plants will be employed for these than in
| former seasons.