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Trees for shade, for use around the dooryard, or for windbreaks. — 

 The 80-foot tall, wild, pink-flowered cherry of Japan, Primus serru- 

 lata sachalinensis, No. 38761, irom the Arnold Arboretum, which de- 

 serves to be planted by the hundreds of thousands in our parks and 

 on our private estates because of its hardiness and great beauty as a 

 spring-flowering tree; the Nepal ash, No. 39014, which, though not 

 hardy in England, may prove to be so in our Southern States ; the East 

 African cedar, Juniperus procera, No. 39185, from Eritrea, the wood 

 of which, according to Schweinfurth, makes better pencils than that 

 of the American juniper; the Swaziland tree, Balanites maughamii. 

 No. 39196, a native of Portuguese East Africa, from the seeds of • 

 which a clear yellow odorless oil of about the commercial value of 

 cottonseed oil is obtained, but which, because of difficulties of ex- 

 traction, has not been exploited; the lofty forest tree, Picea smithi- 

 ana, No. 39040, from Darjiling, India, the wood of which is used for 

 packing cases and for charcoal ; the moderate-sized horse-chestnut 

 from northern Bengal, Aesculus assamicus, No. 39102 ; the Mongolian 

 linden, Tilia mongolica, No. 38810, from Tahuashan, China, which Mr. 

 Meyer thinks will be hardy in our Northern States; three distinct 

 varieties of the Chinese soap-bean tree, Gleditsia sinensis, Nos. 38800 

 to 38802, which are remarkably drought and alkali resistant and are 

 very ornamental, carrying all winter their pods, which contain large 

 amounts of saponin; and the cigar-boxwood tree of China, Toona 

 sinensis, No. 38805, from Changli, which ought to make a beautiful 

 shade and avenue tree and be useful in the Southwest for its timber. 

 The small Nepalese hazelnut, Corylus ferox, No. 39106, with prickly 

 cups but edible nuts, may find a use in the development of the hazel- 

 nut industry. The large bamboo, Dendro calamus hamiltonii, Nos. 

 38736 and 39178, from Darjiling, which produces shoots 80 feet tall, 

 the young sprouts of which are edible and from which a luxury 

 called gass-tenga is made in Assam, may prove hardy in the South- 

 ern States and be used, as it is in India, for windbreak purposes. 

 As dooryard shrubs for small homes may be mentioned an evergreen 

 Cotoneaster, C. microphylla, No. 39008; 18 Himalayan species of 

 Rhododendron, Nos. 39051 to 39068, among them a dwarf form, a 

 yellow -flowered form, and one reported to be adapted for use in the 

 parched and arid climate of Tibet; a Nepal barberry, Berberis nepa- 

 lensis, No. 39105, which flowers from October to March in the mild 

 climate of its native habitat; an autumn-flowering plant, Polygonum 

 \ vaccinifolium, No. 39048, for rock work, which lias proved a favorite 

 in England, where its bright rose-colored flowers bloom from August 

 to November; and three forms of the evergreen shrubs Euonymus, 

 Nos. 38833 to 38835, from Tahuashan, in the Shensi Province of 

 China. 



