1878.] 



AND HOR TICUL TURIS T. 



07 



spathulata, &c., in different sets aceording to i THE GERMAN AND THE AMERICAN 

 supply of plants; 5, is graveled paths, and C a! GLOBE ARBOR VIT/ES. 



two feet wide sod border. ""^ •'• -^^• 



Fig. 6, a ten feet wide border on the edyc of ;i Tliese two fflobe Arbor Vita?s are now coin- 

 large shrubbery. 1. Phalaris arundinaeea ; 2, paratively comuion aroinid Philadelphia, several 



Fig. G. 



Perilla Naukinensis ; 3, Geranium Chun der Sen ; 

 4, G. Lass O' Gowrie ; 5, G. Crimson King; G, 

 G. Golden Fleece ; 7, Coleus Emperor Xapo- 

 leon ; 8, Pyrethrum parthenifolium aureum ; 9, 

 Lobelia Blue Stone ; 10, Mesembryanthemum 

 cordifolium var. ; and 11, Echeveria secunda. 



THE IVY IN NEW ENGLAND. 



BY J C, CHELSEA, MASS. 



In a communication in the December number, 

 it is stated that the Ivy is not to be depended on 

 as being hardy (even in the latitude of Phila- 

 delphia). 



One of our hard whiters a few years ago, was 

 very severe on evergreens (but this was an 

 exceptional season); some of the Ivies suffered 

 at that time, among which were luxuriant plants 

 covering a brick building three stories high,which 

 had withstood our hard winters in Charlestown, 

 Mass., for upwards of twenty years before that 

 time. I haye also seen it growing luxuriantly on 

 some of the chui'chesin Brookl3'n, N.Y., without 

 the least care, and in a private place in the 

 neighborhood of Boston, a low wall is com- 

 pletely covered witli it by a little care being 

 taken with it. 



nm'series having distributed them extensively 

 thereabouts. The German variety Thuja pumila 

 is a stronger grower than the other, and is of a 

 darker green, but it is not so compact a grower. 

 The American Thuja globosa is preferred by 

 many because of its more globular form ; though 

 if one's grounds are of fiiir size there will be 

 plenty of room for both. These beautiful Arbor 

 Vitaes are not near so well l^own as they ought 

 to be. Nurserymen compl*n that, like many 

 other nice things, they do not pay to raise, as 

 the average customer is too much inclined to 

 value their products by their size, and not ac- 

 cording to their rarity, nor the time taken to 

 produce them. Hence fast-growing trees pay 

 the best, and rarer ones, if of slow growth, are 

 in a measure discarded. 



THE RAPID PROGRESS OF OUR HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



BY WALTER ELDER, PHILADELPHIA. 



The Monthly will now be well freighted 

 with advertisements enlightening its readers 

 where and how to buy ; and especially instruc- 

 live as showing the rapid progress which horti- 

 culture has made since the establishment of this 

 magazine. In the nurseries, there are the vari- 



