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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[August, 



Everything witliiu, arouud, above, is on the 

 grandest scale of nature; yet, how many cities, 

 towns, or villages wi bin the borders of the Staic 

 look ragged! There is something that jars the 

 harnii->ny of the 'make up' — something loose in 

 the attire. Here, there, and yonder, in every 

 city, we see individual residences, built with 

 taste, aiid the surroundings in keeping, fences in j 

 good repair, sidewalks perfect, shade trees 

 planted. Nine chances out of ten the owner, on , 

 a wet day, after leaving his own sidewalk, will 

 have to wade through the mud to get down 

 town. His city has not sufficient backbone to j 

 force property owners to build sidewalks." I 



EuoNYMUS RADICANS. — We have called atten- 

 tion to the merits of this very hardy evergreen 

 as a wall or tree creeper. Mr. Shirlej' Hibberd 

 in the Gardener's Magazine, has also a word to 

 say in this connection: "This cheap, fast-grow- 

 ing, bright-looking, and extremely neat euony- 

 mus is as well suited for clothing a wall as any 

 evergreen shrub in cultivation. I could tell you 

 of a snug little house in a very snug shaded 

 nook that is clothed with it. and its appearance 

 is surprisingly beautiful. No variegated ivy 

 could equal the glossy, creamy, dappled close 

 leafage of this fast-growing and healthy-looking 

 plant, which, moreover, almost trains itself, 

 though wanting a little help of nails and shreds. 

 It is the equal of the ivy in another respect, for 

 any soil will suit it, so that where the siufif below 

 is not good enough for a wall rose, clematis, or a 

 wistaria, it may be good enough for this euony- 

 mus, which also endures shade and town dust as 

 well as any plant in creation." 



PopuL.-^R Roses.— The New York Horticnltunrl 

 Society offers premiums for the following kinds 

 of hybrid perpetual roses. We may therefore 

 regard them as among the most popular kinds 

 in that section : Paul Neron, Baroness Rothschild, 

 John Hopper, Baronne de Maynard, Captain 

 Christy, Madame Lacharme, Paul Ricaut, Jules 

 Margottin, Annie Wood, La France, Madame 

 Victor Verdi er. 



Tree or Standard Wistarias.— The plan of 

 first training a Wistaria up a stake for a couple 

 of years, and then taking away the stake and 

 compelling it to be self-supporting, has been 

 urged at various times during the past twenty 

 years in the Gardener's Monthly, and some of 

 the nurserymen about Philadelphia have acted 

 on the plan, and some of the specimens are now 

 in great beauty about the gardens there. We 



see that the idea has travelled to Europe now, 

 and the Gardener's Chronicle thus speaks of it : 

 'One of the leading features in the floral 

 arrangements at the opening of the premises of 

 the general Horticultural Company (John Wills) 

 Limited, at Warwick House, Regent Street, on 

 Monday last, was some very fine specimens of 

 Wistaria sinensis growing in tubs as standards, 

 with large heads 5 to 6 feet in diameter, densely 

 covered with heads of bloom of fine color. 

 These plants were obtained from Rouen, and it 

 is supposed they are from thirty-five to forty-five 

 years of age at least, and were originally grown 

 up from cuttings. As decorative agents in spa- 

 cious conservatories at this season of the year 

 they can scarcely be surpassed, and some of our 

 English nurserymen would do well to attempt 

 the culture of plants of this character. So com- 

 pletely did they strike the popular taste that 

 there was quite a competition to become pur- 

 chasers of them, and large sums were offered by 

 those anxious to possess them. The general 

 public, unaccustomed to this fine Chinese climb- 

 er, looked on with wonder at ' lilacs ' of such 

 unwonted size and beauty of color. Time is 

 required to get good heads to such plants, but 

 when obtained their beauty is above praise and 

 their value great." 



The Cedar of Lebanon. — This interesting tree 

 is not very common in America. It suffers like 

 many coniferous trees, from cold, frosty winds 

 when young, but if protected a little till it is 

 eight or ten years old by other trees or wind 

 screens, it is as hardy as most other coniferous 

 trees. But whether seen luider culture or not, 

 every thing relating to the Cedar of Lebanon has 

 an interest. 



In the latelj' published part of the Journal of 

 the Linnean Society, Sir J. D Hooker published 

 an account of the discovery of a variety of the 

 Cedar of Lebanon by Sir Samuel Baker on the 

 mountains of Cyprus. It is interesting to note 

 that, though the botany of this island has often 

 been examined, this is the first record of such a 

 discovery. The trees were described by the 

 monks of Trooditissa Monastery as existing only 

 on the mountains between the monastery of 

 Kyker and the town of Khrysokus. This is a 

 pathless and almost inaccessible region. The 

 monks considered the wood to be the Scriptural 

 "Shittim wood." Sir Joseph Hooker describes 

 the specimens forwarded to him through the 

 kind offices of the Marquis of Salisbury as differ- 



