NOTES ON EVERGREEN TREES. 



ter than the leaves themselves; they are of a light rose color and very handsome. The 

 cal3'x is a flat membranous five-toothed cup, with the two upper teeth very far apart. The 

 standard of the corolla is oblong, nearly flat, very slightly keeled behind, nearly white, 

 but pencilled with delicate crimson lines near the base; in length it is equal to the wings 

 and keel, and forms with them an angle of about 45° when expanded; the wings are nar- 

 rowly lanceolate and ciliated, of a pale bright rose color; the keel is rather paler, and 

 bordered with a woolly or very downy upper edge. It is a greenhouse plant which will 

 grow freely in almost any sort of soil, especially sandy peat. In summer an ample sup- 

 ply of water is required, and air at all times when the weather is favorable. To prevent 

 the leaves from being scorched by the sun, it will be necessary to use shading. In win- 

 ter, water should only be given when the soil becomes dry. It strikes freely from cut- 

 tings under ordinary treatment. 



[This is one of the prettiest plants brought from China by Mr. Fortune. "We saw it 

 in the garden of the London Hort. Society, last year, blooming very freely, and thought 

 it one of the loveliest of the new hardy plants. It had stood the winter on a piece of dry 

 rock work, and there can scarcely be a doubt of its hadiness here. Ed.] 



NOTES ON EVERGREEN TREES. 



The Deodar Cedar is the most popular of all the new evergreens yet proved in this coun- 

 try. It deserves its popularity. It is at once the most hardy, the most beautiful, and 

 the most rapid growing of them all. 



The largest trees of the Deodara that we have in any of our nurseries, are in Mr. Han- 

 cock's grounds, near Burlington, N. J. This cultivator has perhaps 400 trees from four to 

 five feet high. The soil in which they stand is a sandy loam. They were imported from 

 France two j^ears ago, and are now growing in the open nursery rows. The vigor and 

 beauty of these trees is surprising. Some of them have made shoots nearly three feet 

 long the present season. They all begin to assume that drooping, elegant habit, which 

 makes this the most graceful of evergreen trees. And, as they grow older, the silvery 

 tone of the foliage is also more conspicuous. Everybody is planting Deodars, and all the 

 nurserymen are busy, importing and propagating- them. Messrs. Parsons have, we un- 

 derstand, a stock for about four thousand young plants, one year established. Every 

 large nursery in the country now advertise it, and the Deodar or Sacred Cedar of India, 

 will in a few years we hope, be found in every ornamental plantation in the country. 



We are glad to notice the Hemlock attracting more attention. It is the finest evergreen 

 tree indigenous to North America — for ornamental purposes. A great many persons, 

 who only know the Hemlock in the woods, afiect a contempt for it as an ornamental tree. 

 They think it " scraggy, ugly, and wild-looking." They only show their ignorance. Have 

 they ever seen a Hemlock planted in the midst of a piece of smooth lawn — the soil a deep 

 loam and the site favorable? No. Then they have yet to discover how full of symmetr}^, 

 how finely proportioned, how graceful, how rich and dark a green in winter, how pure 

 and soft a green in sjiring is the Hemlock. In fact it is as handsome as the Deodar— and 

 is very much like it. The latter droops more and is silvery in its foliage, instead of bronzy, 

 -but they are much alike otherwise, and are the best possible companions in the pleasure 

 grounds. 



A third tree that is worthy of high praise is one that comes to us from the mountains 



