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THE NEWER DECIDUOUS TREES AND SHRUBS. 



BY HENRY W. SARGENT, WODENETIIE, FISHKILL LANDING, N. Y. 



In addition to the more common and usually planted deciduous trees and shrubs, there 

 has been a great and very charming accession to our ornamental plantations, within 

 the past five or six years. The searches of Dr. Hooker, Messrs. Fortunk, Douglas, 

 and the other collectors of the Royal Botanical Garden, at Kew, and of the Duke of 

 Devonshire, have been attended with the greatest success ; in addition to which, our 

 own active intercourse with California has very materially increased the variety, which 

 is now becoming gradually acclimatized and adopted into the gardens and pleasure- 

 grounds in this country. 



Among the many new and beautiful plants which seem to have proved perfectly 

 hardy, even as far north as Albany, and perhaps further, the Forsythia viridissima, 

 and the Weigela rosea, are among the most attractive ; the former, one of our earliest 

 and most profuse blooming spring shrubs ; and the latter, covered with its roseate 

 flowers from the middle to the last of May, partaking somewhat, (though much more 

 beautiful,) of the character of the Fly Honeysuckle. 



Among the newer Magnolias, the M. fascata^ cordate, Frazerl, lonffifolia, striata, 

 and gracilis, all prove quite as hardy as the conspicua, Soulangeana, tripetala, acumi- 

 nata, macrophylla, glauca, &c., all of which, say twelve or more, are quite hardy here, 

 and should be in all collections. 



To this portion of plantations, which all flower about the same time, should be added 

 the Pawlovia imperialis ; the different varieties of Hawthorn — the single white, red, 

 and pink, [these three grafted on the same stock, have a pretty effect,] the double 

 white, the double red, and the variegated leaf; and the Andromedas, [these are ever- 

 greens.] The English Azaleas, than' which nothing can be more brilliant and gor- 

 geous, and the newer Belgian varieties; the true Deufzia gracilis and Deutzia 

 scabra ; and the Rihes sanguinea (double), the Bibes Gordoni, and the Rlbes speciosa, 

 are all beautiful and rare. The double-flowering Sloe, the double-flowering Plum, 

 Peach, Cherry, and Apple, and the Spircea prunifolia, are all beautiful. To these add 

 the double pink, white and yellow Horse-Chestnut, and the dwarf Horse-Chestnut, all 

 blooming in quick succession. 



There is no end to the Spirrea family, and they abound in beauty. The many are 

 well known. Lindleyana, Douglasii, Reevesii, and prunifolia, are among the newest. 



The Chinese Wistaria, if trained to a pole eight or ten feet high, and kept well cut 

 back for some years, will, in process of time, have all the beauty and appearance of a 

 weeping tree, and what is even more valuable, bloom in succession all summer. 



The French and African Tamarii^ks are pretty and hardy. 



Among the variegated trees and shrubs, the variegated Sycamore, Oak, Elm, Beach, 

 Chestnut, Maple, Ilorse-Chestnut, Syringa, Euonymous, Currant, and Thorn, all do 



upon this place, and are striking aud interesting varieties. The variegated 

 Dogwood is very rare and curious. 



