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THE GARDE NEB'S MONTHLY 



[August, 



know better "next time." Among the good 

 things is an admirable specimen of the curious 

 gray Retinispora squarrosa. It is about 6 feet 

 high and proportionate in width. Also an ad- 

 mirable specimen of that best of- all firs, the 

 Picea Nordmanniana. 



S. B. Parsons & Son have a special bed for 

 the Japanese plants of Mr. Hogg's direct intro- 

 duction. There are many varieties of the Japan 

 maple — Acer polymorphum— among them, the 

 best perhaps being the A. p. atropurpureum. 

 There is among them a very singular maple with 

 leaves like a Hornbeam and appropriately 

 named A. carpinifolia. It seems somewhat 

 allied to the well-known Tartarian maple, and 

 will no doubt serve the same purposes in land- 

 scape gardening. Then there is the variegated 

 Planera Japonica, and Daphne gwenkwa, a light 

 blue flower, which will probably become a very 

 popular hardy, early-flowering shrub. In their 

 general collection of rare plants is the blood- 

 leaved Norway maple — Acer Schweidleriana — 

 and a beautiful purple-leaved Daphne mezereon. 



Mess. Asher Hance &. Sons, of Red Bank, N. J., 

 have a small collection with some very good 

 things in it. Especially one of the finest plants 

 of the beautiful Japan Sumach, Rhus Osbecki, we 

 have ever seen. It is a new idea and a good one 

 to graft the dwarf Cataljja Kaempferi on our 

 stronger native one. There are also here among 

 other things that will well repay tree lovers a 

 good blood-leaved birch, weeping yellow elm 

 and a Taxodium pendulum. 



Miller <fe Hays make an exhibit intended to 

 illustrate arrangement and taste in landscape 

 gardening. The whole tract is of a rather 

 oblong shape, and at the two ends are clumps 

 made up chiefly of rare and choice evergreens. 

 In about the centre of the plot is a light mound 

 containing in the centre an Aralia spinosa, a 

 capital thing for effect in American gardening. 

 Around this is a circle of cannas, then one of 

 pampas grasses, then var. bamboo. Around 

 these taller things then follows a circle of Irisine 

 Herbstii, a circle of Centaurea gymnocarpa. 

 Then there is a slope of a few feet of grass, and 

 finally a frame of Coleus on the natural level 

 around the whole. Between this central and the 

 end clumps are beds, some with palms, some 

 with succulents, and others with colored -leaved 

 plants. The whole makes a very elegant design, 

 and is much appreciated by lovers of good gar- 

 dening. 



Besides this Mahlon Moon, of Bristol, has a 



collection of hardy trees and shrubs, and there 

 are one or two other collections on the grounds 

 that are well worthy of the visitor's examina- 

 tion. 



The flowers we hojie will be in condition for a 

 notice next month. In the meantime let us say 

 to our readers and the correspondents of agricul- 

 tural and other intelligent papers that this oxiU 

 door department may be as worthy of attention as 

 anything in buildings. They rarely receive any 

 attention from newspaper men, as the plants 

 seem to be a part of the grounds, and not the 

 work of exhibitors. Immense praise is given to 

 some exhibitor in a building for enterprise which 

 really cost him but little, while here in the open 

 ground are thousands of dollars expended, and no 

 little amount of loss and anxiety to accomplish, 

 that few people stop to think about. It is natu- 

 ral in the daily papers to pass these things over. 

 The city folks have little ideas of gardening, but 

 we look for more encouragement from " our 



own " people. 



Philadelphia, June 29th, 1876. 



General A. T. Goshorn, Director General U. S. 



Centennial Commission. 



Sir : — The undersigned jury on special pome- 

 logical products respectfully report that during 

 the week ending with this date, the season for 

 strawberries being past and that of raspberries 

 hardly commenced, the exhibits have been 

 light. 



Mr. A. L. P'elton, of Philadelphia, exhibited on 

 the 27th a plate of a raspberry named "Felton's 

 Early Prolific." 



Mr. Chas. Finger, dealer, exhibited water- 

 melons from Georgia of excellent quality and in 

 good condition after their long journey. And 

 to day Mr. Felton had on the tables plates of 

 " Northern Wonder " raspberry, and of the 

 " Hornet." The last named kind is the largest 

 variety yet known, and these of Mr. Felton were 

 of good average size, some of the berries meas- 

 uring seven-eighths of an inch in diameter. Mr. 

 Felton has also two kinds " Seedling Cherries," 

 the best one in quality equalling and very much 

 resembling the well-known " Black Heart." Mr 

 Van Zant, of Chesnut street, Philadelphia, exhibj 

 ited a few " Hale's Early Peaches" and four ap- 

 ricots received in excellent condition from 

 California. 



Signed, 



W. L. SCHAFFER, 



A. W. Harrison, 

 josiah hoopes, 

 Wm. Parry, 

 Thomas Mkehan. 



