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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[July, 



165. Carpinus Betulus 



variegata, Variegated-leaved, 10 ft. 



166. Carpinus Ameri- 

 cana, American, 20 feet. 



BALSAMACE^. 



167. Liquidambar styra- 



ciflua, Sweet gum, 18 feet. 



168. Salisburia adianti- 



folia, Ginkgo tree, 20 feet. 



CONIFERvE. 



169. Larix Europjea, Scotch Larch, 30 feet. 



170. Larix Americana, American, 25 feet. 



171. Larix Ksempferi, . Japan, 12 feet. 



172. Taxodium distich- 



um. Deciduous cypress, 20 ft. 



Of the above list the following are verj- splen- 

 did specimens, some of them as broad as they 

 are high, and branched to the ground, viz. : 



Cut-leaved Beech, twenty feet broad; Purple 

 Elm, twenty-five feet broad; Pyramidal Oak, so 

 broad and dense at the base as to hide the stem 

 — a superb tree; Eagle's Claw Maple, very dis- 

 tinct; Quercus macrophylla, leaves ten inches 

 long; Tupelo Tree (from seed); variegated 

 Tulip Tree, clothed to the ground with bright, 

 golden-blotched leaves; Quercus laciniata, 

 spreading fifty feet ; Ulmus viminalis, very dis- 

 tinct ; Double Horse-chestnut, thirty feet, and 

 branched to the ground ; iE->culus rubicunda, v. 

 variegataflora and Whitleyi, covered this year 

 with thousands of their showy blossoms; Scamps, 

 ten Weeping Elm, fifty feet high and forty 

 broad; Weeping Beech, fifty feet broad, every 

 limb dropping at a right angle, and touching the 

 ground ; Weeping Beech, the Milton variety, not 

 80 novel and beautiful a variety, but gracefully 

 drooping; White Beam tree, a broad cone of sil- 

 very foliage ; Kentucky Coffee tree, twenty feet 

 broad, a mass of glaucous pinnate leaves. 



As new and somewhat remarkable trees, not 

 80 large, because new, are the Magnolia acu- 

 minata Hoveyi aurea, with leaves as brilliantly 

 golden as Sanchezia; a Bronze-leaved oak, the 

 young leaves as bronzy crimson a.s some of the 

 new Japan maples; a new poplar, with large 

 leaves of a dark blue-green, with pinkish nerves ; 

 a Sycamore Maple, with no petioles, and the 

 leaves tinged with red on the under side; an 

 elm of the habit of a rock maple, and a birch 

 with very large leaves, seven inches long, pre- 

 cisely like the beech ; all seedlings selected from 



time to time. Also .(Esculus Memmingeri, from 

 Belgium, the leaves of which have the appear- 

 ance of being covered with a silvery dust; and 

 Ptelea trifoliata variegata, with very bright gol- 

 den variegated foliage. Also, Shellbark hickory, 

 a seedling raised by the late Mr. Dana (the 

 raiser of the Hovey pear), from some of the 

 largest and finest nuts he could get. The leaves 

 are of immense size — a magnificent specimen. 



To the lover of beautiful trees, these specimens 

 offer an agreeable and interesting study, and 

 give a good idea of their relative beauty for 

 parks or ornamental grounds. We hope to pre- 

 serve most of them as long as possible ; but in 

 the neighborhood of large cities this is no easy 

 task, and in turn, no doubt — some of them at 

 least — will fare no better than hundreds of 

 others, which have been sacrificed to make room 

 for bricks and mortar. 



NOTE ON THE GARDENS OF GERMANY. . 



BY O. NURTINGEN, WURTEMBURG. 



The taste for rare trees is not as wide-spread 

 here as in other parts of the world. 



I have found considerable difficulty in getting 

 together all I wanted. In fruit trees I had no 

 trouble whatever ; the pear trees especially are 

 splendid, and there are plenty of places where 

 you can get them near home. 



The demand for ornamentals, however, is 

 much smaller, and hence the opportunity of get- 

 ting a good assortment not very good. While 

 you can get at Stuttgart (12 miles from here) 

 splendid specimens of A. Nordmanniana 7 to 8 

 feet high, perfect beauties, with ball, for $2.50 

 (retail), I could not find a single specimen of 

 Irish or Swedish Junipers, very few dwarf Thu- 

 jas, no Retinospora (or, as they call them here, 

 " Chamoecyparis "), excepting ericoides, which 

 does here splendidly. A. Pinsapo is here per- 

 fectly hardy. So is Well, gigantea, Cedar of Leba- 

 non, Deodar Cedar and Cryptomeria jap. I even 

 saw an Araucaria imbricata, some 24 feet high, 

 entirely uninjured; it was, however, well surround- 

 ed and protected by other evergreens. Strange 

 to say, the common Am. Arbor vitae suffers more 

 or less every spring; no entire limbs perish, but 

 nearly all the ends of last year's growth are 

 dead. A. Nordmanniana, Pinsapo, Cupr. Lawsoni- 

 ana (perfectly hardy), Thujopsis borealis. Wel- 

 ling, gigantea, Taxus baccata. White Pine, Hem- 

 lock Spruce, White Spruce, Biota aurea and B. 

 compacta, English Holly, you can find in the 



