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AND UORTICULTURIST. 



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Maackia amtirensis. A veiy ornamental tree, 

 resemblins: the Virgilia, with pinnate leaves 

 and small <rreenish-vvhit(* flowers in long dense 

 racemes. 



Querent- Mongolica. Mongolian Oak. J. eaves 

 long, deeply notched, of a fine glancous green 

 color. A very handsome rare tree with noble 

 foliage. 



Quercits pannonica. Hungarian Oak. A re- 

 markably handsome strong growing tree, one of 

 the finest of oaks, with large deep-lobed leaves 

 •of a dark shining green color. 



Quercus p. concordia. One of the most effec- 

 tive and beautiful of trees. Leaves large and 

 Tjold, entirely suftused or spread over with a 

 bright golden color, which grows deeper as the 

 .season advances, and gives a delightful warm 

 tint to the foliage. 



Quercus p. fastigiato cucuUata. A peculiar 

 form of the Pyramidal Oak, with leaves curled 

 down at the edges. 



Quercus p. nigricans. Leaves of a deep purple 

 <olor when young, changing to a purplish-green 

 later in the season. The contrast of the j^oung 

 purple growth with the green foliage is very 

 ornamental. , 



Quercus p. pendula. A very rare, graceful and 

 remarkable tree, with long slender drooping 

 branches, no thicker at any part than a wagon 

 rope. It is similar in its weeping character 

 to the common willow, but with longer to 

 branches. 



Quercus pyrenaica pendula (tauzin pendula). 

 A weeping variety of the Pyrenean Oak. Its 

 leaves, when young, have a reddish tinge and a 

 dense covering of woolly down, which give to the 

 tree, in early Spring, a singular and very beauti- 

 ful appearance. 



Callicarpa Murasaki. Flowers red in clusters 

 in June. The most ornamental of the family 

 on account of its larger and more showy violet- 

 blue berries in Autumn, which give it the ap- 

 pearance of being covered with flowers. 



Cotoneaster frigida. Flowers small, snow- 

 white, produced in flat clusters in great abun- 

 dance in April and May. Leaves larger than 

 any other of its family. The bright red berries 

 are very ornamental in the Autumn, and in mild 

 seasons and sheltered situations remain on the 

 plant all Winter. A very robust ornamental 

 shrub or low tree. 



Dimorphanthus mandschuricus. A rare and 

 ornamental plant with pinnate foliage, much re- 

 sembling that of the Virgilia. 



Iiki's Osbecki. Osbeck's Sumach. A new 

 shrub from China, with remarkable ornamental 

 foliage, very beautiful for its Autumn tints. 



Aralia Japonica. A very interesting, low tree, 

 of shrubby character, M'ith prickly stem and 

 shoots, and very large compositely divided 

 leaves. A singularly ornamental tree, with a 

 spreading, umbrella-like head. 



Berberis hakodata. A ver}' ornamental shrulj, 

 with thick, leathery, glossy leaves. 



Jiroussoneti<( Ka-mpferii. .Japanese Paper 

 Mulberry. A rapid growing tree, with large 

 oblong leaves of a deep green color and with 

 reddish ribs. 



Cerasus japonica pendula. The favorite weep- 

 ing tree of Japan. The trunk rises upward, 

 while the branches fall regularly and in graceful 

 curves to the ground. A great acquisition, and 

 especially beautiful when in flower. 



Cormis In-achyhotrya. A fine large shrub, or 

 low tree, with large leaves, and habit of growth 

 like that of Cornus florida. 



Cydonia japonica grandiftora. Flowers very 

 large, of a beautiful rosy pink color. 



Daphne Genkwa. A beautiful, slender, upright 

 growing shrub, with numerous long downy twigs, 

 which in early Spring, before the leaves appear, 

 are thickly garnished with violet-colored tubular 

 flowers, rather more than one inch long. It sel- 

 dom attains the height of more than three feet, 

 has fine delicate foliage, and may be classed 

 among the best of our flowering shrubs. 



Daphniphyllum glaucescens. A verj' fine shrub, 

 with laurel-like leaves, yellowish-green above 

 and glaucous white beneath. 



Ekvagnus longipes. .Japan Oleaster. One of 

 the finest and most remafkable of hardy shrubs 

 lately introduced. It is of middle size, with 

 spreading branches, and leaves bright green 

 above, and silvery white beneath, studded with 

 brown scales. The small yellow flowers are 

 produced in great profusion on long stalks, and 

 are succeeded by berries of an oblong shape, 

 and deep transparent orange brown color, 

 speckled with brownish scales. 



Fraxinns elonza japonica. Ash. A distinct 

 and vigorous growing tree, Avith small leaves. 

 The young branches droop very gracefully. 



Magnolia liypoleuca. One of the most attrac- 

 tive of this large family, on account of the fra- 

 grance and lateness of its bloom. Flowers 

 milky white, resembling those of Conspicua, but 

 larger, with a most delicious, banana-like odor, 

 and appearing about the middle of June. Foliage 



