1879.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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liybridization since the Utah yellow and Rocky 

 Mountain blue have been introduced. Some of 

 the new varieties are continous bloomers, almost 

 lasting till Autumn. The old Chinese Pink has 

 also been improved so as to produce a race of 

 continuous bloomers, some of which are small 

 and with round petals, and some as in the cut 



NOTES ON SOME GARDEN TREES AND 

 SHRUBS. 



BY ISAAC HICKS, OLD WESTBURY, N. Y. 



Scotch pines are fast failing here ; the trunk is 

 bored severely, and often large trees turn yel- 

 low and die without any sign of disease. As 

 they so seldom make handsome trees when large, 



DIANTHUS CHINENSIS LACINATUS. 



With very finely divided edges, and seeming to had we not better discontinue planting them? 

 have the same relation to each other as the old The Hydrangea p. grandiflora is so much more 

 time races of Carnations and Piccotees. Even I showy and profuse bearer of large trusses, that 

 the common Snap-dragon has been greatly im- ; we wish no other. The H. paniculata is the 



proved, and those who only knew it of old, 

 would scarcely recognize the newer ones as be- 

 longing to the family. 



strongest grower, but the flowers are compara- 

 tively insignificant. 

 There seems to be in some catalogues much 



