1879. 



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gardening carried out side by side. Without the 

 aid of the latter, the cemetery wou>d lose its 

 individuality and sink to the level of the old 

 churchyard of our ancestors. 



In the well-kept Macadamized roads, the 

 beautiful trees, the close-cut turf, the shapely 

 mounds and terraces, the trim hedges, and the 

 brilliant array of flowers, the genius of the land- 

 scape gardener shines forth. Thousands of our 

 people all over the land, in the adornment of 

 the grounds around their homes, have drawn 

 their inspii'ation from the work of the cemetery. 

 A place of general resort for all classes, its very 

 atmosphere settles the mind down into that 

 thoughtful mood that receives impressions easily. 

 As a disseminator of a taste for floriculture, the 

 cemetery is a thousand fold ahead of the public 

 park. The latter has fallen into the hands of 

 the corrupt local politicians, and its management 

 is behind the age. 



The cemetery or public park that secures the 

 services of a first-class professional gardener as 

 superintendent is sure to outrank its fellows in 

 the race who ignore this idea, and think that 

 any man with ordinary ability can manage a 

 park or a cemetery. I have been convinced of 

 this by a recent visit paid to " Washington Park," 

 Albany, N. Y., and to " Forest Hill Cemetery," 

 Utica, N. Y., both managed by plain, practical 

 gardeners. On entering either of those places, 

 one sees in the beautiful flower beds cut in the 

 green sward and planted in the latest style of 

 the art, that the early training of both these 

 gentlemen has asserted itself. They are intro- 

 ducing all the newer evergreen and deciduous 

 trees, and thus spreading a taste for them among 

 the people that one sees reproduced in several 

 suburban homes. 



There are several cemeteries near our large 

 cities (three of them on Long Island) that make 

 no attempt whatever at floricultural display, ex- 

 cept what individual lot owners do in a primi- 

 tive way. If I have said anything that will 

 wake them up, I shall be satisfied. 



rive here till the end of July, 1876, when the 

 beauty of the plant was over; and besides, that 

 season was remarkal^le for drouth, when every- 

 thing suffered here. 



I do not suppose Col. Clark claims the credit 

 of introducing this or the Cercidiphyllum, as I 

 gave him the seeds which he took to the United 

 States; and at the same time I told him of other 

 persons in America to whom I had sent seeds 

 some years before, and who have plants grow- 

 ing from these seeds. Others no doubt are 

 claiming this credit for him without his sanction. 



Those who wish to study the flora of these 

 parts of our country will find the leading ones 

 figured in Siebold's Flora. I have frequently 

 met Mr. Hogg here collecting. He must have 

 introduced many of our species. 



THE CLIMBING HYDRANGEA. 



BY LOUIS BOEHMER, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. 



I notice in the Gardener's Monthly a dis- 

 cussion on the Schizophragma hydrangeoides. 

 I hope to send you next summer a photograph 

 of one I know of growing on the island of Yezo, 

 by which you may judge of its great beauty. 



Col. Clark had not the advantage of seeing 

 this plant in its great beauty, for he did not ar- 



A FINE WEEPING BEECH. 



RY J. FRAZER, ROCHESTER. 



In accordance with a wish expressed by you 

 some time since in the Gardener's Monthly, 

 that parties having fine specimens of ornamental 

 trees would report them, I would inform you 

 that I am the possessor of a fine specimen of 

 Weeping Beech, forty feet high, with many of 

 the branches drooping twenty to twenty-five feet ; 

 and also mother forty-foot specimen of Ulmus 

 viminalis; both trees imported from Mr. Rivers 

 and planted where they now stand thirty years 

 ago. 



I have also now in flower a Clematis .Tack- 

 manii, covering a space on my house side 10x8 

 feet, and covered with bloom to the amount of 

 1200 to 1500 flowers, opened and buds. Also 

 another Clematis "Jack," which, with Honey- 

 suckles aurea reticulata and Halliana, have 

 clambered up and around the conductor pipe of 

 my homely residence until they have reached 

 the roof; and I would observe that the dark 

 purple star flowers of the clematis peeping out 

 among the green and gold foliage of the Lonicera 

 presents a very pretty appearance. 



VIBURNUM NUDUM. 



BY J. M. 



During .luly and August our grounds suffer in 

 appearance for the want of shrubs in flower, 

 and anything attractive then is welcomed. The 

 Viburnum nudum, though not in flower within 

 these mouths, is yet most beautiful with its ber- 

 ries. It flowers in June, and after this, is soon 

 covered with sjfreen berries, hanging often in 



