1885.] 



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family, as in the Ash, for instance, to have some 

 trees with wholly barren flowers. In this case, of 

 course, berries do not follow. Its botanical name 

 is Chionanthus Virginicus, and it is found wild as 

 far north as Southern Pennsylvania, usually in 

 damp shady places, but under culture it is not at 

 all fastidious about soil or situation ; and it is one 

 of those easy going plants that few winters kill or 

 hot summers injure, and, besides, transplants with- 

 out making much objection. 



Floriculture in Georgia. — The Augusta 

 Chronicle tells us that the mild climate of Georgia 

 is very favorable to gardening. A single red 

 variety of the Camellia brought from England in 

 1808 or 1809 is now a fine tree in Charleston. It 

 is 30 feet high and is of wonderful beauty when in 

 blossom. The Olea fragrans and Magnolia fus- 

 cata are popular evergreen shrubs. The public 

 Park at Augusta was begun in 1881, and is very 

 beautiful. The varieties of cypress and arbor 

 vitaes are the best of the terebinthine evergreens, 

 and nothing is more prized than Magnolia grandi- 

 ilora. Tea Roses are perfectly at home after 

 blooming in what may be called the winter sea- 

 son. Georgia has fifty commercial florists, and 

 the taste for flowers and flower gardening is grow- 

 ing rapidly. 



A Dahlia Stem Borer. — A correspondent of 

 Vicks' Monthly says that he has found a stem 

 borer very destructive to the Dahlia. We have 

 not heard of this enemy before. It may account 

 for the sudden withering of Dahlia plants of which 

 we have heard some complaints. 



Early and Late Flowering Single Roses. 

 — If one wants to get all the good out of Roses 

 that they are capable of affording, and has room, 

 there is nothing will fill the measure equal to a 

 collection of single Roses. The Red Kamts- 

 chatka or Rosa rugosa, is the earliest we have 

 seen. This comes in May. All through June 

 some one or another is in blossom, and in July the 

 single Prairie Rose concludes the list. And in 

 autumn there is the red fruit of vailaus forms, to 

 give a whole season with the flowers of changeful 

 beauty. 



The Catalpa. — So much has been said of the 

 Catalpa as a timber tree, that we may forget that 

 it is also one of the most desirable of orna- 

 mental trees. In July it is a mass of lovely 

 flowers at a time when almost all other showy 

 flowering trees are gone. It is late in coming 

 into leaf and its seed vessels are not par- 



ticularly desirable, but the attractiveness of its 

 flowers atones for all other defects. 



Large Pinus Excelsa. — The Garden describes 

 a Himalayan Pine that is 7 feet 9 inches, 3 feet 

 from the ground. We are not sure but we can 

 beat this in America. There are some very fine 

 trees of this grand Pine in the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia. If not mistaken we believe there are 

 very large ones at Bloomsdale and at Rosedale. 

 There are some in Germantown 60 to 70 feet high. 



Combination Plants. — Not nearly as much 

 advantage is taken of combinations among plants 

 as they are capable of affording. Last June we 

 noted a plant of the Bladder Senna, Colutea ar- 

 borescens, and the Amorpha frutescens, which had 

 managed to grow together forming one stock, that, 

 both coming into bloom at the same time, one 

 with bronzy purple, the other with orange yellow 

 flowers, bad a very pretty effect indeed. 



A i\lAGNIFItENT SPECI.MEN OF THE CePHALON- 



l.AN Fir. — The grounds of the late Robert Buist 

 have been cut through in several directions by 

 the growing demands for city streets, and a mag- 

 nificent specimen nearly 6 feet in circumference, 

 is now standing on the side-walk. It is only about 

 35 years old. It may be, perhaps, 28 or 30 ft. high, 

 however — from the opportunity it has to spread its 

 heavy side branches. These have spread many 

 feet. Many connoisseurs would give a thousand 

 dollars to have such a lovely specimen safe on 

 their grounds. 



NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



Andro.vieda Japonica. — This new addition to 

 hardy plants from Japan promises to be a good 

 one. It is a very early flowerer, the racemes of 

 blossoms being about 8 inches long. It will be a 

 good companion plant to the sorrel tree of the 

 South, which has always been a rare favorite in 

 American gardening. 



Red Platycodon grandiflora. — Of this capi- 

 tal hardy herbaceous plant we have white and 

 blue in our gardens. A rosy violet variety has 

 been introduced from Japan by Mr. Maries, and 

 which bears his name. 



Prunus Piss.ardi. — This proves to be only a 

 colored leaved variety of the Myrobalan plum. It 

 is a very beautiful variety, and if it will keep clear 

 of the blights and bugs which trouble almost every 

 flowering plum in gardens, it will prove a great 

 favorite. 



