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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[November, 



great pretensions to knowing everything — so know- 

 ing that they do not even read a horticultural 

 magazine — with valuable evergreens totally de- 

 stroyed by reason of neglect in picking the bag 

 worms off. 



At this season of the year one may watch trees 

 or shrubs in the woods for peculiarities in habit or 

 growth, and get cuttings or grafts for propagating. 

 This is especially the case with weeping or fasti- 

 giate trees. Almost all the curiosities we have of 



of May last. The form with the few large flowers 

 is common enough, but the smaller with the im- 

 mense number of flowers in the head, would 

 gladden the heart of an enthusiastic florist to come 

 across, and would no doubt be very popular under 

 cultivation. 



We still see occasionally advice not to have 

 anything to do with planting large trees, not to 

 touch anything over five or six feet high, or 

 thicker than broom handles. This advice smells 



S^jisj.-:^ 



Azalea nudiHora. 



this character, have been found wild originally by 

 some acute observer. They are not the results of 

 the skill of the florist, but of nature's own unaided 

 love of variation. Very few persons have any 

 idea of the great range there is to natural variation 

 till they begin to look for them. Annexed we 

 give an illustration of a variation in the common 

 Wood Honeysuckle, Azalea nudiflora, from a 

 photograph furnished us by Mr. Lorin lilodget. 

 The specimens were gathered in a piece of open 

 woodland near Media, Pennsylvania, on the 25th 



somewhat musty. A tree twenty feet high and a 

 foot in circumference will grow just as well as a 

 small tree, providing it is vigorous, healthy, and 

 has been several times transplanted before, so that 

 it can be taken up at small expense, and with a 

 reasonable chance of getting most of its roots out 

 safely. It is pitiful to pass places just "finished" 

 with nothing but little saplings scattered about, 

 under the impression that larger trees would not 

 grow or do well. 



Now we go into details, as most chapters on 



