April 2(1. 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



Winter and Summer 



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The two beautiful pictures sliowing tlie contrasts of 

 the Becember and June landscape, herewith published, 

 were taken on the grounds of Mr. F. S. Moseley of New- 

 buryport. Mass., justly famed as one of the finest private 

 estates of New England. At the present transition 

 period although all are yearning for the tardy spring to 

 assume its sway and everybody has had a surfeit of 

 wintry conditions in the unprecedentedlv long and 

 severe season through which we have passed, yet none 



A\ill be insensible to the charm of this picture of win- 

 ter scenery with its snow-clad trees. The contrasting 

 view showing the rose garden of hybrid perpetuals and 

 pergola adorned with hardy climbing roses speaks for 

 itself. In no line of garden material has greater ad- 

 vancement been made in recent years than in that of 

 liardy rambling roses. The dealer or planter makes no 

 mistake in stocking up. especially on the new varieties. 

 ()ur Buyers' Directory tells you where the right sorts 

 iiiav be procured. 



Ornamental Conifers 



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CUPEESSIXEAE 



The Cupressus, which gave the name to this tribe, 

 comprises nearly all natives from California and Asia. 

 None of them are really hardy in New England. Those 

 that may succeed in good sheltered situations as far 

 north as Connecticut are : Cupressus Lawsoniana from 

 California which is a very elegant tree in some of its 

 many forms. It is one of the conifers which gives the 

 greatest number of variations in the seed beds. Some 

 have the top of their shoots pendant, or thread-like, of 

 very graceful effect. Some grow erect, narrow and 

 compact of diiferent shades of green, blue, yellow or 

 variegated in color. The blue and dark green colored 

 seem to be the hardiest. We have a few good ones which 

 have stood severe winters. 



C. Nutkaenis or Thuyopsis borealis, the Nutka Sound 

 cypress, resembles much Lawsoniana in its form and 

 way of gi'owing, but is coarser and the branchlets at the 

 upper branches are more pendant. There are a few good 

 pendulous, glaucous and variegated forms of it in culti- 

 vation. 



C. thuyoides, the white cedar comes from the south- 

 eastern States where it grows in swamps in company 

 with bald cypress; it is a thin growing little tree with 

 erect, short, string-like shoots of not much ornamental 

 value. There is a yellow variegated form which is 

 quite effective. 



C. leptoclada, or spheroidea Andelyensis, and C. eri- 

 coides, which are said to be forms of thuyoides, are two 

 nice^ compact, p3'ramidal-growing little trees, both have 

 heather-like foliage and may be grown in the comer 



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of a wall or building or other natural shelter from north 

 winds. 



Eetinospora — also called Cupressus, Thuya or Chamae- 

 eyparis — obtusa and pisifera, are both from Japan 

 Mhere they are grown for their valuable timber. They 

 are good, hardy trees and in good deep soil they soon 

 grow to a nice size, spreading, pyramidal in form, well 

 furnished with branches, and they are very effective on 

 large lawns. Obtusa has the needles flattened along the 

 shoots and is glossy, while pisifera has them more open 

 and pointed ; both have produced many interesting forms 

 Ji-om sports. The tendency of the retinosporas to sport 

 is shown in the way these varieties are grown in a 

 dwarfed form in Japan; the.se same forms when given 

 good gro\ving conditions here often sport back to the 

 type. I never saw any new forms coming from seeds; 

 ilie result has always been that when seed germinated 

 ii" proved to be identical to the seed bearer or type. It 

 is from the above mentioned sports that the Japanese 

 grow those little trees reputed to be a hundred or more 

 ,'. ears old with which they tax our credulity. 



Among the form of R. obtusa are : R. o. compacta, 

 which grows to a big round compact form, is of a glossy 

 green color and makes beautiful specimens. R. o. aurea is 

 like the type, of more compact habit of a good yellow 

 color which is more accentuated in the spring in grow- 

 ing time. E. o. nana, the "chibo hiba" of the Japanese, 

 is a nice little tree with short compressed growth; a 

 good plant for big rockeries. If given too much root 

 space they often degenerate. R. o. nana gracilis, the same 

 as the preceding with finer and shorter growth. There 

 is a white variegated form of these two last named ones. 



