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GARDENING. 



MAGxNOLIA P.-.KVIFLORA 



severest cold we have had, and we have 

 had the mercury down to IT' below zero. 

 Several winters ago we had it at zero to 

 €° below, lasting tor a week, which was 

 ^ very unusual spell for this section. 

 Fortunately my magnolias were not in- 

 jured by the severe freeze that did so 

 -much damage to vegetation in the South 

 last Easter. This applies as well to all 

 other magnolias in the town. In fact, 

 my trees are more exposed than any 

 others. This spring freeze did me serious 

 injury. My Magnolia stellata was cut 

 down to the ground. 



My weeping cherries, Primus pendula, 

 ■were just through blooming and I was 

 ■obliged to cut the branches away back, 

 one is high-grafted, the other low. The 

 lo .V one I trained to a stake till it was 

 about fifteen feet high. It was white in 

 bloom, a beautiful sight. A fountain of 

 pink blooms. They were just through 

 blooming. 



.\ wistaria which covered an iron 

 trame four feet square at the base and 

 twenty feet high, at the time was covered 

 with thousands of blooms, and it came 

 very near being killed. I had it cut back 

 to the main stalk and it is now recover- 

 ing. I will not enuirerate all the trees 

 and shrubberv that were then injured or 

 killed. Suffice it to say that I never want 

 to see such another freeze. W. S. M. 



Kno.xville, Tenn. 



MftGNOLIfl FflRVIFLORfl. 



This is a hardy deciduous shnib or 

 small tree, indigenous to Japan, and one 

 of the gems of our gardens. In Garden- 

 IXG, page 8, September 15, 1892, there 

 appeared an illustration showing this 

 species, together with M. Watsoni and 

 M. bypoleuca in one group, thus afford- 

 ing us an opportunity of seeing and com- 

 paring them together. More than that it 



was the most natural and truthful picture 

 of these magnolias ever published. But 

 in that picture M. parviSora was shown 

 to such poor advantage that we felt it to 

 be our duty to show it in more perfect 

 form and with. good foliage, so we had 

 this spray photographed early last June. 



Small plants not more than fifteen 

 inches high bear blossoms, and as they in- 

 crease in size and vigor year after year, 

 so does their crop of blossoms increase in 

 proportion. The flowers are pure white, 

 ovate to round in the bud, openinground 

 and expanding to saucer shaped, three 

 and a half to four inches across. In the 

 middle is a close bunch or cone of bright 

 red stamens that contrast strikingly with 

 the pure snowy petals. When growing on 

 the bushes the flowers are nodding, that 

 is most of them are drooping face down, 

 in this point they differ from the flowers 

 of even,- other hardy magnolia we grow. 



The Chinese and hybrid deciduous mag- 

 nolias as conspicua, Soulangeana, etc., 

 begin to bloom before the leaves appear 

 but this Japanese little beauty, as well as 

 its contemporaries Watsoni and bypo- 

 leuca, not till their leaves begin to grow so 

 that we get both foliage and blossoms at 

 the same time, thus enhancing their 

 beauty. And they last several weeks in 

 bloom. In the ease of parviHora too. we 

 get a second crop of flowers later in sum- 

 mer, but not such a heavy one as cordata 

 gives. While Watsoni is the strongest 

 scented of all our hard}' magnolias and 

 hypoleuca next, parviffora is only slightly 

 fragrant. But the rose bugs seem to be 

 just as fond of it as they are of the others, 

 and this means that in' the rose bug sea- 

 sou, from June 3 till July 10-15, we cannot 

 get one perfect blossom unless we protect 

 it against this pest. 



This magnolialikesgoodground, moist- 

 ure and shel er, but not shade, and ills 

 worthv of it. 



T«E JflPflNESE ROSE RUCOSfl. 



This hardy Japaneserose(/?osaru^osa) 

 in its v.hite and pink Ibrms is now devel- 

 oping its showy heps, the fruitage of its 

 first, and most profuse bloom, and is at 

 the same time producing, as it will con- 

 tinue to do for a long time, scattering 

 blossoms as well. At all times during the 

 summer a well grown bush will have 

 some flowers. While the large, sweet 

 scented, single blossoms, set against its 

 most charming foliage is an attractive 

 feature there is an added beauty when the 

 heps, large as cherries, have assumed the 

 color of maturity. From the white flower 

 comes an orange yellow and from the 

 pink, a bright red and glossy hep. I use 

 this r. se for a low hedge, and a more 

 happy selection could hardly be made. To 

 onelivingina trying, climate, far away 

 from the home of the Cherokee, there is 

 something poetic in the thought of a hedge 

 of roses. We dream of them, but in that 

 dream come insect pests, winter-kill, 

 whale oil soap and hellebore, until we be- 

 come disgusted, and wake up and con- 

 clude to banish all roses from the list of 

 available plants for hedges, but we need 

 do so no more. Here is a rose perfectly 

 hardy in most trying climates, free from 

 all insect attacks, standing hot suns and 

 moderate drouths, nearly alwavs in 

 bloom, extremely handsome in its' dark 

 wrinkled, leathery foliage and attractive 

 in its bright colored heps. For shrubbery 

 belts it is well suited, and a good coni- 

 panion to the equally hardy Rosa rubri- 

 folia, a European importation which our 

 insects seem to avoid. W. C. Eg.\n. 



Chicago. 



TEflS' WEEPING MULBERRY. 



I note what you say about growing 

 this on its own roots. Are you quite sure 

 this would be the correct thing? The 

 original tree of this sort was grown from 

 seed by J. C. Teas of Carthage, Missouri, 

 some twelve or fifteen years ago. The 

 original has always ruii on the ground 

 like a pumpkin vine. The last time I saw 

 it, it was eight or ten feet long, but none 

 of its branches reaching upward more 

 than one and one-half to two feet. It is 

 claimed by some who have grown it, that 

 it never develops any stiffness, or abilitj' 

 to stand upright. "VVe now have a fine 

 specimen, about nine feet high, two inches 

 in diameter at the ground, that has been 

 tied to an iron rod, driven into the 

 ground. Wooden supports, large enough 

 to be lasting are unsightlv. I doubt 

 whether many planters will "be satisfied 

 with trees on their own roots. If this 

 style does become popular, it will be a 

 boon to uurserj-men; as this is a verj- dif- 

 ficult tree to graft. E. Y. T. 



Irvington, Indiana. 



There are three specimens at Dosoris, 

 one seven feet, another nine feet, and the 

 third eleven feet high, and all on their 

 own roots, with stems as stifl as a post; 

 and the last two are still going upward. 

 But they won'tgo up alone, they have got 

 to be trained up to a stake; when once up 

 however they stay up without the help of 

 any support. When you come East 

 don't fail to come out here and see 

 them. 



The Umbrella Pine of Japan (Scia- 

 dopitys verticillata).— Let us give ar 

 English opinion: "Where the rhododen- 

 dron thrives the sciadopitys will grow. 

 Want of attention to this simple fact has 

 been the cause of much disappointment. 

 If the sciadopitys is planted in a soil suffi- 

 ciently retentive to supply a constant sup- 



