1895. 



GARDENING. 



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MARGARET DICKSON ROSE. 



Some of the best varieties, as Marie 

 Legraye, Frau Damniann, and Lcmoinei 

 fl. pi., were moved last fall, we cannot 

 say anything about them at this time. 

 [The two first named are the finest white 

 lilacs we have, but the last named 

 although it has large panicles of bloom 

 has a bluish purple hue that acts against 

 its popularity. Ei).] The Persian lilac 

 is past its best. 



Some of the bush honeysuckles have 

 been in full flower for four or five days. 

 These include such varieties of the Tar- 

 tarian as alba, alba rosea, pulcherrima, 

 niberrima, rubra and splendens. L. bella 

 in several varieties is more showy and 

 free-flowering than the Tartarian type; 

 its variety albida is to-day loaded with 

 flowers. The fly honeysuckle (L. Aj'/os- 

 teum) of spreading habit, and having 

 cream-colored flowers, is now pretty well 

 past, C. chrysantha has pretty yellowish 

 white flowers. L. Riiprechtiana in sev- 

 eral varieties, and all vigorous in 

 growth, have white and rose-tinted 

 flowers now at their best. L. Etiiisca, 

 .1 twining shrub, has yellowish purple 

 flowers, just opening, and L.sempervyrens 

 is also I oming into bloom. 



Viburnum Lantana is about past, 

 but the common snowball V. Opulis ster- 

 ilis is is beginning to turn white. 



Exochorda grandiffora has been lovely 

 for the past six days but is now begin- 

 ning to ffide. Kerria Japonica is about 

 past its best, but Rhodotypes Kerrioides 

 s still in good form. Spirxa rupestris 



has small clusters of flowers, white, and 

 S. Cantonensis and S Van Houttei are 

 openmg.S.hrperwifoIia,S. media, S.pruni- 

 folia are all past flowering. 



The scorpion senna (Coronilla Emerus) 

 is full of pretty yellow pea flowers. This 

 shrub requires protection in winter. 

 Cytisus purpureus,a low growing shrub, 

 has been covered with its pretty purplish 

 flowers for a week, and C. elongatus, yel- 

 lowish white, has been in beauty four or 

 five days. Caragana trutescens is about 

 past, the Siberian pea tree (C. ar/)o;es- 

 cens) is now in bloom, and C. pygmsea 

 has a great profusion, of dark yellow 

 blossoms. The rose acacia (Robinia his- 

 pida) is opening its rose tinted blooms. 



Calycanthus //or/dus (the sweet scented 

 shrub) is opening its chocolate colored 

 flowers, C. glaucus is very much like the 

 former but its leaves are whitish under- 

 neath and perhaps its blossoms are more 

 frag^rant. C. Occidentalis gets killed to the 

 snow line every winter so that it never 

 flowers here. But Euonymus angusti- 

 folius, E. verrucosus, and E. ohovatus 

 are in flower, but in this line inconspicu- 

 ous. 



Some of the barberries are real pretty 

 just now. B. microphylla serrata has 

 gracefully arching branches completely 

 covered on the under side with dense clus- 

 ters of bright yellow flowers. The Cre- 

 tan barberry (jB. Cretica) is display- 

 ing its pretty yellow racemes. B.sanguin- 

 eolenta. B. Canadensis and virgata and 

 B. dulcis are also bursting into beauty. 



In winter we always set a box over the 

 last named species as it is not hardy. 

 /(. stenophylla under a barrel filled with 

 leaves has been killed back a little, but 

 it is growing strongly now. 



The common dogw ood ( Cornus fforida) 

 is rather a failure hereabout this spring, 

 so far as I have seen. Cornus stolon- 

 ilcra and C. alba are both in flower. 



7\osa alpina is the first rose to flower 

 liere, and opened a few blossoms to-day. 

 Cotoneaster reflexa is in bloom and 

 nigra opening. Crataegus coccinea has 

 been in flower since a few days, but 



C. tomentosais hardly open yet. 

 Daphne cneorum has been real pretty 



for the past two or three weeks, and 



D. alpina is just opening its small-white 

 llowers. The latter does fairly well here 

 with a good mulching of leaves around 

 it in winter. Rhamnus Erangula and 

 A', nlnitolius were in bloom last week. 



John Dunbar. 



PURPLE BEECfl-FRUNUS FISSflRDlI. 



C. T., Milwaukee, Wis., writes: 1. Is 

 purple leaved beech hardy in Milwaukee, 

 on the west side of a house? I should also 

 like to know if the beech is easily trans- 

 planted. In my opinion the climate here 

 is too rough and changeable for the purple 

 leaved beeches. 



2. Two years ago I planted two trees 

 of Prunus Pissardii on the west side ol my 

 house, and they seemed to do well. But 

 now I notice that during last winter they 

 have almost been killed, so it seems tome 

 that this tree is not reliable enough to be 

 recommended for this citv. What do vou 



1 . We have transplanted many beeches, 

 both wild and cultivated and with good 

 success, at the same time we regard the 

 beech as a somewhat difficult tree to 

 transplant. As regards the hardiness of 

 the beech and plum Mr. A. Salisbury, 

 president of the State Normal School in 

 your state kindly replies as follows: 



"Prunus Pissardii stands the winter 

 here and certainly will in Milwaukee. 

 Purple beech has not been a success here. 

 Indeed, we have great difficulty in estab- 

 lishing the white beech. But the case is 

 diffierent at Milwaukee, where the climate 

 is affected by Lake Michigan. The purple 

 beech will probably stand the winters 

 there if the transplanting process is got 

 through with successfully. But the purple 

 birch is morecertainto givesatisfaction." 



Roses. 



MflRGflRET DICKSON ROSE. 



This is a comparatively new hybrid 

 remontant rose of sterling merit. We 

 have grown it at Dosoris for four years 

 and find it to be a strong healthy bush, 

 with the most beautiful large white waxy 

 petallcd flower tinged with flesh color in 

 the middle. The flower stems are stout 

 and leafy up to the blossoms like a Malmai- 

 son, and the foliage is healthy. But we 

 have not found it to be a free bloomer. 

 For the use of our illustration we are 

 indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Ell- 

 wangcr & Barry of Rochester, N.Y. They 

 speak as follows about this beautiful 

 rose: "We have had this superb rose 

 growing in our nurseries for several sea- 

 sons, and from what we have s- en of it, 

 there seems to be no doubt that it will be 

 the coming white hardy rose. Of mag- 

 nificent form, white with pale flesh center, 



