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GARDENING. 



July /, 



17. Pin oak. 



18. Magnolia parvidora. 

 10. Japanese maples. 



J. Wilkinson Elliott. 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



TREES AND SHRUBS IN BLOOM AT ROCWES- 

 TER, N. y., JUNE 22. 



The weather has been dry and hot and 

 the ground is dr\' and plants are suffer- 

 ing. The flowers of trees and shrubs 

 have not lasted their usual time. 



The tulip tree, a common native forest 

 tree of fine propoi'tions, was in full bloom 

 ten days ago, its flowers in j-ellow and 

 orange tints are very pretty. The com- 

 mon European linden has been in flower 

 for a few days and diffusing its grateful 

 fragrance. How the bees love it! The 

 western bean tree (Cata/pa speciosa) was 

 at its best the first of this week. The 

 European privets in diflFerent varieties are 

 passing out of bloom. Ibota, a Japanese 

 species, is now in full flower. It is in 

 much repute with many cultivators, but 

 so far it has not done well here. The 

 Chinese privet (i. Swense)is in full flower 

 and ((uite prettj'. 



A mass of the low growing yellow 

 blooming Gen/sta t/ncf or/a is quite showy, 

 and Cytisus hirsutus with lemon colored 

 flowers is opening. It is a compact, 

 thrifty, hardy shrub. The flowers of 

 Cytisus-aigricans are beginning to open. 

 It doesn't do very well here. Spiraea ten- 

 uissima with white flower spikes is on the 

 wane; Lenncana, pink or rose tinted, has 

 been in bloom for a few days; Btimalda, 

 rose pink, is beautiful. Billard's is now 

 showing rose colored spikes, and salici- 

 folia will be in good bloom in a few days. 

 The Amoor lilac with panicles of white 

 fleecy flowers is past, but Syringa Japon- 

 ica is not in bloom yet. The stag horn 

 sumach has terminal panicles of greenish 

 white flowers; the smooth sumach'sflow- 

 ers are like the last, but they ai-e not fully 

 out yet. Venetian sumach or purple 

 fringe, however, is very attractive. 



The common wild elderberry bush is in 

 full bloom, as are also the black berried 

 European form in its plain, variegated- 

 leaved, cut-leaved and pyramidal varie- 

 ties; and the early flowering red berried 

 elder is showing ripe fruit. Viburnum 

 Nepalense has passed out of bloom. The 

 panicled dogwood is about pagt, the 

 silky dogwood is still in good bloom, and 

 Cornus asperifolia is coming into flower. 

 Jamesia Americana, a small shrub from 

 the Rocky Mountain regions, has pretty 

 white deutzia-like flowers that have just 

 passed. Itea Virginica, a small shrub 

 from New Jersey south, has racemts of 

 pretty white flowers. Its foliage is beau- 

 tiful in fall. The crenate deutzia in single 

 and double white and rose tinted varieties 

 is in fine bloom, so is the New Jersey tea 

 iCeanothusAmericanus), dense clustersof 

 small white flowers. Lonicera trans- 

 lutens, a tall bushy shrub with yellow 

 flowers, is past, it was in good bloom a 

 week ago The flowers of the European 

 honeysuckles are reddish outside and yel- 

 low inside; Hall's in white and yellow is 

 beautiful and fragrant, and the trumpet 

 honeysuckle and wild yellow one are still 

 in good bloom. 



Someof the latebloomingmock oranges 

 or syringas arc showy. Lemoine's hybrid 

 one" is a free flowering, compact form; 

 and one called Mexicanus is hardly in 

 bloom yet. Some of the later blooming 



weigelas have a few lingering flowers, 

 and Camuset's rose acacia is producing 

 a second crop of flowers. The hop tree 

 (Ptelea) with greenish white disagreeable 

 smelUng flowers was in full flower seven 

 or eight days since. The winter berry 

 with small white flowers in the axils of 

 the leaves is about past. Its brilUant 

 berries are verj- showy in early w inter. 

 The shrubby cinquefoil has yellow flowers 

 and it will keep on blooming for the rest 

 of the summer. One called Parvifolia 

 looks like a variety of the last; it has 

 smaller leaves and a somewhat procum- 

 bent habit, but its flowers are similar to 

 those of the type. Clematis viticella, 

 bluish purple, ccerulea, blue, and Hender- 

 soni, bluish purple, are all partly in bloom 

 now. The common snow berry and the 

 wolf berry are showing their small white 

 and rose colored flowers. J. Dl'Nn.Mf. 



QUESTIONS fROM MINGO, W. Vfl. 



Climber for a chimney.— "Can you 

 suggest a good hardy climber for a stone 

 ciiimney having a southeast aspect? 

 Would the Crimson Rambler rose be suit- 

 able.'" 



The Japan ivy (Ampelopsis Veitcbii) is 

 probably the jjcst thing you could use. 

 for conditions being suitable it will run 

 up 30 or 40 feet, completely covering the 

 chimney with a dense, neat, close-fitting 

 wall of foliage. Wistarias, akebia, or 

 Virginia creeper, if trained up to an iron 

 rod would also run up 20 or 30 feet. No, 

 Crimson Rambler wouldn't grow tall 

 enough. But before you plant anything 

 there see that the soil about the chimney 

 is deep, rich, and good, and notap to get 

 over dry in summer. If it isn't so, digout 

 the old soil and replace with fresh. 



Evergreen climbers for a wall and 

 VERANDA.— We cannot encourage you. 

 The English ivy and the creeping enony- 

 mus (E. radicans), might do for the wall 

 if not in a hot, dry situation, but we can- 

 not assureyou,you would ha veto testthe 

 matter. The akebia and Hall's honey- 

 suckle both keep their foliage so long in 

 fall that they come nearest to an ever- 

 green suitable for your purpose, but both 

 must have supports. As a self clinging 

 vine for a wall, however, even it it isn't 

 evergreen, we recommend the Japan 

 ampelopsis [A. Veitchii). Hall's honey- 

 suckle and Clematis paniculata make 

 two fine vines for a veranda, but neither 

 is evergreen. 



you plant them, so as not to let the roots 

 get dry. Plant in mellow soil. In view 

 of the trouble j'ou already have had in 

 trying to get one to live we should advise 

 you to place a lath shading over the 

 plants, raised 4 to 6 feet above ground 

 and supported by four light posts — one 

 at each corner. Mulch about the plants 

 in summer, and in the event of protracted 

 drouth give the ground a thorough soak- 

 ing of water now and again. Set a bot- 

 tomless inverted barrel over the plant in 

 winter for a 3'ear or two after planting, 

 and if one isn't enough knock the head 

 and bottom both out of the barrels and 

 set one above the other over the plant, 

 bracing them between posts and tying 

 them with string, and mulch them heavily 

 in winter, removing it in spring. 



Magnolia acuminata is a handsome 

 native forest tree, but its flowers, which 

 are green, are not at all showy. M. 

 grandiHora is the noble evergreen tree 

 magnolia of the south, and not hardy in 

 the north. M. parvifiora may have had 

 an attack of Japanese die-back, and this 

 is more likely if it were M. Watsoni, 

 which used to be called parvifiora. 

 Soulangeana in a naturally warm spot in 

 your garden should survive if given the 

 conditions above described. M. hypo- 

 leuca being, we are inclined to believe the 

 hardiest of all, should stand your climate 

 well enough. All magnolias dislike 

 drouth. 



MflONOLIflS. 



B. W., Terre Haute, Ind., writes: "I 

 have been trying for the last ten years to 

 get a magnolia to live in my garden, but 

 without success. 1 had a M. acuminata 

 that lived fortwo years with me and then 

 died. I had two in two years of M. 

 grandiHora; they lived through the sum- 

 mer and then died. Then 1 had M. par- 

 vifiora; it started off very good, but died 

 suddenly in less than two months. Soul- 

 angeana also died in two months after 

 planting. Both last year and this year I 

 had M. hypoleuca, and it started off 

 good but died. Now I have many beau- 

 tiful trees in my garden, but why can't I 

 have a magnolia? Whether they should 

 be planted in shade or sunshine, and in 

 what kind of soil? lean give them any 

 kind of soil you recommend." 



We cannot tell why your magnolias 

 failed, but will advise you in a general 

 way. Get young stocky well rooted 

 plants, in spring only, and plant them in 

 good ground that does not get very drj' 

 in summer, and in a warm sheltered place. 

 Be exceedingly careful of the plants be- 

 tween the time you get them and when 



HARDINESS OF ESGOLLONIfl. 



"Is Escallonia FLORIBUNDA IIAKDV ill 

 this climate?" asks C H., Roxbury, 

 Mass. Further: "Can you advise me as 

 to proper culture, I have several rather 

 straggly plants a fewyears old, that have 

 never blossomed. They havebeen grown 

 in pots, plunged in ashes in summer, and 

 kept in a pit in winter. I tried planting 

 them out one year, but they did not lift 

 well." 



No, it is not. It requireswhat is known 

 as cool greenhouse or pit treatment, such 

 as we give to azaleas, myrties, and 

 aucubas. Wouldn't it be well to cut in 

 the stragglers considerably? This is best 

 done when growth begins in spring, but 

 we wouldn't hesitate to do it now. 

 Keeping them in pots, plunged outside 

 as you have done, is good practice provid- 

 ing the drainage in the pots is perfect. A 

 thin lath shade overhead will do them 

 good. 



How SOME shrubs wintered at 

 Chicago. — The Japan snowball had been 

 well wrapped with straw over winter, 

 and was looking well when we uncovered 

 it, but now we find it is injured to the 

 ground. Akebia quinata, perfectly un- 

 protected over winter is all right. Prunus 

 triloba, Spirxa prunifolia, and Pyrus 

 Parkmannii have come through in excel- 

 lent condition and are blooming better 

 than ever. W. C. Egan. 



Roses. 



ROSES IN JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO. 



Tens of thousands of people who visited 

 the World's Fair at Chicago two years 

 ago will remember the Wooded Island 

 and its famous Rose Garden, and they will 

 be pleased to learn that that rose garden 

 and its contents have been preserved. Our 

 illustration is engraved from photographs 

 taken there two weeks ago. Notwith- 

 standing the unkindness of the Chicago 

 climate and soil for hardy roses, these 

 Wooded Island roses have increased in 



