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RDBUS DELICI030S. 



shrubs to allow its arching brandies 

 to spR-ad tl-emselves without being 

 ciainpc<l by neighboring trees or bushes. 

 And it shows to best advantage when 

 lilanted above the ground level, that is in 

 the face of a rockwork, near the top of 

 a bank or some such place where the 

 drainage is perfect; at the same time give 

 it deeply worked good soil. 



As a rule the stems of rasjiberry and 

 lilaekberry bushes are biennial, that is 

 they grow up this year, and fruit and die 

 llic next season. But this isn't the case 

 with tliis Kocky Muuntriin shrub, its 

 stems arc hard-wooded and persistent, at 

 the same time vvc have to cut out a good 

 deal of dead wood from it every year. 



While this is one of the handsomest 

 shrubs grown it isn't one that we would 

 recommend for planting in a small garden 

 as we would the best deutzias, spira-:is, 

 or snowballs. 



TREES AND SHRUBS IN BLOOM AT ROCflES- 

 TER, N. y., JULY 8. 



The most showy flowering plants with 

 usjust now are the yucca (1'. tilamentosa). 

 A mass of a hundred plants with three to 

 five spikes on each attract much admira- 

 tion. 



Many of the late blooming spira;as are 

 in flower. S. Biiwalda and Billard's wil- 

 low-leaved are still in good bloom, and 

 Japonica (callosa) and its varieties aU>a, 

 superha. rubra, and seniperSorens, and 

 S. Do ugla si i and its variety pacbystachys 

 are at their best. S. sorhifolia with 

 showy white plume-like panicles and S. 

 Pallasii much like the last were in full 

 flower last week. S. virescens with whit- 

 ish pink cymes, Bluniei with large pink 

 panicles and Nobleana with rose colored 

 flowers are in bloom and desirable forms. 

 S. discolor (ivriafiilia) lins nodding pani 

 ces of white fleecy flowers and is the 



most beautiful of the late blooming kinds. 

 We find it more difllcult to grow than 

 most of the otherspincas. The best speci- 

 men of it we have .seen in this city is 

 where it is shaded at noonday by a 

 close-by oak. 



The American basswoo 1 was in full 

 flower the first of last week. Thecommon 

 catalpa ( hiffnonoidcsYia now in fine bloom. 



Hall's honeysuckle is still in excellent 

 bloom. The ditrerent varieties of bush 

 honeysuckles as hella, h'liprcchliaiia and 

 Afiirron-ii are loaded withred and yellow 

 Iruit. The Japan tree lilac (Syringa 

 J;ipiinic;i) has been handsomely in bloom 

 but its panicles were spoiled by rose bugs. 

 The flowers of the oak-leaved hydrangea 

 i H. quercifolia) are beginning to open 

 and so are the spikes of the dwarf horse 

 chestnut (Aisculus macrostachya). Hy- 

 pericum ramosissimum has been in bloom 

 for the past week, and H. hirciiiuni since 

 a few days. //. Kalwianum and aureum 

 are coming into flower. 



The Californian sweet shrub (Calycan- 

 thas occidentalism, very closely protected 

 last winter, came into flower on the 2nd 

 in t.; the blooms are dull red, about three 

 inches across, and scentless. It has never 

 lielore flowered with us. 



The alternate leaved dogwood {Cornus) 

 will soon look pretty loaded with its blue 

 fruit. The white fruit of the red osier 

 dogwood is now ripe, and the alpine 

 daphne is covered with its red berries. 

 The American and Spanish chestnuts have 

 been in bloom for the past ten days, and 

 are now pretty well past. .\ lew scatter- 

 ing blooms are to be seen on Khodotypos 

 kerrioides. The prairie rose {Rosa 

 setigera) is very lovely, and the Japanese 

 trailing one (li. Wicburaiana) with its 

 small lustrous dark green leaves, and 

 profusely borne white flowers is at its 

 best. It is a gem amongst single roses. 

 Thecommon swamp rose (R. Carolina) 

 is in bloom, and a few odd blooms are to 

 be found on R. rugosa. J. Dunuak. 



LILACS, OTHER SHRUBS AND PERENNIALS. 



A correspondent asks: "What shrubs 

 and hardy herbaceous plants will harmo- 

 nize well with lilacs and thr ve when 

 L;rouped with them?" 



For grouping with lilacs select plants 

 having a vigorous constitution powerful 

 ilevelopm nt of roots, and a somewhat 

 similar habit of growth, color and text- 

 ure of foliage as the lilac, such as the 

 forsythias, Japan quince, Rosa rugosa, 

 Myrica ceritera, Spirwa Van Houttei, 

 rhodotypos, paeonia, Clematis recta; 

 fraxinella, Funkia orata, and lanceolata. 

 Cassia Marilandica, helianthus, Lychnis 

 chalcedonica, Monarda didyma, Spinea 

 Aruncus, Veronica spicata. 



Warren H. M.vnninc. 



Brookline, Mass. 



Xanthoceras sorbifolia.— W. C. v.. 

 writes: "I have bought two plants at 

 difl^erent times, but did not succeed in 

 even getting it started. Next fall when a 

 strong west wind is blowing can't you 

 shake some seeds this way?" [VVith 

 pleasure. — Ed.] 



He raised it.— George Donald writes: 

 "From the Xanthoceras seeds you sent 

 me a couple of months ago I have suc- 

 ceeded in getting up three plants; they 

 are now potted oft" singly. No doubt, 

 though, it is a hard seed to make grow." 

 George Do.nald. 



Gardening has come to my home since 

 the first number and I look forit as much 

 ris I do 1... Miv Mowers in spring. 



Akron, Ohio, June 22, '95. J. A. L. 



