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• GARDENING. 



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black, and is commencing to turn showy. 

 The fruit of the European and American 

 mountain ashes is commencing to turn 

 red The chokeberry {Pyrus urhutifolia) 

 with purpUsh fruit, and the variet3- P. a. 

 melanocarpa with jet black fruit have 

 been ripe since two weeks. The choke 

 cherry with its branches of dark crimson 

 fruit, abundantevery where, is very showy 

 and the wild red cherry, Pruniis Pennsyl- 

 vanica. with small red fruit is turning 

 ripe. The dwarf plum {Prunus piiniila) 

 with quite showy black fruit has been 

 ripe since two or three weeks. This 

 shrubby plum grows naturally in sandy 

 banks; it is growing here in the face of a 

 filled in sand bank and is doing remarka- 

 bly well. John Dunbar. 



"Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., |uly 

 27, 1896. 



NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Three fine lilacs are Syringa Pekin- 

 ensis, its variety penrfu/a and S. Japoiiica. 

 They bloom later than the other lilacs, 

 have great panicles of fleecy white flow- 



Cofiyright, iSg6, by D. Ap/ileton ci-" Co. 

 BURR OR OVER-CDP OAK. 



ers, and are of healthy build, and so far 

 as I have seen, free irom mildew. 



Rhododendrons and Azaleas make a 

 better and quicker growth if the seed 

 pods are removed as soon as the fl iwers 

 drop, than if the pods are left to mature. 

 Neglecting the plants, especially the young 

 ones, in tnis direction is bad gardening. 



Transplanting Rhododendrons.— Al- 

 though the weather is wet enough now 

 it was very dry on Long Island in the 

 spring, but dry as it was we transplanted 

 a large lot of rhododendrons in the open 

 fields, and with excellent success. This 

 was caused no doubt bv careful lifting, 

 and early and careful planting, and mud- 

 ding the roots at lifting time to preserve 

 them from getting dry. This mudding 

 or puddling the roots at planting time 

 will save most plants, deciduous as well 

 as evergreen, and people should bear it in 

 mind. 



Trees and siiRrns flowered much 

 EARLIER THIS YEAR than usual. rhododen- 

 drons and azaleas were at least a week 

 earlier than I remember them to do before 

 in forty years, and they were superb. 

 Even the always late Rhododendron 

 maximum and Azalea arborescens were 

 also proportionately early, and very fine 

 and full. H. 1'. and moss roses that used 

 to flower in June, began to bloom in May, 

 and shrubs the same. A number of spi- 

 ncas and other early shrubs did jioorly, 

 no doubt owingtolast fall's long drouth. 



The new spir.ica, Anthony Waterer, is 

 good, being a shade darker in the color 

 of flower than the old Bumalda. 



Of Cedrus Atlantica argentea I 

 grafted a lot the middle of April, and 

 the cions have knit finely and the grafts 

 are doing well. What a splendid tree it 

 is! It is the finest of blue conifers, and 

 the Dosoris specimen is the finest I know 

 of in the country. 



BerberisThunhergii as an ornamental 

 hedge plant is not surpassed by any other 

 small-sized shrub that we have got. Its 

 habit is excellent, it never needs cutting 

 or pruning, it starts into full foliage early 

 in spri g, and its leaves last late and 

 co'or brilliantly in the fall; it bears vivid 

 .scarlet fruit in dense arching sprays, and 

 these berries last on the plants all winter 

 and till the new growth comes in the fol- 

 lowing spring. And the plant is hardy 

 and will grow anywhere. 



J. R. Tku.mpv. 



Kissena, Flushing, L. I. 



ORNflMENTflL TREES AND SHRUBS FOR 

 SOUTH DflKOTfl. 



Prof. N K. Hansen writing in the 

 Dakota Farmer names the following 

 seven as the best ornamental trees for 

 lawns and shade in his part of the coun- 

 try: 



shade trees. 



Cut-leaved weeping birch 



Colorado blue or silver spruce. 



Russian wild olive {Ela:agnus angusti- 

 folia). 



The May Day Tree (Prunus Padus 

 Maackii). 



Hard maple. 



Dwarf Tartarian maple ( .4ccr Tartarica 

 Ginnala). 



Bolle's poplar {Populus BoUeana) . 

 ornamental shrubs. 



Lilacs. 



American snowball. 



Hydrangea paniculata grandiffora. 



Rosa rugosa. 



Spinea Van Houttei. 



Mock orange, especially Gordon's 

 (Philadelphus Gordonianus), and the 

 large flowered syringa (P. grandifforus). 



Lonicera splendens, a form of Tartarian 

 bush honeysuckle with bluish green 

 foliage, dense habit and heavy load of 

 pink flowers in May. 



Tamarix Amurensis. 



Chinese barberry (Ilerberis Thunbergii) . 



Let us quote in full what he says about 

 the May Day tree. "An ornamental bird 

 cherry from the Amur valley ol Asia. A 

 beautiful lawn tree of medium size with 

 neatly rounded spreading top and dense 

 foliage, blooms early in May. The pure 

 white flowers are in long racemes and 

 last a long time in water. The tree is in 

 full leaf very early in the spring and 

 retains the foliage late in the fall." We 

 endorse every word of it. It is very 

 hardy, free growing, and when in bloom 

 most beautiful, its flowers being the 

 largest of all the bird cherry trees. It 

 among trees and Spinea sorbitblia among 

 shrubs are among the earliest in theirline 

 to start into leaf growth in spring. There 

 is a splendid specimen of this tree at 

 Dosoris, 



HMERICflN BLADDER NUT. 

 Under separate cover 1 send for name, 

 leaves and seed pod of a bush or small 

 tree which grows along the streams in 

 this vicinity, although not very common. 

 They are iiliw :i l.oaitli ul sight, covered 

 with liiiii'lniN ol I luse three-celled blad- 

 ders Ii.iiil'iuu m iliisUi's. I must have a 

 numbei III iin --liiiMiiry collection. Have 

 |)lanteil the- sculs, will they grow? Since 



I have been gardening for pleasure have 

 discovered a number of handsome wild 

 shrubs, however, nearly all are so difficult 

 to transplant from their native haunts 

 that I prefer nursery grown stock. OhI 

 the failures that have fallen to my lot 

 have been numerous. Have taken Gar- 

 dening for more than a year and the 

 practical suggestions in it have already 

 saved me the subscription price ten times 

 over. O. G. B. 



Frankfort Springs, Pa. 



The shrub is the common bladder-nut 

 (Staphylea trifolia). It belongs to the 

 soapberry family ol plants, the same to 

 which the horse chestnut and maple be- 

 long, has opposite pinnate leaves of three 

 serrate leaflets, and drooping clusters of 

 white flowers terminating the branchlets 

 and succeeded by large, three-celled, in- 

 flated pods. The shrubs are of upright 

 growth six to twelve feet high, and occur 

 in a wild state in thickets in somewhat 

 moist soil. Grows well in cultivation. 

 Yes, it grows from seed, also from cut- 

 tings. The best one for garden purposes 

 is Staphylea colchica, it has very pretty 

 waxy white flowers in clusters and is a 

 fine ornamental shrub. 



FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



This is the title of a very beautifully 

 gotten up book by Mr. F. Schuyler 

 Mathews, and published by D. Appleton 

 & Company, New York. The book is 

 8x5 inches and contains 320 pages, and 

 over two hundred illustrations. The 

 object of the book is to teach us how to 

 distinguish our common trees, bot.i wild 



Copyrighi, lSg6, by D. AppMon C Co. 

 MAGNOLIA GLAUOA. 



and cultivated, by their leaves. The 

 another is an excellent artist, a sharp ob- 

 server, and good botanist, and all of this 

 is firmly impressed upon his work. The 

 drawings are original and made from 

 nature by the author himself. How ex- 

 cellent and truthful they are can be readily 

 seen by examining those of the burr oak, 

 swamp magnolia, and buttonwood here- 

 with shown, and which have been kindly 

 lent to us by the publishers, Messrs. 

 ,\ppleton. All of the trees illustrated 

 also several more, are freely and very 

 interestingly described in the work, and 

 where they occur in a wild state, also 

 where fine specimens of them inay be seen 

 in cultivation, and what they are good 

 for. The common English names of all 

 are given in bold type, and the botanical 

 ones in italics, and a new departure in 

 botanical book making is here observed; 

 while the botanical names used in thelast 



