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GARDENING. 



Sept. /, 



the branches begin to touch. But the 

 thinning out is seldom done in time, be- 

 cause the resolution to cut down before 

 damage is visible is not so strong as the 

 temptation to let alone, especially if the 

 trees be growing finely. 



WiLi.iA.M McMillan, Supt. Parks. 

 Buffalo, August 18, 1S96. 



flflRDY VINES FOR fl SMALL GflRDtN. 



Vines give a home a remarkably cosy 

 and comfortable appearance, then have 

 lots of vines. Cover the stone or brick 

 walls of your dwelling or outbuildings 

 with them, train them up the pillars of 

 your verandas, and run them as a screen 

 between the posts, to shade j'ou from hot 

 sunshine and prying eyes. Spread them 

 over fences, drape them over banks and 

 walls and rough unkempt places, and 

 even set up posts or treUises here and 

 there for their accommodation, but never 

 let this conflict with the keeping or style 

 of your home or grounds, but have all in 

 happy harmony. 



Japan Ivv (Aiiipelopsis Veitchii) sur- 

 passes all other vines for covering stone 

 or brick work, but it is of little use at- 

 tempting to cover painted wood with it. 

 [When painting the wood scatter some 

 sand on the wet paint, and then the ivj' 

 will stick to the boards all right. — Ed.] 



The Virginia CRUErER is excellent for 

 covering rock piles, root stumps, etc., 

 but I would not recommend it for use on 

 the house or piazza. 



Hall's Japan Honeysuckle, now so 

 common everywhere, is indispensable in 

 our gardens; it makes an elegant vine and 

 its fragrant yellow and white blossoms 

 in June and July are very delightful. 



Clematis Flammila is a verj- vigorous 

 vine with highly fragrant white fleecy 

 l>lossoms in June and July. Don't omit 

 it. .\s soon as it is out of bloom incomes 

 that now most popular of all clematises, 

 namely. 



Clematis paniculata, whose snowy 

 sheets of blossoms cheer us in August and 

 September. 



Clematis Jack.manni, purple, and C. 

 Henryi, creamy white, should be given 

 ch ice places, even if we set up pillars or 

 trellises for them. 



The Chinese Wistaria, all things con- 

 sidered, is still the best and most reliable 

 of all; its glory in May is famihar to all. 

 There is a white-flowered form of it ap- 

 parently as free as the common blue, but 

 not so common. 



.\kehia for covering fences and lattice 

 work is an excellent vine, and it retains 

 its neat green leaves in their freshness till 

 near Christmas. It has myriads of small 

 purple flowers in early spring. 



Pipe Vine ( Aristolochia Sipho) makes 

 a fine covering for a fence or for lattice 

 work; and its thick over-lapping leaves 

 give a fine shade if needed. 



John Dunhar. 



Highland Park, Rochester. N. Y. 



GOOD SHRUBS FOR SMALL OARDBNS. 



Shrubs suitable for amateurs to grow 

 in small gardens should be remarkable 

 for their neat and becoming forms, beau- 

 tiful or fragrant flowers, or conspicuous 

 fruit, and they should be easv to trans- 

 I)lant and grow. The following kinds 

 are good serviceable sorts and cover the 

 season with bloom from .\pril till Sep- 

 tember. By the end of June nine-tenths 

 of our garden shrubs have passed out of 

 flower, and only a few remain to display 

 their blossoms in July, August and Sep- 

 tember. 



I>.1PHNJ- MKZERKIMisabout the earliest 



shrub to bloom we have, it comes in 

 about the end of March; its flowers are 

 rose pink, and delightfully fragrant. It 

 loves good, rich moist soil. 



Fortune's Forsvthia (Golden Bell), 

 yellow, about the end of April; it is the 

 easiest to grow of any shrub I know of. 



Thunberg's Spir-Ba, of airy graceful 

 habit, has myriads of white flowers about 

 the end of April and first of May. In fall 

 its spray-like branches are a mass of 

 brightly tinted foliage. 



Van Houtte's Spir.ea is the showiest 

 of its race; its arching branches are 

 wreathed with umbels of white blossoms 

 about the end of May. 



Spir.ba callosa alba, low growing, 

 compact, with many cymes of white 

 flowers about the middle of June. 



Spir.ea Bu.malda, rosy pink, very free, 

 beautiful and lasting in bloom from June 

 till September. Of dwarf habit like the 

 last. 



The Pearl Bush (Exochorda grandi- 

 flora) has showy white flowers from the 

 middle to end of May. 



Maule's Japan Quince, of fine dense 

 habit, and having orange colored flowers 

 about the first of May. 



Rosa rugosa, pink "and white, blooms 

 heavily end of May and first of June, and 

 after that more or less all summer long. 

 Its clean bold foliage and handsome fruit 

 are also a desideratum. tTrow.it as a 

 mass in the shrubbery or an isolated 

 group by the side of the lawn, treating it 

 as a shrub and not as a rose. 



Thunberg's Barberry, low-growing, 

 compact, easv to grow, and full of bril- 

 liant fruit ail the fall and winter. But 

 its praises have been so often touched 

 upon in Gardening that all must know it. 



Deutzia gracilis, a small, broad, little 

 shrub of the easie t growth, and bearing 

 a profusion of wliite flowers from May 

 into June. 



Deutzia crenata Pride of Roches- 

 ter, a by far more vigorous plant than 

 the last with double white flowers about 

 the middle of June. 



Large- flowered Mock Orange (Phil- 

 adelpbus grandittorus) is very gay with 

 pure white flowers about the first of June. 



Lilacs, Marie Legraye, white, and 

 Souvenir de Ludwig Spath, dark purple, 

 are the two finest of all lilacs, and every- 

 body should have them. 



Kerria Japonica, single or double, is a 

 small to medium sized shrub with many 

 pretty yellow flowers in May, and more 

 or less all summer. 



The Pepper Bush (Ckthra alnit'olia) 

 has spikes of white f agrant flowers in 

 July and August, and is easily grown. 



Alth.ba or Rose of Sharon.— The 

 double red and double white are the most 

 esteemed in a general waj-, but the pur- 

 ples are of such disagreeable shades that 

 I cannot recommend them. The best of 

 all the althieas, however, is the single 

 pure white flowered form known as 

 Totus-alba; it is really beautiful. 



Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora 

 is an indispensable shrub; it is in full 

 bloom now and lasts in good form till 

 next month. .\nd if you get the late- 

 blooming form of it as well as the com- 

 mon one, its floral period will run into 

 October. Cut it well down every year, 

 and plant it in deep, rich ground. It is 

 one of the hardiest shrubs grown in gar- 

 dens, thriving even in our rigorous north- 

 western states. 



Lespedeza Sieboluii (commonly 

 known as Desmodiuin pendulifforum) 

 blooms in September. Cut it down to 

 the ground every year as you would a 

 hardy perennial, and grow it in good 

 soil, and it will form large A- to G feet 



high masses, arching with drooping pan- 

 icles of small rose-purple pea flowers. 



John Dunbar. 

 Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 

 10, '96. 



TWELVE BEST BROAD-LBAVED EVERGREEN 



SHRUBS FOR THE MIDDLE SECTIONS 



OF TflE SOUTHERN STATES. 



Asalea Indica.— "What a glorious 

 sight," exclaim the hundreds of Northern 

 tourists who annually visit the far-famed 

 Magnolia Gardens, 18 miles from 

 Charleston, S. C. There the late Rev. 

 J. G. Drayton set out the most wonderful 

 collection of azaleas that had ever been 

 brought to this country. The earliest 

 plantings, now some 50 years old, con- 

 sisted of nearly all single varieties, but 

 they have grown with a vigor that shows 

 that their constitution had not become 

 weakened, as is unfortunately so often 

 seen in the newer European sorts. At 

 that famous place one can see plants that 

 measure 25 feet in diameter and from H) 

 to 15 feet high and have been allowed to 

 grow at will, free from the shears or 

 pruning knife. Here we find our ol<l 

 friends Phcenicea, Cnemina, Indica alba, 

 Glorj' of Sunning Hill, Pride of Dorking, 

 Iveryana and many others eclipsing by 

 their vigor, size and profusion of bloom 

 most of the latter day sorts, few of which 

 show the same robust growth. The 

 azaleas of Magnolia Gardens have demon- 

 strated that for open ground cultivation 

 in the southern sections of Georgia, South 

 Carolina and Alabama the older sorts 

 grown in bush form and upon their own 

 roots give much better satisfaction than 

 the grafted imported plants, which are 

 most valuable for forcing under glass. 

 The soil best suited to azaleas is one rich 

 in leaf mould, and the ^ituation one that 

 is partially shaded, although we occasion- 

 ally find very large and healthy plants of 

 the Phcenicea class in full sun and dry 

 soil. 



Camellia — Again we take the Mag- 

 nolia Gardens as one of the best instances 

 where this plant has been most extens- 

 ively cultivated. Like the azaleas most 

 of the plants were set out at the same 

 time, although there are specimens of the 

 old single red variety that are probably 

 (50 years old, and at the old Lucas place 

 in the city of Charleston yet stands the 

 oldest known treeof the single red, which 

 was planted in 1808. A few years ago in 

 company with Prof. Sargent we measured 

 that old tree and found its height to be 

 nearly 30 feet and the diameter of its 

 trunk 18 inches at one foot above the 

 soil. 



Camellias abound in all old gardens in 

 the Southern cities, where some have 

 reached to a great size and have stood 

 every extreme of heat and cold. Beginning 

 with the old Alba Plena or double white, 

 whose first flowers often ooen in Novem- 

 ber, we have a regular succession of floral 

 harvest until April, and have the choice 

 of some two hundred varieties. The senii- 

 double, while giving less perfect flowers 

 than the Imbricated sorts, make up for 

 this in their wonderful profusion, and a 

 plant of say Oune///7or Lefebreanum lo 

 to 12 feet high and covered with hundreds 

 of blooms is a sight not soon forgotten. 

 Camellias are easily grown and not 

 difficult as to soil, but like aza'eas they 

 take kindly to one rich in humus and deep 

 and friable. 



Berberis Japonica.— With its broad 

 glossy foliage and bright golden flowers 

 eariv in March gives us a very desirable 



spring 



shrub. Aiicuha, 



