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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



in blossom which is worth a pilgrimage to see. It 

 would hold its own even in the environs of Smyrna. 

 The tree is i8 feet high, and the circumference of 

 its branches is about 75 feet. At this present mo- 

 ment it is laden with blossom, and its kind of ruby- 

 red against the dark foliage of a tall Pinus insig- 

 nis, which grows close by, is most striking to look 

 at. — H. E., ill Garden. 



GiNGKO. — The maiden hair tree is found to be 

 quite hardy at Montreal. 



The Ash as a Street Tree. — Dr. John A. 

 Warder says: "In this prairie country one of the 

 very best trees for street planting is the green ash. 

 The size is just right, the growth when young is 

 rapid, the form is easily controlled by judicious 

 trimming, and the foliage is very neat and of a 

 healthy green, which is nearly the same on both 

 sides of the leaves. Then, too, the trees may be 

 had at. reasonable rates from any nurseryman. 

 Whole blocks, or indeed whole streets, might well 

 be planted continuously with the green ash, and 

 produce a good effect. 



Evergreens in the Shaue. — It has often been 

 noted in these columns that evergreens often die 

 when under other trees, not so much from shade as 

 from the drouth and poverty brought about by the 

 numerous roots of the larger trees. A heavy ma- 

 nuring will often give vitality enough to keep such 

 hedge plants in good heart, when it is particularly 

 desirable to have them in such situations. Of 

 success under these circumstances with arborvitass 

 a correspondent of the American Garden gives a 

 good example. 



Rose Madame Boll. — The French Journal 

 des Roses remarks that rose growers derive no lit- 

 tle satisfaction from the contemplation of fine, 

 vigorous foliage, as well as from fine flowers. In 

 this respect it praises especially this fine old Hybrid 

 Perpetual, Madame Boll. This was raised in 1856 

 by Mons. J. Boyan, of Angers, from seed of a rose- 

 colored hybrid perpetual crossed by Bell Fanert. 

 It was named after Mrs. Boll, the wife of a well 

 known florist of New York city. 



ALONG ISL.\ND GiNGKO Tree.— In Mr. Hen- 

 derson's Handbook of Plants, mention is made of 

 a fine tree on the grounds of Mrs. Manice, of 

 Queens, Long Island. It is not near as old or as 

 large as many in the country, the one at Wood- 

 lands, for instance, being one hundred years old, 

 but it is a very fine tree of its age. It is over 35 feet 

 in height and 3 feet 2 inches in circumference, 

 one foot above the ground, and has been planted 



about thirty-seven years, though no one knows its 

 exact age. 



H.\RDv Cyclamens under Trees. — This little 

 sketch of Cyclamens was from a group allowed to 

 run wild among the grass under some trees in a 

 garden at Tooting. Right bravely for years they 

 had held their way among the grass and weeds 

 and carpeted the ground with their glossy leaves, 

 and flowered freely in winter and early spring. 

 Although mostly a South European, North African 

 and Western Asiatic family, various species grow 

 on the hills, and they are with very few exceptions 

 thoroughly hardy. There should be no difficulty 

 in naturalizing cyclamens in copses and half shady 

 places, where the surface vegetation is not too 

 rank. We believe they will grow in many of the 

 places for which people so often seek for "plants 

 that will grow under trees." The mossy floor of 

 many a grove where grass will not grow may be 

 enamelled with the Ivy-leaved Cyclamen, with C. 

 Europaeum, C. vernum, and, in fact, most of the 

 species and varieties, with the exception of the 

 Persian cyclamen, so well known as a spring-flow- 

 ering greenhouse plant, and which is not hardy 

 everywhere. — Garden. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Bedding Cle.m.^tis. — A Canadian correspond- 

 ent says : "Those who have tried the clematis as a 

 bedding plant, trained on the ground, will oblige 

 me and many others if they will report their suc- 

 cess through the medium of your Gardeners' 

 Monthly, stating the position where they have 

 done so and what varieties they prefer for this 

 purpose. If they will succeed in this way they 

 will make a fine display, and be very valuable in 

 bedding, if they only make half the display they 

 do when trained upright."- 



Raising Seeds of Herbaceous Plants. — 

 " N. B. C," of Bucyrus, Ohio, says: "For the 

 last four or five years I have planted, and 

 given to two or three friends, seeds of the 

 following plants: Aconitum nap. (Monkshood), 

 Belladonna atrop. (Nightshade), Digitalis purpur. 

 (Foxglove), Conium mac. Hyoscyamus niger 

 (Henbane). I have always obtained the seed 

 from three different dealers. But the result was 

 the same, invariably — a total failure, not a seed of 

 any variety growing. Last year one of my lady 

 friends had a few plants of digitalis, and she fondly 

 looks for blossoms the coming summer. All the 

 above are, I think, indigenous to the United States 



