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HORTICULTURE 



October 26. 191S 



Texas. The leaves turn yellow in the 

 autumn some time before the crimson 

 fruit falls. This tree is hardy in 

 Massachusetts but has never taken 

 very kindly to cultivation in the Ar- 

 boretum. The Strawberry Bush, E. 

 americanus, is a straggling shrub 

 with slender seniiprostrate stems and 

 fruit covered with prickles. It is a 

 common plant in the United States 

 from New York southward, but has 

 never found itself really at home in 

 the Arboretum. E. ovatits is another 

 American species with prickly and 

 tuberculate fruit, and is a low shrub 

 with prostrate stems. This species is 

 valuable for covering the ground in 

 the shade of larger plants where it 

 grows vigorously ; when exposed to the 

 full sun it suffers here from the ex- 

 posure. 



A GOOD JAPANESE TREE FOR AN 

 AMERICAN GARDEN 



Acanthopanax Ricin»folium, the sub- 

 ject of the cover illustration, is one 

 of the most interesting trees in the 

 Arnold Arboretum, where this picture 

 was made. The Acanthopanax has 

 many merits, being attractive in form, 

 foliage, flower and fruit. It belongs 

 to the Auralea family, and is common 

 in the forests of Northern Japan, 

 where specimens eighty feet high are, 

 often found. The tree has a massive 

 trunk and wide spreading branches, 

 armed with stout prickles. The leaves 

 hang on long stalks, and are nearly 

 circular. They are five or seven lobed. 

 and often sixteen inches in diameter. 

 The flowers come late in the season. 

 In the Arboretum they are a feature 

 of the late summer display. The tree 

 illustrated stands not far from the 

 shrub garden. Another good specimen 

 is to be found near the Center street 

 gate. Both were very conspicuous 

 the past summer when in flower. The 

 individual blossoms are very small, 

 but grow to form flat clusters a foot 

 or more in diameter. The flowers are 

 greenish white at first, but become 

 nearer pure white as they grow older. 

 After they disappear the tree is cov- 

 ered with shining black fruits, which 

 do not fall until after the beginning 

 of winter. 



The Acanthopanax has proved en- 

 tirely hardy in the Arboretum, where 

 it has been growing for twenty-five 

 years. Professor Sargent recommends 

 it to the owners of private estates es- 

 pecially, because it is wholly unlike 

 other trees of the northern hemis- 

 phere, resembling in many ways the 

 trees of the tropics. At least one New 

 England nursery is now listing this 

 tree, which is likely to be widely 

 Iilanted in years to come. 



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VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Philadelphia — ^Mrs. George Bennett, 

 Salisbury, Md.; E. G. Hill, Richmond, 

 Ind. 



Cincinnati — Daniel M. Rosenteld, 

 representing Werthhelmer Bros.. New- 

 York City. 



Rochester, X. Y. — R. Ramsfelder of 

 the Knickerbocker Ribbon Co., New- 

 York; S. W. Morgan of Leroy, X. Y.: 

 James Bacholis of Corning. 



Chicago — Henry Heepe, Akron, O.; 

 H. M. Burt, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Vin- 

 cent Gorly of Grimm & Gorly, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; Jas. S. Wilson, Des 

 Moines, la.; Wm. H. Temblett, Cleve- 

 land, O.; B. H. Klus, Anderson. Ind. 



WHOLESALE SEEDSMEN'S 

 LEAGUE 



The meeting of the Wholesale Seeds- 

 men's League was held as usiial at the 

 Hardware Club, New York City, and 

 was attended in goodly numbers from 

 Maine to California. The League does 

 not attempt to dictate prices but flad 

 it good to .meet In conference and ex- 

 change views as to what various prices 

 should be. The consensus of opinion 

 this year seemed to be that lower 

 figures will prevail this season than 

 last year. 



PERSONAL, 

 .lohn Cook, the veteran rose grower 

 of Baltimore, will pass his eighty-fifth 

 birthday on November 16. 



New Y'ork — Charles Johnson, Ma- 

 rietta, Pa., repre. Denaifte & Co., 

 France; Mr. Piske of Fiske-Rawson 

 Co., Boston; Chas. H. Breck, Bos- 

 ton; W. J. Stewart, Boston; J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Boston; Lester Morse, San 

 Francisco, Cal.; S. H. Bayersdorfer. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Washington — Charles H. Totty, Madi- 

 son, N. J.; E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; 

 J. D. Eisele, Henry A. Dreer, Inc., 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Orlando Harrison. 

 Berlin, Md.; Harris A. Reynolds, sec- 

 retary, Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, Boston, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. 

 Leonard Barron and Miss Barron, of 

 New York: J. Horace McFarland, 

 Harrisburg, Pa.; Robert H. Roland, 

 Nahant, Mass. 



South Orange, N. J. — The shortage 

 of help is making it extremely difficult 

 for W. A. Manda to get the forest of 

 stately palms, ferns, etc., which have 

 adorned his gardens throughout the 

 summer, to their winter quarters. 

 Mr. Manda has made a good thing of 

 his tradescantia specialty. As an- 

 nounced in our N. Y. Florists' Club 

 notes last week he has assembled to- 

 gether the surprising number of one 

 hundred and twenty-five varieties of 

 tradescantia. These in many styles of 

 hanging pots, etc., are very attractive 

 and have proved exceedingly popular. 

 A species of phyllanthus, which he is 

 growing in quantity bids fair to take 

 place as a substitute for the araucarias 

 which we have in the past been accus- 

 tomed to receive from Belgium. 



