June 10, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



809 



sometimes to grow three feet tall, but 

 the plants in the Arboretum are only 

 a few inches high. These plants have 

 now been growing for several years 

 on the exposed southern slope of Bus- 

 sey Hill where they have never been 

 injured. Berberis vcrruculosa appears 

 to be the hardiest and for this climate 

 it is probably the most valuable of the 

 Chinese evergreen species. The small 

 size and compact habit make it a good 

 subject for the ruck garden. 



Aesculus discolor. 

 It is fortunate that the scarlet-flow- 

 ered variety (var. mollis) of this 

 Buckeye is hardy here, for the flowers 

 are not surpassed in brilliancy by the 

 flowers of any other horsechestnut. 

 On the typical Aesculus discolor the 

 flowers have a red calyx and yellow 

 petals generally more or less flushed 

 with rose. This is a much less com- 

 mon plant than the variety mollis on 

 which both the calyx and the corolla 

 are bright red. This is a very com- 

 mon plant in Georgia and Alabama 

 and ranges west to southeastern Mis- 

 souri and to eastern Texas. It is the 

 only red-flowered Buckeye which ha-, 

 been found west of the Mississippi 

 river, and It sometimes reaches the 

 size and assumes the habit of a small 

 tree. On the Edwards Plateau in 

 western Texas there is a yellow-flow- 

 ered form (var. flavescens) which, be- 

 cause it has yellow flowers, was long 

 mistaken by botanists for the Appa- 

 lachian tree Buckeye, Aesculus octan- 

 dra. Aesculus discolor and its vari- 

 eties can be distinguished from the 

 other American species by the soft 

 covering of pale down on the lower 

 surface of the leaflets, and from all 

 species of tlie genus except Aesculus 

 californica by the pale orange-brown 

 color of the seeds. Aesculus discolor. 

 var. mollis is just coming into flower. 

 Aesculus georglana 

 Which is a native of central Geor- 

 gia, is covered with its compact clust- 

 ers of yellow and rose-colored flowers. 

 Perfectly able apparently to support 

 the New England climate, this Buck- 

 eye is one of the handsomest and most 

 interesting southern shrubs which 



the Arboretum has made known and 

 introduced into gardens. 



Aesculus Briotli 

 This French form of the so-called 

 red - flowered hybrid horsechestnut 

 (AescuHis carnea) is in flower in the 

 collection. It is the most brilliantly 

 colored of all the forms of Aesculus 

 carnea, and few trees hardy in this 

 climate bear such showy flowers. It 

 begins to flower when not more than 

 ten feet high; it is perfectly hardy, 

 and it should be seen more generally 

 in American gardens. — Arnold Arbor- 

 etum Bulletin. 



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BIG HAIL STORM AT ST. LOUIS. 

 Hail, wind and a heavy downpour 

 of rain has again visited the St. Louis 

 and vicinity florists causing a loss 

 which will probably total 150,000 feet 

 of glass. This was the second destruc- 

 tive storm within a month. The first 

 one confined itself to the south end of 

 St. Louis but this one took in the 

 county where many of our greenhouse 

 men are located. Some had already re- 

 paired the damage done a few days 

 ago and again it hit them hard. 

 Among the heaviest losers this time 

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 bees in a hive. W. A. Rowe's loss was 

 the greatest as he got the full force 

 of the storm, especially at the new 

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 $5,000. A. S. Cerney, O. C. May, Oak- 

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 also sufl'ered greatly. The Connon 

 Floral Co. and Joe Hauser at Webster 

 Grove, had also a heavy loss. All 

 glass facing the west had no chance 

 to escape breakage. Another great 

 loss was to gladioli in the field. Over 

 half were broken off and bent down 

 by the wind. One of the county flor- 

 ists who made the rounds after the 

 storm estimated the loss in the county 

 to reach $20,000 to florists alone. 

 Many market gardeners along Gravion 

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 have one or more greenhouses, report 

 heavy loss. The daily papers said 

 after the storm that the total loss 

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