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HORTICULTURE 



August 2, 1919 



GRASS SEEDS FOR GOLF COURSES AND LAWNS 



RECLEANED CREEPING BENT 



CRESTED DOGSTAIL, CHEWING FESCUE 



SHEEP FESCUE FANCY CLEAN RED TOP 



KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS 



ALSO 



COMPLETE LINE OF LAWN FERTILIZERS 



SHEEP MANURE SCOTCH SOOT 



WOOD ASHES AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS 



JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 



(CORPORATION) 

 Seeds, Bulbs, Plants 



51-52 North Market Street, Boston, Mass. 



BRECK ROBINSON NURSERY CO. 



Monroe Station, Lexington, Mass. 



topped shrub with erect stems covered 

 with gray bark, thin pale green 

 leaves and inconspicuous flowers. 

 It has taken kindly to cultivation in 

 the Arboretum where there are a num- 

 ber of plants in the Holly Collection 

 in the rear of the Horsechestnut Col- 

 lection. The snow-white fruits of the 

 red and yellow-flowered forms of the 

 North American Cornus stolonifera 

 are now ripe. Very beautiful in win- 

 ter from the bright coloring of its 

 stems and branches, this Cornel is 

 equally beautiful in July and August 

 when it is covered with its large and 

 abundant clusters of fruit. A garden 

 form of the Old World Cornus alba 

 (var. Rosenthalii) is fruiting abun- 

 dantly this year and promises to be a 

 valuable addition to July and August 

 fruiting shrubs. 



blackberries it will not probably find 

 much favor in this country. There 

 are two double-flowered Brambles in 

 the collection which are also in bloom 

 and which are also important orna- 

 mental plants, also well suited to 

 cover arbors and fences. They pro- 

 duce in a season stems from ten to 

 twenty feet long and their white or 

 pink flowers in long, many-flowered 

 crowded clusters resemble miniature 

 Roses. These plants are called Rufus 

 ulmifolius var. bellidiflorus and R. 

 thyrsoideus flore pleno, and seem to 

 be little known in the United States. 



DECORATIVE BRAMBLES. 

 Rubus lacinatus, a European plant, 

 which produces long red stems and 

 deeply divided leaflets, is one of the 

 handsomest of the Brambles and is 

 well suited to cover banks or to train 

 over fences and arbors. In England it 

 is valued for its fruit which is de- 

 scribed as "one of the finest black- 

 berries in size and flavor." In com- 

 petition with some of the American 



LAWN MAKING LITERATURE. 



Many gardeners seem to be inter- 

 ested in the subject of lawn making. 

 The following publications treat the 

 subject at length: 



L. H. Pammel, J. B. Weems, and 

 F. Lamsen-Scribner, Iowa Sta. Bui.. 

 56 pp. 385-621. 



Twelfth Annual Report of Oklahoma 

 Sta. 1903. 



L. C, Corbett. The Lawn. U. S. D. 

 A. Farmers' Bui. 248. 



L. Barron. Lawns and How to Make 

 Them. Doubleday Page & Co., 1906. 

 New York. 



C. C. Newman. Permanent Lawns 

 for the South. S. C. Sta. Bui. 157. 



INDIGOFERAS IN BLOOM. 

 Five species of Indigofera of the pea 

 family are now blooming in the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum. They are small 

 plants with handsome flowers in ter- 

 minal racemes, well suited to decorate 

 a garden border. The three species 

 with pink flowers, I. Kirilowii, a na- 

 tive of northern China, Manchuria 

 and Korea, I. Potaninii and I. ambly- 

 antha are perfectly hardy and the last 

 will continue to open its small flowers 

 on the lengthening racemes until Octo- 

 ber. The other species, I. Gerardiana 

 and I. decora, are killed to the ground 

 every winter, but like herbaceous 

 plants produce new stems in the 

 spring which never fail to flower dur- 

 ing the summer. I. decora is a native 

 of southern China, and in the Arbore- 

 tum the flowers are pure white. I. 

 Gerardiana, which is a native of the 

 northwestern Himalayas, lias gray- 

 green foliage and rose-purple flowers. 

 This is the least beautiful of the five 

 species now growing in the Arbore- 

 tum. The collection still needs I. 

 hebepetala, another Himalayan plant 

 which is rarely seen in English gar- 

 dens. It has red flowers, in elongated 

 racemes, and, judging by the picture 

 of it which has been 'published is a 

 handsome plant. This and another 



