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The Horticulturist and Jonrnat 



recent address before the Horticultural 

 Society at G-ermantown, Pa., has expressed 

 his views in relation to the proper species 

 of trees for shading our streets, with hints 

 for their management. He protests against 

 the usual method of mutilating this class 

 of trees after they have attained full size, 

 and calls attention to the fruit-tree grower, 

 who begins to prune as soon as the trees 

 are set out and while the limbs are neces- 

 sarily small. Attention is called to the fact 

 that we cannot judiciously plant fruit or 

 nut-bearing trees along our sidewalks, nor 

 even handsome flowering trees. Then again, 

 we are restricted to those which will flourish 

 in smoky towns, thus debarring the ever- 

 green family. In many instances streets 

 are quite narrow, often only thirty feet 

 wide, so as to afi"ord insufficient space for 

 the larger trees. "As well admire a sick 

 monkey or a dying eat as a plant struggling 

 for life between a curbstone on one side, 

 sand, brick, and rubbish on the other, and 

 the air and rain excluded from all." The 

 Silver Maple is recommended above all 

 others for a popular street tree, provided it 

 receives proper care when young ; but " it 

 wants attention every week during the 

 growing season, if we expect good results." 

 Trim when young is our writer's advice, 

 and never allow it to form large limbs to 

 be cut away in after years. He recom- 

 mends the Sugar Maple highly, and among 

 smaller-sized trees suggests the Red Bud 

 or Judas Tree. Attention is called to the 

 claims of the Magnolias and the Yellow 

 Wood or Virgilia. The Deciduous Cypress, 

 the Weeping Cypress [Glyptostrobus !Sinen- 

 sis), and the Lindens are all worthy of a 

 place in our list. Some of the oaks, Ken- 

 tucky Cofi"ee Tree, varieties of Ash, Native 

 Beeeh, Copper Beech, Fern-leaved Beech, 

 and the Salisburia are all fine. At the East, 

 and especially in portions of the Middle 

 States, the Elm is infested with worms and 

 must be rejected ; but the species known as 

 the Slippery Elm appears to be an excep- 

 tion. He says the Norway Maple casts too 

 dense a shade for the street. The Syca- 



more Maple is a more rapid grower than 

 the Silver, and among oaks the Overcup or 

 Macrocarpa is the fastest grower of all. In 

 broad avenues, of 80 or 100 feet in width, 

 oaks, hickories. Tulip poplars, and many 

 others may be used. Always select trees 

 that have been twice transplanted, if pos- 

 sible. 



JVeif Evergi'eens. 



The following new varieties have been 

 recently introduced by T. C. Maxwell & 

 Co., of Geneva, N. Y., and have decidedly 

 valuable characteristics. (They were omit- 

 ted, by accident, from January No.) 



Victoria {Thuja Occidentalis Argentea.) 

 — A very curious and beautiful dwarf Arbor 

 Vitae, and wholly unlike any hitherto de- 

 scribed. It is of a fresh green color, with 

 the branchlets distinctly tipped with white. 

 It is believed to be entirely hardy, having 

 been exposed as thoroughly as the Greorge 

 Peabody, and with no injury. It is very 

 attractive and pleasing in appearance ; has 

 same parentage as T. 0. lutea. 



MaxiveWs Dwarf Spruce. {Abies Excelsa 

 Maxicellii.) — A seedling which originated on 

 grounds of T. C. Maxwell & Bros. ; leaves 

 short, rigid, dark green. Its habit is very 

 compact, full and regular, and without trim- 

 ming, its tendency is to form a dense hemis- 

 pherical mass. The original plant is fifteen 

 years old, and measures twenty-four inches 

 in height and thirty-eight inches in diameter. 

 It is more vigorous than pygmia, and some- 

 what larger. For novelty, this little tree 

 is curious and interesting, and as a beautiful, 

 low evergreen, this dark green, regularly 

 rounded dwarf is exceedingly valuable. 



Glory of the Spruces. {Abies Alba Aurea.) 

 — Possesses unique beauty of more than or- 

 dinary character. In size and habit, it re- 

 sembles the common American, from which 

 it is a chance seedling ; leaves long, curved, 

 of a soft, glaucous green color, and very 

 thickly set upon the branches. A rich 

 golden yellow distinctly marks and adorns 

 the tips of the leaves upon the upper side of 

 each shoot. Nor is this color faint and un- 

 decided, but reliable, pronounced and strik- 



