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• * GARDENING. 



Oct. is, 



Landscape Gardening. 



MY HOME AT TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 



Having experienced so much pleasure 

 studying the illustrations in Gardening, 

 which I have taken for the past three 

 years, and having had taken recently the 

 front view ot our house and grounds, I 

 thought perhaps some of your readers 

 might enjoy a view of the Clematis pan- 

 iculata in a "go-as-you-please" sort of a 

 wav, and send you a photograph of it. 

 This vine stands under the bay windosv 

 nearest the veranda, and the only train- 

 ing it has had is towards the left on the 

 trellis, one spray was led to the right and 

 then allowed to have its own way. This 

 branch to the right explored the inside ot 

 the bowed blinds, coming out to the sun 

 light at the top in time to bloom. 



The house fronts the south and the 

 shade trees on the street are maples. 

 Since this photograph was taken a hedge 

 of California privet has been planted in- 

 side the fence along the front, the whole 

 stretch being in a flickering shade. A 

 border with irregular front has also been 

 planted with shade loving plants. 



The group to the right of the gate con- 

 tains azaleas, rhododendrons, androme- 

 das, etc. To the left of the gate is a large 

 bed, 85 feet long and 6 feet wide, contain- 

 ing choice rhododendrons, azaleas, lilies, 

 phlox, oriental poppies, hypericums, etc., 

 ending with a vigorous Norway spruce. 



Extending beyond this for 75 feet is the 

 grape vine trellis ending at an old apple 

 tree on which are the white and purple 

 wistarias; under the tree is a summer 

 house covered with vines such as roses, 

 honeysuckles, clematis, etc. The chil- 

 dren's swing is just south of the summer 

 house. The vine on the corner of the 

 veranda and on the wall, in picture, is the 

 Ampelopsis Roylei. An old telegraph 

 pole about two feet away from the wall 

 is also covered with the same. It is an- 

 other case of "go-as-you-please" for this 

 vine found the pole without any help and 

 appropriated it. The plants along the 

 base of the wall are nasturtiums in vari- 

 ety. The rose on the corner of veranda 

 is the Crimson Rambler. The group in 

 front of this is made up of Japan maples, 

 Japan berberis and the dwarf evergreen 

 one. The last named is also under the 

 bow window in the front. 



Tarrytown, N. Y. H. C. Burrows. 



The lay of the land, the characterof the 

 house and its environment, and the in- 

 clination of the owners have a great deal 

 to do with its external decoration as re- 

 gards plants and vines, and only one who 

 has studied the subject right on the spot 

 can suggest intelligently what should be 

 done about it. Having never seen the prop- 

 erty and knowing nothing more about it 

 than is shown in the picture, pardon us 

 for making a few suggestions: we would 

 cover that fence from end to end with 

 Clematis paniculata, C. Flammula and 

 C. coccinea, planted on the inside, and 

 cut down to the ground every winter like 

 herbaceous plants. All or them like this 

 treatment and grow rapidly and bloom 

 full in summer. Just such a fence row as 

 we sugges (but with Clematis paniculata 

 only) runs along the public street as 

 yours is, in front of Mr James Farquhar's 

 garden at Roslindale near Boston, and 

 when we saw it a month ago, it was a 

 belt of fragrant glory. Then running 

 along by the eaves at the top of first and 

 second stories we would hang a light 

 iron rod, continuing it up the edge of the 

 slope of the roof to top of second story, 



and on it run wistaria vine. At the right 

 side corner from the floor of the veranda 

 to corner of gable top of second story we 

 would run another vine, may be akebia; 

 and up the middle pillar at left hand side 

 of house we would run some more vines, 

 say a Halleana honevsuckle. — Ed. 



fl GARDEN AT OCONOMOWOC. 



Having occasion to visit Oconorhowoe, 

 Wis., which is one of the most delightful 

 inland summer resorts I have yet seen, I 

 fortunately met Mr. H. H. Shufcldt, who 

 was the first to perceive the beauties 

 ot La Belle lake with its silvery water, its 

 well timbered rolling banks, and the ad- 

 vantages which have now made Ocono- 

 mowoc one of the most delightful spots 

 on earth. It is thirty years since Mr. 

 Shufeldt first went there and from that 

 day he has been head and front in the 

 development of the lake surroundings 

 and the city. 



Mr. Shufeldt has a property of 100 

 acres having a frontage on the lake a 

 mile long and with half a mile boundary 

 on the main road. There are fine native 

 trees as oaks, ashes, hickories, maples, 

 basswood, hackberry. 



The grounds are rolling and the highest 

 point above the lake is 60 feet. There is 

 a view on one of the lawns fully half a 

 mile on which are grouped such trees and 

 shrubs as thrive well in the neighborhood. 

 Mr. Shufeldt has been digging away at 

 horticulture ever since he set foot on 

 "Anchorage," for that is the name of his 

 place, and hundreds of varieties of fruits, 

 shrubs, trees and other plants have been 

 tried in that time. Those that were 

 found worthy were adopted, those found 

 wanting destroyed. The severe cold in 

 winter is very trying to vegetation, as 

 the thermometer frequently goes 30° be- 

 low zero and there is always a spell of 

 two to three months of very low temper- 

 ature. 



Some specimen trees growing there are 

 worthy of separate mention, there is a 

 white elm that was planted in 1878, then 

 two inches thick at the ground line, and 

 to-day it is twenty inches in diameter and 

 fifty feet high. A large group of Rosa 

 rugosa loaded with its brilliant colored 

 heps is the best I have ever seen; all who 

 have a sunny spot should plant Rosa 

 rugosa; it is frost proof, insect proof, mil- 

 dew proof, and always beautiful. 



Delphiniums have stalks as thick as 

 broom sticks, and bear flower spikes be- 

 tweentwoand three feet long. Spiraea 

 palmata has leaves as big as those of the 

 grape vine. Two sugar maples over a 

 century old have spread of branches over 

 40 feet; the tops were cut off many years 

 ago. Mr. Shufeldt placed over the cut a 

 tin roof, which is worthy of note as it 

 prevents the possibility of water lodging 

 in the centre. And there are several 

 plants of Syringa Japonica 12 or more 

 feet high. 



A cold grapery 50 feet long containing 

 twelve vines carrying an immense crop 

 Mr. Shufeldt says is one of the most sat- 

 isfactory features on the whole property. 

 Our late friend Mr. Peter Henderson was 

 the champion of the cold grapery. 



There is also a conventional water gar- 

 den composed of half hogsheads in which 

 are Nymphwa Zanzibarensis, dentata, 

 Devoniensis and chromatella, the centre 

 being formed of nelumbium and they all 

 stand above the ground level, the tubs be- 

 ing buried in rockwork. The lilies flower 

 freely. Does the rockwork retain the 

 heat? Is this a "wrinkle?" 



The following list of trees, shrubs and 

 herbaceous perennials I found perfectly 



hardy and in good condition at the 

 "Anchorage." 



Trees. — Ash, alder, basswood, birch, 

 butternut, catalpa, cherry, white and 

 Eoglish elms, hackberry, hickory, iron- 

 wood, box elder, sugar, soft, Weir's and 

 Norway maples; mountain ash, many- 

 oaks, poplars and willows. 



Deciduous Shrubs. — Althaeas, Chinese 

 aralia, common and purple barberry, 

 mahonia, cercidiphyllum.clethra, Deutzia 

 gracilis and D. crenata and vars., elders, 

 El&agnus longipes, exochorda, euony- 

 mus, five kinds including Yeddoensis, 

 bush honeysuckles, Hydrangea panicu- 

 lata and its varieties, kerria, Viburnum 

 plicatum, Sieboldii, and eight other spe- 

 cies [V. plicatum is complained of as not 

 being satisfactory in the west. — Ed ], 

 weigelias. 



Evergreens. — Austrian and Scotch 

 pines, Norway balsam, and hemlock 

 spruces; American arbor vitaes, red cedar. 

 A neighbor of Mr. Schufeldt's has a lovely- 

 bed of the Colorado blue spruce. 



Hardy Perennials at Oconomowoc. 

 — Bocconias, campanulas, delphiniums, 

 funkias, heleniums, sunflowers, hemero- 

 callis, everlasting peas, lilies, lychnis, 

 patonies, pyrethrum, spiraeas, Yucca fila- 

 meniosa, and eulalia and erianthus 

 grasses. John Thorpe. 



Chicago. 



FINE PLANTS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



l'ucca aloifolia and its variegated form 

 are perfectly hardy here, and I know one 

 fine specimen growing on sandy soil at a 

 point 600 feet above the sea level. On 

 our lower coast the Oonshiu orange is 

 still living, and in all our coast country 

 we have giant gardenias. At Greenville, 

 in Pitt Co. I saw recently a camphor 

 tree that was planted over ten years ago, 

 and cut down badly by the cold of 1894, 

 but still living, and in the same town the 

 collection of camellias is worth a journey- 

 to see. In Columbus I measured the 

 largest camellia I have ever seen. The 

 trunk just above the ground measured 49 

 inches in circumference, and the thousands 

 of buds, then in December just getting 

 ready for the annual bloom were so 

 numerous that we gave up in despair the 

 effort to estimate their number. In the 

 same lawn, and on the opposite side of 

 the entrance walk was a Portugal laurel 

 about as large as the camellia and both 

 the plants were probably the most perfect 

 specimens in this country. On Smith's 

 Island, the northern limit of Sabal Pal- 

 metto in this state I have cut leaves that 

 measured five feet by seven with a six 

 foot petiole, growing in the native forest, 

 while all around there towered specimens 

 with stems fully 25 feet to the leaves. 

 I find great difficulty here with Chinese 

 azaleas in our hard clay soil, not that 

 they do not winter well enough till the 

 hot summers weaken them. In the sandy 

 land of our coast region they grow to 

 great size, and I am preparing to give 

 them special beds, as for rhododendrons 

 in a new garden I am laying out. Pittos- 

 porum Tobira is a puzzle to me. It stands 

 our ordinary winters without a scorched 

 leaf, and yet in 1893 it was entirely killed, 

 while an oleander near by it is still living 

 though at that time cut to the ground. 

 As oleanders need careful protection here 

 in any winter, the survival of this plant 

 when the pittosporum that 1 never 

 thought of protecting, died, I can hardly 

 understand. We find that Erythrina 

 Crista-Galli winters finely under a mound 

 of sawdust, and one of the finest plants 

 we have ever seen has been thus kept on a 

 Raleigh lawn for the last twelve years, 

 and its bloom is a sight worth seeing. In 



