Vol. V. 



ri.OO a Year. 

 '24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER i, 1896. 



Single Copy 

 10 Cents. 



No. 100. 



THE CHINESE GOLDEN LARCH (l^eudolarix Kampferi) AT DOSORIS. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



THE CHINESE GOLDEN LflRGtt. 



(Pscudolarix Kccmpferi.) 



This is a beautiful Chinese coniferous 

 tree nearly allied to the larches, and it is 

 hardy and happy in our gardens. Our 

 illustration shows one of two fine plants 

 of it at Dosoris, but unfortunately be- 

 cause of their surroundings we were una- 

 ble to get a good and untrammeled pho- 

 tograph of either. The largest specimen 

 we know of is on the old Parsons place 

 at Flushing, Long Island; the Dosoris 

 trees come next, then a handsome speci- 

 men in the beautiful grounds of Mr. H. 

 H. Hunnewell near Boston. The trees 

 are deciduous, low branching, wide 



spreading and full, and the branchlets are 

 dense fleecy wreaths of soft, green leaves, 

 indeed the diameter of spread of branches 

 is much greater than the height of the 

 tree. It is called larch, because of the 

 resemblance of the bunches of leaves to 

 those of the larch, and golden because 

 these leaves in the process of nearing 

 decay in late summer assume a yellowish 

 look, but they are far more beautiful in 

 their full freshness of green. They bear 

 cones and ripen seed freely at Glen Cove, 

 and the seed is good and germinates 

 readily. 



While it is not a tree we would recom- 

 mend in a small collection of ornamental 

 trees, it is one that every medium sized 

 and pretentious garden should have be- 

 cause of its distinctive beauty. Always 

 grow it isolated a little from other trees, 

 so as to show it off to better advantage. 



AUTUMN-TINTED FOLIAGE. 



The coloring of the foliage of trees and 

 shrubs has not been as fine this year as 

 in some former seasons, so much rain, no 

 doubt, had something to do with this. 

 Japan maples, however, are better than 

 ever, especially the polymorphum and 

 palmatum kinds. But, you ought to see 

 our snowy sea elder ( Baccharis halimifo- 

 lia), its snowy, fluffy tailed seeds are very 

 striking. 



Ornamental berry-bearing shrubs 

 are still very beautiful. The arms of the 

 Chinese matrimony vine are loaded with 

 its coral fruit; the American calycarpa is 

 lull of glossy purple berries, the high-bush 

 cranberry ( Viburnum Opulus) is loaded 

 with polished fruit, and the vivid scarlet 

 berries of the Winterberry bushes ( Prinos 

 rerticillata and P. laevigata) are strik 

 ingly beautiful Several barberries, such as 



