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GARDENING. 



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SUB-TROPICAL EFFECT IN A NORTHERN GARDEN. 



trees. The bark absorbed the oil, pre- 

 venting the circulation of the sap and 

 killing the trees. This is the probable 

 explanation. 



Crude coal oil has killed man}* a tree 

 and plant. Diluted it is all right, and it 

 enters in some shape into many com- 

 pounds Jor destroying insects. 



Next season should insects visit other 

 trees, try spraying with some of the 

 arsenical compounds. J. M. 



THE JUNE BERRY. 



The beauty of our woods in early spring 

 when buds are bursting and flowers 

 blooming, enchants us all, and especially 

 strangers to the country, who happen to 

 be there when the picture is to be seen. 

 Very much of the pleasing display we owe 

 to the amelanchier, which is commonly 

 called June Berry, Service Berry, and 

 Snowy Mespilus. 



The exquisitely beautiful flowers, 

 when set off by the bursting leaf buds, 

 present a picture but few trees or shrubs 

 can equal. Our eastern species differs 

 from the western one. It grows to be a 

 small tree, when grown to one stem, and 

 to fifteen feet or more in height when in 

 bush shape. In its wild state in woods 

 and thickets.it can often be found twenty- 

 five feet high. The blossoms are snow 

 white, produced in drooping racemes 

 and generally in the greatest abundance. 

 When grown singly, as a large bush on 

 a lawn, it makes a beautiful display when 

 in bloom. 



Following the flowers are the berries, 

 which very soon attain full size, which is 

 about the size of currants, and which 

 ripen in June. They are dark red in color 

 and hang in small clusters, as currants 

 do. They are very good eating, either as 

 they are gathered or with the addition of 

 cream and sugar. 



Ibis species is the Amelanchier canaden- 

 sis. The western folks have a dwarf one, 

 A. ahiiclia, which they are growing for 

 its fruit and well it deserves to be. It is 



a surprise to many who know but the one 

 species to find there is another, and such 

 a different one. The dwarf one can be 

 planted where currants can, as it will 

 occupy no more room. It got fairly well 

 distributed some years ago by one who 

 advertised it as the blueberry. Now the 

 blueberry is a vaccinium, while our June 

 berry belongs to the order rosacea?, in 

 which are hawthorns, almonds, cherries, 

 etc. Still he distributed a very good 

 thing, if not a blueberry. 



About Philadelphia, the native sort has 

 been transplanted to many gardens, 

 where it is much valued, both for its 

 flowers and its fruit. 



Philadelphia. Joseph Meehan. 



HYDRANGEA FflNIGULftTfl. 



Most every one knows and admires the 

 now common Hydrangea paniculata 

 grandiflora with its large heads of white 

 flowers, changing to pink as they grow 

 old. The habit of this plant is that when 

 the blooms are all open, they are so heavy 

 they bend down and give the bush a 

 weeping form. In the "single flowered" 

 Hydrangea paniculata the bloom heads 

 are upright, forming a long tapering 

 spike of white flowers which remain up- 

 right and last in bloom longer than the 

 variety grandiSora, and is its superior as 

 a specimen shru^ on the lawn. It is as 

 easily propagated and an elegant shrub 

 which when better known will be more 

 extensively planted. J. T. T. 



Davenport, la. 



The Flower Garden. 



FRUIT OF THE flKEBlfl QUINflTfl. 



This useful Japanese twiner is enjoying 

 the popularity it justly deserves, and is 

 now grown b ymauy While the matured 

 vines flower quite freely in all parts of the 

 country, one bearing fruit is seldom seen. 



Age and conditions seem to have no bear- 

 ing upon the question, it apparently 

 depending more upon the individual 

 characteristics of the plant. Here and 

 there some one plant is found that fruits, 

 and layered plants from these are certain 

 to produce fruiting vines. It is said that 

 these can all be traced to one old vine on 

 Long Island, in which section they are 

 not uncommon. 



The illustration here given is from a 

 photograph furnished by Mr. H. Hicks, 

 of Westbury, L. I. 



There are two vines near Chicago that 

 bear fruit, both being planted in rather 

 exposed situations and in a harsher 

 climate than their eastern parents, pros- 

 ing that to a limited extent climatic con 

 ditions have no bearing upon the subject. 

 The beauty and utility of this vine is well 

 shown in the issue of Gardening of Sep- 

 tember 1, 1895. 



SUB-TROPICAL EFFECTS. 



We of the north need not be without 

 the charming effects produced by the ram- 

 pant foliage of the more southern zones. 

 There are some trees and shrubs hardy 

 with protection and some without, that 

 reinforced by easily grown annuals, read- 

 ily produce an abundance of leafage 

 diversified in form and withal sub-tropical 

 in effect. 



In the group here illustrated the Ailan 

 tus glandulosa and the catalpas are cut 

 back each year, while the Paulonnia 

 iwperialis is wrapped in straw each win- 

 der as far up as I desire to save it. Be- 

 yond the wrapping it ireezes. Vigorous 

 yearly shoots will grow fully ten feet, 

 producing immense heart-shaped leaves. 

 With the exception of the rhododendron, 

 which is housed in winter, all the other 

 shrubs and trees are hardy. 



The material mainly used, beginning at 

 the right is Samhucus nigra var. aurea, 

 which is headed in quite severely each 

 spring to make it more dense; then comes 

 the African castor bean plant Ricinus 



