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quite unlike any other one. It is to be 

 hoped some quick way to propagate it 

 will soon be discovered. 



Those who live where the Paulownia 

 imperialis is not hardy, are worthy of 

 sympathy. At the present time several 

 large trees of it in bloom here are a mag- 

 nificent sight. The blue, trumped-shaped 

 flowers are in immense panicles, and their 

 odor is delicious. I never saw the trees 

 so floriferous as they are this year. So 

 many who live north of Philadelphia 

 complain that this tree winter kills with 

 them. Well, it does the same here for the 

 first year or two of its seedling life, but 

 not afterwards. Let me recommend to 

 Gardening readers to protect their young 

 trees of it for a winter or two, until some 

 hard wood is secured. I am sure thev 

 would have a better chance with it then. 

 I have nevei known a tree of it to be in- 

 jured after it had passed its second or 

 third year. 



What beautiful and valuable shrubs are 

 the late blooming lilacs, S.Josiksea and S. 

 Emodi! These are different species from 

 the old garden lilac. Josik&a is the Hun- 

 garian lilac; Emodi is from the Hima- 

 layas. Both are flowering now, after all 

 the common ones have disappeared. 

 Josikxa is of a dark purplish lilac. Emodi 

 is pink in the bud and almost white when 

 expanded. Then both have handsome 

 foliage. Emodi, when ofvigorous growth, 

 has leaves reminding me of vigorous ones 

 of the bird cherry, Cerasus Padus. I 

 think both of great value as flowering 

 shrubs. And while mentioning lilacs I 

 might add that double ones of the com- 

 mon form are valuable because the flow- 

 ers are more lasting than single ones. I 

 noticed to day perfect heads onprramida- 



w ith light sandy loamy soil cannot be 

 found for it, provide it for it, gaining the 

 shade for the soil by mulching. Some- 

 times fine specimens may be found flour- 

 ishing in open clearings, but in such cases 

 the roots have gotten down some dis- 

 tance and its own branches shade the 



as fioridus, though good enough in its 

 way. Joseph Meehan. 



Philadelphia. 



BEGHTEL'S DOUBLE fLOWERING CRAB. 



This perfectly hardy double flowering 

 crab is now in bloom and might well be 



LILAC ALPHONSE LAVALLEE. 



called the rose-flower crab, as each blos- 

 som of the cluster so closely resembles a 

 miniature rose, both in form of flower 

 and color of petal, as to mislead even 

 those accustomed to growing plants. It 

 is a form of one of our wild crabs (Pyrvs 

 angiistitolia) and safely stood a tempera- 

 ture of twenty-five degrees below zero 

 last winter. 



It blooms while quite young, and 

 even small plants are handsome, but 

 when one sees a specimen, ten or more 

 feet in height, thickly crowded with its 

 miniature roses, perfuming the air for 

 quite a distance around, he is sure to be 

 captivated by it. This is certainly a tree 

 for the people. For a few winters after 

 planting, if there are young rabbits 

 around, it is well to wrap the trunks 

 with straw or gunny sacking or give any 

 protection that is effectual, for these 

 fleet-footed pests are very fond of the 

 young bark of this species. When. plant- 

 ing them, they should be well cut back, 

 as should all hard-wooded trees. 



LILAC RUBRA TRIANONIANA. 



lis and M. Lemoine, two good double 

 sorts, while not a single flowered one 

 could be found. 



Many persons do not succeed with 

 Kalmia latifolia because they plant it in 

 the full sun. It wants partial shade, 

 chiefly, I think, on account of the dislike 

 of its roots to hot soil. If a shady place 



ground to some extent. This season its 

 flowering is unusually profuse. 



The good old sweet shrub, Cahcanthus 

 fioridus, is getting scarce. For some 

 years past an inferior species, lievigatus, 

 has been widely disseminated for it, its 

 seeds having been distributed from Ten- 

 nessee. It is not nearlv as sweet scented 



THE CUT-LBflVED BIRCH. 



We have received the following letter 

 from Prof. Budd, of the Iowa State 

 College: 



"Yours in regard to history of cut- 

 leaved birch came when I was very busy 

 and this summer I have no assistant. 

 Indeed during the past twenty years mv 

 assistants have been promoted to full 

 professorships after one year's prepara- 

 tion The last three— Keffer, Hansen and 

 Schulte, are all in the employ of Secretary 

 Wilson at Washington. Hansen starts 

 soon for seed and plant gathering in the 

 valley- cf the Amur, Mongolia, and North 

 Central Asia. 



As to the cut-leaved birch, it is a sport 

 from Betula amurensis, on the grounds of 

 the Agricultural College at Petrovsky 

 Kasumomsky, near Moscow, Russia. We 



