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GARDENING. 



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LONICERA MORROW II. 



Crimson Rambler is now in all its glory. 

 An arch of it iu the garden is making a 

 grand show and what a beautiful rose it 

 is! It proves quite hardy with no pro- 

 tection with us and is a strong vigorous 

 grower, sending up shoots nine to twelve 

 feet high. It is easily propagated in the 

 fall and a stock can soon be gotten up in 

 this way. They can be wintered over in 

 a frame. 



The standard roses have also done well 

 and flowered freely. The hybrid teas are 

 giving quite a few flowers but quite a 

 number of them were winter killed. 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria and Duchess 

 of Albany seem to be perfectly hardy and 

 flower very freely. David Fraser. 



Mahwah, N.J. 



fl NEGLECTED ROSE. 



Philadelphians of a quarter of a century 

 ago who knew anything of roses were 

 well acquainted with the white micro- 

 pbylla. And, indeed, it has not lost fame 

 yet, being often inquired for, and butthat 

 florists have neglected it for newer, but 

 not always better, kinds, there would be 

 a good demand for it to-day. 



Rosa micropbylla exists in single pink 

 and single white sorts and in a double 

 white one, and it is of the latter kind I 

 wish to write. It was the favorite rose 

 for cemetery purposes, and being of a half 

 climbing nature, it was often used for 

 training about the enclosure of cemetery 

 lots, as well as for planting as single spec- 

 imens. The bright shining green leaves 

 are much like Wichuraiana in size and 

 color. As in most all cases of roses of a 

 climbing nature, the flowers are from the 

 wood of the previous season, a fact to be 

 remembered when pruning. 



This beautiful double white rose flowers 

 in this vicinity about the close of June, 

 [ater than most other sorts. It is a dis- 



tinct species, a native of China, and as 

 with most of those from that country, it 

 is perfectly hardy in this locality. 



While this lovely rose is not usually 

 classed as a climber, it can very well be 

 used as one It makes vigorous shoots, 

 which increase its height many feet each 

 year, so that it does not take a great 

 while for it to reach the top of a porch or 

 other structure such as roses are usually 

 planted to. When the white buds are 

 about expanding, well set off by the shin- 

 ing green foliage, it is exceedingly pretty. 



Philadelphia. Jos. Meehan. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



PRUNING LflTB BLOOMING SHRUBS. 



The excellent article on the pruning of 

 trees in a late number of Gardening leads 

 me to say a few words on the pruning of 

 late blooming shrubs. 



The usual directions given forthe proper 

 pruning of shrubs are to prune the spring 

 flowering ones as soon as their flowers 

 fade, and the late flowering ones in win- 

 ter. As a rule these directions are cor- 

 rect, but there are many shrubs which 

 flower at midsummer, and these puzzle 

 many a one as to which class they belong 

 to. Summer spiraeas may be mentioned 

 as representing the class referred to. As 

 a rule these are treated as belonging to 

 the spring flowering class, and are not 

 pruned in the winter. My experience 

 leads me to say with certainty that they 

 may be placed in either class, at the pleas- 

 ure of the owner. When treated to a 

 winter pruning, the flowers are very 

 much finer than otherwise. Recently it 

 was my good fortune to see a row of 

 Spirxa callosa, large plants, which had 



been cut down to the ground last Feb- 

 ruary. Strong shoots had pushed up to 

 about four feet high, each one terminat- 

 ing in an immense flat head of its pink 

 flowers. The display was a grand one. 

 Had these been treated as spring bloom- 

 ing shrubs are, viz., a pruning after flow- 

 ering last July, there would have been 

 more heads of flowers, but each head 

 would have been of much smaller size. 

 Other spiraeas of the same character which 

 occur to me as I write are Iiumahla, Bil- 

 lardi, paniculata and Regeliana. In my 

 own case I would have no hesitation in 

 cutting these and all similar shrubs closely 

 back, assured that my reward would be 

 in larger heads of flowers. 



P.esides spira-as, the following shrubs 

 are in the class indicated: Budleia inter- 

 media; Verbena Shrub, caryopteris; Sweet 

 Pepper bush, clethra; Colutea arhores- 

 cens, althaeas, hydrangeas, hyperieums, 

 potentillas and Chaste Shrub, Vitex 

 agnus-castus, and I am not sure but that 

 the handsome Viburnum nudum would 

 behave well under this plan. 



Another advantage besides that of 

 large flowers to these well cut back bushes 

 is this: If as soon as the first flowers fade 

 the head be cut off, other heads, though 

 smaller than the first, will appear, com- 

 ing from lower down the stem; and in 

 this way, on some spiraeas flowers are to 

 be had till summer closes. 



Philadelphia. Joseph Meehan. 



LONIGERfl MORROWII. 



Among the bush honeysuckles, which 

 almost rival the lilacs in effectiveness as 

 early bloomers and are not excelled in 

 beauty when in fruit, T.onicera Morrowii, 

 the subject of ourillustration.isone of the 

 most desirable on account of its graceful 

 habit and symmetrical form. The flowers 

 are blush white and very abundant. 



