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13 



Vol. V. 



82.00 a Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, AUGUST 15, 1897. 



Single Copy 

 10 Cents. 



INo. 119. 



HEDGE OF BERBERIS THTTNBERGII. 





Trees and Shrubs. 



fl HEDGE OF BERBERIS THUNBBRG1I. 



The old time hedges of arbor-vitas are, in 

 the west at least, slowly passing away. 

 The necessary care to keep them clipped 

 and in form, the breakage during winter 

 by the heavy wet snows, the liability to 

 damage by dogs or other animals, and 

 the impossibility of fully restoring them, 

 have deterred those starting new planta- 

 tions from employing them. 



Other aspirants for the position have 

 sprung up, and none are more worthy of 

 selection than this Japanese barberry, 

 especially where a low hedge is desired, 

 either as a dividing line between city 

 lawns or bordering a road on suburban 

 grounds. Its growth is close and com- 

 pact, yet devoid of that artificial effect a 

 clipped hedge produces. While its decidu- 

 ous nature robs it of its verdure during 

 the winter months, its vividly colored 

 fruit fully compensates for that deficiency. 



Early in the spring it sends forth its 

 bright green leaves, carrying them in 

 good form all summer and then coloring 

 them magnificently in the fall. It requires 

 but very little trimming. After it is once 

 established, a slight clipping here and 



there, where some shoots are too ram 

 pant, suffices. It is, however, capable of 

 being clipped into almost as compact a 

 form as the arbor-vitae if desired. The 

 hedge, illustrated is one planted three 

 years ago on the grounds of Mr. A.Tracy 

 Lay. Highland Park, 111. One view is 

 from the porch looking down on the 

 hedge, the other shows the hedge at a 

 point where the drives join the public- 

 street. 



NOTES ON TREES AND SHRUBS OF THE 

 SEASON. 



The Aralia spinosa is known to most 

 all planters and is much appreciated for 

 its immense panicles of greenish white 

 flowers, which are in perfection during 

 the latter part of August. There is in 

 cultivation a closely allied tree, Ditnor- 

 phanthus Mandshuricus, which closely 

 resembles the aralia, but which is in 

 flower always a weekormore in advance 

 of the other. Late botanies make of this 

 a true aralia. The prickly stem of these 

 small trees have no doubt suggested the 

 names "Hercules' club" and "Devil's 

 Walking Stick," both of which are com- 

 mon ones for it in this city. 



Viburnum Sieboldianum, which now 

 displays its ripe fruit, is a large shrub, 

 very ornamental at all times. Just now 



the clusters of fruit display two colors, 

 pink and black. The latter is the final 

 color. First green, then pink and lastly 

 black, is how the rotation is fixed. When 

 trimmed to one stem when small it grows 

 to be quite a small tree in time. 



Rhus Osbecki, or semi-alata as it is 

 now called, has been mentioned be- 

 fore but will bear referring to again. 

 Its large heads of white flowers are 

 in their best display now. And all that 

 have a collection of trees and shrubs 

 know what a dearth of flowers there is 

 at this season. This is from China and 

 singularly, it differs from our native sorts 

 in not having beautiful foliage in the fall. 

 But its midsummer flowers make up for it. 

 Recently I called attention to the fact 

 that cutting down some shrubs in spring 

 " made them flower the stronger at this 

 season of the year. I observed another 

 point in connection with the subject 

 today. Some plants of Vitex agnus- 

 castus which were cut down are not in 

 bloom yet, while old plants, unpruned in 

 spring, are now in full flower. And this 

 leads me to another subject which many 

 gardeners know of, but perhaps not all. 

 If the tops of growing shoots of Hydran- 

 gea paniculata grandiOora be pinched off 

 about the close of June it causes a later 

 crop of flowers than if untouched, some- 



