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GARDENING. 



Nov. /, 



dogwoods along the pool completes the 

 picture. 



With the exception of the maple, here is 

 a grouping of native trees and shrubs 

 and those the most common. Although 

 the contrastsare marked, all unite quietly 

 with each other, no one form or color 

 making itself individually conspicuous. 

 The glare of unusual plants is not felt, 

 and all unite naturally into one harmoni- 

 ous whole. While the picture is entirely 

 artificial, so far as the planting is con- 

 cerned, the superiority of our common 

 native trees and shrubs fornatural effects 

 could not be more plainly exhibited. 



A. Phelps Wyman. 



Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. 



VflRIEOflTED JAPANESE VITIS. 



In the spring I asked information about 

 the climber of which I enclose some sprays, 

 but I could only describe it which is less 

 satisfactory than the sight of the eye. It 

 grows about 20 ft. and is very luxuriant, 

 coming into leaf not later than the ordi- 

 nary Virginia Creeper, and remaining 

 green and fresh and lovely with its profu- 

 sion of berries for several weeks later. I 

 bought it about nine years ago for a vari- 

 egated Virginia Creeper. A. D. P. 



Sehenectady, N. Y. 



The specimens proved the vine to be 

 what the letter, which came before them, 

 led us to think they were, viz . the varie- 

 gated leaved Japanese vitis, Vitis hetero- 

 phylla variegata. It is a beautiful vine 

 at all seasons of the year. The variega- 

 tion did not appear on the shoots received 

 and they may have been taken from a 

 green leaved form. The most of those in 

 cultivation have leaves beautilullv varie- 

 gated, and this variegation is more pro- 

 nounced in early summer than it is later 

 in the season. But towards fall there are 

 numerous clusters of berries which change 

 from green to black and from black to a 

 lovelv China blue, and it is then at its 

 prettiest stage. 



It is sometimes catalogued as Turquoise- 

 berried vine, but is better known as varie- 

 gated Japanese grape. It is not in the 

 same class as the Virginia Creeper, which 

 is an ampelopsis, though it is true that 

 botanists, many of them, class ampelop- 

 sis, cissus and vitis all under the head of 

 vitis. 



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