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GARDENING. 



Aug. /, 



center. Here we have two entirely oppo- 

 site forms of infloresence as the parents 

 of this new variety and as might be 

 expected the result produces a flower 

 intermediate in form, and very pleasing 

 in appearance. Duchess of Albany is a 

 beautiful sort pink, deepest down the cen- 

 ter of the petals, which are four or five in 

 number. It forms a flower about one 

 and one-fourth inches long and one and 

 three-fourths broad at the top, campanu- 

 late and closely resembling a partly 

 opened flower of C.Jackmanni. Countess 

 of Onslow is slightly larger, composed of 

 five or six petals, and of a color that I 

 would describe as a deep pink carmine in 

 the center. It has the same form as the 

 other, but is slightly larger. The foliage 

 partakes of the character of C. coccinea, 

 a feature strongly in its favor as indica- 

 tive of the same immunity from disease. 

 Both of the plants I obtained from Messrs. 

 Jackman & Sons have grown about eight 

 feet, and are blooming very freely. They 

 are an entire departure from anything we 

 have had before and I am sure that they 

 will become quite popular when better 

 known. W. C. Egan. 



LAWN AND GARDEN NOTES. 



It is a common occurrence that those 

 who plant trees of red-colored foliage are 

 disappointed at first that the color is not 

 so bright as expected. It is not well- 

 known that trees and shrubs of this class 

 rarely take on their true red color until 

 the second or even the third year after 

 planting. I recently saw a striking illus- 

 tration of this. Two lots of the Colorado 

 blue spruce, Picea pungens, were near 

 each other. One lot was planted two 

 years ago, the other three. Though all 

 had been grafted with cions from the 

 same trees.no one would have thought it, 

 so much deeper blue were the lot that 

 were first grafted. 



There is a shrubby lespedeza in flower 

 now, having much the same flowers as 

 the Desmodium pcnduliflorum of gardens, 

 which is herbaceous. There is much con- 

 fusion of names in the case of theseshrubs. 

 Those who have the plants can set them- 

 selves right by watching the seed pods. 

 Lespedezas are one-seeded, while desmo- 

 diums have several seeds in the one pod. 

 Desmodium pendulitiorum is a lespedeza of 

 some kind. I will watch the shrubby 

 Lespedeza bicolor this season, to see if it 

 has been correctly classed. 



How very useful are the species of 

 liignonias at this season. The common 

 trumpet vine is met with in two colors, 

 red and scarlet. The latter is the one 

 catalogued as B. Thvnbergii. B. grandi- 

 Aora is the Chinese form. This has flow- 

 ers of yellowish red, larger and with 

 shorter flower tube than the others; all 

 flower now. The grandiflora has its 

 flowers much more in a panicle than the 

 others, which have theirs in clusters. 

 Treated as half shrubs or as standards, 

 shapes attained by the aid of stakes, they 

 greatly beautify the lawn at this season. 



The Horenia dulcis, which is in bloom 

 now, is from Japan and is still uncommon 

 in cultivation. The tree itself has a 

 slight look of the mulberry. The flowers 

 are white, in flatfish heads. Clusters of 

 berry-like fruit succeed them. 



I think Clematis paniculata outranks 

 everything in its way, but we cannot do 

 without the old sweet-scented C. flam- 

 mula, if for no other reason than that it 

 flowers in early July, many weeks ahead 

 of C. paniculata. 



After giving us its lovely headsof white 

 Hi i wets, among the earliest of all the 



shrubs of spring. Viburnum Lantana is 

 now adorned with clusters of attractive 

 looking berries. The three stages of color 

 are seen on the same cluster, green, black 

 and red. Besides its other merits it is 

 just the shrub to flourish in limestone 

 soil, where it does its best. 



Koelreuteria paniculata is now display- 

 ing its huge panicles of yellow flowers. 

 This, too, is a valuable midsummer 

 bloomer. An English gardening paper 

 recently said of it that it could be readily 

 propagated from root cuttings. It seeds 

 here so freely, and the seeds grow so 

 readily, that there is no need to propa- 

 gate from roots. 



The dwarf horse chestnut, sEsculus 

 parvitfora, is just going out of flower. It 

 is an invaluable shrub for this season of 

 the year. Set out as a single specimen, it 

 gives the most pleasing effect. Three 

 years ago, when visiting the south of 

 England, I saw ,-Esculus Californica flow- 

 ering in July. This would be a good 

 companion to A. parvitiora in localities 

 where it would prove hardy. These two 

 are often catalogued as pavias, but the 

 latest authorities make them true horse 

 chestnuts. 



Considerable inquiry has been made 

 of late for that good old white, Rosa 

 microphylla. It has luxuriant, shining 

 foliage, is of a half climbing nature, 

 very hardy and bears clusters of lovely 

 white flowers. And quite a good point is 

 that its flowers are not early, but come 

 after most of the roses are over, sbout 



July 5, and in this way escape the dreaded 

 rose bug. 



A gardener here told me that lime water 

 mixed with tobacco water kills all kinds 

 of insects on plants which he syringes 

 with it. The lime, after being well mixed, 

 is allowed to settle, when the clear 

 water is used. A half bushel of lime 

 to a barrel of water and a bucketful 

 of tobacco water makes the mixture. Mr. 

 William Saunders, of Washington, says 

 lime and sulphur whitewashed on trees in 

 winter will kill San Jose and every other 

 kind of scale. Joseph Meehan. 



Philadelphia. 



BEGHTEL'S DOUBLE FLOWERING GRAB. 



We have been very much impressed 

 with the merits of Bechtel's crab as an 

 ornamental tree of medium size. As a 

 single specimen it develops into a very 

 shapely tree of interesting form. Its dis- 

 position to bloom when quite young is 

 remarkable. The blooms from which the 

 accompanying illustration was taken 

 were from a plant not two and a half 

 feet high and the second year from a root 

 graft. This little tree was literally cov- 

 ered with blooms, giving the appearance 

 of a mass of medium sized roses of a pleas- 

 ing blush color, and to carry the simile 

 farther, the fragrance is singularly tea 

 rose like. Mr. W. C. Egan gave an excel- 

 lent description and the history of this 

 crabapple in a recent number of Garden- 

 ing. Ernest F. Coe. 



BECHTELS FLOWERING CRAB 



