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MONTEVIDEO TRIAL STATION. 



LVCURGUS R. MOVER, SUPT. 



A nursery at Pittsburgh that prides itself on the botanical accu- 

 racy of its catalogue sends out the common Tartarian honeysuckle 

 as Lonicera Xylosteum. The same nursery supplied a common 

 rhubarb, such as we all have in our gardens, in place of the Rheum 

 officinale that we ordered. We hardly expected that all the plants 

 described as hardy at Pittsburgh would prove to be hardy at Mon- 

 tevideo. Several of these Pittsburgh plants failed to survive the 

 winter. Among the survivors is Helianthus laeterfolius, a very 

 showy native sunflower, and Chrysanthemum coccinium, usually 

 known as Pyrethrum roseum. Among the plants that failed to sur- 

 vive the winter are Coreopsis grandiflora, Coreopsis lanceolata, 

 Polygonum milliflorum, Viola cornuta and Shasta daisy. 



Polygonum Sieboldi, of Bailey's Cyclopedia, which is generally 

 known to the trade as Polygonum cuspidatum, has been in culti- 

 vation at Montevideo about a dozen years and is very effective for 

 producing a tropical looking mass. In good soil with plenty of 

 moisture it grows to a height of some five or six feet. It spreads 

 continually from the roots, but the surplus plants can be easily 

 hoed up. 



Another plant that is a little more than able to care for itself 

 is Lychnis alba, or the white campion. It produces white flowers 

 and blooms all summer. The flowers are about an inch in diameter, 

 opening in the evening and closing again the next morning about 

 nine o'clock if the day is bright. It seeds extensively, and the 

 surplus plants are something of a nuisance in the garden but can be 

 readily kept in bounds with the hoe. 



The snowballs are badly affected with aphis this spring, and they 

 have also attacked the high bush cranberry nearly as badly. The 

 insects cause the leaves to curl up so that it is difficult to reach them 

 with poison. 



A rose sent out by a nursery at Evergreen, Wis., as Rosa Caro- 

 lina turned out to be Rosa blanda. 



The spring was so cold and backward that hybrid roses suffered 

 greatly after being uncovered. Marshall P. Wilder and M. Dick- 

 son came through fairly well. M. G. Bruant was badly injured, 

 and General Jacqueminot and the Crimson Rambler were killed 

 back to the ground. 



The Trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) has proved 

 to be hardy with us and is becoming more showy and interesting 

 year by year. 



