MONTEVIDEO EXPERIMENT STATION. I'JT 



HAXCHURIAN MAPLES. 



The dwarf maple (Acer rrinuala),sent out by Prof. Budd, maintains 

 its reconl as one of the hardiest and best of shrubs. 



HO.\i;VSlCKLES. 



I have nothing' but praise for Lonicera Tartarica, and its variety 

 Lonicera Tartarica spleudens. Thej' should be in every farmer's 

 dooryard and in the border of every village lawn. Our native 

 honeysuckle, Lonicera glauca, is a shrub that we prize greatly. It 

 is even finer in cultivation than when growing in its native wilds. 

 It is idle to plant on these Western prairies anj' of the climbing 

 honeysuckles advertised in the catalogues of the Eastern nurseries. 

 They are all tender. Lonicera media as sent out by Prof. Budd will 

 climb and is hardy. Lonicera AH>erti is a hardy narrow-leaved 

 honeysuckle that needs some support. 



PLUMS AXI) CHERRIES. 



One of the earliest flowering shrubs is a cherry sent out by Prof. 

 Budd under the name of Prunus Maacii. Prunus padus from Rus- 

 sia resembles somewhat our native choke-cherry but has graceful 

 drooping branches. It produced a full crop of fruit this year. 

 Prunus pumila is an interesting flowering shrub of value from an 

 ornamental point of view. The Russian plums, 19 Orel and 20 Orel, 

 and the Russian cherry, Bessarabian, have ornamental value. The 

 leaves of the Bessarabian remain on the tree at the present writing. 

 The Ostheim and Suda hardy cherries are doing well but have not 

 produced much fruit. The little morellos have inostlj^ succumbed 

 to the drought. 



SPIRAEAS. 



The early flowering spiraeas are doing well with us. We espec- 

 ially like Van Houttii's spiraea, which is said to be a form of the 

 Siberian spiraea trilobata. It is not difficult to succeed with many 

 other species of spiraea, provided you have a water supply. 



XI.NE-HARK. 



The native nine-bark, which was called by botanists a few years 

 ago, Spiraea opulifolia, has become by the recjuirements of im- 

 proved nomenclature successively Niellia opulifolia, Physocarpus 

 opulifoliua, and is now re-christened Opulaster opulifolius. It 

 would have to be endowed with superhuman intelligence to know 

 its own name. It is nevertheless a tine shrub and one that ought to 

 be found in every well regulated garden. 



BUCKTHORN. 



We planted on one of the driest of our bluCfs a few years ago a few 

 specimen.^ of Rhamnus cathartica. It has survived. A neighbor 

 has planted a quantity' of it for a hedge. It appears to be doing well 

 and may be safely planted anywhere on the prairies. 



