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strong, robust one is wanted. It forms thick, " chunky " shoots, which cling 

 very tightly to what they touch. It bears large, green leaves, mostly on small 

 branchlets which stand out from the wall. It makes an excellent shelter for 

 birds in summer while the foliage is on. It is not very well known yet, but 

 when it is it will be much used. The last to be named is a native of our own 

 country, growing wild in the Southern States. It is the Decumaria Barbara, 

 by same called the American climbing hydrangea, because of its near botanical 

 relationship to it. It is of much finer growth than the preceding one The 

 leaves are small, thick and fleshy. When it gets fairly started its growth is rapid 

 and it soon gets to the top of a wall. It is a very neat climber. It bears white, 

 sweet-scented flowers in flat heads. These are some of the most comrnon of the 

 self-climbing vines ; and, as will be seen, there are some suitable for all purposes. 

 —Practical Farmer. 



Another Climbing" Plant -from Japan coming into marked favor is 

 Euonymus radicans. While the English ivy flourishes in places in and about 

 Boston, occasionally growing well over a house-wall or a ledge, it is not thoroughly 

 hardy. Even in Newport, where it seems to be well at home, it is badly winter- 

 killed at times. E. radicans, being evergreen and perfectly hardy, makes a good 

 substitute for the English ivy in certain respects, but, like its compatriot, the 

 Ampelopsis tricuspidata, it does not take kindly to every soil. It is also slow 

 in getting a good start, and does not clamber so high as the English ivy, but 

 once well started it grows rapidly in good soil. It is growing luxuriantly over a 

 corner turret of the fine Public Library in Maiden, and another conspicuous 

 example of the beautiful efl'ect it can produce is seen in Brookline, where it has 

 mantled a high rustic fence with an arch over a driveway. Altogether, E. 

 radicans has qualities that commend it for extensive use in places where a 

 climbing evergreen is desired. Its general introduction would do ir.uch to give 

 interest to the winter aspect of parks and house-grounds. — Garden and Forest. 



New Ornamentals.— J osiah Hoopes, of West Chester, Pa., mentions the 

 following among the most satisfactory of the newer shrubs, although not strictly 

 novelties : Exochorda grandiflora, Viburnum plicatum, Weigela Candida, Spiraea 

 callosa. Spiraea crispifolia, Rhodotypus kemoides, and the dwarf Japan maples. 

 The Exochorda, from the north of China, produces large white flowers in May, 

 but is difficult to propagate ; Viburnum plicatum is one of the finest of the 

 genus ; Weigela Candida is a fine, erect grower, becoming a large shrub, and it 

 produces a profusion of white flowers early in summer ; Spiraea crispifolia is a 

 very small, short shrub, about a foot high, with pink flowers, and blooming 

 through summer ; Rhodotypus has single white flowers late in spring, and 

 handsome foliage. 



