48 Ornamental Shrubs. 



of the Southern and Southwestern States. With care 

 and slight winter protection it is found to do well in 

 the Mississippi valley as far north as Cincinnati, and 

 presumably is adapted to a considerable southern range 

 throughout the middle Southern States. It has the 

 feathery foliage of its class, with flowers of golden-yellow 

 and most deliciously fragrant. These appear in early 

 spring in great abundance, and continue through the en- 

 tire summer and well into the autumn. Cases are 

 reported where trees from twelve to fifteen feet high carry 

 heads as many or more feet in diameter, and that, too, 

 when from but six to ten years old. 



ACER Japanese Maples. 



THE Japanese are a patient people. However 

 others may make haste, they are content to wait 

 when they have an object in view which they 

 deem worth their while. Their nurserymen, especially, 

 are given to processes that an American grower of plants 

 would scorn to adopt, however much he might desire pos- 

 sible results. In proof of this it is necessary only to note 

 how largely the foreigners are given to the art of dwarfing 

 plants and trees and growing them into fantastic shapes. 

 The beautiful little maples, and many others which appear 

 in this country from time to time, are largely the outcome 

 of long-continued artificial conditions. At a meeting of 

 the Horticultural Congress held in Chicago in 1893, Mr. 

 Henry Izawa, gardener of the Japanese Commission to the 

 Columbian Exposition, read a paper by request, illus- 

 trating this phase of Japanese work ; and as it throws 



