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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



attract attention; but I will here say 

 that I consider the former the prettier 

 and more desirable of the two. 



The Eulalia usually flowers about 

 the middle of September, the flower 

 panicles being produced from the sum- 

 mit of the stalks. At first they are 

 brownish, and not at all showy ; but as 

 the flowers open the branches of the 

 panicles curve over gracefully in a one- 

 sided manner, thus presenting the ap- 

 pearance of ostrich plumes. If the 

 flowers are cut when fully developed, 

 and dried in a dry, airy situation, they 

 will be found to be very desirable for 

 decorative purposes during the winter 

 season. — Rural New Yorker. 



BEST HARDY SPIR^AS. 



BY PROF. J. L BUDD, IOWA AC!R. COLLEGE. 



As some of the best spiraeas found 

 on Eastern lawns are not hardy en the 

 prairies north of the 41st parallel, a 

 few notes on the finest '• ironclads " 

 may bo useful to propagators and 

 planters. 



Spircea opuUfolia : A lai'ge shrub 

 with bold outlines. Its light green, 

 lobed leaves give a pleasing expression 

 through the season, and its abundant 

 crop of white flowers in June is followed 

 by showy seed capsuks which in the 

 latter part of the season are shaded 

 with deep crimson. It ij easily prop- 

 agated by cuttings of the new wood. 



S. trilobata : This is a special 

 favorite in Michigan, Ohio, and the 

 Eastern States, and seems still more 

 beautiful on the prairie. Its branches 

 ?pread out laterally, with recurved tii)S 

 goaded in May with com[)act corymbs 

 of pure white flowers. Its glaiicous, 

 lobed leaves are pretty through the 

 season, It is propagated from cuttings 

 with base of two-yeai*-old wood. 



S. Van Houtteii : Much like trilo- 

 bata in leaf, expression, and flower, 

 but the habit of the plant is more grace- 



ful, and the pure white flowers are 

 larger. It is propagated the same as 

 trilobata. 



S. Douglasii : An erect, handsome 

 shrub, with oblong lanceolate leaves 

 with a white down beneath. The 

 flowers appear in July and often con- 

 tinue to middle of August. The long, 

 dense panicles of bright pink flowers 

 form on the terminal points of the sea- 

 son's growth of new wood. Where the 

 wood of the preceding year's growth is 

 cut back in early spring or autumn, as 

 practised with the roses, the exhibit of 

 bloom exceeds even that on the spircpxh 

 callosa, which with us fails to endure 

 the winters. Propagated from cuttings 

 as above. 



S. Kobhana : Much like Douglasii 

 in habit and foliage, but with broader 

 and looser racemes of purplish red 

 flowei's in July. In all respects a fine 

 showey variety. It is propagated from 

 cuttings. 



S. hyperici folia. : A larger growing 

 shrub than the four preceding. It runs 

 into many varieties varying in leaf and 

 habit of floweiing. The variety best 

 known with us is acuta, sometimes 

 giown as S. Sibiri'-a. The flowei'S are 

 white, in small terminal umbels on 

 short spring growths from the new 

 wood. Properly shaped and cot back 

 it becomes a sheet of l>loom in early 

 May. It is pi'opagated from cuttings 

 of new wood, or from suckers or root 

 cuttings, 



S. chamcedri folia : This is a beautiful 

 species running into a number of va- 

 rieties, all hardy so far as tried. It 

 has small, wiry branches covered in 

 June with clusters of white flowers. 

 In Northeast Europe it is much used 

 for oniamental hedging. In this form 

 it becomes literally a wall of pure white 

 flowers and its foilage is pretty through 

 the season. 



The fine Japanese species are not 



