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Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
TWO GRE AT ORC HIDS. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1806, 
THE FORESTS OF JAPAN.* 
N the autumn of 1892 Professor Sargent, the 
Director of the Arnold Arboretum, made a 
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oountry. During part of the journey he was 
accompanied by Mr. J. H. Veitch, whose narrative 
was given in our columns, Professor Sargent's 
fuller account was published at intervals in our 
high-toned American contemporary, Garden and 
(Rolfe) Forest, from which it is now reprinted, with the 
original illustrations, and a sufficient index. The 
RE-DISCOVERED BY OUR MR. ERICSSON. — — 
trations being all of superior quality. k 
DRIED FLOWERS TO HAND. The introduction touches briefly on the history 
and peculiarities of the arboreal vegetation of 
Japan. After all deductions are made for the 
We expect consignment daily, and every plant imported will be sold | introduction of Chinese and Corean species, not 
À truly native to Japan, the Japanese region, for 
without reserve. its area, is still unsurpassed in the number of 
; . . i trees which inhabit its forests. Particularly is 
If the plants arrive in time, they will be added to our Sale of, the f 7 
in Yezo, where, we are told, that forty- 
six species and varieties of trees grow on one 
hill in the vicinity of Sapporo, the capital, alone, 
and within a range of five miles other species 
grow, bringing P the list to sixty-two species 
NEW GREAT WHITE a nd Se 
Professor Satpond: following in the track of the 
late Professor Gray, institutes comparisons 
between the forest flora of Japan and that of 
the north-east United States. We need not 
enter into that subject here, as it is one which, 
however interesting to naturalists, has relatively 
minor importance to cultivators. It is, how- 
2 ever, interesting to know that in spite of the 
(Kran 2 in). numerical richness in the forms, the deoiduous 
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Which has a upright spikes JJ . — Tie Song 
extract from the introduction serves to give a 
fully 3 inches in diameter. good 3 idea of the forests of oentral 
Japan 
M Our Collector writes :— “In the foreground, Lake Yumoto, famous for ite 
“Tt is altogether a fine thing. I have one flower-stalk 27 inches long, | thermal springs, nestles, 500% feet above the sea, 
among the Nikl 6 Mountains. The forests, which rise 
which has borne seventeen flowers.“ a r 
of Hemlock (Teuga diversifolia), among which are 
It will be seen by the plants offered that every bulb has flowered, and | Birch (Betula Ermani), Abies an and Picea, 222 
Cercidiphyllum, and the Mountain Ash. In the 
We have every belief that it is one of the freest-flowering species of this | dense ee iy eee Jake | 
Magnificent genus. forms of the Indian Azalea, Elliottia ee 
This, the finest Orchid novelty discovered by our indefatigable Collector, t masses of Rhododendron Metternichii, whioh 
grea 
these forests fren Rhododendron Catawb 
Mr, W. Micholitz, will be offered, acai) with other magnificent Orchids in prk aati mé Crest Ti 
Clethra canescens—here at the upper limite of its 
m distribution, Panax horrida, and the dwarf Blue- 
countries, as well as the ubiquitous apt eng 
N “The undergrowth which covers the ground 
* ; By beneath the forests in the two kotet is so unlike 
* Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of 
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] Japan, By Charles Sprague Sargent. cas” 
S a A L * ; York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 4to, pp. 93, t. 
