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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marca 16, 1895, 
that it must at once attract the — of the 
most careless observer. In all the Appalachian 
region of North America this is com voles of a great 
num arious species of Vac- 
a, wild Roses, 
mias, 
the a eee is ner even high on the moun- 
me north, with a * 
am 0 
t impenetrab E mass wW 
several species, which makes travelling in the — 
except over long-beaten paths and up the 0 
s, practically impossible. These Bambo 
make 00: 
and unin teresting, ae 118050 the growth 
of Tahi all other under-shrubs, except the most 
Shrubs,- therefore, are. mostly 
and 
obtain sufficient light to — m to rise above 
the Bamboos ; the eee of the Bam- 
boo, no doubt, which has developed the climbing 
habit of many Japanese plants, which are obliged to 
ascend the t arch of sun and light, for the 
Japanese forest is filled with climbing shrubs, which 
flourish with 2 ene 
“The wild Grape grows in the damp forests of 
Yezo with a vigour and i a size which the American 
species do not often attain, even in the semi-tropical 
climate of the southern Mississippi — Actinidia 
arguta climbs into the tops of the ta 
r the trunks 
of trees clothed to the t of 80 feet with 
lendid masses of the climbing Hydrangeas (H. 
petiolaris d Schi hizophragma), or with the lustrous 
n Japan, n 
on, helps to mind the traveller that he is in 
she’ Ola and not in ihe New World.” 
After the introduction, the various families yield- 
ing trees are detailed, beginning with the Magnolias 
In this manner the beauties of Magnolia na a a 
M. Kobus, and M. salicifolia are descant upon, as 
well as that of en eee n ed. of e genera Michelia, 
Illicium, Kadsura, and Schiza 
iphyllum japonicum, an * of the Mag- 
nolia, is one of the lar and most interesting 
deciduous trees of Japan, pat one which more than 
an 
2 their peculiar appearance and char 
rises to the height of 100 peb, weg 3 
che of stems 8 or 10 feet through. Some- 
4 fi 
times it forms a single trunk 3 or feet i 
diameter, and 2 
“The genus Actinidia, woody climbers of 
Himalayas and Eastern er: 25 
three species, of which t © exceedingly 
common and eee e em iy the mountain 
d 
ns, wh 
gro vigour and rapidity, and where 
it is one of the sect plants of its class, We have 
a good deal of the value of the fruit of this 
plant, which is N an inch across, 
and greenish-ye! the 
flavour is 
w; it is eaten in Japan, 
and its merits appear to have been 
exaggerated, It was offered for sale in ont atreets 
of Hakodate in great quantities, but, of course, green 
sal hard, as the Japanese use all their fruit — 
ripens. 
“ Actinidia oe bae 28 n inhabits Man- 
churia and Saghalin, and is nin the forests 
of Hokkaido, is ibre b in died which cover 
the mountains of Central Japan; it is a slenderer 
plant than Actinidia arguta, with elliptical, — 
slightly serrate, long-atalked leaves. The fruit is an 
inch apt r half long, half an inch broad in eran 
middl d narrowe th — it is canary- 
. harri translucent, soft and juicy, with an 
extremely disagreeable flavour. idi 
does not, like Actinidia arguta, e the tops 
esker 
— 
* 
stems . about and 
=A r 
able thing about this plant is, that in 3 
leaves toward the ends of the branches —— pale 
yellow, either over their entire surface, or only above 
the middl are 
i ntly from an insufficient supply of 
The effect that the plants produce at 
this time is curious and interesting, and when seen 
but if it flourishes 
w England like Actinidia arguta it will bea 
valuable addition to our shrubberies, 
“ Actinidia Kolomikta, which is found also in 
Manchuria and Northern China, is much less 
only on the rocky cliffs o 
where it was growing w 
Menziesia, and where it edp a delicate, ee Vine, 
with stems only a few feet in length. Unfortunately, 
there were no seeds to rhe obtained, and I 
doubtful if thi i been i d i 
our gardens, alt ho ough the name often appears in 
nurserymen's catalogues. 
The temptation to make further pages say from 
the chapter relating to the Maple is t, but fair- 
neas to the author, no less than eee of our 
own space, forbid us at present from giving further 
citation. We say at present, because later on we do 
not think we shall be proof against the temptation 
to make our readers more fully acquainted with the 
merits of this work, 2 work which all interested in 
hardy trees will delight to place on their shelves, 
AMERICAN N NOTES. 
m Our Own Correspondent.) 
NEW Salies BET GARDEN. 
Ar last we se aring the realisation of 
a Botanical isilen for the. city of New York—and 
high time, too. The Bill passed in ad which incor- 
porated the body which ~ Be 3 
stipulated, that 250,000 te 
within seven years of its pase Of this sum, only 
50,000 dols, now remain to b ; and as the 
3 only lately been abla | to set about the work 
2 
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8 
2 8 
o 
— 
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A 
arted the 
& speedy materiali- 
sation, Ornamental horticulture and general decora- 
pure scientific side, and an is good, since horti- 
culture and aroun city stands sadly in 
fad development, 
ton, Professor of Botan 
Columbia College, i is — secretary, id 
Socrerr or American Frorists, 
At Pha horticulture stands e pisi grow- 
ing fi arket, and our / flori market 
gro ie who grow large o wed or 
two things for the purpose of supplying ihe ie retail 
demand for cut flowers. The body known as the 
Society of American Florists, which chiefly repre. 
sent the interests of plant- -lovers, but especially of 
enga commercially in 7 ant ea 
o get a charter 
from the Federal Government, and ite the Bill abo 
passed safely through all Stages, it has been 
floriculture. 
incorporation is, however, st he Bill to be 
the elevation and advancement of horticulture in all 
b hes, to increase and he k 
thereof, and for kindred purposes in the in of 
horticulture, It is entirely clear that the interests 
of florists would be badly served by a corporation 
confined to the furtherance of garden culture,’ 
CHINE Fri PRIMROSE 
* LADY,” 
Tuts beautiful backs forms a new “break” in 
the Chinese Primrose, and its history is 2 
as its beauty is striking. The hist E of the 
aboriginal Chinese Primrose, and of its introduc- 
* 7 our -S mn ined than once 1 given 
colum M as also been made of the 
en “hitherto almoat honour’ o induce the plant 
to cross with some of the cultivated forms. Batter 
dener and plant-lover. He, it is said, raised the 
firat cross, which passed into the hands of Messers. 
H. Sons, who have selected and re- 
8 it for four years, till it is now considerably 
r than it was in Mr. Green’s hands, The illus- 
ae (fig. 43) shows the general character of the 
plant. 
nd when cut, which is another 
recommendation. 
r 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, 
THE YELLOW-GROUND PICOTEE. 
always had in my mind’s 
r. Standi i, of e produced a very fine 
he named Ascot Yellow, and for 
n the yellow ground secti 
white loony either, for that matter. ‘The 
Dodwell, who gave the show vari 
nation and Picotee careful 
th 
degenerate in quality as to be 
On the other hand, some of — 
ground varieties have held their own mg 
n dmiral Curzon stand high on the listy 
and was . about fifty years ago. 
