September 24, 1890.] 



Garden and Forest. 



465 



Maximowicz some twenty years ago, but has been known in 

 commerce only about seven years. It is hardy, deciduous, 

 and has slender, flexuous branches with deeply cut leaves, 

 which are pubescent beneath. The flowers are small, white, 

 and are borne in large, loose terminal panicles. Altogether 

 the plant is sufficiently striking to find favor as a hardy border 

 shrub. 



Alnus tinctoria is a new Alder remarkable for the size of 

 its leaves, which are about six inches long and broad, the 



crimson. This plant is said to develop its color only when 

 grown in pots under glass. 



The summer bedding in the principal parks and public gar- 

 dens in the neighborhood of London is this year unusually 

 good. The year has been unfavorable in regard to weather, 

 cold, sunless and wet days having been far too frequent to suit 

 this kind of gardening. In spite of this, however, there are 

 many successes and not a few of more than ordinary beauty. 

 Hyde Park devotes a long stretch of ground bordering Park 



Cornus Baileyi. — See page 464. 



edges biserrate and the color a rich green. It is probably 

 Japanese. 



Acer Colchicum rubrum has Ivy-like foliage, which, when 

 young, is colored rich crimson-brown. It grows quickly and 

 forms a good-sized tree. It is one of the most attractive of the 

 larger ornamental-leaved Acers. 



Other noteworthy exhibits were Styrax Japonica, in fruit ; 

 Cydonia Japonica Moorloosii, which has the richest colored 

 flowers of all the forms of this plant ; Daphnipliyllum glan- 

 cescens ; Salix laurifolia, with large, glossy, dark green foli- 

 age, and Ligustrum lucidiim tricolor, with large oblong leaves 

 colored bright yellow and green, and when young tinged with 



Lane entirely to summer bedding, which is always worth see- 

 ing and is especially good this year. The beds are very large, 

 in shape either round or oblong, and they are separated by 

 long sweeps of green turf, of which a wide strip runs from one 

 end to the other. At intervals along this there are perfect speci- 

 mens springing from the turf of Phormiums, Phcenix, Livis- 

 tona, Bamboos and masses of Purple-leaved Canna. These 

 prevent anything like monotony, and are, moreover, a very 

 attractive feature in themselves. In the beds perhaps the most 

 ornamental combinations are mainly due to a liberal use of 

 Fuchsias of all kinds. Some of the beds are entirelv filled' 

 with big half-specimen plants covered with flowers, and car- 



