June 26, iS 



Garden and Forest. 



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Hybrid Catalpa X J. C. Teas. 



varieties not commonly used for bedding. I findWouverman's 

 Joost van Yoondel in its wliite form, Adelaine and La Reniar- 

 quable all very fine sorts. The latter I never had till this 

 year. It is very perfect in form, and reminds me of one that 

 I specially admired in Mr. Van Eeden's nursery at Haarlem 

 some years ago, and which he proposed to call Mrs. H. Elvves. 

 This is ten days earlier than any of the Van Thol Tulips, very 

 beautiful in color, bright cerise with yellow centre, and per- 



fect in form. I shall be glad to hear if it has been sent out, 

 and if so, under what name. 



Of other new or rare bulbous plants I have admired nothing 

 so mucli as Erythroniuni Smithi, which seems a form of E. 

 graiidifloruiii album. It is by far the finest of the Erytln-oniums 

 I know, though the yellow E. Nuttallia^ium, when seen in 

 masses as we saw it in the Yellowstone Park, runs it close. 



I do not know who called it Smithi, but it is much larger in 



