August 7, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



379 



The Falls of the Cliittenango. — See page 373. 



aiul their berries are often half an incli or more in diameter. 

 This species does not .^-row as large or tall as the Tartarian 

 Honeysuckles, and the flowers are not as attractive, but it is a 

 neat compact shrvd). 



Some of the fruit-eating- birds are very partial to the white 

 or bluish-white fruit of t'ornus alba, a shrub usually sold 1)V 

 nurserymen under the names of Corniis sanguinca or Coniiis 

 Sibirica, with additional names for \'arieties. The red or scarlet 

 bark of this species is its chief attraction, but the fruit is pretty 

 and reaches its ripest state about the middle of July or even 

 earlier. About ten days later it is followed by. Coni'us alteriii- 

 folia. the berries of which beg'in to ripen and become blue- 

 black. Elceagnus longlpcs (figin-ed in Garden and Forest, 

 vol. i., p. 499) does not appear to be one of those plants which 



produce a full crop of fruit only every 

 second year, but annually bears an abund- 

 ance of its rich, red, plum-like fruit, which, 

 on long peduncles, hangs thickly along 

 the imder side of the branches for several 

 weeks. When fully ripe this fruit is much 

 liked by many persons, and it might be 

 improved in flavor and size by cultivation 

 and selection. Birds have found out that 

 it is palatable, and this season, for the first 

 tune at the .Aboretum, it was all carried 

 away by them. 



It is a pity that such a charming native 

 shrub as the Cranberry Tree ( Viburjiuin 

 Opicliis) is not more frequently seen in 

 gardens. The showy flowers of the 

 sterile form, Icnown as the Snow-ball, and 

 so commonly cultivated, are not as grace- 

 ful or pretty as those of the wild plant. 

 The sterile plants' are very apt to look 

 diseased and to be infested with Aphides, 

 and, of course, they bear no fruit. The 

 Cranberry Tree does not ripen its broad 

 flat panicles of fruit until much later in 

 the season, but in the latter part of July 

 tiie l)erries, which are then quite large, 

 assume a striking greenish-yellow tinged 

 with Ijright red on the side toward the" 

 sun. The fruit of the Wayfaring- Tree 

 ( Vibicrmini Lantana) is still green, V)ut it, 

 too, is bright red on the exposed side. 



The Stagliorn Sumach, with its large 

 cone-shaped heads of scarlet fruit, \\'hicli 

 it retains during the rest of the summer 

 and autumn, makes a most pleasing effect 

 when grown in groups, and is always 

 certain to attract attention in its native 

 haunts. 



The well-known Smoke Tree {Rhti^ 

 Cotinus) hardly needs a notice. Its 

 "smoke" is in its best condition during 

 Jime and July, and in the latter month 

 "the few very small fruits it bears usually 

 disappear, leaving only the pedicels with 

 then- feathery hairs and branchlets, which 

 give the loose panicles the ap]Dearance 

 from which the plant takes its popular 

 name. 



The different species of Amelanchier, 

 Service-berries or June-berries, ripen 

 their dark-ljlue, purple, or black fruits 

 in the latter part of June and during July, 

 but, as soon as ripe, they are eaten by 

 birds. The native American species 

 generally seems to ripen earlier than 

 those from Europe and Asia. Two 

 species of low-growing Cotoneaster in 

 the Arboretimi have ripe fruit in the 

 last two weeks of the month, and it 

 remains on the plants for a long time. 

 The color of one is purple, and the other 

 iiright scarlet. 



Daphne Mczereiun, though a small 

 shrul), and generally not very attractive, 

 has two periods in the _\-ear when it does 

 not fail to attract attention : \\'], when 

 its purple bfossonis appear, before the 

 leaves, in early spring ; and (2), when the 

 liright-red berries are seen among the 

 foliage at the end of Jime. There is 

 no plant more deserving of a place in 

 rdens or in larger shrubberies than Rosa riigosa. 

 It continues to bear some of its large, single, purple or white 

 flowers until frosts check all growth, and its fruit, which 

 begins to ripen in the latter part of July, is at first Ijright scarlet, 

 and later changes to a dark red. It is often an inch and a 

 half in diameter, and remains on the plants until winter. 



Arnold Arboretum. /• ^- y '""'''• 



Transplanting Conifers in August. 



IN the year 1870 I proposed to overflow a tract of land for 

 the purpose of ice-cutting. In order to do this it became 

 necessarv to remove about 40,000 trees of my nursery-stock, 

 consisting of Spruce, Pine, Hemlock, Arbor V'itje, etc., of vari- 

 ous sizes, ranging from two to seven feet in height. The 



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