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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 378. 



done to many fine plants which liave usually come tlirough in 

 good condition. It was apparently during" the ice storms in 

 Feliruary wlien tlie greatest damage was done, rather than by 

 severely cold weather at any time, though low temperature 

 was continuous. All the Moss Pinks, Phlox subulata, in ex- 

 posed situations, were much burned. Many European species 

 of Dianthus, D. alpinus, D. neglectus, D. glacialis, D. subcau- 

 lescens, D. plumarius and D. armulatus (Cyclops) are dead 

 entirely. D. arenarius, D. ccX'sius and D. dcltoides appear to 

 be the only ones which have come through uninjured. Silene 

 Schafta is among the lost. Primula rosea has stood luiinjured 

 for two seasons. Now only a few seedlings remain, which evi- 



canes of this handsome trailing Rose sixteen feet long and 

 twined them about the trunk of a young Walnut-tree. These 

 stems are now breaking freely more than six feet away from 

 tlie ground. No better testimony to the extreme hardiness of 

 tliis beautiful Rose could be desired. We have it trailing over 

 rocks on a rather steep slope. It is appropriately placed, but 

 the space devoted to it is limited. It is clearly a subject for a 

 sunny bank in the wild garden, where it can roam unmolested. 

 Bushes of Andromeda Japonica, which from some reason or 

 other have never bloomed before, are flowering well this spring. 

 They have always been protected with loose litter, and every 

 autumn they have been well set with drooping racemes of 



A Blue Me.xicau Wiiter-Uly. — See pag 



dently have been protected by other low-growing plants among 

 which the seeds had been scattered. Of the Megasea section 

 of the genus Saxifraga, M. purpurascens, is badly burned, 

 while M. cordifolia is scarcely touched ; (he immunity of the 

 latter may be due in part to a more protected location. Many 

 plants belonging to the mossy group of Saxifrages are missing, 

 and what are left are considerably browned. 



On the other hand, bushes of the Dawson Rose, with canes 

 from eiglit to ten feet long and arching upward from two to 

 three feet, are not at all touched. Stout plants of the Japanese 

 form of Rosa multilfora are green to the ends of the branches. 

 Rosa Wichuraiana looks as fresh as it did last autumn. I found 



flower-buds. This is indeed a handsome shrub for planting 

 where it can have protection from the direct rays of the mid- 

 day sun. Several bushes of the Polyantha Roses, White Pet 

 Mignonette and Clothilde Soupert, are growing in recesses be- 

 tween the rocks. It may be they are not appropriate subjects for 

 the rock garden, but they have always done well here and 

 have plenty of good green wood eighteen inches or more 

 above ground, while those in a bed especially prepared for 

 them and protected every winter with litter, are killed to the 

 ground. Ramondia Pyrenaica came through better even 

 than it did last season. White Asphodelus lutea, never su[>- 

 posed to be hardy, is throwing up a strong flower-spike. Sal- 



