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Garden and Forest. 



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the eye, especially on such plants as carry it well up out of the 

 dirt but on stalks not too lontj. Such varieties as Haverland, 

 for example, are not useful for this purpose, but Cumberland 

 is excellent, and amon^ some cross-bred varieties I have one 

 with semi-double Howers which is most interesting to loolc at. 

 Dewberries are admirable screens, and so are the so-called Wine 

 Berry and our native Thimlile Berry. 



There are few shrubs which can rival the beauty of a 

 Quince-tree in full bloom. On the tirst of June I had a small 

 orchard ot forty of these trees covered with flowers, and it 

 was a superb spectacle. I tjrew a tew of them in my shrub- 

 bery for the sake of the ftowers alone, although the pale 



flower, is always a delight to the eye. There are few finer 

 shrubs than the dwarf Apples, and both the Apples and Cher- 

 ries can be managed very readily in this way. 



Clinton, N. Y. E. p. Powell. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Jacobinia magnifica. 



THIS is a useful greenhouse-plant vi^hich formerly was 

 commonly grown in English gardens, but is com- 

 paratively rare here now. Like most of the Acanthaceae, 



Fig. 56. — Jacobinia magnifica. 



downy leaves have a value in a landscape. The flowers are 

 equal in beauty to those of the Stuartia or an Exochorda. 



Again, most of our fruit trees are as beautiful in ftuit as 

 they are in flower. To my imagination there is not a more 

 beautiful object than a large Snow Apple-tree in October. I 

 always dislike to pick off Jonathan apples from the tree, they 

 are so beautiful as they hang upon the branches. What more 

 beautiful picture can be seen than a Morello or Richmond 

 Cherry-tree just as the fruit is turning crimson. I have 

 said nothing of the value of dwarf trees for lawn-planting be- 

 cause many persons make a failure when theyattempt to grow 

 handsome trees in this way. Such failure is not necessary, 

 however, and a dwarf Richmond Cherry, either in fruit or 



it is either a scraggy weed or a handsome little shrub, ac- 

 cording as it gets bad or good treatment. At Kew it is 

 grown in quantity for the conservatory, flowering with a 

 rush in November or December. It is raised every year 

 from cuttings struck in heat in March and grown on in a 

 warm moist house until July. The plants are by this time 

 in six-inch pots, in which they remain until they have 

 flowered. They like a rich open soil, such as suits Bego- 

 nias, and plenty of water. From July onward the plants 

 are placed in a frame where they get plenty of sunlight and 

 air, the lights being removed on all favorable occasions. 



