March 7, iSSS.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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house climber can compare with it in midwinter, and tlie fact 

 that it requires little or no cultural attention, if once well 

 planted in an ordinary green-house, enhances its value. At 

 Kew it is planted out in free soil beneatli the side stage; the 

 main stein is trained up the rafter on one side of tlie span 

 roofed house and down the one on the opposite side. The 

 shoots, varying from two to six feet long, are thickly wreathed 

 with bright scarlet flowers, like miniature lobster claws in 

 shape, among the pale green trifoliate leaves, and the wliole 

 forms an exquisite floral curtain across the house. It should 

 not be planted out until it gets a good size, as it wants all the 

 light possible when small in order to get strong. When well 

 rooted and about five or six feet high plant it out in a green- 

 house that is well ventilated and has a minimum Winter temp- 

 erature of aliout 40° F. I imaginethat your hotsummers would 

 suit the plant well and so ripen the wood that its winter bloom 

 would be abundant. Besides flowering for several weeks in 

 succession in midwinter, it flowers in spring and summer ; in 

 fact, it might be almost called a perpetual bloomer. 



The Crimean Lime [Tilia pctiolaris) promises to become one 

 of our most ornamental deciduous trees. Though not new 



quite distinct from the Hungarian linden, as Sir Joseph 

 Hooker pointed out several years ago {Bolanical Magazine, 

 'f- ^737-) It is one of the most promising ornamental 

 deciduous trees ever introduced into this country. Fine 

 specimens may l)e seen in the Central Park in this city. — 



F.D. ) 



Rhododendron primrose is the finest yellow flowered variety 

 tliat has yet been obtained among the Javanese or Green- 

 house Rhododendrons which the Slessrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, 

 have for years been occupied in improving by hybridizing. 

 This variety, Primrose, is the result of intercrossing a small, 

 pale yellow flowered species named R. icysmanjiia with a 

 hybrid variety with large well formed flowers of a yellowish 

 pink tint, called Maiden's Blush, raised several years ago. 

 The new hybrid had flowers over one and one-half inches 

 across, with broad, overlapping petals, making a handsome 

 symmetrical flower. The color is a clear yellow, with not a 

 trace of the pink tinge of its male parent. It is considered a 

 great stride in advance in the production of a vellow flowered 

 race of green-house Rhododendrons. Jf'r Goldrimr. 



Entrp.ncn to the Arnold Arboretum. 



here, in a nurseryman's sense, it is but little known and rarely 

 planted, though the other silver-leaved Lime, the Hungarian 

 lime (7^ argcntea), is a common stock plant. For man v years 

 the Crimean Lime has been known in English nurseries under 

 the erroneous name of 71 Americana pciidiila, Ijut its true 

 name is now being adopted. It is an extremely fine tree and 

 different from the other Limes. Its leaves are large, heart 

 shaped, of a deep green above and silvery white beneath. 

 The slender twigs are pendulous, and as the leaf stalks are 

 long and slender, the whole tree is of a gracefully weeping 

 habit, of rounded outline and moderately dense. Perhaps the 

 finest specimen in the country exists in Mr. Maurice Young's 

 nursery at Milford in Surn^y. This tree is aljout sixty feet in 

 height, has a huge head fifty or sixty feet through, and has a 

 diameter of stem of about two feet, and yet it exhibits all the 

 elegance of growth of a young tree. It must be a fast growing 

 Lime, as this large tree has certainly been planted since 

 1838, when Loudon compiled his Arljoretum. At that time it 

 was considered to be a variety only cif T. argcntea and though 

 cultivated at Odessa, was not yet introducetl into England. 



(The Crimean lime is also generally known in the 

 United States as Tilia ai-geniea pendula,ii\i\\o\\g\\ specifically 



Entrance to the Arnold Arb(3retiim. 



"\ T O coniferous tree excels the Hemlock -Siiruce when young 

 -'■ ' in grace of outline, softness of spray or brightness of 

 color. As it grows older it becomes a tree of stately propor- 

 tions, with drooping branches thickly furnished with dark 

 leaves. When massed in northern woods or in the high 

 mountains further south it invests the forest with the charm 

 of a mystery peculiarly its own. North of the drift line, 

 M'herever a stream of water has furrowed out a deep gorge, 

 the Hemlock often takes possession of the slopes, making 

 dark glens that are always attractive features in the landscape. 

 By a fortunate chance one of these banks with its original 

 growth unimpared still remains within the limits of the city of 

 Boston and is included in the Arnold Arboretum. This steep 

 liillside is shown in tlie illustration above. From the road- 

 way which swings around to the right it is separated by a 

 ravine through which flows a small stream and its dark mass 

 of foliage and noble sky-line give a dignity to the entrance 

 which is hardly excelled by that of any park in the world. 

 Besides its effectiveness from an artistic point of view, this 

 representative example of one of our most interesting forms 

 of forest scenery is well placed at the vestibule of the sys- 



