April 4, 18S8.] 



Garden and Forest. 



of Oregon, where it was first collected by Professor Alphonso 

 Wood in 1866. It has since been found by Mr. Cusick and Mr. 

 Howell, and also by Mr. V. Rattan in the mountains of north- 

 western California, in Humboldt County, growing on high 

 ridges in the Fir forests. Its characteristics arc well shown in 

 the figure, — , its slender, ascending stems, ovate leaves, open, 

 graceful inflorescence and long-tubed corollas. The flowers 

 are rose-colored, appearing in July and August. S. VV. 



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lateral branches of the year. Rarely more than a single fruit 

 matures from each corymb of flowers ; it is oval or obovate 

 hardly exceeding one-third of an inch in length, long pedun- 

 culate, and bright scarlet in color. The autlunn cofor of the 

 leaves is a brilliant scarlet. 



Photinia villosa is a valuable addition to the free flowering 

 and perfectly hardy shrubs which can lie grown in the northern 

 States. It was sent many years ago to the Arnold Arboretum 



Fig. 12 — Photinia villosa. 



Photinia villosa.* 



'T'HIS is a widely distributed and very variable Japanese 

 -•■ deciduous shrub which, according to Maximowicz, some- 

 times attains in its native country a height of 15 feet. Pho- 

 tinia villosa (fig. 12), as it appears in cultivation in this 

 country, is a vigorous shrub of neat habit, 4 to 6 feet in height, 

 with broadly obovate rather coriaceous, sharply serrate, dark- 

 green leaves i;^ to 2 inches long with prominent mid-ribs 

 and primary veins, their under side, as well as the young 

 shoots, petioles, peduncles and calyx, covered with a dense 

 white pubescence. The corymbs of white flowers, which 

 appear about the middle of June, are terminal on the short 



*Photinia villosa. DC. /"r^aTr. rV. 6 J /.— ilfty. /Vo/. 229.— Fran. & Savat. Eniim. PI. 

 Jaj>. 7. 142 : ii. 351.— Maxim. Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, ix, 176. 

 P.lavis,-DZ.l.c. 



Cratxgus Icsvis ^nd C. villosa, Thbg., Fl. Jap. 204. 

 Stranvaisia digyna, Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap., Fam. Nat. /. I2Q. 

 P.serrulata, Sieb. & Zucc. I. c. C not DC. J 

 Pcitrtltia-a villosa, Decn. Nouv. Arch, du Mtts. x, T47. 



by the Messrs. Parsons, of Flushing 

 " Ainelanchier s'p. from Japan." 



under the name of 

 C. S. S. 



Cultural Notes. 



Epidendrum (Nanodes) Medusaa.— This is a somewhat rare 

 and most singular looking Orchid, producing tufted, pendant 

 stems about a foot long, with very fleshy grayish leaves ar- 

 ranged in pairs on each side. The flowers (usually 2-3) 

 spring from the axils of the last pair, are flat and lleshy, 

 sepals and petals are purple with a green base. The lip is 

 large and spreading, deep maroon, transparent, and deeply 

 fringed. It is a native of the mountainous regions of South 

 America, consequently requires to be kept very cool. We 

 succeed here admirably in a uniform temperature of 55° to 60°, 

 with aliundance of water, and if this is given overhcatl the 

 thrips will not trouble it. Until quite recently this plant was 

 very rare and large house grown plants are still the exception. 



