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Garden and Forest. 



[May 



iSSS. 



the Fines are all right so far as the effects of winter are con- 

 cerned. 



Among Firs, Abies c^ranJis has, as usual, got scorclicd a 

 little; in fact, too much to allow this to be regarded as a reliable 

 species here. One of the Oregon Douglas Firs in a more ex- 

 posed place than the others has its leaves browned a very 

 little, but not enough to hurt its wood in the least. Others 

 of the Oregon form are not injured in the least. And tlie 

 Colorado Mountain form, planted in bleak exposures enough, 

 bear no mark of injury whatever. Nordman's, Cilician, Ce- 

 phalonian, Veitch's, Spanish, and otiier Firs are uninjured. 



No injury is observable among the Spruces. The more we 

 know of the Colorado Blue Spruce the better it appears ; its 

 hardihood and capacity to resist severe winter winds seem to 

 be greater than those of our White Spruce. Among Hemlock 

 Spruces, the Japanese Tsiiga Sicboldiaim, so far as we have 

 tried it — and there are fine large specimens here — is a hardier 

 and more manageable tree than the common American species. 



more shelter, it is unscathed. Two good sized plants of Osinan- 

 thus illicifolius formerly grown in tubs, wintered in a shed, 

 and plunged outside in summer, were left out to die last fall. 

 Not only have they survived the winter, but they never looked 

 better than they do now, although close to them the wind 

 scorched a Lawson's Cypress. 



Scotch Broom is hurt a little. European Furze where 

 covered with a lath shading and cedar branches is quite safe, 

 but all the tips of the shoots thatprotruded beyond the protect- 

 ing material, were killed. The hardy Orange tree {Liinoitia 

 trifoliata), of which there is a small plant here, was wintered 

 under a box filled with dry oak-leaves. It seems all right, but 

 I think it would have been better to have omitted the leaves, 

 as they gathered damp aliout it. Phillyrca MInioreana imdera 

 box covering has wintered perfectly ; Dapliniphylliiin glait'ce- 

 scetis, covered in the same way, has also kept well, but lost its 

 upper leaves, and a large plant of I'eronica Traversii under a 

 box has been killed. Bt'rbi;?-is Japonic a under a lath shading 



A Mesquit Forei.t in Anzona. 



All the Retinosporas have wintered well, but the Marcli 

 blizzard spread them a good deal ; R. pisifera and its varieties 

 suflered most. The Golden Arbor Vita" ( Thuya orieiitalls var.) 

 suffered in the same way. TIniiopsis dolobrata, in a moist, 

 sheltered and partially shaded place, is as bright and green 

 and healthy as it can be. Lawson's Cypress, in sheltered 

 ground, is as healthy as any Arbor Vitas but wherever its 

 head rose high enough to catch the wind, it was burned. 

 The Sitka Cypress {Chainacyparis Nutkaeiisis) has wintered 

 well. This plant often behaves strangely here; sometimes 

 one or several plants will die off unaccountably, while others 

 growingalongsideof, or among them, will not Lietray any sign of 

 weakness whatever. Sdjuoia giga^itca and Cryptotncria Ja- 

 ponica have wintered well. All the Arbor Vit:es and Junipers 

 are unscathed, so too are the Yews. Muslin is used to 

 protect the Dovaston Yews, but in one instance where 

 no protection whatever was used the plant is just as sound 

 as those protected. A muslin protection is used around 

 Deodars, Podocarpiis, Ccphalota.xus, Cunninghamia, and Plio- 

 iinia serj'ulata, and they all have wintered perfectly — all 

 except the Deodars, a few of the points of whose branches 

 were hurt by rubbing against the cloth. On higli, dry ground, 

 where the wind had a sweep at it, the American Holly was 

 browned a little ; a few yards ofl, where a larger plant had 



has wintered well. B. Darwinii has been killed to the ground, B. 

 stenophyl/a, where protected by a board covering has survived, 

 and where unprotected it has died. Otearia Haastii, mulched 

 with leaves and under a lath screen, has been killed to the 

 ground. Spanish Laurel, covered over with barrels (one above 

 die other), has wintered fairly well — that is, the wood is all living, 

 but the plants will lose a good many of their leaves. 



Evergreen Rhododendrons never wintered better, and they are 

 well set with flower buds, and promise a good crop of flowers. 

 And besides the large-growing Rhododendrons, such dwarf 

 evergreen ones as R. ferruginitiin, ovatuiii, myrtifoliiiin and 

 IVi/soniaiuim have wintered well, although R. ferruginium has 

 suflered somewhat. Rliododendron punciatuin lives very well 

 with us. Azalea amcFna is as perfect as it can be. Andromeda 

 Japonica is hardy enough, but as it blooms so early is not of 

 much use as a flowering shrub in this climate. It is not the 

 severitv of winter, but the warm sunshine, dry atmosphere 

 and drought of summer, that make Andromeda floribunda, in 

 perfection, so great a stranger in these gardens. W. F. 



Glen Cove. 



" The great secret of good landscape gardening consists in 

 the accurate preservation of tlie character of every scene, 

 whether the character be originally there or created in it." — 

 Uvedale Price, ■' Essay on the Picturesgue," London, ijgd. 



