July ii, 



8.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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ing the under siirrace. The flowers are mostly solitary 

 along' the brandies, an inch tiroad or more, and very 

 fragrant. 



The relationship of the genus Philadelphus is interesting 

 enough to lie worth mention. With Hydrangea and 

 Deutzia it belongs to a saxifragaceous tribe {Hydra)iga') 

 which is limited to the northern temperate zone and mainly 

 to eastern Asia and eastern North America. Philadelphus 

 is e.xceptional in having one species in Europe and two 

 upon the Pacitic coast, in addition to the eight more east- 

 ern species and the two of eastern Asia. Hydrangea, on 

 the other hand, has but three species in eastern America 

 and thirty or more Asiatic, while Deutzia is wholly Asiatic. 

 The remaining genera are all very small, of a single spe- 

 cies, or rarely two in each. Of these we have Decumaria 

 in the Atlantic States, Fendlera and Jamesia in the Rocky 

 Mountains, Whipplea in Utah and California, and Carpen- 

 teria, also Californian. One genus is found in the Sand- 

 wich Islands, and the five others all belong to eastern 

 Asia. It is a curious fact that the Ilea Virginica is our sole 

 representative, and almost the only representative on this 

 Continent, of another similar and as large a tribe whose 

 home is in the southern hemisphere, scattered likewise 



two feet more and the color is brilliant golden yellow. 

 We are accustomed to see Pa paver on'en/a/e in several shades 

 of scarlet and blood red, but there is now a sport in rosy 

 lilac. Lalhyrns Siblliorpi is not a new plant, but it is seldom 

 seen and it deseives a place in a choice collection. Its 

 flowers are of a uniform, bright magenta-red and appear in 

 great numbers. Gundelia Tourneforli is a rare Persian plant, 

 not showy, but a great beauty ; the thistle-like leaves arc 

 deeply cut out, rather spiny, of a bright green color with 

 conspicuous white nerves ; the flowers are chocolate and 

 yellow, a very curious combination, but most striking. 

 Lindelofia longifolia is a showy herb, sending up a dozen 

 stems to a height of two feet, each clothed by numerous 

 lance-shaped leaves and terminated by a cluster of ultra- 

 marine blue. Forget-me-not-shaped flowers. Pu! mo nana 

 Daurica is a dwarf alpine; a tuft of lance-shaped leaves 

 mounted by panicles of pretty bright blue pendent flowers. 

 Polvgonum sphcerosiachyiim, a showy plant from Sikkim, 

 continuously puts forth from amidst bright green, longish- 

 lanceolate leaves, its charming rosy crimson flowers. 

 Armcria undulata has pure white heads borne on long un- 

 dulate stems. Gladiolus vhiuhts, grown in a frame, is a 

 very pretty small-flowered species which will be much 



Fig. 40. — Philadelplius Coulten. — See page 232, 



mostly in small genera through western South America, 

 the islands of the South Pacitic and Indian Oceans, Australia 

 and South Africa. But Itea is the only genus of this tribe 

 that is represented in eastern Asia also, and our own species 

 finds its nearest relative in one peculiar species of Japan. 

 S. W. 



■ Plant Notes. 



Novelties at Baden-Baden. 



APART of the terrace-like rough walls in my garden 

 is clothed in blue, violet and crimson-lake by the 

 various varieties of Aubrietia, the crimson-lake-colored 

 A. Leichtlinii being very conspicuous. Iris albicans, a 

 native of Cyprus, is in the way of /. Germanica, but pure 

 white, very rich, and deliciously sweet scented. Delplii- 

 ■niiim Brunonis is a dwarf, very large flowered Himalayan 

 species ; the flowers are grayish blue, very downy, and 

 strongly musk-scented. Eremurus auranliacus is one of the 

 showiest species. The scapes are some three feet in height, 

 the spikes of the thickly set flowers take one and a half to 



valued for bouquets, 

 feathers. 



It is creamy 



■white with crimson 

 I\Iax Leichtlin. 



Schizophragma hydrangeoides. — This interesting Japanese 

 climbing plant is now flowering finely in the garden of Mr. S. 

 B. Parsons, at Flushing, Long Island. It must not be con- 

 founded with the "Climbing Hydrangea" sometimes seen in 

 American gardens, which, although distributed under the name 

 of Schizopliragina a few years ago, is an entirely difterent plant 

 {Hydrangea radicans), with dark green, finely serrate lea\'es, 

 and broad, flat-topped inflorescence, the outer or radiating 

 flowers, as in other Hydrangeas, with three or foiu" enlarged, 

 petaloid sepals. Schi:^ophragma has much paler and more 

 deeply heart-shaped leaves, with reddish veins and petioles, 

 and a much deeper and more prominent serration. The 

 flowers are arranged in a loose sjireading, many-branclu.-d 

 corymb si.x or eight inches across, each branch terminated l»y 

 a pure white petaloid, oval leaf, nearly an inch long, corre- 

 sponding to the petaloid caly.x lolies of the ray-llowers in Hy- 

 drangea, lint with onlva single division developed, and with no 

 other trace of the flower remaining. The small, perfect flowers 

 are greenish yellow, and, although iiroduced in great profus- 

 ion, are not showy, the lieauty of the plant consisting in its 

 very handsome foliage, and conspicuous petaloid caly.x lobes. 



