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Garden and Forest. 



QULY 25, I S 



of its colors, which are too subtle to describe. The beau- 

 tiful new Cypripediuni hellatulum was shown by no fewer 

 than four dilTerent nurserymen and all obtained a certifi- 

 cate for it. Sander's Odonloglossum cordatum splendens is 

 remarkable for the intensity and richness of its flower 

 colors, and connoisseurs might think a great deal of one 

 he showed called O. Coradinei hemileticum. 



A large crop of new tuberous Begonias from Messrs. 

 Laing of Forest Hill and Messrs. Cannell of Swanley were 

 certificated, and all were very beautiful, as were the Pyre- 

 thrums and Pseonies of the Messrs. Kelway. These Be- 

 gonias are still popular here, and though one would think 

 that the public had been surfeited long ago with "novel- 

 ties," among them new sorts are as eagerly sought 

 after now as they were ten years ago. Pyrethrums are 

 also very popular, being such fine border flowers, brilliant 

 and varied in color, and so valuable for cutting, as they 

 last such a long time in water. Moreover, the plants have 

 such a long flowering time and by a little management 

 a rich autumn crop of bloom may be obtained. Messrs. 

 Laing, who make a great specialty of Caladiums, showed 

 several new sorts which the judges thought quite distinct 

 and good enough for certificate. What to me was most 

 interesting at this show was a large gathering of new or 

 uncommon shrubs from Messrs. Veitch. They had a host 

 of specimens, chiefly cut branches of things that had not 

 been shown before. Among them was the cut-leaved 

 form of the scarlet berried Elder (Sambuciis racemosa var. 

 serraii/olia), which was as elegant as many stove plants. I 

 have watched its behavior in one or two places, both 

 last year and this, and it seems a very hardy and vigorous 

 shrub. Elceagnus pungens inaculalus has leaves of a bright 

 yellow, broad margined with green of various shades. E. 

 niacropJiyllus, a new species from Japan, is a handsome 

 shrub with broad, ovate leaves, about four inches long, 

 bright green above and quite silvery beneath. One can 

 imagine its beauty in the shrubbery when every breath of' 

 wind turns up its leaves and makes the whole bush look 

 like silver. I shall keep this novelty in view, as it will be 

 invaluable in landscape gardening. 



Senecio el<xag nifolia is a distinct evergreen from New 

 Zealand, vi^ith ovate leaves of leathery texture, deep green, 

 with a whitish tomentum beneath. It is well named, as it 

 looks more like an Elseagnus than a Groundsel. It is pre- 

 sumably quite hardy at Coombe Wood, near London. 

 Aralia JMaxinioiviczii is a beautiful shrub that has proved 

 quite hardy at Coombe, and I hope it will be so in all parts 

 of England, as it is so distinct from other open-air shrubs, 

 having quite a sub-tropical aspect. It is of tall growth, has 

 deeply palmate leaves (five to seven lobed), dark green, 

 with reddish brown leaf stalks. It is a stately plant, yet 

 more graceful than \\\q zoxnxf^ow Aralia Sieboldi {Fatsia Ja- 

 ponica), which is perfectly hardy about London and south 

 of it. A. Maxiii/owicsii IS, I believe, a native of Japan, and 

 is the Acanthopanax ricinifolium of Decaisne. The Japan- 

 ese Maples, chiefly forms of A. polymorphiun, with 

 feathery foliage, were shown in large specimens by Veitch, 

 and the rich hues of the coppery-tinged forms had a 

 charming effect. Golden-leaved shrubs, such as Neillia 

 ( Spircea) opulifolia aurea, Die: villa aiirea, Jasininum vulgare 

 auremn, together with cut-leaved sorts like Alnus incana 

 imperialis, Rhus glabra laciniala, gave the group a bright 

 effect, and showed how attractive a tasteful arrangement 

 of hardy tree and shrub branches can be made. Perhaps 

 the most valuable contribution in the way of new hardy 

 trees at the show was a golden form of Thuyopsis borealis 

 {Cha?n(ecy pan's Nutkaensis), exhibited by Messrs. Slocock, 

 nurserymen at Woking, Surrey. The young shoots were 

 of a rich golden hue, and one can imagine what a grace- 

 ful tree a large specimen would be on a lawn. The original 

 form of this tree is so valuable in ornamental planting that 

 this golden form is most welcome, although, as a rule, I 

 have no particular leaning towards golden or silver forms 

 of Conifers. 



Juneaist. W. GoldrWg. 



New or Little Known Plants. 



Phlox Stellaria.* 



THE peculiar little Phlox which is figured in the 

 present number is one of the rarest eastern species. 

 It was first discovered by Dr. Short, of Louisville, Ky., 

 in 1829, upon the precipitous limestone cliffs of the Kentucky 

 River, though the exact locality is unknown. It has since 

 been found at Fountain Bluff on the Mississippi, in Jack- 

 son County, Illinois, and by Dr. Gattinger, of Nashville, 

 in the Cedar-barrens of Tennessee, in Rutherford and Craw- 

 ford Counties, growing among sphagnum. 



It is a low, slender, spreading perennial, perfectly gla- 

 brous, with narrowly linear leaves and rather large scat- 

 tered flowers. The lobes of the pale blue or nearly white 

 corollas are distinctly bifid. The specific name has refer- 

 ence to this resemblance in flowers and foliage to some 

 species of Stellaria. It blooms in May or early in June. 



Another very similar species, P. bifida, is found on the 

 prairies of Illinois and Missouri. It is distinguished 

 by a minute pubescence, and by the deeper division of 

 the lobes of the corolla into two or three oblong or 

 nearly linear diverging segments. »?. W. 



A. New Station for Lilium Grayi. 



CLOSE upon Dr. Watson's recent prophecy in G.arden 

 AND Forest, that the habitat of this Lily would prove 

 to be not restricted to Roan Mountain and the Peaks of 

 Otter, has followed its discovery by Mr. H. P. Kelsey in 

 an old field on the banks of Linville River, not far from 

 the little village of that name at the foot of Grandfather 

 Mountain, N. C. The station must be very different 

 from the two subalpineones previously known. He sends 

 half a dozen plants, collected July ist, which are readily 

 identified with those that grow under the Alders and Rho- 

 dodendrons of the Roan Mountain, "Bald," and with Mr. 

 Faxon's excellent figure in Garden and Forest. 



Baltimore, Md. Jollll Donucll Sfllilh. 



Cultural Department. 



Vineyard Notes from Southern New Jerse}'. 



THE prospect for a Grape crop here is, at tliis date (July 9th), 

 reasonably hopeful in those localities unvisited by the rose- 

 bug when the vines were in bloom. Where the rosebug came 

 in force there is nothing left to be harmed by rot or mildew — 

 the vines are fruitless. 



The rosebug first appeared, formidably, on my farm on May 

 22d, 1887. For fifteen years I had seen little of these insects, 

 but had heard of vineyards infested to the entire destruction of 

 the Grape crop for the past ten years. In 1887 the ro,sebugs 

 seemed to swarm from these old homes, and invaded the 

 Vineland tract, consisting of about 34,000 acres. Some farms 

 escaped, but it is proper to call the invasion general, and 

 it was literally an invasion. The insects do not appear simul- 

 taneously everywhere, but they spread from the nidus where 

 the broods are hatched. Thus, in 1887 they first appeared on 

 the west side of my farm, and there swept over 3,500 vines, 

 not leaving a single blossom to form a Grape. They seemed 

 inoving from the west, and did not reach a vineyard of 6,000 

 vines on the east side of the farm until about the time of the 

 limit of their existence. Hence these vines escaped their de- 

 vastation. Nevertheless, the farm east of mine was infested 

 with rosebugs.and they seemed to increase in destructive effect; 

 towards the east, on this farm, also. Probably this was another 

 swarm. The general tendency of movement of these insects 

 seems to be towards the east. 



Of course I tried to repel this onset ; applied all sorts of in- 

 secticides, but really made no effective defense. The bugs 

 had their way. For several days four men constantly labored 

 to save the clusters on those 3,500 vines, but not one was left 

 to pick in September ! 



* p. Stellaria, Gray. Proc. Am. Acad., vili. 252, and Syn. Flora, ii. 131. Per- 

 ennial, glabrous : stems slender, tufted, or creeping at base, low and bi-anching: 

 leaves linear, one or two inches long, rather rigid, slightly ciliate at base : flow- 

 ers scattered on rather long peduncles, pale blue; corolla-lobes narrowly cuneate, 

 bifid at the apex; ovules solitary. 



