466 



Garden and Forest. 



[Number 352. 



Cruz and Watsonville, and the results are said to be grati- 

 fying both in regard to price and yield. Like the Black- 

 berry, the season is a long one, but I have no' data from 

 the berry-gardens. It is certain, however, that the area 

 planted is being extended rapidly. The Loganberry is 

 hardy wherever tested in California, but this proves noth- 

 ing in respect to its value in colder climates, though itS 

 wild Blackberry blood must be an advantage, possibly 

 sufficient to counteract the weaker Red Antwerp cross. The 

 fact that hardly a trace of the Raspberry remains in vine, 

 leaf, or general appearance supports this view. The illus- 

 tration below is from a photograph taken last July. 



Loganberry-plants will be high-priced for a time, because, ' 

 as with the Black-cap Raspberries, we have to layer the 

 long canes or else root the tip ends. The new plants grow 

 rapidly, and with proper care should be fit to fruit the 

 second year. The University of California distributed it 



two weeks or more later, it helps to prolong the flow- 

 ering period of this most useful group of shrubs. It is 

 a stout shrub, sometimes reaching a height of fifteen to 

 eighteen feet. The leaves are four or five inches long and 

 nearly as broad. The young shoots and petioles and 

 cymes are covered with a stellular pubescence. Its fruit is 

 more beautiful than that of V. dentatum, being a dark blue 

 with a rich bloom, and it has the merit of holding its fruit as 

 well as its leaves much later in the season, and its foliage 

 turns to brighter colors in the autumn. It has never been 

 very widely planted, although it has been sold from nur- 

 series under several different names. It is perfectly hardy, 

 at least as far north as Boston, and it is one of those good 

 native shrubs which have been overlooked by planters, 

 although it is most effective for use in public parks or other 

 situations where heavy masses of foliage are wanted. 

 Parrotia persica. — This is a large shrub or small tree 





^'R. 74- —Plant of the Loganberry growing near Santa Cruz, California. — See page 465. 



quite extensively last year, but now the plant is in the 

 trade, and, of course, will not be again sent out. The 

 forthcoming annual report of the California Experiment 

 Stations will contain a more complete history of the 

 Loganberry, written by Professor Wickson. 



Niles, Calif. 



Charles Howard Shinn. 



Plant Notes. 



Viburnum molle. — This plant was figured in Garden and 

 Forest (vol. iv., page 30), but the longer it is tested in cul- 

 tivation the more evident its good points become. The 

 species ranges through the southern states, extending as 

 far south as Florida, and its northern home is on the islands 

 of Nantucket and Naushon. In general appearance and in 

 the shape of its leaves, flowers and fruit it bears a likeness 

 td the Arrow-wood, Viburnum dentatum, but as it blooms 



which is much more beautiful in autumn than at any other 

 season. The flowers, which appear before the leaves, are 

 a little more than clusters of reddish brown stamens, and 

 can hardly be called ornamental. In early summer the 

 young growth takes on a shade of pink, which is rather 

 pleasing. It has the merit, too, of a' robust, stout habit, 

 but it is not until autumn that it can be called beautiful, 

 when its late persisting leaves, which begin to turn at the 

 tips, gradually change into the brightest of orange and 

 crimson, and sometimes into a rich chocolate-brown. It 

 then becomes — after the leaves have quite fallen from most 

 trees and shrubs — a really striking object. It belongs to 

 the Witch Hazel family, and although it is a native of the 

 country south of the Caspian Sea, it is perfectly hardy 

 in New England. 



Romneya Coulteri. — This interesting California plant 

 does not seem to get much of a foothold in eastern rar- 



