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produced in such profusion as to make the bushes appear as if clothed 
with rose-coloured mist. S. pekinensis, a white-flowered species, is a 
slender tree-like shrub, with flexuous branches covered with a a yellow- 
brown bark. S. japonica has been already mentioned at the commence- 
ment of these notes. 
— V. dilatatum appears to grow much more vigorously 
dia in Britain, and is perfectly hardy ; it is, perhaps, the finest of 
ornamental autumn-fruiting plants, being covered with scarlet berries. 
V. tomentosum, another Japanese species, perhaps better known in 
English gardens as V. plicatum, is one of the best of all white- eo 
shrubs, . Opulus, var. americanum, is employed with good effect ; 
is useful on account of its white flowers, lowe by scarlet fruit, lu 
for the fine er of the foliage in autum 
od rons.— None of the ae ee containing much * ponticum 
blood will nud the Were winters of Boston and its susltosriood. 
Professor Sargent has, however, a wonderful series of ** Catawbiense’ 
seedlings which drive but apparently not so well as in the cooler, 
moister climate of Brit 
The Ghent azaleas do “Well and so do the seedlings and hybrids of 
the Chinese and Japanese A. mollis. R. myrtifolium (of Loddiges), 
a compact growing plant of garden origin, stands the climate well. 
ontfers.—Pre-eminent amongst conifers in the North-Eastern United 
States are the white pine, Pinus Strobus, and the hemlock spruce, 
Tsuga canadensis, These two are the most beautiful as well as by far 
the most useful from a landscape point of view, and they are employed 
with great efect at Holm Lea. A weeping form of the latter was taken 
from the woods some score years ago by Professor Sargent; it now 
forms a striking mass about a yard high and about four yards through. 
The Norway spruce is used as a hedge and kept cut in ; under these 
conditions it is attractive. As an ornamental tree it has been largely 
in many places in North-Fastern America, and is hardy ‘and 
grows rapidly, but it soon becomes unsightly and cannot be depended 
on for more than 20 or 30 years; the same remarks apply to the Scotch 
fir (Pinus sylvestris). 
axus 
cuspidata, var. brevifolia, a e ai hen form of the Japanese 
species, is perfecily hardy at Boston, whilst the European Taxus baccata 
cannot withstand the severity of the winters. As a dwarf-growing 
one specimen being about 25 feet in height and of a beautiful silvery blue 
colour. Abies concolor, about 30 feet high, was perfect iu form; the 
Colorado form of this species, though not so tall as the one just men- 
tioned, was remarkable for the beauty of its colour. The form of the 
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga Douglasi), from Colorado, is also “bluer” 
than the type from the Pacific Coast, and is quite hardy at Boston and 
elsewhere, where the more western plant cannot withstand the winter 
cold. This Colorado plant should be tried in England in places where 
the common Douglas fir does not thrive. 
les sibirica, a fine young tree 25 feet high, was vac cones. At 
Kew this begins to grow too early, and is always more r less injured 
by spring frosts ; ; it is the first to begin growth xt iod: it ie ert 
rdeners are not tried bv late peint frosts. Amongst other 
noteworthy Seog was a fine specimen of Pinus bungeana, bearing 
cones ; it was a handsome plant, upiriada of 12 feet high, and with a 
spread of buste at the base of about six feet. Prunus pendula, zi 
Holm Lea and elsewhere, is a remarkably handsome tet: Professo 
