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Sargent declares it to be one of the floral treasures of the world, and 
writes in * Garden and Forest" that it is one of the loveliest in flower 
and the most pleasing and graceful in habit of all the plants big have 
been transferred from the “garde ns of Japau to these of this country. 
When in flower (the acus iecit the leaves) the tree sates the 
aspect of a pink foun Another Japanese species, P. tomentosa, 
thrives well, and bears abundant crops of fruit. 
us typhina, the common stag’s horn sumach, a species found wild 
everywhere near pion, | is nir with excellent effect near ornamental 
water, its large, handsome, pue leaves forming a fine mass of deep 
This clump, as well. a many others, is * pests with the 
ground ” by means of an HUM band of R. aromatica, a low-growing 
species which makes a natural and artistic outline. The young shoots 
of the latter are icum tinted, and the decaying leaves of both colour 
well in the late autu 
Wil Cardening the end of « moraine drift, covered with wild 
trees from 150 to 200 years old, has given opportunities for wild 
gardening on an extensive scale. Hickories, oaks, hop-hornbeams, &c., 
form the bulk of the native tree vegetation, and underneath native 
shrubs and herbaceous plants abound. mong these are Sambucus 
canadensis, in flower at the end of June, Cornus alternifolia, Rhus 
typhina, with Vitis Labrusca and Smilax herbacea climbing at will 
over the rillium grandiflorum is thoroughly at home, and has 
been planted in large quantities. Professor Sargent informs me that a 
beautiful contrast is furnished by Narcissus poeticus and Scilla cam- 
panulata planted together ; they flower at the same time. A host of 
other plants, too numerous to mention, keep up the succession of flowers. 
until late autumn, when the asters and golden rods ap 
Bulbous and Tuberous Summer-flowering Pla nts.—In the well-kept 
greenhouses, remarkable for the excellent cultivation displayed, were a 
large collection of fine gloxinias and begonias. As a rule, the latter 
are difficult to grow in the United States, and are Ray seen in really 
good condition. In beds in the open ground Acidanthera bicolor, a 
beautiful irid iam the mountains of Abyssinia d the Zambesi 
country, was grasie with its spikes of slender tubed, white, 
purple esitt fiowe utside it requires the same treatment as 
Gladiolus bibo MEME. but it makes an excellent pot plant, and only 
needs to be better known to become a favourite in gardens,  Gladioli 
are raised in large quantities from seed, and the indifferent or badly- 
coloured varieties ruthlessly destroyed as they came into flower. Bot 
Acidanthera and gladioli were in full flower pui 18th.  Lycoris 
wem iode Japanese amaryllid, introduced to cultivation under the 
aryllis Hallii, was one of the most striking plants in the 
Rockery. is en there was a fine mass of leaves about 2 feet long ; 
on August 18th these had already ripened off and disappeared, and a 
dozen inflorescences had taken their ue hg scapes were 21 to 3 feet 
in height, and bore on an average si 
The space at my disposal i is too limited to p argues all the g 
