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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1914 



The "Baby Grand' 



For Your Boy's 

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Its inexhaustible resources of wholesome amusement 

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Shizanthus, Butterfly Flower dazzling new colors. 

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was well known to the ancient Hebrews, the word 

 cedar, as used in the Bible, applies to other trees, 

 and only certainly to the Cedrus Libani when 

 coupled with some distinctive epithet. It is. very 

 doubtful whether the wood was ever largely used 

 in Jerusalem for building purposes. The foreign 

 timber trade was, in Solomon's time, in the hands 

 of the Phoenicians, and the quantity of first-rate 

 oak and pine on all the coast ranges from Carmel 

 northward was so great, that it is improbable that 

 the almost inaccessible valleys of the Lebanon 

 should have been ransacked for a wood that has no 

 particular quality to recommend it for building 

 purposes. 



The banyan tree of India {Ficus indica) is a 

 quick-growing, comparatively short-lived tree 

 which, with its habit of thrusting down roots from 

 its branches, forms a composite stem and ultimately 

 constitutes a grove of trees rather than a single 

 tree, though all the stems really originate from one 

 individual. The average life of the banyan is 

 reckoned at 150 to 200 years. It is a remarkable 

 fact that the banyan hardly ever starts growth on 

 the ground; its figs are eaten by birds and the seeds 

 deposited in the crowns of palms and other trees 

 where they germinate and send down roots which 

 embrace and eventually kill the host. In India 

 where this tree is sacred, many magnificent examples 

 are known. One of them, with its spread of 

 branches, covers 3 J acres of ground, and it is claimed 

 that under its shade 10,000 men might stand with- 

 out incommoding themselves. At Mhrwa, in the 

 Saltara collectorate, there are (or formerly were,) 

 two trees, one with a spread of branches 450 yards 

 in circumference, the other 350 yards. These 

 trees were known to be 200 years old and may 

 possibly have been 300 years of age. 



Is it true that the Montezuma Cypress at Tide is the 

 oldest tree in the world? 



The Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronula- 

 um), the largest deciduous cypress of which there 

 is any authentic record, stands in the centre of the 

 village of Tule, on the road from Oaxaca to Guate- 

 mala by the way of Tehuantepec, within the en- 

 closure of the parish church, and is a conspicuous 

 object from all the country round. The measure- 

 ments of this tree given by travelers vary a great 

 deal and it is difficult to compare them satisfac- 

 torily since they generally lack precise information 

 of the exact manner in which they were made. 

 The latest measurements of this tree at our com- 

 mand were taken about twenty years ago and are 

 as follows: circumference of the trunk five feet from 

 the ground following all its sinuosities, 146 feet; 

 actual circumference five feet from ground, 104 feet; 

 total height of tree, 150 feet; longest diameter of 

 the trunk, 40 feet; shortest diameter of trunk, 20 

 feet; spread of branches, 141 feet. The age of this 

 tree has been variously estimated by different author- 

 ities at 750 to 5,000 years. Probably 2,000 years is, 

 all things considered, a fairly approximate estimate. 



Massachusetts. E. H. Wilson. 



The Oriental Spruce 



THE oriental spruce (Picea orientalis) is a tree 

 of fine outline, with an erect and stately 

 trunk. The numerous small branchlets droop in an 

 easy, graceful manner. 



One of the most conspicuous things is the foliage 

 that is retained to the ground-level. The leaves 

 are small as compared with many other spruces, 

 are rather closely adpressed to the stems, rigid, 

 and blunt pointed, of a deep glossy green. 



It is, however, during spring and early summer, 

 when the soft delicate light green of the young 

 tender shoots blends with the deep lustrous sheen 

 of the older foliage, that the color effect is most 

 pleasing. And the bright red picturesque objects, 

 suspended in quite large numbers from the 

 ends of the branchlets, are the male catkin-like 

 flowers, which shower forth the pollen grains. 



The oriental spruce is hardy, but, as with other 

 choice evergreens, plant it in some wind sheltered 

 spot where it will grow more symmetrically. Com- 

 pared with many other spruces it also appears to 

 withstand considerable drought. With this tree 

 little summer pruning is needed, as the rate of 

 growth is not very rapid. 



Long Island. John F. Johnston. 



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