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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1913 



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Some Observations of Unfamiliar 



Trees 



ONE of my most agreeable floral memories 

 of Paris at her best — the season when you 

 hardly know whether to call it late spring or early 

 summer — is the laburnum trees. No doubt it 

 is idle for gardeners of the northeastern part of this 

 country to dream of duplicating such fine speci- 

 mens as these, or the laburnums of Scotland that I 

 have heard so much of but have never seen. That 

 is no reason, however, why the possibilities of the 

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For two springs I have been on a laburnum still 

 hunt. It was not to satisfy an old longing to own 

 a tree; I did that in short order by having one 

 tagged in a nursery last year for delivery the fol- 

 lowing spring. What I wanted to find out was, 

 whether there were not more laburnums around, 

 and if so, in what conditions they were doing as 

 well, or better, than reasonably was to be expected 

 of a tree with no great reputation for hardiness. 



The finest specimen that I ran across was in a 

 park — a tree twenty or twenty-five feet high and 

 admirable not only for its beauty in full flower 

 but as an example of safe as well as effective plant- 

 ing. It had a complete southerly exposure and 

 almost sank into the protecting arms of a large 

 maple, with a dogwood at the right. Of course, 

 looking at the tree as an individual, its natural 

 beauty of form was marred; but, on the other hand, 

 there was the needed background of green for the 

 myriads of long golden racemes, the laburnum 

 foliage being rather thin at blooming time, not to 

 mention the inestimable advantage and protection 

 from the dangers that are wont to come out of the 

 north. Certainly it presented a picture worth 

 spending years to create. This was on western 

 Long Island. The next best tree that I found was 



The laburnum needs a good background, 

 is planted with a maple behind 



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