foreground with five Maiden-hair trees (also called 

 Gingko). The leaves and bark of the Cornus si- 

 berica blazed crimson in the setting sun and the 

 fern-like foliage of the Maiden-hair trees was a 

 pure gold. The Maiden-hair tree, a twelve- or 

 fourteen-foot tree, can be planted just as safely 

 as one four or five feet in height. After it is es- 

 tablished its growth is very rapid and it soon 

 develops into a strikingly interesting and un- 

 common addition to our gardens. 



Consider a shrub, a singularly interesting 

 shrub, a shrub of unique value, introduced in this 

 country in 1688, and yet apparently it is almost 

 unknown today; this is incomprehensible to me. 

 I speak of Aralia spinosa. In my garden this rare, 

 tropical-appearing shrub is quite eight feet high. 

 Its stalk is covered with sharp spines and its beau- 

 tiful foliage spreads like a canopy at the top. Its 

 flowers in Autumn are in great creamy panicles. 

 The effect is that of a tropical palm. 



If the Aralia spinosa is spaced six feet apart 

 each way, and one very large root of Yucca fila- 

 mentosa is planted in each space between and 

 all other spaces filled with Tritoma, using the 



