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FLORA AND SYLVA, 



to transplant. The best plan for grow- 

 ing this tree is to sow the seed where it 

 is wanted, or else to obtain small nursery 

 grown stock that has been frequently 

 transplanted. Trees from the woods are 

 almost sure to die when planted in open 

 ground. The fruit of the Tulip tree is 

 a cone 2 to 3 inches in length. The 

 paddle-shaped seeds are attached to and 

 closely packed around a central spike. 

 It flowers in May in this part of Ameri- 

 ca. Farther north its flowering season 



is in June, but never so late as July. 



DANSKE DANDRIDGE. 

 Rose Brake, West Virginia, U.S.A. 



[Although it may never attain in our 

 country the noble dimensions of those 

 described by Mrs. Dandridge,this is a tree 

 of proved value ; and though not planted 

 as a forest tree should be, amongst its 

 fellows in woods, still it attains striking 

 development in many of our country 

 seats, as in the exampleatEsher Place, of 

 which we give an engraving. The fact 

 that, fully exposed as the trees are, in 

 pleasure grounds and lawns, and with 

 the roots robbed by the grass, they yet 

 attain this size, proves that, planted and 

 grouped in a more natural way, we ought 

 to get an even finer growth. Any free 

 soil suits it, if deep and fresh without 

 being wet. It grows faster than many 

 forest trees, is free from insect pests, 

 beautiful in flower, and excellent as tim- 

 ber. To do well it should be planted 

 young and left to itself, being averse to 

 removal or cutting. — Editor.] 



" God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, 

 it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest 

 refreshment to the spirits ot man, without which 

 buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." — 

 Francis, Lord Bacon. 



EVENING PRIMROSES (CENO- 

 THERA) * 



Among the plants of our gardens some 

 are of doubtful value for effect, however 

 interesting they maybe botanically .This 

 is not the case with the Evening Prim- 

 roses, for amid all hardy plants for the 

 open air there are none of higher value, 

 giving excellent effects when rightly 

 used, while for the most part they are 

 hardy, easy of culture and increase, and 

 good in colour. As to use, they come in 

 very well as groups in the flower-garden, 

 are good where stone edgings are used, 

 and excellent for the mixed border, 

 blooming from June onwards through- 

 out the summer, some of them hardly 

 ever out of bloom, and others flowering 

 a second time in autumn. Their flowers 

 are large and bright, and many of them 

 sweet-scented ; seed is borne in quan- 

 tity upon the tall-growing kinds, but 

 less freely on the prostrate plants. The 

 larger kinds, if a little rough for the bor- 

 der, are beautiful when massed amongst 

 shrubs, or in the wild garden. Nearly 

 all bloom from seed the first year, if 

 sown early. 



The American botanists have lately 

 been changing the names, and nearly 

 every species is put in a new genus of its 

 own. Surely there could not be a better 

 reason than this for the retention of a 

 good English name such as we have, in 

 this case, ready to hand. Even the bota- 

 nists who are guilty of these changes 

 copy the English name. There is plainly 

 no finality in botanical names at all, for 

 each decade witnesses a new set. As 

 though to show this, our old friend the 



* With coloured plate from a drawing by H. G. Moon, made at Mr. Perry's Nursery, Winchmore Hill. 



