4 6 FLORA AND SYLVA, 



5- 

 6. 



7- 



Belgrove Plants figured 



Calceolaria depressa. 

 Disa atropurpurea. 

 Brodiaea Howelli. 

 Olearia ilicifolia. 

 Eremurus himalaicus. 

 Cypripedium californicum. 

 Senecio laxifolius. 



in The Botanical Magazine. 



8. Buddleia Colvillei. 



9. Gazania pygmaea. 



10. Cortaderia jubata. 



11. Iris Grant-Duffii. 



12. Convolvulus macro stegius. 



13. Helichrysum Gulielmi. 



14. Arctotis Gumbletoni. 



EVERGREEN TREES L\ THE EASTERN STATES. 



The White Pine, Hemlock Spruce, and Red 

 Cedar are a trio of evergreen trees found growing 

 under the most diverse conditions from Canada to 

 Georgia ; and, although the ancient forests of them 

 are now mostly but a memory, the value of these 

 trees to the planter is very great. They withstand 

 the extremes of heat and cold, drought and rain, 

 and in beauty hold their own with the best. 



A large plantation of the choicer coniferous trees 

 made seven years ago is to-day an object-lesson of 

 what may be planted in safety with satisfactory re- 

 sults. The extremes that prevail in the Eastern 

 States — of great heat in summer, and zero tempera- 

 tures, often accompanied with long-prevailing cut- 

 ting winds and brilliant sunshine, in winter — make a 

 trying test of fitness. Under these conditions some 

 of the best coniferous evergreens have grown vigo- 

 rously and well. A group of the Atlantic Cedar 

 (Cedrus atlantica, the trees imported from England) 

 is to-day a fine feature. In a high position exposed 

 to the coldest winds sweeping across many miles of 

 open country with absolutely nothing to break the 

 force or temper the blast, these trees have grown 

 rapidly and are in robust health. The Lebanon 

 Cedar under identical conditions is an absolute 

 failure. 



Among the Spruces are some from our western 

 States and others from Europe, all handsome and 

 quite at home. Of native species the Colorado 

 Douglas Spruce is making noble, graceful trees. It 

 also shows marked and pretty variations, some trees 

 assuming a glaucous hue almost equal to the best 

 forms of Blue Spruce (Pipea pungens). The Blue 

 Spruce is a tree that cannot be too highly praised, 

 and in support of this maybe cited the grand trees 

 planted by Mr. Douglas at Waukeegan, Illinois, 

 where the conditions are more trying than here in 

 the east. 



The White Spruce (P. alba) of our northern 

 country has proved excellent in New Jersey, and 



is charmingly variable both in habit and of colour, 

 varying from deep green to a silvery hue. 



Of the European Spruces, P. orientalis is cer- 

 tainly one of the best. It is of rather slower growth 

 than most others, but under all conditions makes a 

 healthy, handsome tree, and so densely branched as 

 to show little of its main stem. 



P. omorika from south-eastern Europe proves 

 very hardy, but slow growing. P. excelsa thrives 

 admirably, and has been so popular with planters 

 that one cannot retrain from wishing it had never 

 been introduced. P. ajanensis makes a neat and 

 graceful tree. 



P. pohta is a Japanese Spruce of great promise 

 and noticeable for its rigid branching and the still 

 more rigid sharply-pointed leaves entirely surround- 

 ing the branches. Of the various Firs by tar the 

 most important is Abies concolor from the Western 

 States. It is a fast grower in any aspect or position. 

 Along the coast of Massachusetts and Maine it has 

 been planted freely in seashore gardens, and some 

 of the handsomest garden specimens are to be found 

 there, fully exposed to the fierce winds that sweep 

 in from the Atlantic — winds that not infrequently 

 drench the trees with salt spray, which they endure 

 and grow as fast and as well as far inland. It should 

 be tried under similar conditions in gardens on 

 English coasts. 



Nordmann's Fir has done admirably in our gar- 

 dens and is always conspicuous with its abundance 

 of deep green lustrous foliage. A. cilicica is abso- 

 lutely hardy, thrives well, and is in every way good. 

 The same may be said of the Cephalonian Fir. Two 

 Japanese Firs, A. Veitchii and A. brachyphylla, have 

 stood the test of hardiness, and present appearances 

 betoken they will be handsome trees at no distant 

 date. 



A. Herrington, 



Madison, 



New Jersey. 



