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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



October 26, 1912, 



Crataeg: 



The hawthorns include a goodly number 

 of trees of great beauty when in bloom, 

 and some are highly attractive at other 

 periods of their growth. The double- 

 flowered varieties of the common hawthorn 

 make handsome trees of medium size, and 

 are remarkably beautiful wdien in bloom. 

 Pauls Double Scarlet is the best of 

 them, but the Double Pink and Double 

 White are both desirable. The Weeping 

 Thorn, which has single white flowers, is a 

 graceful tree that should not beoverlooked. 

 C. Carrierei and C. tanacetifolia are two 

 beautiful white-flowered thorns that are ol 



are about three inches in length, and of a 

 rich scarlet hue, w^th golden-yellow lobes. 

 Where the conditions are favourable it 

 forms a very handsome law^n specimen, and 

 should be planted wdierever there is a pro- 

 bability of it succeeding, a warm position 

 being selected for the purpose of the ex- 

 periment , The specimen illustrated w as 

 bearing thousands of flowers, but owing to 

 their tonal value, photographically^ being 

 much the same as that of the leaves, they 

 are not readily seen. 



Eucryphia. 



The beautiful E. pinnatifolia is another 

 introduction from Chile, and is of much 

 value from the fact that it ean be success- 

 the thorns here mentioned are especiaUy ^^^^Ij cultivated under conditions less 



much value, as they bloom several weeks 

 after the varieties of C. oxycantlia. All 



suitable for law^n specimens. 



Desf ontainea.. 



The distinct and l)eautiful Desfontainea 



favourable than those necessary in grow- 

 ing Desf ontainea spinosa. In favoured 

 districts it makes a good lawn specimen, 

 the large pure white single flow^ers being 



Scotch laburnum and its varieties are the 

 best suited for lawn specimens, because of 

 their shapely heads, and they are some- 

 what later in flowering than" L. vulgare 

 and its varieties. 



Mag^nolias. 



The best knowai of these trees have no 

 superiors, and should be grown in both 

 large and small gardens. They are admir- 

 ably adapted for cultivation as lawn 

 specimens and also for association with 

 other subjects in the shrubbery border. M. 

 conspicua and iM. Soulangeana and their 

 varieties make handsome trees, some 

 twenty or more feet in height, and are 

 characterised by free<Iom of flowering. The 

 first-named, as so well known, has white 

 flowers, wdiile those of the other are pale 

 rose, and where space permits both should 

 be planted ; but where there is room for 



M. Soulanseana. should 



only 



one 



be 



A MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF DESFOiVTAINEA SPINOSA 

 I„ the ga.de„, of CaetWIlan, th. «at "Mhe E„. of A„.«,,,^^^I^^^ KT'?,,-^ Chi,ea„ ,hr„b 



spinosa is unfortunately not sufficiently 

 hardy to admit of it being successfully 

 grown other than in kind climates. In 

 the southern western counties it grows 

 vigorously and blooms freely, but nowhere 

 have I seen it in such a high state of 

 development as in the famous gardens of 

 Castlewellan, the Irish seat of the Earl of 

 Annesley. These gardens are on a southern 

 slope of one of the smaller of the Mourne 

 Mountains, co. Down, Irelaiul, and about 

 four miles from the sea. In these gardens 

 the desfontainea grows with tlie vigour of 

 the holly, and the specimt>n liercwiOi illus- 

 trated was abont fifteen tVf^t in dianietrM- 

 and i'igbt or nine feet liin;li. 'riiere are 

 several huge .s])eeinuMis of this heaiitifnl 

 Uulean shrub at ( astlewellan, and all w(M'e 

 nowering with great freedom when T saw 

 them at the end of July last. The flowers 



-111^ ^ lilt in many gardens 



It wdl be preferable to plant it in a warm 

 sheltered border. In most gardens to 

 which It IS mtroduced for the first time it 

 will be well to grow it in a sheltered border 

 for a year or two, and then transfer it to 

 an open position should it be considered 

 advisable. 



uaDurnums. 



The laburnums are equally useful as 

 singh^ specimens on the lawn and for j)lant- 

 ing in pronii:u'nt positions in shrubbery 

 hiiVilvvs. Moth the Common (L vul 

 gare) and the Scotch (L. alpinum) labur- 

 rmrns sliould be grown, the finest of the 

 varieties heing. as a matter of course 

 selected. T\u^ h.-st of the forms of th*' 

 first-named are Alschingeri and Vossi and 

 of the latter Parksi and Watereri. ' The 



selected because of it being later in coming 

 into bloom, and the flowers not so liable 

 to be injured by frost. Nigra, a deep- 

 coloured form of the last-named, is well de- 

 serving a plac^ in the garden, althou^rh 

 not, perhaps, quite so attractive as tlie 

 type. M. Lennei has the advantage of being 

 still later in coming into bloom, and has 

 very large flowers of a rich red-purple on 

 the outer side. In the w^estern counties well- 

 developed trees are to be met with, but 

 elsewhere it usually grows in the form of 

 a big bush. The stations for magnolias 

 sbould 1)0 carefully ])repared by adding a 

 liberal proport ion "of light, rich'compost to 

 tlie staple soil. 



Philadelphus. 



Tii,^ nuK k oranges of robust growth in- 

 clude eve i' a 1 that, by reason of their graceful 



