PARK AND CEMETERY. 
21 . 
THE SPRING GARDEN-X 
Kalmias are the sheep laurels and 
calico bushes. K. latifolia and its va- 
rieties are the most used. Nursery- 
grown plants are much the most satis- 
factory. 
LYCIUM GHINENSE 
PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS 
Ledum latifolium, L. palustre and 
their varieties are also worth atten- 
tion. 
Rhododendrons, however, are the 
plants which so highly distinguish this 
group in Atlantic coast gardens. The 
Azalea section furnish most of the ear- 
liest bloomers at the north, the true 
evergreen Rhododendrons and their 
hybrids often delaying until June. R. 
calendulaceum and the hybrids between 
it and R. nudiflorum are the “Ghent 
Azaleas.” R. Indicum amoenum and its 
varieties and some of the forms called 
Ktempferi are beautiful and early to 
flower, generally retaining their foliage 
very well. R. ledifolium, or “Indica 
alba,” as it is called, is the better of 
strawing up north of Maryland. With 
such precaution it may be relied upon 
to bloom well in New Jersey and south- 
ern Pennsylvania. R. Rhodora is a 
beautiful, much neglected, very dainty 
shrub growing in boggy lands of New 
England. 
R. Sinense is the molle or mollis of 
Betula papyrifera show- Rhododendron Indicum 
ing peeling of bark Amoenum 
Rhododendron Indicum Mertensia Pulmo- 
Kcempferi narioides 
some authors. R. Vaseyi and its white 
variety is a Southern form, which is 
perhaps a little late for spring in the 
northern sections. For parts of our 
range to the southward it is quite pos- 
sible to select a number of the ever- 
green Rhododendrons which will bloom 
before May closes — say three years out 
of five. More attention should be given 
to dividing these plants into early and 
late blooming sections. It is useless to 
plant them on the prairies. 
Shortia galacifolia is an interesting 
little herb of this affinity which may be 
grown with care. 
31 — The Primulas, as a rule, require 
some shelter and shade from the win- 
ter’s frost and the summer’s sun to do 
well in our climates. With such aids a 
very charming group of spring flower- 
ing beds may be maintained. Ardisia 
japonica is hardy over a great part of 
our range, and although it has no es- 
pecial ornamental character, it forms a 
fair small shade tree, beneath and be- 
side which Primulas of the variabilis 
and vulgaris types may be grown in, 
great variety. The double primroses 
are beautiful little things which should 
receive some attention. Several Asiatic 
SYRINGA VULGARIS, “ALPHONSE 
I.AVA.LLE'’; BLUISH LILAC; DOUBLE. 
RHODODENDRON VASEYI 
Primulas may also be grown. Andro- 
sacc sarmentosa, Soldanella alpina and 
Dodecatheon media vars. may well be 
added for the sake of variety. 
32 — lialsia tetraptera in variety and 
Styrax obassia will form a group of 
