PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE BEST MAY FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 
There are so many trees and shrubs 
flowering in May that these notes are 
not intended to embrace them all, but 
to name the most worth3' ones for 
general cultivation only. The writer 
thinks best to say that in Pennsylva- 
nia the entire number named are quite 
hardy. Reports from the Northwest 
have named many of them as quite 
hardy; but from the writer’s knowl- 
edge he would place all of the follow- 
ing list as doubtfully hardy without 
winter protection in the colder parts 
of the country; Andromedas, includ- 
ing Japonica, floribunda and others; 
Azaleas of the foreign types; Exo- 
chorda grandiflora; Citrus trifoliata; 
Calycanthus, of all kinds; Chionan- 
thus Virginica; Magnolias of the for- 
eign species and varieties, all of which 
may be classed as Maj' flowering. The 
list which follows succeed so well in 
many verj^ cold states, that those who 
have not tried them all would not re- 
gret trying them; Cercis Japonica and 
C. Canadenses; Cornus Florida; Crat- 
;egus ox3"cantha, C. cordata, C. cTjcci- 
nea, and the many varieties of o.xy- 
cantha; Cerasus Sieboldi, C. Chinensis, 
and the many varieties of flowering 
and weeping cherries; Fraxinus ornus, 
the flowering ash; the Horse Chestnut, 
.Tlsculus, in variet3’'; Lonicera Tatari- 
ca, the bush honeysuckle; Pyrus Cor- 
onaria, the flowering crab, and Bech- 
tel’s flowering crab and other Pyrus; 
Robinia hispida, psued-acaca, viscosa 
and their varieties; Ribes aureuin and 
other flowering currants, Rhodotypos 
Kerrioides; Rhododendrons; Spiraea 
Reevesii and i.)thers; Styrax Japonica 
and S. obassia; Syringa vulgaris in 
its many varieties; Weigelas in vari- 
ety; Viburnum lantana; and let me 
include AVistaria Chinensis, for it may 
be grown as both shrub and vine. 
Two of the above ntimed tire illus 
trated herewith, Crattegus oxycan- 
tha, the pink flowered variet3a and the 
AVistaria Chinensis. The pink flow- 
ered hawthorn is a variety of the well 
known hawthorn, Crattegus oxv^cantha. 
Hawthorns have been made famous 
by poets and writers; and by all Eu- 
ropeans they are looked on as part 
and parcel of their country; and here 
in our own hind they are considered 
necessary in all landscape gardening- 
work. There are several varieties with 
colored flowers, pink, scarlet and so 
on, and there are double flowered ones 
as well. FTawthorns do best in cool 
soil and in situations partly shaded 
from the midday sun. Of late years 
they have been used by florists for 
Easter work, growm in pots and forced 
for the occasion, and they sell well. 
The other illustrtition is of the 
Chinese AVisttiria, AVistaria Chinensis, 
commonl3' found in nurser3" lists un- 
der the name Sinensis, This has al- 
ways been a favorite vine with all that 
are acquainted with it. Those who 
have not seen them would hardly be- 
lieve in the grandeur of the large 
vines when in flower that adorn the 
residences in many of our older cities. 
The illustration we give of one repre- 
sents a fair sized vine, l.mt there are 
manv- that have covered the entire 
available space from the ground to the 
roof of house, ;ind the splendor of 
the display they make when in flower 
may be imagined. There tire several 
other species and varieties of AVistaria, 
such as the multijuga, from Japan, 
the native one, frutescens and one be- 
lieved to be a seedling from frntes- 
cens, the magnifica; but in spite of all 
competition the one of our illustra- 
tion is still preferred to all. 
The most of the trees and shrubs 
named are fully well known but a few 
notes on some of them will be made. 
The Flowering Ash, known in collcc- 
CRAT^GUS ‘OXYCANTHA (PINK FLOWERED). 
