PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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New Sterile Flowered Hydrangeas 
Within a few years past two new sterile 
flowered hydrangeas have been brought to 
notice, varieties of hardy native species, 
and they have been hailed with great de- 
light. Of the older kind the best known 
of all is Hydrangea Hortensia, a Japanese 
one, the oldest known of all this class of 
hydrangea in cultivation. This one, un- 
fortunately, is not quite hardy enough for 
general cultivation. Even in Philadelphia, 
unless in a well sheltered place, such as 
Laurel Hill Cemetery, it freezes to near 
the ground every winter, and as it is of 
the nature that it flowers from the shoots 
it makes the previous season, it follows 
that when it freezes down in this way, 
although it grows again from the base, 
Park 
The last annual report of the Bureau 
of Parks of Portland, Ore., notes that the 
attempt is being made in this Bureau to 
keep a permanent crew of men at work 
the year around, laying out the construc- 
tion work for the winter and keeping the 
same men for maintenance during the 
summer months. In this way the men are 
benefited by all the year round employ- 
ment and the city is benefited by a steadily 
improving body of employes. 
The comfort stations cost the citv 
$7,104.14 for annual maintenance and had 
a use of 1,673,769 persons or a cost of 
about 38/100 of a cent for each person. 
The same reason for providing drinking 
fountains in the streets obtains as in the 
case of the comfort stations, and plans are 
now under way to provide a limited num- 
ber in the more thickly settled parts of the 
city. 
it will not flower. There are several vari- 
eties of this one, such as Thomas Hogg 
for one, some of them rather hardier than 
the type, but speaking for Pennsylvania, 
they all are the better for having their tops 
protected in winter. At Laurel Hill Cem- 
etery there are many elevations and val- 
leys and numerous monuments and stones, 
and it is easy to find situations suited for 
such rather tender shrubs as these 
hydrangeas, so that often fine specimens 
of them can be seen in flower there. 
The tall-growing, hardy hydrangea now 
so common in gardens, H. paniculata 
grandiflora, is of a quite different nature. 
Far from protesting against the loss of 
its previous season's shoots, it rather pre- 
About three miles of trees were planted 
early in 1914. When the Bureau plants the 
trees it takes care of them, and it is ex- 
pected that this policy will be followed 
until the number of trees has been largely 
increased in neighborhoods otherwise en- 
tirely destitute of planting, and that the 
future will justify the small expense wdiich 
is necessary for this limited work. No 
satisfactory plans as to this subject have 
been settled upon because of the large ex- 
pense which woidd be necessary if the 
city undertakes to control the planting, 
care and removal of all the street trees in 
the city. 
Sixty concerts were provided by the 
city at a cost of $9,261.58 with an attend- 
ance of 112,6-50 persons or an average cost 
per person of less than eight cents. 
The Forestry Building was inspected and 
fers to lose them. Gardeners knowing this 
prune it back severely before spring comes, 
as the strong shoots which this insures 
give extra fine panicles of flowers for it, 
and many a one has wished the species 
previously named, H. Hortensia, would 
flower in the same way from its young 
wood, but it won't. 
Coming now to the two new ones men- 
tioned at the head of these notes, one is 
a sterile form of H. arborescens, and has 
been named grandiflora. It is a beautiful 
kind, bearing large heads of pure white 
flowers, and flowering freely every sum- 
mer. It is like the paniculata grandiflora 
in way of pruning, delighting in a close 
cutting back of its young shoots in win- 
ter; and this pruning tends to make it push 
shoots from the crown, which shoots of- 
ten flower later than those that come from 
the pruned ones higher up. 
There is another new sterile, hard\' one, 
a variety of a native sort, called Hydran- 
gea cinerea. It is not yet in general cul- 
tivation nor has it received a varietal name, 
being as yet in the hands of the discoverer 
of it, M. E. Y. Geas, of Indiana. 
It, too, is a valuable acquisition as a 
hardy, sterile funeral variety. It flowers 
freely, has a good habit of growth and 
holds its flower head aloft easily, without 
the shoots being pulled over by the weight 
of the flowers. A plant was given the 
writer two years ago for testing in his 
botanical grounds, and the photograph of 
it is presented herewith. When this one 
is addpd to the other two there will be 
three fine, hardy, sterile flowered varieties 
of hydrangea, the H. paniculata grandi- 
flora, H. arborescens grandiflora and the 
new one, H. cinerea, which has not re- 
ceived a varietal name yet; and there is 
still room for more of these beautiful 
shrubs. Joseph Meeh.\n. 
although some decay appears in the great 
logs, yet it does not seem to have done 
such damage as to cause any immediate 
anxiety. Measures are being taken, how- 
ever, after obtaining the best expert ad- 
vice available, to preserve the logs. A 
regrade of the street to the south of the 
buildings will somewhat change its setting 
for the worse, but unless the city was 
willing to expend more than $30,000 in 
purchasing the frontage and going to more 
expense by diverting adjoining streets, 
there seemed to be no way to overcome 
this difficulty'. The north half of Hillside 
Parkway was macadamized and the whole 
drive opened on August 4th with a band 
concert. More than 4,000 people were on 
the driveway that evening. 
The roads under construction at IMt. 
Tabor were graded and rolled and oiled, 
HVDR.VNGEA CIXEREA. NEW STERILE FLOWERAL VARIETY. 
Improvement in Portland, Ore. 
