223 PARK AND CEMETERY. 
21 
Asterales. 
Rosales. 
22 
Cinchonales. 
Saxifragales. 
23 
Umbellales. 
Myrtales. 
24 
Cactales. 
Passiflorales. 
25 
Passiflorales. 
Cactales. 
26 
Myrtales. 
Umbellales. 
27 
Sa.xifragales. 
Cincbonales. 
28 
Rosales. 
.\sterales. 
29 
Legumales. 
Campanales. 
30 
Sapiiidales. 
Ericales. 
31 
Celastrales. 
Primulales. 
32 
Ilicales. 
Diospyrales. 
33 
Geraniales. 
Gentianales. 
34 
Malvales. 
Polemoniales. 
35 
Camelliales. 
P)ignoniales. 
36 
Dianthales. 
Salviales. 
37 
Polygalales. 
Chenopodiales. 
38 
Papaverales. 
Podostemales. 
39 
Raiuinculales. 
.A.ssarales. 
40 
Fhiviales. 
Piperales. 
41 
Orchidales. 
Daphnales. 
42 
Musales. 
Lorantliales. 
43 
Iridales. 
Eupborbiales. 
44 
Liliales. 
Urticales. 
45 
Palmales. 
Quernales. 
46 
Aroidales. 
Salicales. 
47 
Cyperales. 
Coniferales. 
48 
Graniinales. 
Filicales. 
Representatives of these groups are distributed from 
North to South and from East to West — without any 
exception. It is otherwise with many ordinal groups 
which have been employed in so-called gardens of 
instruction. 
James MacPherson. 
ARALIA (FATSIA) SIEBOLDI. 
By Joseph Meehan. 
Note— The illustration of Aralia Sieboldi, shown here, was 
used by mistake with Mr. Meehan's discussion of Cordyline 
indivisa last month. The accompanying illustration of Cordy- 
line indivisa should have appeared with last month's notes. 
Those of your readers who have been to the Isle 
of Wight, England, will remember how many treasures 
of trees and '^hrubs are thriving out doors there that 
even elsewhere in England are not considered hardv. 
ARALIA SIEBOLDI. HEDGE, CERASUS LUSITANICUS. 
TREE, QUERCUS ILEX. 
CORDYLINE INDIVISA; HEDGE, CERASUS LUSITANICUS, 
TREE QITERCITS ILEX. 
Before us is an illustration of one such shrub, Aralia 
Sieboldi, or as botanical authorities now make it, 
Fatsia Japonica, which is growing on the grounds of 
Mr. George Hutt, Apply Towers, Near Ryde, Isle 
of Wight. 
In our own country this plant is seen only as a 
greenhouse one in the north, where it is often found 
in the collections of florists who make a business of 
loaning plants for decorative purposes. In the south, 
wherever no more than about io° of frost occurs, it 
would prove hardy. 
Now the sight of the lovely specimen before us 
makes us wish we could have such a one on our 
grounds. It is nearly twelve feet high, and, as the 
picture shows, is laden with flowers. There are hun- 
dreds on hundreds of beautiful white ball-like flowers, 
and these give way to berries later which, when ripe, 
resemble large black currants. I am one who believes 
a great many of these lovely plants could be grown 
out-doors here. But it will not do to set them in any 
vacant place, there must be a cozy, sheltered nook for 
them, and it must be where the winter’s sun will not 
reach them. I have not as yet tried this Fatsia, but 
have some other plants of its class, and have carried 
them safely through two winters, by providing for 
them, as recommended above. One of the shrubs 
which is living with me is the one shown in the illus- 
tration forming the hedge in the rear of the Fatsia, 
and which is the Portugal laurel, Cerasus lusitanicus. 
I think I am going to raise it. In the South of Eng- 
land it is a common evergreen, seen either as a single 
specimen or in hedge shape, and its foliage is of a 
lovely shining green. 
The Aralia, or Fatsia, is one of a numerous family. 
As many of your readers know, one of our most orna- 
