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CEMETERY. 
XANTHOCERAS 
SORBIFOLIA 
THERMOPSIS 
CAROLINIANA 
large growers, while dissec- 
tum in its typical form is 
about tlie best of the lower 
growers. A number of other 
maples flower in spring, and 
may be selected for group- 
ing, but few rival the above 
for high coloring. 
Staphyllea pinnata, trifolia, colchica and .Bumal- 
da are all neat and interesting spring or early summer 
flowering shrubs, which may be employed to diversify 
the group, and so, too, for their foliage may some of 
the laciniate vars. of Rhus. Engler in his 1894 syl- 
labus places the “Crowberry,” the “Holly,” the “Box,” 
the Cyrilla and even the Impatiens in this group, which 
would greatly vary it northward ; but I confess 
Engler’s evolutionary and genealogical notions are too 
much for me. 
20 Thcrmopsis mollis is an excellent yellow 
flowered perennial with terminal racemes and the gen- 
eral aspect of some lupines. 
Liipimts perrennis is found in sandy soils growing 
among grasses and bracken over a wide range ; in 
fact, from New York to the Gulf. I have almost in- 
variably failed to carry any of the Lupines in sandy 
ACER PALMATUM, ATRO-PURPUREUM. 
American gardens for any length of time, and this 
wild one is no exception. They are pretty things 
where they can be grown. L. perennis is quite early 
flowering. 
Laburnums do best northward ; this is true at any 
rate of L. Alpinum, the best trees I have met with 
being in the lower lake regions. Eurther south to 
New Jersey Alpinum on good soil is sometimes 16 or 
18 feet high. L. Vulgare is seldom more than a good 
sized shrub. There are many varieties of these species 
and some few hybrids. Then there is the curious L. 
Adami, whose origin has been so much written about, 
but which is considered a cross between L. vulgare 
and Cytisus purpureus. It bears both kinds of flow- 
ers. 
Cytisus purgans is among my notes as a spring 
flowering plant, but I have no definite recollection 
of it. 
Wistarias in many forms are among the most showy. 
ROBINIA HISPIDA W 
climbers in the spring garden. They are rather lit-jj 
tery plants near a house, but if grown on such trees ^ 
as the honey locusts, very fine grouping effects may , 
be produced in time with the variety of colors. Thej 
whites and deeper purples are not as often seen asj 
they should be. “ 
Robinias are the locusts in many varieties, the 
most striking of which are pink flowered. R. hispida 
and viscosa are pink flowered shrubs and exceedingly 
showy late spring bloomers. 
James Mac Pherson. 
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