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SOME SPECIMEN TREES AND SHRUBS, t 
Subscribers can make this column particularly interesting by for- 
warding photographs and descriptions of specimen trees and shrubs. 
see on plate No. I, one of them, Retinospora Fili- 
fera Pendula, nine feet high and seven feet through 
the branches at the ground, in perfect vigor and 
beauty. 
“ Plate No. 2 shows trunk of large elm covered 
with Euonymus Radicans Variegata, to a height 
RETINOSPORAS FOR CEMETERY PLANTING — THE 
EUONYMUS AS A TREE CLIMBER. 
In a discussion at the Omaha Convention of the 
American Cemetery Superintendents, Mr. John 
Reid, superintendent of Mount Elliot Cemetery, 
Detroit, Mich. . and an authority on tree culture, 
defended the Retinosporas as being subjects of rare 
beauty in the way of evergreens for cemetery em- 
bellishment. Mr. Reid has sent us the photographs 
from which the illustrations herewith presented are 
made, and which are most interesting in connection 
with the description accompanying them, here given 
in Mr. Reid's own words : 
“ I stated, that we succeeded in growing several 
varieties of Retinosporas at Detroit, Mich., where, 
during severe winters, the mercury drops to fifteen 
degrees below zero, and I believe that many ceme- 
teries even in a c >lder climate have locations where 
they will succeed by proper preparation of the soil, 
and by protecting the roots from severe freezing for 
the first few years. They are attractive even at one 
NO. I. RETINOSPORA KILIFERA PENDULA. 
foot high. Their slow growth, various beautiful 
tints, and graceful habit, make them peculiarly 
adapted for cemetery purposes. 
“ It may be of some interest to your readers to 
NO. 2. ELM COVERED WITH EUONYMUS VARIEGATA. 
of eighteen feet, and Plate No. 3 shows the trunk 
of a Norway Spruce, on the same lot, covered to 
about the same height. Both are beautiful at all 
seasons of the year. 
When growth begins in the spring, the young 
leaves are margined with a golden-hued band, giv- 
ing a very pretty effect. As the growth becomes 
more mature, they change to a white margin and a 
green center, retaining their foliage during the 
winter without any protection. 
“Previous to my own experiment, I had never 
seen this plant used for covering trunks of trees. 
Many visitors of wide experience in horticulture 
admired its beauty, and were surprised at its adapt- 
ability for such a use. I have had it for many years 
in small bush form, but a few years ago, being at- 
tracted by its peculiar habit of forming into two or 
more twisted divisions, I examined it carefully and 
found many of its branches supplied with aerial 
rootlets such as the ivy and other climbing plants 
have, and this led me to select a place to test its 
climbing qualities, with the result shown. 
“ There are very few more admirable objects 
than the trunk of a tree covered with Euonymus, 
and a few plants of Lonicera Aureum planted around 
