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the base of a tree. It must be remembered that 
plants in such locations require a supply of rich 
food annually. 
NO 3. NORWAY SPRl'CE AND KUUNY. UL'S RADI CAN S VAR. 
“ I should like to hear from the readers of the 
Park AND Cemetery if Euonymus has been used 
for covering the trees; if so, is it injurious to their 
vitality ? ” 
TAMARIX AMURENSIS. 
The accompanying illustration shows a speci- 
men of the Tamarix Amurensis, growing on the 
grounds of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 
University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Park, Minn., 
and to which reference was made in a previous is- 
sue by Prof. Samuel B. Green of the station. 
In a communication on the subject Prof. Green 
says: 
“Herewith I send you a photograph of Tamarix 
Amurensis taken on ourg rounds. It is a plant that 
I think very highly of on account of its hardiness 
and the pretty effect which it gives to shrubberies. It 
has proven by far the most satisfactory of the Tam- 
arixes which we have tried here. With us it fre- 
quently kills back several feet but it starts so early 
and so strongly in the spring of the year that it 
grows out of the injury and in a little while makes 
a fine show. I have seen this plant doing exceed- 
ingly well on the grounds of the Brookings Agricul- 
tural College at Brookings, S. D,, where it is fully 
exposed to the dry prairie winds and in one of the 
severest localities of this section.” 
“I know that it would add much grace to the 
shrubbery of the cemeteries and parks in this vicin- 
ity if it were used more and I take it that is about 
the situation elsewhere. I have often noticed that 
planters of trees and shrubs are very apt to follow 
in ruts, planting only a very small list, and that it 
often takes them a long time to get hold of any new 
thing. 
“This Tamarix is something that is propagated 
so easily that it can be used in large quantities 
TAMARIX AMURENSIS. 
without much expense. It grows as freely from fall 
made cuttings as most of the willows.” 
The Jericho Weed. 
The Jericho weed, says an exchange, is a unique 
giant among American weeds. It is a mass of tan- 
gled vegetation six feet in diameter. Until fall it 
behaves like other plants, but when the winds of 
autumn dry its sap it goes on a vegetable cowboy 
spree. Its drying up does not make it shrink in 
size — only makes it lighter. It loosens from the 
soil and when a cyclone or tornado comes tearing 
along, these huge balls fly before the wind, bound- 
ing and leaping across the plains. Is it any wonder 
that the cattle and sheep are frightened out of their 
wits when they see these strange and fearsome 
things coming down upon them, and flee for their 
lives, more scared of the Jericho balls, perfectly 
harmless though they be, than of the terrors of the 
approaching storm ? 
