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also found extensively distributed through- 
out this country. 
Corylus Rostrata, the Western Hazel, is 
another dwarf tree of considerable value. 
SHRUBS. 
In native shrubs which are adapted to 
many requirements of park planting we 
have an extensive collection. They are 
widely distributed throughout the moun- 
tain slopes, deep canyons and along the 
streams. What makes them extremely val- 
uable is that they can be easily transferred 
from their native habitation to almost any 
position in park planting and increase in 
utility and beauty. 
Rubus Deliciosus, the Rocky Mountain 
Timble Berry, is a shrub of valuable qual- 
ities. It is handsome in flower, foliage and 
dormancy. It is of bushy and spreading 
habit and bears a pure white rose-like 
blossom in great profusion. The fruit, 
which resembles the raspberry, is large 
and smooth, of a light purplish color and 
rather unpleasant to the taste. 
Physocarpus Ramaleyi, a beautiful shrub 
of spirea-like habit. The stems are some- 
what shredded like the Winebark; the 
flowers are in white and rounded terminal 
clusters; the seed vessels in the fall are 
very decorative with their reddish tinted 
ovaries backed up by a base of strong 
foliage. It flourishes along the rocky 
slopes of streams. 
Physocarpus Torreyi is a much dwarfer 
form than the previous variety. It is well 
adapted for planting as a filler of under 
growth in large groups. 
Holodiscus Discolor , the Mountain Spi- 
rea, of stoloniferous and branching habit. 
It soon becomes, under cultivation, a very 
strong shrub. Its long tomentose white 
panicles clothes the mountain sides with a 
snow-like appearance in midsummer, but 
soon changes to a creamy white as the 
trusses mature. 
Jamasea Americana, a mountain shrub 
of upright growth, white fragrant flowers 
in short terminal panicles. The bark is 
of a strong silver gray color and oblong 
in form, decidedly glaberous on surface 
and tomentose underneath. 
Oercocarpus Panifolia, known as the 
Mountain Mahogany. Extensive growth 
of this vigorous shrub is found on the 
foothill slopes of the mountain range at an 
elevation of six to seven thousand feet. It 
retains its dark foliage until late in the 
fall, and the terminal flowers or twisted 
aikens give the landscape a very pleasing 
effect. 
Amelanchier Alnifolia, known here as 
the Mountain June Berry, closely resem- 
bles the shad bush of th.e New England 
states, only more dwarf in habit. It car- 
ries a round, healthy foliage of pleasing 
color and dark purple fruit which is pleas- 
ant to the palate. 
Ribes, the wild currant and gooseberries, 
are numerous in variety as well as in 
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quantity. They are to be found from the 
rocky and sandy slopes of our foothills 
up to an elevation of eight or nine thou- 
sand feet, the most prominent variety in 
Aureum. 
Setosum is a good species of the goose- 
berry, with dark, sweet fruit of good size. 
Rhus Tnlobata. This is entirely dis- 
tinct from every form of Sumach. It is 
a vigorous and diffused branching type 
with decidedly procumbent habits. The 
foliage is strongly aromatic and crowned 
with flat clusters of flowers in bract form 
which develop into scaly catkins of a red- 
dish brown color; very showy in the fall. 
Shepherdia Argenta, the Buffalo Berry, an 
upright shrub with beautiful silver gray fo- 
liage ; more showy than the Russian Olive ; 
has scarlet berries of an acid flavor; not 
found north of the Divide, but quite nu- 
merous in the southern and interior sec- 
tions of our mountains. 
CONIFERA. 
During the past quarter of a century or 
more I have made frequent trips through 
the canyons and over the mountains of 
this region and I have frequently been 
strongly impressed with the fact that only 
a comparatively small number of our Coni- 
fera are grown throughout the Eastern 
states. Although the general flora of the 
Rocky Mountains has been fairly well 
known to botanists for the best part of a 
century, and considering the fact that our 
Conifera can be successfully grown in all 
temperate zones, we find that only an oc- 
casional arboretum in this country or 
Europe contains a full list of the valuable 
Conifera of this region of the Rocky 
Mountains. Although a subject of this 
character should embrace a more detailed 
account, it is not my desire at this time to 
take up the valuable time of this conven- 
tion by quoting an extensive list, but will 
merely enumerate a few of outstanding 
value and excellency. 
Pinus Ponderosa, the Western Yellow 
Pine commonly called the Bull Pine, fre- 
quently attains a height of 300 feet. It is 
a long-needled foliage variety with thick, 
deep-furrowed brown bark. 
Pinus Ponderosa, the Western Yellow 
type of the variety Ponderosa, and is fre- 
quently called the Rock Pine. In low ele- 
vations it is somewhat scrubby in char- 
acter, but useful for mixed planting. 
Pinus Flexilis, the Limber Pine or 
White Pine of the Rockies, is a light 
gray barkegl variety of ungainly growth, 
not of any great value as an ornamental 
tree, but a good mixer in dense planting 
for harmonizing in color. 
Pinus Edules, the nut or Pinon Pine, is 
a low growing pine of ornamental charac- 
ter, found extensively at an elevation of 
six or eight thousand feet. It is very use- 
ful for planting on dry hillsides. 
Picea Pungens, the Spruce family, is 
greatly diversified in this region. Of the 
Pungens family there are many types, but 
always holding their conical form, for 
which they are much admired. Glauca is 
the Colorado Blue Spruce, but many of the 
green shades are extensively planted. 
Picea Engelmanni is equally as hand- 
some as Pungens in form and is more 
upright and pyrimidal in growth ; found in 
much higher altitudes and consequently a 
great conservator of snow. 
Abies Concolor, the Balsam or White 
Fir of the Rockies, a very handsome ever- 
green, probably the most graceful of all 
our Conifera. Its silvery gray foliage is 
long and soft and its subdued color allows 
a more extensive range of planting without 
any clash in harmony of color. 
Abies Douglasi is the most extensive 
family of evergreen represented in the 
mountains. It is very difficult to classify, 
as this evergreen seems to be an interme- 
diate offspring between the Fir and Hem- 
lock family; however, the Genus Pseudot- 
suga are a valuable class in themselves and 
valuable for extensive planting as wind- 
breaks as well as ornamental work. The 
foliage is soft and usually carried on long, 
graceful branches. 
Juniper us Scopulorum is truly the Rocky 
Mountain Juniper. It is of beautiful 
conical form and steel blue color, much 
hardier than Communis here. 
Juniperus Alpina is found all over our 
mountains. It is of low, prostrate growth, 
and like Scopulorum shows a rich blue 
schene cast. It is extremely valuable for 
covering slopes, mounds and rockeries. 
In conclusion, I would like to make it 
comprehensive that but few of our exten- 
sive collection of evergreens are of any 
great value as timber trees, although in 
the early settlement of this country most 
of the Pines and Spruces were extensively 
used in the many constructions of the pe- 
riod referred to; in fact, some of the 
varieties, particularly the Douglasi Spruce, 
were extensively used, as it was proven by 
actual test that the logs or plants of this 
variety possessed a resisting power equal 
to the White Oak under a direct tensile 
strain. 
PERSONAL MENTION. 
Hobart College, on the occasion of the 
installation of Lyman Pierson Powell as 
president, November 14, awarded the hon- 
orary degree of Doctor of Science to John 
Nolen, the well-known landscape architect, 
of Cambridge, Mass., who is a Bachelor of 
Philosophy of ihe University of Pennsyl- 
vania and Master of Arts of Harvard. 
L. P. Jensen, the St. Louis landscape 
architect, has recently compiled a careful 
check-list of the medicinal plants of St. 
Louis and vicinity that was presented at a 
recent meeting of the St. Louis branch of 
the American Pharmacists’ Association. 
The list is printed in full in the November 
issue of Meyer Brothers’ Druggist, of St. 
Louis. 
