PARK AND CEMETERY. 
English specialist as a parent for a most interesting 
progeny, and that seedlings often appear much 
darker than the 
original. 
Androsace, in 
46 species, are 
often pretty little 
plants from the 
Alpine and tem- 
perate regions of the northern hemisphere, Four 
species, with a few varieties, are found in the 
States. Twenty or more are kept in European 
collections. 
Dotiglasia has about four species found on the 
mountains of Northwestern America and the 
Pyrenees. They are rare little evergreen rockery 
plants, with purple or yellow flowers. 
Cortnsa, in 2 species, from Europe and Northern 
Asia, and S-jldinclla in 4 species and a few varie- 
ties, from the mountains of Europe, are in gardens, 
and have pretty little purple, lilac, or sometimes 
bluish, flowers. 
Dodecatlicoti, “American cowslip,” has 2 or 3 
species in great variety, in Northern Asia, as well 
as here. The various forms of D. Media are hand- 
some plants, extending from Michigan along the 
CVCLAMEN PERSICUM. 
In Shady Ground, California. 
hills southward to Texas and westward from the 
Rocky Mountains to the Sierras of California, and 
northward to Behrings Straits. The Ardisia shaped 
flowers are purplish, pink or white. 
Cyclamen has 12 species, mostly in Mediter- 
ranean countries, but C. hederaefolium is sparingly 
found in England ; C. ibericum is found in the 
Caucassus ; C. Persicum, so familiar in green- 
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houses, does well in the shade in Southern Cali- 
fornia. A few of the species have been tried 
outdoors north, but with poor success. 
Lysimickia, “loosestrife,” has 65 species, widely 
distributed through the temperate regions of the 
world. Eight species and varieties are native or 
naturalized in the States. L. Nummularia is apt to 
become a bad weed on moist, shady lawns, yet 
sometimes it is useful as covering where grass is 
difficult to grow. It has a golden leaved form. 
Several species are upright growers, such as the 
white L. clethroides and the yellow L. verti- 
cillata. 
The woody tribes of the Alliance are sub-trop- 
ical with rare exceptions ; often the species are 
found occupying insular stations on islands or 
mountains, but Myrsine Africana has a wide range 
from South Africa to the Himala3-as ; M. Urvillei 
and some others extend south to New Zealand, and 
M. Rapanea is found on the Florida “Keys.” 
Several Ardisias extend northward to China ; A. 
Japonica, as previously mentioned, is hardy in the 
middle Atlantic States, and A. Pickeringia is found 
in Eastern Florida. A species of Jacquinia is 
found further south on the islands, and another on 
the Mexican border. James MacPJierson. 
When the late Empress Elizabeth was staying 
at Nauheim, the Empress Frederick, on a visit to 
her, gave her a vivid description of her garden at 
Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, which had been laid 
out according to her own ideas. It is longer than 
it is broad, and is inclosed by a high wall, in which 
there is a sculptured niche and fountain, like those 
we see in the Old World gardens of Central Italy. 
On either side of the garden an immense pergola 
runs from the house to the wall, lofty and light, 
and overgrown entirely with roses — Malmaison, 
Marshal Niel, Noisette and others. The garden is 
laid out in terraces, and, with the exception of a 
broad middle avet>ue and a lawn before the house, 
is planted with rose trees of all kinds and of all 
colors. The Empress Frederick gave the Plmpress 
photographs of this garden, which she sent to the 
Emperor, asking him whether he did not think the 
idea charming, and whether he had any objection 
to her having a similar garden laid out at Lainz. 
She never had a definite answer to that letter, 
and now the Emperor has given orders that the 
garden at Lainz is to be laid out exactly like that 
of Friedrichshof, without delay, as the realization 
of perhaps the last wish the Empress ever expressed. 
By next spring the gardens of Lainz will be as the 
Empress would have wished to see them .' — London 
News. 
