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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Salvadoreae is a small tribe of half a dozen 
species. S. Persica, a small evergreen tree, is 
ACOKANTHERA SPECTAEILIS. 
found in the Eastern Mediterranean regions and in 
India. 
Allantanda is in 12 species of Central and South 
American shrubs and climbers. A. cathartica 
(mostly called grandiflora) flowers beautifully 
plunged out during summer in pots and trained on 
verandas or fences. The variety called Williamsii 
is a dwarf form of this species, which has developed 
a semi-double form at the south. It promises to 
be a good sub-tropical plant, or at the lower south 
it may stand out altogether, the roots are quite 
persistent. 
Acokantliera has 3 species in South Africa and 
Abyssinia. A. spectabilis, as shown in the cut, is 
depauperate, but when well grown is a very fine 
evergreen, with deliciously scented white flowers 
forming thryses of a foot or more long at the end 
of the branches. They are very poisonous plants, 
as are many others of the allied tribes. 
Vinca, in 12 species, are found in South Europe 
and Western Asia, and some species are common 
throughout the tropics. V. rosea is naturalized in 
South Florida. It has handsome white varieties 
with and without rose-colored eyes. I hardly know 
whether V. minor can be called adventive in the 
states or not. It is often found in old cemeteries 
and abandoned garden sites, but I doubt its ability 
to hold its own with the coarser native herbs. It is 
a useful evergreen covering plant under thin plan- 
tations of large trees, and, as it varies a good deal 
both in flower and foliage, it may be made great 
use of for covering dry banks, such as railway em- 
bankments. The variety with reddish flowers is 
rarely seen in cultivation, but often occurs in 
Switzerland and less frequently in the south of 
England. The purple and white flowered forms 
flower with Forsythias, and a steep south bank 
planted properly with the two may be imagined. 
The “garish” flower beds cannot touch such a dis- 
play! V. major and its variegated forms is well 
adaptedto the south and California, but I have seen 
this species badly frozen in the English eastern 
counties. The Hungaiian V. herbacea flowers 
more abundantly than either of the others. 
Phnneria , the “ frangi pani ” of Spanish 
America, has 45 species enumerated. Several 
forms are in South b'lorida and South California 
gardens, and Thcvetia neriifolia is found in a wild 
state at Key West. 
( To be continued. ) 
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The following illustrations should accompany 
the text given in the July issue: 
HALESIA TETRAPTERA, VARS. 
STYRAX JAPONICA. 
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