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and one with pink, are planted about fifteen feet 
apart at Rose Brake. They are, when in flower, 
the most striking objects in the grove. i\gain in 
the fall their bright coloring makes them exceed- 
ingly attractive. The foliage of the white variety 
turns beautiful shades of salmon and light claret 
while the pink flowered variety changes to a fine 
deep red. Another peculiarity about these speci- 
men trees is that the pink-flowered variety retains 
its foliage a week or ten days later than the other. 
This may be owing to the fact that they came from 
different localities, one much farther north than 
the other. 
I have often noticed in the spring woods in this 
neighborhood the beautiful effect of Dogwoods and 
Redbuds growing together along the margins of 
open woods and copses. The two trees bloom at 
the same time and are admirable contrasts. Here, 
where the Red Cedar is indigenous, it is not un- 
common to see them fringing large masses of these 
evergreens, which form an admirable background 
for the display of their beauties. On rugged hill- 
sides the combination of huge grey limestone 
boulders with the dark forms of the cedars in 
groups here and there, interspersed with Dogwood 
and Redbud trees garlanded with bloom, is a very 
beautiful one and one from which landscape gar- 
deners can gain some useful hints. Here at Rose 
Brake is a natural ledge of limestone crowning a 
low hill, with many cedars growing as Nature 
planted them among the rocks, and here I am 
planting young Dogwoods and Redbuds in front 
of the cedars, trying to make just such a picture as 
I have often seen in our woods and I feel sure that, 
when the trees are grown there will be no more 
beautiful group on the place. 
The Japanese Redbud does not grow so fast 
here as the native variety, nor does it form a tree 
at all, but a rather low shrub. It is not so hardy 
as Cercis Canadensis and may do better farther 
south. 
Cornus Mas. is an important little tree for its 
very early yellow flowers and should be in every 
collection. As the flowers come before the leaves, 
are bright yellow and produced in masses that 
cover the branches, it is a showy object when in 
bloom. It is also valuable for its bright red fruit 
the size of a small cherry, which has gained the 
tree its common name of Canadian Cherry. It 
sometimes reaches the height of twenty feet. It is 
a long-lived tree and improves with age. A very 
showy growth can be made by planting this Cornel 
with Forsythia and Jasminum nudiflorum. 
There are many other interesting plants in this 
group but they come under the head ol shrubs 
rather than treesT 
Cornus alternifolia, however, attains the height 
of twenty-five feet in rich soil and has cream- 
colored flowers in large flat cymes. The fruit is 
bright blue on reddish stalks. 
Cornus Kousa from Japan, resembles Clornus 
florida in size of flowers and general habit of 
growth but is not so handsome when in bloom as 
our own native plant. I do not know whether it 
is quite hardy in the north and do not think it 
possesses any superiority to Cornus florida. 
Cornus Nuttalli is the western representative 
of the large-flowered Dogwoods, and is very beau- 
tiful where it succeeds, but is said to be a failure 
in eastern parks. In its native habit it often be- 
comes a large tree 6o feet high, with flowers from 
four to six inches in diameter. 
When the Dogwoods bloom the Halesias keep 
them company with branches hung with myriads 
of little white bells, which somewhat resemble 
Snowdrops. Halesia tetraptera is the showiest 
form of this tree. It grows to the height of thirty 
feet, and is, with us, of rather spreading growth 
with slender branches. When in bloom a group of 
these trees is a very striking object, but the blos- 
soms drop very soon. They should not be crowd- 
ed up with other trees, but given plenty of room 
and a conspicuous .position. 
H ilesia diptera does not attain the same height 
as H. tetraptera, nor is the bloom so showy, but it 
is an exceedingly graceful little tree. The blos- 
soms are cream white and the green seed vessels 
are interesting. 
Staphylea trifolia is sometimes classed as a 
shrub but it is usually found in our woods in tree 
shape, though not over ten or twelve feet in 
height. It is, under cultivation, an elegant little 
tree of upright habit of growth, and abundant 
cream-colored flowers in drooping racemes very 
freely produced, along the slender branches, giv- 
ing it an exceedingly delicate and graceful appear- 
ance, in company with the light green turnate 
leaves. The curious bladdery seed pods are quite 
ornamental and are of a lighter green than the 
leaves. The other Staphyleas, S. colchica and S. 
Bumalda come from Asia and are true shrubs. S. 
Colchica has flowers with the fragrance of orange 
blossoms. Danskc Dandvidzc. 
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THE THURLOW WEEPING WILLOW. 
The illustration herewith represents one stem 
out of five, all one year’s growth, from a cutting 
the size of a lead-pencil planted a year ago last 
spring. The young tree was damaged by a very 
severe frost the fall before and it was cut down in 
the spring. 
This last year five stems came up. One 
grew 
