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watched for and destroj ed, just as is done in the 
case of quince bushes. Because of the borer but 
few of this ornamental tree are met with. 
Wistarias, especially those of some size, trans- 
plant badly, yet rarely die outright. If they do 
not push well after due waiting prune them in very 
close. It is not rare for them to remain a whole 
season without pushing and then to grow in good 
earnest the spring following. 
When trees of like kind are planted on each 
side of a path the young shoots of one may be 
bent to meet those of the other and tied together. 
A living arch of much beauty may be formed in 
this way. If desired the shoots may be inarched, 
thus permanently uniting them. A row of privet 
on each side of a path treated in this way forms in 
time a beautiful arbor. June and July are the 
months in which the work should be done. 
The budding of trees is in order in July and 
August. Many of our most useful ornamental 
trees would be hard to obtain were it not for the 
budder’s art. The time to bud is while the sap is 
still active, but is commencing to decline. When 
in its freshest flow the buds do not unite well. 
The double flowering cherries, apples and 
peaches may all be increased rapidly by budding 
them on common seedling stock. 
Joseph Meehan. 
GARDEN PLANTS-THEIR GEOGRAPHY, LIV. 
PERSONALES. 
THE LEUCOPHVDLUM, TECOMA AND ACANTHUS 
ALLIANCE. 
Catalpa has 6 species in North America, the 
West Indies, China and Japan. The native spec- 
ies is well known and is wild from the middle Dela- 
ware valley southward to the gulf, but rarely west 
of the Mississippi. It varies considerably both in 
habit, time of flowering and the color of its flowers 
and foliage. Some flowers are nearly pure white, 
but generally more or less spotted with purple and 
yellow. There are dwarf growing, yellowish and 
purplish leaved kinds. I don’t take much stock in 
the distinction given to the so-called C. cordifolia, 
it seems to be merely a geographical variety of C. 
bignonioides, said to be hardier and so on, but both 
forms stand in sheltered places even north of the 
lower lakes. The hardiest species however are the 
Japanese kinds, C. Kaempferi with yellowish flow- 
ers and large shrublike growth, and the scarcer C. 
Bungli which is said to be a fine tree in Japan, 
Tabebnia is a genus of trees and shrubs in 6o 
species scattered over the American tropics and sub- 
tropics from near the United States borders in Mex- 
ico southward to Brazil. Several so-called Teco- 
mas and Bignonias have been transferred to this 
genus. The Mexican T. msculifolia has spotted 
orange flowers, and aform called Palemeri has light 
mauve flowers spotted with yellow in corymbs at 
the ends of the bare branches in spring. Other 
West Indian species have pinkish, purple or white 
flowers. Some of these may succeed at the ex- 
treme south. 
Teconia has 25 species mostly in the sub-tropi- 
cal and warm temperate parts of the world. The 
campsidiums are now included under this genus. 
The hardiest are the native T. radicans and vars. , 
Catalpa bignonioides and var. nana. From Gardening' \n furi. 
and the Chinese T, grandiflora and its Japanese var- 
ieties, with flowers in a few shades of orange red. 
These were grafted on Catalpa stocks by Trumpy 
several years ago forming standards something like 
the engraving. T. staus with yellow flowers in 
paniculate racemes, is more of a shrub and more 
tender being a native of the Mexican border. T. 
capensis is also more shrubby with trailing or scan- 
dent young growths and racemes of deep orange 
red flowers. It will not bear frost. T. Smithii is 
an Australian garden hybrid. These are grown in 
southern California and so to some extent are T. 
Ricasoliana with pinkish lilac darker veined flow- 
ers, and T. jasminoides with purple throated or pure 
