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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The TamarisK or Tamarix. 
Named from a river Tamaris, on the banks of which 
one species was found growing. Mr. Griesa of Kan- 
sas claims that there is one, as yet unnamed, which 
grows to be quite a tree and a wonderful bloomer. In 
the east the Gallica or French and the African have 
been grown largely. In the west the silver, or Amur, 
sometimes called the Russian, is most grown. This is 
hardy in Iowa and South Dakota. 
I have now io varieties. The Indica was too ten- 
der and has been thrown out. The one in the center of 
the illustration is only a year old. It grew six feet and 
the twigs were covered with blooms. The one on the 
right is the Llandsu or manna tree of Asia. From this 
the Persians extract a rich confection called gaz, which 
is very delicious. The Gallica is popular in the east, 
but on my grounds the silver takes the lead. The 
specimen on the left is the Japonica or plumosa. It is 
indeed a glorious plume, soft, full, and compact, and 
very attractive. 
The German seems the most refined and delicate 
of all, with foliage of glittering silver. 
All these shrubs or trees are great bloomers. Their 
foliage is about half way between that of garden as- 
paragus and the silver cedar. 
Trim the silver cedar to a tree in a lawn and it is 
charming. I am well pleased with the whole family, 
and wonder they have been so long neglected. A 
group of all these varieties in a park would certainly 
attract attention for hedges or rows to line avenues. 
The silver tamarisk will at least find favor. Its grace- 
ful, delicate flowers make it very desirable. 
C. S. Harrison. 
THREE SPECIMENS OF TAMARIX. 
Moving Large Trees. 
John C. Olmsted in Bulletin of N. E. Assn, of Park Superintendents. 
With regard to moving trees, I think there is no 
question that the consensus of opinion of all experts 
is to the effect that it is preferable to plant trees of 
nursery sizes, and so far as park work is concerned 
this is undoubtedly the general practice ; yet there are 
unquestionably cases likely to arise where transplant- 
ing of large trees is good policy ; for instance, the 
planting of the Mall in Central Park was done with 
large Elms. Although this was a contract job, and a 
good many of the trees had to be replaced by the 
contractor, yet the trees, on the whole, seem to be as 
large and as vigorous as other elms in the Park which 
were planted of nursery sizes. There are four rows of 
these elms and the space between the two middle rows is 
about 150 feet, yet the branches are mingling across 
this space, and I saw these trees planted. Certainly 
in such a case it would seem that the result justifies 
the disregarding of the general rule. As a matter of 
fact, I think in the case of about ten or fifteen species 
of trees best adapted to moving, it is merely a matter 
of knowledge, painstaking, and expense to move them 
of any size so that they will not get any serious set- 
back and will be handsome and satisfactory. Perhaps 
many of the association may not have known of two 
elms — one is 18 inches diameter of trunk and the other 
20 inches diameter of trunk — which were moved by 
Mr. O. C. Simonds some ten or fifteen miles to the 
vicinity of the crematorv in Graceland Cemetery, Chi- 
cago. Mr. Simonds states that these trees came out 
the following spring in full vigor, showing no signs of 
having been moved, and certainly they were beautiful 
specimens when I saw them a few years later. I think 
the main trouble in moving large trees has been that 
the gardeners or park superintendents who had charge 
of the work did not have suitable apparatus or did not 
take pains enough to save all the roots and to avoid 
letting them get dry or injured, and particularly to 
give the trees a mass of prepared topsoil equal to the 
spread of the branches, and at least three feet deep. 
Nevertheless, as a rule, park superintendents are on 
the safe side in constantly opposing the transplanting 
of large trees in the parks. Landscape architects who 
have to meet the wishes of their clients often 
find their clients willing to pay for immediate effect. 
