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PARK AND CEMETERY, 
Cordyline indivisa. 
By Joseph Meehan. 
In the Garden of England , as the Isle of Wight is 
called, are many lovely trees and plants which are not 
even hardy on the mainland, and even of those that are 
hardy elsewhere better specimens are to be found on the 
Island. As an example, we give an illustration of the 
Cordyline indivisa, a plant which with us is only seen 
as a decorative one in greenhouses. What a sight it 
would be were such a one to be growing on a lawn 
here, as this one is doing on the grounds of Mr. George 
Hutt, of Apply Towers? Even in England proper the 
plant is not classed as hardy, but as a greenhouse one 
only. It is a native of New Zealand, and it may be 
that it meets with some frost there, as it does in the 
Isle of Wight, as in the South Island, New Zealand, 
there are many degrees of frost in its winter season. I 
do not know if this Cordyline is from the North or 
South Island, or from both. 
Mr. Elutt’s grounds are near Ryde, and some years 
ago I had the pleasure of looking over them, and was 
delighted and surprised to see so many of what are 
known as indoor plants thriving there entirely unpro- 
tected. I remember seeing two of our own Pacific 
Coast shrubs, which I had never seen before — the 
iEsculus California and Castanopsis chrysophylla ; and 
these will live out in Philadelphia only in protected 
places. 
This Cordyline is closely related to dracaenas, among 
which are some of the most beautiful of decorative 
plants. In fact, many botanists make the one name 
answer for all, making all Cordyline. Although there 
are perhaps fifty or more species of this genus, there 
are none sufficiently hardy for this part of the country, 
as the hardiest of all are those from New Zealand. 
The hedge in the background is formed of the Por- 
tugal laurel (Cerasus lusitanicus), an evergreen 
suited to this country, from Philadelphia southward, 
and of which there are fine specimens in Georgia and 
North Carolina. 
The tree in the background is of the evergreen oak 
of southern Europe (Quercus Ilex), a grand tree there, 
and one which bears acorns of which boys are very 
fond. 
Standing beside the Cordyline is Mr. Charles Mee- 
han, a brother of the writer, who for many years had 
charge of the Harcourt estate, which adjoins Apply 
Towers, as had his father before him, the combined 
term of both being over sixty years. 
I was so anxious to get some photographs of some 
ARALIA SIEBOLDI. HEDGE, CERASUS LUSITANICUS. 
TREE, QUERCUS ILEX. 
of the treasures of Apply Towers that my friend, Mr. 
Frederick Goudge, of Clapton, London, was good 
enough to take some half-dozen for me. 
Those of our countrymen who go to Europe by way 
of Southampton should take the packet steamer for 
the Isle of Wight. If at all interested in horticulture, 
they may feel assured of being well repaid for the 
visit. Being south of the mainland and its climate 
made more favorable still by the surrounding water, 
the number of “greenhouse plants” hardy there is very 
large. 
Garden Plants Their Geography- CX. 
Cyperales. 
The Eriocaulon, Cvperus and Carex Alliance. 
There are 9 tribes, 98 genera and 2,708 species of 
these plants, which in systematic works are often 
grouped with grasses and called glumales. They differ 
in several ways, nevertheless. They are of little nutri- 
tive value. Their stems are destitute of the diaphragms 
common in grasses and especially noticeable in the 
larger ones, such as bamboos. Neither are the stems 
round and hollow, as in straws, but angular and in 
several tribes solid. They are found abundantly in 
the cold and warm temperate regions, decreasing 
greatly in the tropics. They grow in all manner of sit- 
uations, on mountains and tundras of the Arctic 
and Antarctic regions, on the seashores, on barren 
heaths, in woods and forests, in bogs, the margins of 
streams and occasionally in fairly deep water. The 
leaves are sharp-edged, simple and parallel veined, 
sometimes growing in whorls at the top of the stems. 
The flowers are rarely showy, mostly brown or green, 
in clusters, racemes, or spikes. They are rarely culti- 
vated, and with the exception of about a half-dozen 
