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PARK AND CEMETERY 
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
Towards the close of June many shrubs will have 
made sufficient length of shoots to permit of layering, 
a useful method of increasing stock of desirable sorts. 
The Japanese Judas “tree” has surpassed itself in 
beauty this season. It dififers from our native sort. 
Cersis Canadensis, in its deeper pink flowers and in 
its dwarf habit of growth. It is never a tree, simply 
a bush, and a slow growing one at that. 
All the elms known to me, excepting a Texan one, 
crassifolia, ripen their seeds in late May, and so do 
two maples, rubrum and dasycarpum. If these are 
sown at once, or soon after, seedlings of fair size are 
obtained by fall. 
Azalea Vaseyi is a beautiful soft pink. This and 
amaena are two excellent hardy sorts. In Philadel- 
phia, the one common in greenhouses, Indica alba, is 
quite hardy. The Chinese one. Mollis, is now appear- 
ing in quite a variety of colors. 
Horse chestnuts are much subject to blight of the 
foliage in hot summer. Spraying with Bordeaux 
mixture should control this. When of large size, with 
roots in deep, cool soil, the blight is not troublesome. 
Stophylea trifolia grows in our woods and it is not 
at all an undesirable shrub for the lawn. But S. col- 
chica, an Asiatic species, is far better. It is not unlike 
a lilac in appearance, and its white flowers are quite 
sweet scented. 
Pyrus Parkmanni is one of the most ornamental 
of early flowering large shrubs. The lovely pink buds 
are even prettier than the expanded flowers, which are 
of a lighter shade. Keep in mind that this pyrus is 
propagated easily by budding on the common apple 
stock. 
Though the buds and flowers of P3TUS Parkmanni 
are somewhat prettier, those of the flowering crab. 
Pyrus coronaria, are greatly admired. And they 
possess what the other does not, delicious odor, and 
then its “apples” are also nicely scented. It, too, is 
increased by using the common apple as a stock. 
Though the sour gum, Nyssa multiflora, will 
thrive in almost any situation, it perfects itself the best 
in damp ones. The three southern ones, aquatica. 
capitata and uniflora are much admired sorts, but fre- 
quent experiments prove them too tender, even for 
Philadelphia. • 
The Acalypha Sanderi, with its long strings of 
scarlet flowers, is not only a beautiful pot plant, but 
an experiment last year demonstrated its use as an 
outdoor plant. A small bed of it made a good ap- 
pearance. 
The death of white birches throughout the country 
still goes on, but whether by insect or fungus is still 
undecided. Those who contend for its being the work 
of a fungus seem to have the best of it. Borers would 
not kill them, unless by girdling. 
Newly planted trees are sometimes killed by too 
much water. A customer who purchased a sugar 
maple of a nurseryman last summer came to him this 
summer to claim another, as he said the tree died, 
through no fault of his, he having “turned the hose on 
it every night.” A good soaking or two in spring, 
should it be dry, is usually sufficient. 
Hawthorns are great favorites, both for their own 
merits and for having been the theme of so many 
writers. The following list flower in the order named ; 
Crataegus coccinea, oxycantha,crus-galli and cordata. 
Many of them are prettier in the berry than in the 
flower. 
Cerces Japonica has been more than usually beau- 
tiful this spring. Its dwarf character, with its deeper 
pink flowers, places it above our native one. Canaden- 
sis, in value, though the latter can be used with charm- 
ing effect in a group of large growing shrubs. 
A little pruning by finger and thumb when trees 
and shrubs are growing, effects the object a good deal 
better than pruning at any other time. The side 
shoots push out at once, accomplishing bushiness the 
same season. 
The rose acacia, Robinia hispida, left to itself 
forms a rather low, spreading bush. If the leading 
shoot be tied to a stake it helps it to attain height 
quicker. In Europe it is grafted on tall stems of 
Robinia pseud-acacia, the yellow locust. 
The early blooming magnolias, of which conspicua 
and Soulangeana are examples, escaped late frosts 
again this season, giving us two years to the good. 
Previous to this the acreage was the other way. Plant 
these in cool places, if you have a chance, that the 
flowers will not open early. 
Rhododendrons and all plants whose roots are 
near the surface should have a mulching of long 
grass placed around them to keep the soil cool. They 
are much improved by this treatment, the foliage 
keeping a fresh appearance, and better growth is 
made. 
The pink dogwood is one of the grandest acquisi- 
tions to our lawns of recent years. Messrs. Parsons 
& Sons, of Flushing, New York, were its introducers, 
though other firms did as much or more than they to 
push it. It is propagated by budding or grafting on 
the common one. 
Exochorda grandiflora is a large growing shrub, 
bearing beautiful white flowers, in clusters, in early 
Mav. It is not over well known. When not in flow- 
er it is not over attractive, which may account for its 
scarcity in collection. It grows readily from seeds. 
Joseph Meehan. 
At the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Ameri- 
can Association of Nurserymen, held at Niagara Falls 
June 12, resolutions were adopted condemning the pro- 
posed free distribution of nursery stock by the LI. S. 
Government. 
