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PARK AND CEMETERY 
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 
The peculiarly agreeable odor of the flowers of 
Magnolia glauca is not met with in any other flower. 
This small tree, though native to damp ground, is 
not averse to drier places. The flowers come toward 
the close of June. 
Yellow Rambler rose, though disappointing to 
some because of its not being a rich yellow, is still 
a very good thing. The buds are light yellow, the 
opening flowers slightly so, but become white when 
fully open. It seems quite hardy here : the past win- 
ter not hurting it. 
The seeds of many perennials may be sown as 
soon as ripe, and then plants are had therefrom which 
will bloom next season. 
Layering of hydrangeas, snowballs and other 
shrubs may still continue, and with success, so long 
as the branches are still growing. 
Irish yews and other similar tall growing ever- 
greens make useful decorative plants when in pots. 
Being hardy, they are really more useful than many 
greenhouse plants now used. 
Californian privet hedges are now everywhere. 
When neatly trimmed it adds greatly to their value. 
It is full time for a second trimming now, a third one 
to be given later. 
The new growth of evergreens has hardened by 
now, and where transplanting is desired it may be 
attempted, taking a large ball with the tree, and 
soaking it with water. A successful early planting 
is better than a late one. 
Many ericas are quite hardy, and because of their 
neat, dwarf growth, find favor with planters, who 
usually have a place for such plants. Carnea, vagans 
and stricta have been tried and are just as hardy as 
the heather, Calluna vulgaris. 
Two Stuartias are native to our country, S. Vir- 
ginica and S. pentagyna. The former is the showier, 
on account of its white flowers being set off by its 
base of yellow stamens. Both are rare and good. 
Kerosene emulsion for sucking insects, Paris- 
green for eating ones, and Bordeaux mixture for 
fungi are necessary mixtures wherever collections of 
trees are. Nurserymen, gardeners and all that have 
charge of trees are using them. 
Clematis Duchess of Edinburg is a large flow- 
ered very double white one. Some lists name it as 
semi-double, but it is very double. Henryi is still 
one of the best single white ones. 
Dolichos Japonicus (Pueraria) is the fastest 
growing vine known in these parts ; a strong plant 
will run fifty feet a season. It should not be planted 
except where such a rampant growth can be accom- 
modated. 
Many pines, even when of but medium size, are 
difficult to transplant, because of their making such 
few roots. A root pruning at this time of the year 
would result in the forming of several small roots 
in the place of one, rendering successful removal 
more assured. 
The Syringa Emodi and S. Josikaea are known as 
Hungarian lilacs. Both are worthy of a prominent 
place, because of their beauty; and they flower after 
other lilacs are over. Emodi is white, Josikaea pur- 
ple. 
The admonition given before to cut off decaying 
flowers will bear repeating. Seeding hinders flower- 
ing, so what to do to obtain bloom is easily deter- 
mined. 
Rhododendron Minnie, perspicuum and album 
elegans are all Jisted as white, but in every case the 
buds are pink, and some have spotted inside petals, 
making really three distinct kinds, although passing 
as whites. 
The perfume of the old Mock orange is some- 
thing known to most everyone. Some species have 
no odor of any kind. ' One of the new ones, Le- 
moinci, has delightful perfume, reminding one of 
that of Alpine strawberries. 
Pterostyrax hispidum is one of the grandest flow- 
ering trees there is. In mid-June it is loaded with 
drooping racemes of white flowers. Botanically it Is 
very close to Halesia, but the ordinary observer will 
detect no resemblance whatever to it. 
Sequoia gigantea, sprayed recently with Bor- 
deaux mixture, shows a decidedly improved condi- 
tion. With its great enemy, fungus, under control, 
there is no reason why it should not be common in 
cultivation. 
The native shrub, Itea Virginica, should be bet- 
ter known. The white flowers are in finger-like heads 
and come toward the close of June, when the early 
spring shrubs are over. In autumn, the foliage 
changes to a rich crimson. 
The Ostrich fern is very interesting. The fronds 
are like ostrich plumes, and are so arranged as to 
form a perfect vase. In good soil fronds reach two 
to three feet in height. The fertile fronds are quite 
separate from the others. It is not evergreen. 
Joseph Meehan. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— LXVII. 
SANTAEAEES. 
The Loranthus, Viscum, and Lophophytum alli- 
ance. 
There are 14 tribes in this often curious group, 
five of which are founded on single genera ; there are 
57 genera, and 757 species. Several tribes are almost 
wholly parasitical shrubs growing on trees, with oc- 
casional species growing in the ground or seeming to 
be epiphytal. Other tribes have trees or shrubs of 
