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recovered to full beauty. Ornamental Florists and 
Horticulturists persist in calling them “Crotons,” they 
don’t seem able to master dipthongs. It is not uncom- 
BED OE CODIAEUMS, IN + VARIETIES, 
Girard College, Philadelphia. 
From Gardening. 
mon at the flower shows for private gardeners to 
label the older varieties properly, but the newer florists 
kinds, never. James Macpherson. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES. 
Cupressus Alumi is a variety of Law'soniana having- 
steel-blue foliage of much beauty. The common form, 
as well as its- several varieties, are hardy about Phila- 
delphia. 
Bag worms are terribly destructive, soon stripping 
whatever tree or shrub they attack. Paris green will 
fix them, but hand-picking is often as good. 
If you have a damp place where some shrub is want- 
ed, plant there an Azalea viscosa or Clethra alnifolia, 
both of which love just such a spot. 
The common marsh-mallow. Hibiscus Moscheutos, 
is just the plant for some low ground, too wet for many 
things. Set it there, both the pink and the white one. 
The flowers are more lasting and produce more abund- 
antly when the plants are in a wet place. 
Magnolias are not difficult to raise from seeds. The 
seeds ripen in September. If washed free of pulp and 
then placed in slightly damp soil, and be kept in a cool 
place till spring, it is correct treatment. Sow in boxes, 
in greenhouse, in March, or in the open ground in 
April. 
A few early flowering shrubs, such as forsytheas, 
Deutzias Weigelas, snowballs and flowering almonds 
potted now and kept in good condition will make excel- 
lent subjects for forcing in winter. Many florists use 
them in this way. 
September is a good month for the transplanting 
and dividing of herbaceous plants. They become well 
established before winter, giving a good show of flow- 
ers the following spring. Paeonias disturbed in spring 
rarely flower the same season. 
Stuartias are rare and beautiful shrubs. The species 
pentagyna is rather hardier than the other, Virginica, 
though the latter has the prettier flowers, the base of 
purple stamens contrasting with the white petals. 
Evergreens can be planted safely now wherever the 
ground is in moist condition or can be made and kept 
so. Even deciduous things, stripped of their leaves, do 
very well set out now, better than do those planted 
later. 
Crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia, is not uncommon on 
lawns, but many more could be used. They bloom pro- 
fusely during August. About Philadelphia they live 
out all winter after getting of some size, but the general 
plan is to winter them in a cellar. 
The Verbena shrub, Caryopteris, makes a fine dis- 
play with its numerous blue flowers during September. 
It is of a half shrubby nature, dying back aliout one- 
half every winter. But this makes it bloom the better. 
The various golden and red colored barked trees 
and shrubs are most valuable for winter effect. Such 
as the golden, the red twigged dogwood and the yellow 
and the bronze willow. Many of these take on the 
colors when winter comes, becoming green with the re- 
turn of spring. 
One of the showiest of all veronicas and one of the 
best of August flowering perennials is Veronica sub- 
sessilis, also known as V. Hendersoni. Its large, 
showy spikes of blue flowers are produced in great 
abundance. Give it a place ! 
The beautiful parasites called Indian pipe, Mono- 
tropa uniflora and M. Hypopytis, are annuals. If the 
decaying pods with seeds are thrown into one's woods 
these curious plants may be introduced. The Hypo- 
pytis is oftener known as Pine Sap or Bird’s Nest than 
Indian Pipe, but in these parts the last name covers 
both species. 
The common catalpa, bignonioides, forms a tree of 
rounded outline, with lower branches sweeping the 
ground, displaying its grand panicles of white flowers 
to great advantage. In this respect it is better than 
speciosa, the one to be used for timber purposes. 
Public grounds which do not contain specimens of 
the Sophora Japonica and the Aralia spinosa, should 
set out one or more of each. Besides being handsome, 
they flower in August, the month in which but few 
trees do. Plant them in late September. 
Cratagus coccinea, the scarlet-fruited thorn, ripens 
its haws in September. They are very large, of the 
size of small crab apples, and give to the tree a splendid 
appearance. Usually it appears but as a shrub, but it 
is not uncommon to see them twenty feet in height. 
Rosa microphylla is a valuable sort, bearing its lovelv 
white flowers later in the season than most other kinds, 
and having shining bright green leaves. It is to be 
seen in flower through July and August. 
Joseph Meehan. 
