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PARK AND CEMETERY 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— LXXIL 
Humuhis, “the hop,” lias two speecis in the north- 
ern hemisphere. Both have variegated and other garden 
forms which are fast 
growing barbaceous 
climbers . 
Cannabis, “hemp.” 
is in one species, and 
not altogether to be 
neglected as an annu- 
al foliage plant. 
Bronssonctia, “pa- 
per mulberry,” has 
three known species, 
all in cultivation. B. 
papyrifera with its 
many formed foliage 
is credited with sev- 
eral varieties. At the 
south the plant seems 
to he represented bv 
both sexes, one of 
which has purple 
flowers. At the north, 
although they seem to 
HUMULUb JAPONicus vARiECxATUsbe naturalized in 
^oARDENiNG. places, they spread by 
suckers, and I have not noticed the two sexes. 
Madura, aurantiaca, probably received its specific 
name for its yellow or orange coloured wood from 
which the Indians made a dye, and also formed their 
bows. It is the only species ; has been widely used 
as a hedge plant, and for much of the Middle States 
it is useful, but not ideal for Americans, who grudge 
the labour of trimming. It is curious how Americar! 
and European botanists have copied after one another 
about the “bright golden yellow” fruit of this tree. 
The fruit, so far as I have seen, is pea green, and re- 
mains so until it falls. Certain synonomy has recent- 
ly been attempted for the plant, which it is unneces- 
sary to print here. 
M orus, “mulberry,” has from five to twelve species 
accredited to it by authors. All the species appear 
quite variable. M. nigra is by far the best as a fruit. 
It is grown from Washington, D. C., southward. M. 
alba latifolia is the mulberry which produced the 
“multicanlis” craze among Americans during the earlv 
years of the nineteenth century. 
Dorstenia, in forty-five species, are tropical herbs 
with their flowers set upon a curious flattened foot- 
stalk. 
Ficus, “the figs,” are in 650 species, divided into 
eight sections. They are all tropical or sub-tropical. 
The common fig and F. stipulata minuna, a form of 
the creeping Chinese kind, better known as repens, are 
the most hardy and endure in the middle South in all 
but extreme seasons. At frostless points far South a 
few of the tropical evergreen trees such as F. elastica 
are in cultivation. In southern Florida three species 
are wild, F. pendunculata which sends down woodv 
MORUS ALBA PENDULA. 
roots from the branches in the way of the “banyan,” F. 
brevifolia, and F. aurea, which seems to be peculiar to 
Florida. 
Cndrania triloba, from China, is reputed to be a 
good hedge plant. I doubt if it is in American nur- 
series, but should be tried southward. 
James Macpherson. 
EVERGREEN FERNS, 
It is at this season the beauty of the evergreen ferns 
is best appreciated. Not a particle of green gives way 
to a fall or winter shade, and the fronds remain fresh 
and bright through all the snows of winter. The 
writer has frequently enjoyed the Christmas Fern, 
Aspidium acrostichoides, under such conditions. It is 
plentiful along the rocky banks of the Wissahickon 
Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Aspidium mar- 
ginale is a good evergreen, but the green color is not 
so shining. The broad leaf of the Mountain Laurel 
is so well known from its use for festooning at the 
Christmas holidays it has become well fixed in the 
public mind, and the narrow-leaved species is but 
little known. The latter is Kalmia angustifolia . — 
Meehan's Monthly. 
