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Garden Plants — TKeir GeograpHy— LXXVIII. 
Fagiis "beech” has 15 species in Europe, temperate 
and Northern Asia, North and South America, Aus- 
tralasia and New Caledonia. Like the oaks, the species 
become evergreen as they near the tropics. 
There are but two beeches in cultivation in the colder 
parts of the northern hemisphere, F. ferruginea, our 
native species with a variety or two found north to 
Nova Scotia and hardy at Ottawa ; and F. sylvatica, the 
European kind, with some 30 beautiful varieties, vary- 
ing in the shape, size and coloring of foliage to black- 
ish purple, copper}-, tricolored and golden variegated ; 
then there are pendulous forms with green and purple 
leaves. But two forms are reported hardy at Ottawa, 
sylvatica cjuercoides and S. cochleata, both probably of 
North European origin. F. antarctica is a deciduous 
kind from Magellans straits. 
F. betuloides, from the same regions, is evergreen 
and hardy in Cornwall and Devonshire. F. obliqua is 
from Chili. F. Cunninghamii is the Tasmanian 
“mvrtle” growing in Australia up to 200 feet high. F. 
Solandri is a beautiful New Zealand species of 80 to 
100 feet high. Most of these species from the southern 
hemisphere are remarkable for their small evergreen 
leaves, and should be tried on the Pacific coast. 
J.\MES M.vcPiikrson. 
FAGUS SYLVATICA PENDUI.A. 
FAGUS FERRUGINKA. 
A Common Error 
A prevailing error in planting lawns is that of select- 
ing trees of the largest growth, which soon become a 
serious evil, and onp which is not easilv remedied, ex- 
cept by their entire removal. 
The skillful combination of trees and grass forms the 
in Lawn Planting^. 
art of landscape gardening, so far as planting is con- 
cerned ; and no small part of this art consists in the 
selection of trees which, both in form and size of 
growth, are best adapted to the size and disposition 
of the grounds. — California Floriculturist. 
