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FARK AND CEMETERY 
Seasonable 
What a lovely thing is Azalea Vaseyi, from the 
North Carolina ]\Iountains ! A beautiful pink, it is un- 
like any other azalea. 
For a low, spreading herbaceous plant, the Euro- 
pean Lotus corniculatus is most attractive in early 
spring. Its golden yellow flowers, in small clusters, 
are produced profusely. 
Spiraea Bumalda and S'. Anthony Waterer will soon 
be in flower. As soon as flowering is over, cut them 
down half way. The young shoots which result will 
flower profusely late in the season. 
Besides the handsome foliage, and the fruit of the 
female trees the flowers of the papaw, though mak- 
ing but little display, because of their brown color, are 
cjuite interesting. They are from one to two inches 
in diameter, bell shaped, and in color they resemble 
flowers of the sweet shrub, Calycanthus. 
Many elms and maples ripen their seeds in spring. 
If sown at once, or within a few weeks, before they 
become dry, they germinate at once, and make a nice 
growth the same season. 
Tall rubber plants may be planted in a sloping di- 
rection, with the main branch just above ground, and 
the top layered. A fine young, well rooted top results 
by Autumn. The loss of top makes the old plant be- 
come bushy. 
Among the many double white lilacs, Madame Le- 
moine and M. Casimer Perier hold high place. Both 
have large panicles and double flowers. Rubra insig- 
nis still leads as the best of the purples, or reddish 
purple, for its buds are quite red when unexpanded. 
Exochorda grandiflora is a shrub making but little 
appearance when not in flower, and nurserymen say 
it does not attract customers. But those who know 
of its beauty when in flower, in Alay, are in raptures 
over it. It is, indeed, a gem at that time, its sprays of 
large white flowers, with pretty green foliage, bearing 
no resemblance to any other shrub. 
Cryptomeria Japonica becomes pretty well browned 
up in our winters, but the wood does not suffer, and it 
is well entitled to be considered a hardy evergreen. 
There are specimens of it in this vicinity 30 feet high. 
Abies polita is a hardy, handsome spruce, and does 
well generally. There is a light golden shade to its 
wood and buds which is very pleasing. Its spines are 
very rigid. The fact that it thrives well is very much 
in its favor. 
The pink flowered dogwood is a gem among trees, 
delighting all that possess it and see it. It flowers 
more profusely when young than the common white 
one does, which may be because that all of them are 
grafted or budded. Though seen in varying shades 
of color, there is but the one kind, the difference being 
caused by soil and situation. 
Suggestions. 
Paulownia imperialis, the Empress tree, is hardv 
considerably north of Philadelphia. When but small 
seedlings, the young wood is so sappy that it gets killed 
back in Winter, but this does not occur after the wood 
becomes old and harder. It flowers in May, in huge 
panicles, its blue flowers being deliciously fragrant. It 
grows freely from seeds. 
Where the Japanese snowball is hardy, its variety, 
rotundifolia, should be tried. The leaves are rounder 
and are on reddish stalks. The flowers and “snow- 
balls” are larger than the other ; and they perfect them- 
selves a few days in advance. 
Chinese wistaria, sinensis, grows readily from seeds, 
but when the vines flower they differ in color, many of 
them being of lighter shades than the original. The 
Japanese, multi juga, known by the great length of its 
raceme, has its flowers more scattered along its length. 
Where a dwarf, spreading evergreen is required, the 
Douglas’ Golden Juniper is admirable. It makes a 
bird-nest growth, gaining much more in width than in 
height ; and the “gold” of its foliage is very deep and 
pleasing. 
Japanese maples and many other plants are easily in- 
creased by layering, performed in early Summer; and 
also by inarching. Inarching is one of the oldest pro- 
cesses of increasing plants ; and when done with care 
rarely fails of success. 
The foliage of the blood-leaved peach is quite at- 
tractive in early spring, and so are its flowers. The 
latter are single, but are very large, and of a dark 
rose, almost red color. It is as ornamental as many 
other small trees set out for their flowers. i 
Viburnum Sieboldianum, introduced as a shrub, has i 
proved to be a fair sized small tree. There are sped- | 
mens in Philadelphia near twenty feet high and still ! 
growing. The leaves are very large ; and in late May i 
it is full of corymbs of white flowers, which are fol- 
lowed by pretty berries, red when ripe. j 
Rhodotypus Kerrioides has white flowers, in size and [ 
shape like the Corchorus. The flowers are not in j 
such abundance as those of many other shrubs are, j 
but then there are some displayed all summer long. | 
If newly planted trees and shrubs can be tided over j 
the early summer months they are usually secure. Be- 
sides pruning and watering, a heavy mulching of short 
grass is a great help to them. If they but hold a few 
leaves the first season it is sufficient. 
Magnolia Fraseri is one of the grandest of mag- 
nolias ; and its flowers are deliciously scented. It is in 
haste to become a large tree, commendable ambition, 
generally, but in this case the effort should be to keep 
it down in height, the better to enjoy the beauty and 
fragrance of its flowers. Joseph Meehan, 
