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PARK AND CEMRTERY 
Japanese snowballs, if well mulched, to keep frost 
from the roots, are better planted in fall than in spring, 
as its early pushing into growth in spring prevents its 
planting at that time unless set very early. Or the 
plants could be secured in fall and buried almost en- 
tirely, tops as well as roots, until spring. 
Eupatorium ccelestinum is a lovely herbaceous plant, 
bearing beautiful blue flowers in September and Octo- 
ber. It is a native plant, growing along the Potomac 
in Maryland and Virginia. I have gathered it at 
Shepherdstown, W. Va., on the bluffs overlooking the 
river. 
The enquirer who asked if the English holly could 
be used as a hedge plant in California would find it 
entirely hardy there, but it is very slow growing, and 
would make an expensive hedge. This holly is hardy 
as far north as Philadelphia, perhaps farther. 
What is called the silver cedar of Colorado and New 
Mexico is a variety of the Virginiana. It is hardy, 
and a beautiful tree. There are numerous varieties of 
this cedar, almost every state finding its representative 
of it to differ from that of others. 
Privet hedges pruned in August may have made 
a fresh growth, if so this may be clipped off now, for 
neatness’ sake, or if not objected to, let remain till 
spring and then be cut. 
Though geraniums will stand a few degrees of 
frost without injury, if one wants to increase them 
it is better to lift the plants earlier, making cuttings 
of the tops. After making the cuttings of proper 
length it does not hurt them to let them lie around 
a day or two before inserting them in sand. They 
are less apt to rot. And do not water them a great 
deal for a few days. 
Blue hydrangeas are but the common Hortensia, 
changed color. When planted out in the New Eng- 
land states and treated as permanent shrubs, they 
nearly all come blue. Cuttings from them grown in 
doors produce the normal pink flowers. 
Dolichos Japonicus, the rapid growing Kudzu 
vine, flowers in September. The flowers are dark 
pink, and are produced in upright racemes, some six 
inches in length, and of an agreeable color. In north- 
ern climes it dies back to almost the ground in win- 
ter, sprouting vigorously in spring. 
Many of the so-called summer Spiraeas flower al- 
most till frost if favorable weather prevails. Plant 
such sorts as Douglasii, tomentosa, Regeliana, Bumal- 
da and A. Waterer. Cut them down in spring, see that 
they get what water they require, and lots of flowers 
in autumn will result. 
Many nurserymen are asked for hardy white jas- 
mine. There is not one hardy in the north. The 
officinale lives out at Philadelphia when in a sheltered 
place, not in any other. Nudiflorum, the hardy yel- 
low, is the only hardy one we have. 
In the vicinity of Philadelphia the arborescent Yuc- 
ca, gloriosa, flowers towards the close of September. 
Sometimes it is so late that freezing weather catches 
it. This and all yuccas are easily increased by cutting 
up the fleshy roots in spring and setting them an inch 
or so underground. 
Oaks succeed very well transplanted in the fall, in 
October. Prune them well, and put enough mulch 
above the roots to keep frost out through the winter, 
and but few will fail to grow. Scarlet, red and pink 
are the best for fall color. 
Questions are being asked : What is myrtle. The 
true myrtle is Myrtus communis, a shrub not hardy 
outside of the southern states. In the florist and nur- 
sery trade in the north myrtle calls for the common 
periwinkle. Vinca minor. 
Deutzias and many* spring flowering shrubs give 
great delight, blooming indoors in winter. Young, 
thrifty plants, dug and potted now and kept in a cool 
place till after Christmas and then placed in heat, give 
great satisfaction. 
Eor a perennial to give bloom all summer, particu- 
larly in early summer and late fall, there is nothing 
surpasses the good old bell flower. Campanula grandi- 
flora. The plant is fairly well known. It has very 
large blue flowers, and lovely green foliage. 
The New England aster, A. Novae-Anglise, is one of 
the showiest of all the wild ones, because of its numer- 
ous large purple flowers. There is a variety, rosea, 
with flowers of the same size of a fine rose color. 
Quercus cerris, the Turkey oak, is a very satisfac- 
tory sort. Its foliage remains green until the very last 
thing in autumn, as does the English. Unlike the lat- 
ter kind, it is free from the leaf mildew which dis- 
figures it in the late summer months. 
A correspondent wrote recently asking that the 
names of two 'good, hardy climbing ever blooming 
roses be given her. Eor Indiana, whence the inquiry 
came. Climbing Soupert, white, and Gloire de Dijon, 
flesh, should succeed very well. Reine Marie Henri- 
ette might also be named. 
Where hardy, plant the Magnolia tripetala, for the 
sake of its lovely carmine colored seed pods in Sep- 
tember. They are far prettier than the flowers. In the 
same way Magnolia acuminata is valuable, but tripe- 
tala is the best of all. 
What a lovely thing is the Douglas’ golden juniper. 
It is one of the numerous varieties of the communis, or 
common juniper. It makes a flat growth of concave 
appearance, much as the variety known as prostrata 
does. The young growth is always of a lovely golden 
yellow. Joseph Meehan. 
