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VOL. XXIX. No. 26. | 
WHOLE No. 1274. f 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y„ JUNE 27, 1874. I 
[Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1874, by the Rural Publishing Company, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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A WEEPING HEMLOCK. 
Is there a weeping hemlock ? A friend of 
mine told me he had seen one mentioned 
somewhere—he thought in the Rural New- 
Yorker. Perhaps you will remember, I 
think the hemlock the most beautiful of our 
evergreens. If there is a weeping variety, I 
should be glad to know what can be said 
about it. P. T. Thompson, 
Yes —a weeping variety of our native hem¬ 
lock (Abies canadensis) was found among 
some vviid seedlings by H. W. Sargent, Esq., 
Pishkill, N. Y., who eonveyed the entire 
stock of plants to Messrs. Parsons & Co. It 
is propagated by grafting on the stock of the 
common hemlock. Our illustration shows 
the elfectof working this variety upon stocks 
several feet high, by which a beautiful um- 
brel'a-shaped evergreen is produced in two 
or three years. The specimens from which 
our illustration was made staud on the 
grounds of Messrs. Parsons, 
and is a beautiful and unique 
object. 
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WHITE WILLOW ON THE 
PRAIRIES. 
Samuel Edwards, Bureau 
Co., Ill., writes to the Ger 
mantown Telegraph of the 
White willow as a timber tree 
as follows :—“ It has been 
grown here since IS 15, and the 
more we become acquainted 
with it the better we like it. 
No other tree has made as 
rapid growth ; a cutting set 
in 1845, never having any cul¬ 
tivation, is over four feet in 
diameter. Many are planting 
it all over the prairie region 
for timber ; much is being set 
for hedge-screens, which are 
cut dowu every few years, at 
four feet from the ground, af 
fording a great amount of 
material for fuel, and various 
uses for which such poles art- 
required ou a farm. Formerly 
small-sized cuttings were set. 
but for some years stakes live 
and a-half feet in length, from 
one to three inches in diame¬ 
ter, have been preferred, set¬ 
ting then some 18 inches deep 
and a foot apart. By hanging 
brush of Osage orange along 
the exposed side it is used at 
once for a fence.” 
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ARBORICULTURAL NOTES. 
Experience With Hedges. 
—Mr. Jusiah Hoopes in New 
York Tribune says : — Many 
years ago I conceived the idea 
of testing all manner of plants 
for hedging purposes, and the 
result to-day shows some very 
pretty screens. Among ever¬ 
greens, nothing has given me 
greater pleasure than the Si¬ 
berian Arbor Vitee, as it has 
cot an objectionable feature 
to my knowledge. In compar¬ 
ing it with its parent, the 
American Arbor Vitse, the 
former has a more compact habit of growth, 
is darker green in color, withstands the 
extremes of cold and drouth better, and 
requires less shearing than the latter. But 
if any one desires to bring ray organ of com¬ 
bativeness into play, let him recommend me 
to plant, a privet hedge. Upon the strength 
of a friend’s description of its merits, I was 
induced to plant one around my garden, and 
Just as 1 had it trained to my liking, about 
half the plants suddenly ceased to exist, and 
thus great gaps completely mined the whole 
thing. Some of my neighbors said I was 
entirely too kind to it, and that “dropsy” 
was the cause of death, to which 1 replied ; 
“Nonsense; fungus killed it, «s it will all 
similar hedges in time.” 
Part of Peach Tree in Bloom .—We have a 
peach tree with about three feet of one of 
its limbs extending into the greenhouse 
through broken glass, the opening closed by 
rags stuffed around the limb to keep out the 
cold ah\ Three weeks ago that part of the 
limb inside was in full loaf, with peaches on 
it the size of hickory nuts, and no sign of 
blossom or leaf on that part of the same 
limb outside, nor on the other branches.—J. 
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BALCONY GARDENING. 
The following article on this subject is by a 
contributor of the London Garden :—“With 
very little outlay or trouble, a baleony may 
be made a mass of bloom during u great part 
of the season, and its decoration affords pleas¬ 
ant occupation. If it he covered, I would 
suggest, tirst, that a Virginia creeper be 
trained over the roof, as nothing with which 
I am acquainted grows faster, and its color 
in summer is a bright green, while in autumn 
it becomes a mass of glowing red. It should 
be planted in a tub or box, placed at the ond 
of the balcony, along the front of which 
should he trained creepers, such as clematis, 
and these should also lie planted iu pots or 
boxes at each end of the balcony. If the 
latter be very long, however, some may be 
placed in the center as well. On the pillars 
or supports, honeysuckle, passion-flower, and 
jessamine might be trained with advantage, 
and neat baskets suspended between the 
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WEEPING HEMLOCK, 
pillars have a fine effect, tilled, say, one with 
a flue-leaved coleus, surrounded with blue 
convolvuluses to hang down all around it. 
Another might contain a white and pink 
fuchsia, surrounded by blue lobelias; a third 
might be furnished with a handsome calceo¬ 
laria in the middle, and scarlet tropa-olum to 
hang round it; and a fourth might consist of 
a plant of centaurea, surrounded by Roll is 
son's unique geranium. Then, standing at 
equal distances in pots along the front, might 
be placed either’handsome flowering plants 
or shrubs. All the plants which I have men¬ 
tioned might remain out of doors all the year 
round, except those in the baskets, some of 
which may be saved in a small greenhouse, 
if such a convenience be at hand. The cost, 
however, of illling them afresh every season 
is but trifling. In autumn 1 would advise 
their being tilled with variegted ivies, many 
of which look lovely drooping down, round 
the edges, and In the their centers should be 
placed hyacinths, tulips, squills, or any spring¬ 
blooming bulbs. In the case of balconies 
which have no roof, but which merely con¬ 
sist of an ornamental railing, arches of iron 
rods should be placed along the front, length¬ 
ways, covered with creep¬ 
ers, consisting of the varie¬ 
ties above named, a basket 
being suspended from the cen¬ 
ter of each arch. An arrange¬ 
ment of this kind has a very 
good effect. Instead of hav¬ 
ing large plants along the 
front, a box, made either of 
wood or tiles of whatever 
width is desirable, to run the 
entire length, might be used 
filled with bedding plants dur¬ 
ing the summer months, and 
in autumn with bulbs and 
spring-flowering varieties. 
When purchasing baskets, I 
should always advise well¬ 
shaped but not ornamental 
worked patterns to be select¬ 
ed, as those with ornamental 
work on them are much more 
aga- expensive, and when the 
plants are in them, little of 
the ornamental part can be 
seen. 
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FLORICULTURAL NOTES. 
To Revive Wilted Cuttings, 
Hearth and Home says :— 
“ Mix three or four drops of 
spirits of camphor with an 
ounce of water and keep their 
stems in this fluid for half a 
day or more, in a dark place, 
till they have entirely recov¬ 
ered.” 
The Rhadanthe is one of 
the most popular of everlast¬ 
ings, and is very extensively 
cultivated. The slender, ele¬ 
gant habit of growth of the 
plants and their charming, 
daisy-like flowers, make them 
the general favorites, espe¬ 
cially with lady gardeners. 
We trust many of our fair 
readers who indulge in flori¬ 
culture will give them a trial 
and report the result through 
the Rural. 
Lily from Montclair .—The 
name of the yellow lily sent 
us by Mr. Williams is Hem - 
erocallts Jlava. 
