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THK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 5, 
Ruralisms 
Dogwood Days. —With the coming 
of the dogwood blooms Spring may be 
considered fully under way. Orchard 
blossoms have come and gone—only 
the quinces remain in flower; the milk- 
white disks of the woodland wake- 
robin have flushed to pink and faded, 
hosts of early flowers have already 
passed, a touch of Summer is in the 
air, and young foliage everywhere 
drapes shrubs and trees in lawn and 
forest. The hawthorns, the moccasin 
flower and the wild pink Azalea form 
fitting companions to the cornel or dog¬ 
wood, tempting the nature enthusiast 
into many a nook and glade that might 
otherwise have remained unexplored. 
Frosts are rare, indeed, after the dog¬ 
wood blooms. Even the chimney swift, 
the last of the migratory birds to come 
North, soon puts in his appearance. 
The dogwood is one of the most abun¬ 
dant, and beyond doubt, the most de¬ 
corative minor tree of eastern forests. 
It is altogether the most showy in 
flower, scarcely being exceeded in this 
respect by the imported Magnolias; the 
scarlet fruits are brilliant and (con¬ 
spicuous, and the fiery Autumn foliage 
is only equalled by one or two of our 
native oaks. It is coming to its own as 
one of the choicest trees for park and 
lawn planting. Young specimens may 
readily be collected in most places, or 
grown in quantity from seeds, which 
are, however, rather slow in germina¬ 
tion. So beautiful and satisfactory is 
the dogwood as an ornamental subject 
that the possession of one is but an 
incentive to plant more. In certain 
large country estates they are now 
massed by the thousands. Young trees 
transplant readily enough, but are at 
times so slow in leafing out after mov¬ 
ing that inexperienced gardeners be¬ 
come alarmed for their safety. Dog¬ 
woods have been known to remain 
without leaves a whole season after 
transplanting, and start into good 
growth the succeeding year. They are 
also deliberate about coming into bloom 
—as a rule they must be established 
several years and reach fair size be¬ 
fore the blooms become profuse and 
develop well. Once the full blooming 
habit is formed they yearly increase in 
beauty and effectiveness. The dogwood 
has an enormous natural range, being 
found from Massachusetts to Florida 
and west to Ontario and Texas. Trees 
grow well in other countries, but are 
never as effective as in their natural 
habitat. In fact our flowering cornel 
is a distinct disappointment in Europe, 
blooming so sparsely as to make little 
show. The pink variety, found some 
years ago in the South, and well dis¬ 
tributed about Philadelphia and in 
northern New Jersey, is a grand ac¬ 
quisition. Foliage and habit are simi¬ 
lar to the common white form, but the 
bracts are lovely soft pink in color, 
forming grateful contrast to the white 
kind. It is propagated by budding on 
common stocks, and is therefore more 
expensive, trees of flowering size cost¬ 
ing in the neighborhood of $1 each. 
Dogwoods make fine, though slow- 
growing, specimens when planted 
singly, but look best in groups, the in¬ 
dividual trees being spaced six or eight 
feet apart. If both varieties are used 
a proportion of about six white to each 
pink-flowered specimen makes the most 
satisfactory effect, if care is taken to 
plant the contrasting colors well to¬ 
gether. The dogwood thrives in almost 
any well-drained situation, and in about 
all soils from sand to firm clay. It 
will do well in dry and shaly slopes— 
the Autumn coloring being particularly 
brilliant in somewhat arid situations. 
It is really “up to” the possessor of 
every rural home to plant a dogwood 
or two about the dooryard, if it has 
not already been done. 
Many Dogwood Species, —The genus 
Cornus is quite extensive, many and 
varied species inhabiting North Amer¬ 
ica, Europe and the Pacific Coast 
region of Asia. Some are handsome 
osier-like shrubs with very ornamental 
Winter bark, others have attractive 
flowers in dense clusters, and one, the 
cornelian cherry, Cornus Mas, has very 
pretty deep red edible fruits, lasting 
well into Winter. There is an herb or 
two in the genus, as well as shrubs and 
low trees, bearing heads of yellow flow¬ 
ers and white or pale-blue fruits. The 
most decorative of the Oriental kinds 
is probably Cornus Kousa, with large 
handsome creamy white blooms an I 
round red raspberry-like fruits. It 
blooms far better in Europe than in this 
country, and is there much admired. 
The Pacific cornel, C. Nuttalli, is very 
handsome, with large pinkish white 
flowers and conspicuous fruits, but has 
not yet been successfully grown in the 
East. A new allied species from Cen¬ 
tral China, Davidia involucrata, prom¬ 
ises well. It is described as having fol¬ 
iage like a linden tree, but the flowers 
have enormous pure white bracts, and 
clusters of scarlet stamens. 
Lilac Days. — Dogwood days are 
also lilac days, as these fragrant blooms 
develop as the long-lasting dogwood 
flowers fade. Syringa is a strictly Old- 
World genus, comprising about 20 
species, ranking from low shrubs to a 
fair-sized tree in the case of the late- 
blooming Syringa Japonica. Some of 
the species are scentless, or nearly so, 
but the common European one, S. vul¬ 
garis, is endeared to all as much for its 
grateful fragrance as for its abundant 
pretty flowers and enduring habit. 1 he 
lilac is one of the hardiest of all shrubs, 
never hurt by cold and seldom by 
drought and heat. It is a universal ac¬ 
companiment of Anglo-Saxon or Teu¬ 
tonic civilization in the Northern Hem¬ 
isphere. It is almost invariably the 
first hardy ornamental to be planted by 
the settler, and is so redolent of home 
as to be an unfailing indication of the 
site of a dwelling, perchance destroyed, 
when found in deserted wilds. The 
scraggy lilac bush and the ruins of an 
old-time chimney or cellar wall is of¬ 
ten the only memento of a former hu¬ 
man habitation. The farmhouse lilac 
is indispensable, and is taken for 
granted in every rural homeyard, but 
there should be place for one or more 
of the very handsome new kinds devel¬ 
oped by that phenomenal breeder of 
ornamental plants, Victor Lemoine, of 
Nancy, France. So numerous and ex¬ 
cellent are his productions that it may 
be said the modern development of the 
decorative lilac is solely due to his gen¬ 
ius and industry. Formerly lilacs, aside 
from the natural species, were much 
alike. There were the small spikes of 
single blue-purple or white flowers, 
rather sparingly crowning great masses 
of foliage on stiffly upright stems. Now 
we have enormous panicles of immense 
double and single blooms of innumer¬ 
able shades of white, cream, rose and 
pink, as well as lilac-blues and darkest 
maroon purple, thickly covering broad 
and shapely, but dwarf-growing bushes. 
More than 40 distinct kinds are offered 
in this country, and still others abroad. 
This is a truly marvellous result of 
consistent work accomplished by an 
earnest and unpretending individual. 
About the year 1876 M. Lemoine dis¬ 
covered a double-flowered lilac of ap¬ 
parent hybrid origin, small and imper¬ 
fect, but promising, in an old garden, 
and soon commenced hyridizing ex¬ 
periments, resulting in the fine variety 
Mathieu de Dombasle in 1882. Others 
followed in rapid succession and it 
would indeed be a difficult fancier that 
could not be pleased by the extraord¬ 
inary assortment now available. Lists 
of best kinds appear yearly in garden¬ 
ing periodicals. From tnose tried on 
the Rural Grounds we recommend the 
following—both old and new kinds 
being included: Jacques Calot, large 
panicles, very large individual flowers, 
clear, rosy, pink, single; Belle de 
Nancy, shining, satiny rose, whitish 
center, double; Countesse Horace de 
Choiseul, light bluish purple, very large 
flower, double; Frau Dammann, single 
white, large perfect panicles, very pure 
in color; Ludwig Spaeth, single, very 
large flowers, darkest purple red, tne 
best of its color; Madame Lemoine, 
perhaps the finest double white; Presi¬ 
dent Grevy, very attractive blue purple, 
double and very large. Oood plants 
grafted on common lilac stocks that will 
bloom in a year or two after planting 
cost $1 each, and are far preferable to 
cheaper ones on privet, as the latter do 
not endure well. The culture is ex¬ 
tremely simple. Plant in deep rich soil, 
give an annual dressing of yard manure, 
cut off the bloom spikes as they fade 
to avoid the formation of seed capsules, 
and afford ample space for development 
—.six pr .seven feet apart is close; 
enough for good effect. It is also a 
good plan to spray with Bordeaux solu¬ 
tion if mildew appears on the foliage in 
late Summer. w. v. f. 
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