T irl K hUHAL NEW-YORKER 
August 22, 
Ruralisms 
The New Hardy Snowball Hy- 
prangea. —Although cultivated in a lim¬ 
ited way in western gardens for the 
past 30 years, the showy sterile-flow¬ 
ered variety of our native Hydrangea 
arborescens has only recently been in¬ 
troduced and is now regarded as the 
most promising of hardy shrub novel¬ 
ties. A photograph of a two-year flow¬ 
ering plant grown in poor soil on the 
Rural Ground's is reproduced in Fig. 
3(>o. It is less than three feet high, but 
was loaded during June and July with 
great panicles of milk-white blooms, 
eight inches or more across. Foliage 
and habit are very good, there being 
little of the coarseness always associated 
with the very popular Asiatic Hydrangea 
panieulata grandiflora. Like Paniculata 
grandfflora almost every shoot, even on 
the smallest plants, terminates in a 
showy bloom cluster that endures for 
weeks, and has the advantage of coining 
at a season when few shrubs are in 
bloom. This variety is said to grow 
eight or more feet high and to produce, 
when thoroughly established, a bewilder- 
ing profusion of flower heads during 
practically the whole Summer. Though 
highly recommended as a florist’s plant, 
our trials do not indicate that these 
giant snowballs arc particularly useful 
for cutting, as they quickly droop in 
water, hut there is no question of their 
attractiveness in the garden. The snow¬ 
ball Hydrangea is entirely hardy and 
will apparently grow in any soil of or¬ 
dinary fertility, lull should have liberal 
treatment for best results. Young plants 
should he well mulched, not only to assist 
growth hut to prevent the great bloom 
clusters from being draggled by heavy 
rains. As the plants gain ill statute there 
will naturally he less damage from this 
source. 
Hydrangea Arborescens Stkkilis 
was introduced to commerce two years 
ago with a great flourish, and for some 
time the impression prevailed that it was 
really a new and distinct variety of the 
sterile-flowered type of Hydrangea ar¬ 
borescens. The name proposed was H. 
arborescens grandiflora alba, but investi¬ 
gation shows that it is the old “Hills of 
Snmv,” grown in scores of old gardens 
in the Mississippi Valley region. The 
botanical designation is as given above; 
and the popular garden name will likely 
be Snowball Hydrangea. Strong young 
plants may now he had at 50 cents each. 
Hansen’s Hybrid- Fruits. —In Bulle¬ 
tin No. 108, South Dakota Experiment 
Station, the horticulturist. Prof. \V. E. 
Hansen, dscribes some new hybrid fruits 
resulting from breeding experiments car¬ 
ried on for several years. The Ij>and 
cherry of the plains has been crossed 
with the native plum, Japan plum, Chi¬ 
nese apricot plum. Persian 'purple- 
leaved plum, European apricot,, culti¬ 
vated peach, and European ' sweet 
cherry. Some hybrids have alstjt'heen 
secured between native and Japan 
plums. Most of the seedlings are 1 not 
of fruiting age and the descriptions are 
mainly confined the seedling trees as 
they appear in the nursery. Tty 
lie Sand 
cherry, Primus Bessoyi, is njvwt ac- 
connnodating in US affinities, mossing 
well with representatives of maiiy al¬ 
lied species. The most promising results, 
however, that have thus far materialized 
are from crosses with the Asiatic plums, 
Sultan of rather Occident plum, otic of, 
dark red in color, with green flesh of 
good quality and very small pits. Better 
results arc expected from other com¬ 
binations not yet fruited. The hope is 
to combine the ironclad hardiness of the 
Sand cherry and its perfect adaptability 
to prairie conditions with the size and 
quality, in some degree, of the better 
cultivated stone fruits of other regions, 
and also, if possible, to raise it to the 
dignity of an orchard fruit instead of a 
small fruit as it is now generally re¬ 
garded. Better immediate results are 
secured from hybridizing native and 
Asiatic plums. The llanska, a combi¬ 
nation of Primus Americana and P. 
Simoni, appears very promising. The 
tree is tall, growing 12 feet in three 
years, and the fruits quite similar to 
those of the Apricot plum but smaller. 
The bulletin is well illustrated and 
should encourage similar experiments 
elsewhere. 
The Sand or Rocky .Mountain 
Cherry was disseminated throughout 
the East as a startling novelty 12 years 
or more ago. One dollar each was the 
price charged for the plants as first sent 
out. They fruited, as promised, in great 
profusion as soon as established, and 
were certainly quite ornamental when 
in bloom, but the cherries were barely 
edible—too low in quality to be worth 
consideration—and the little trees or 
rather shrubs so subject to twig blight 
that they were soon destroyed. A few 
hybrids with native plums were raised 
on the Rural Grounds, but soon dis¬ 
carded as having little promise. The 
species is evidently out of place in the 
Atlantic Coast region but holds rich 
promise for earnest breeders in the vast 
interior plains to which it is adapted. 
Prof. Hansen has gained great improve¬ 
ment in size of fruit and flavor by cul¬ 
ture and selection alone. Some of his 
late pure seedlings are said to bear quite 
palatable cherries an inch in diameter. 
The true Rocky Mountain or Pennock 
cherry is thought to be a hybrid be¬ 
tween the Sand cherry and the Arctic 
wild plum, but ordinary seedlings were 
sent out. The Pennock has little to 
recommend it aside from larger fruits. 
The Sunday Paper Horticulturist. 
■ —One of the metropolitan Sunday news¬ 
papers has been disseminating horticul¬ 
tural information, written in the usual 
elaborately sensational style of such 
publications. The information given, 
while not altogether inaccurate, is mis¬ 
leading to the inexperienced and causes 
much anguish to conscientious seeds¬ 
men. The Sunday writer has dilated on 
the superiority of hardy flowering plants 
to the ordinary bedding kinds, and the 
qasc with which they may be grown in 
quantity from seeds. There is in conse¬ 
quence inquiry by confident customers 
for seeds of such slow maturing plants 
as Japan Anemones and herbaceous 
Phlox, to be immediately sown with the 
expectation of raising plants that will 
bloom next year. The customers are 
, also impressed, in reading previous 
numbers, with the advantage of plant¬ 
ing sweet peas, annual Phlox arid other 
showy 'bloomers at this midsummer 
Season, with the idea that they will be 
rewarded with profuse Fall bloom. 
While late Summer is a good season to 
sow Seeds of'many perennial plants With 
a view of wintering the little plants 
with more or less protection, it needs 
lather careful management and a special 
knowledge of varieties to secure good re¬ 
sults. Seeds' sown now rarely germinate 
the Burbank .seedlings, when h'ended’ as we ^ as cooler weather, and must 
be kept moist and well shaded. The 
with the Sand cherry produces very vig¬ 
orous young trees that grow four or 
five feet high in a season when budded 
ori native plum stocks. The only one 
that has - fruited has been named Sapa. 
The fruits are an inch in diameter with 
dark purple skin and sweet red flesh. 
Another hybrid between Primus Simoni 
and the Sand cherry is named Tokcya. 
The tree is dwarf and hears very early. 
The fruits are over art inch in diameter, 
proper' conditions cannot always be af¬ 
forded in ordinary gardens. Sweet peas 
and many Summer-flowering annuals 
rarely do well, even with the best of 
care, when sown late. The most satis¬ 
factory results are always to he looked 
for when started as early as possible 
in Spring. A few hardy plants such as 
the perennial Dianthus, including the 
Sweet Williams, make strong blooming 
plants the coming year from August- 
sown seeds but such subjects as Japan 
Anemones and the herbaceous Phloxes 
demand expert treatment and rarely grow 
to flowering sizes before the second or 
third full years. Hardy Phlox seeds, it 
is true, grow best if sown as soon as 
ri]X“ in boxes or in the open ground, but 
rarely germinate until they have en¬ 
dured the freezing and thawing of an 
entire Winter. Careful seedsmen dis¬ 
approve the reckless statements of news¬ 
paper horticultural writers, for though 
a temporary demand for seeds may be 
created, much disappointment is sure to 
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