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Johnson! Lilies. 
E koop the pots in n cool cellar, 
watering occasionally and in 
Spring, as early as the weather will per¬ 
mit. they are set on a bench at the south 
side of the house. The leaves have 
usually started well before bringing up 
from the cellar, and when danger of 
frost is past the pots are set at the front 
of the house, which faces north and 
though they receive very little sun they 
blossom profusely. This one comes into 
bloom about, the middle of June. 
S. E. it. 
It. N.-Y.—The picture shows this at¬ 
tractive plant in full hlooin. Commonly 
(•idled Amaryllis, it is properly speaking, 
Ilippeastrum Johnsoni. The flowers are 
Flower Garden 
three to five lobed, notched on the edge 
like a saw (serrate), shining above and 
wedge-shaped at the base. The flower 
clusters are smooth, shrub very branch¬ 
ing. eight to IS feet high; thorns very 
slender, very sharp, axillary; leaves 1*4 
to 2 inches long, nearly sis wide and 
deeply lobed. Flowers white, varying to 
roseate; fruit purple and usually one- 
seeded. Used for hedges extensively in 
Europe, but sparingly naturalized in the 
United States. The species refered to on 
your neighbors farm is probably C. 
spathulata; this occurs from Virginia 
south, the leaves are small, usually about 
one inch long on the flowering branches 
and sometimes much larger on the barren 
shoots, becoming irregular in form and 
deeply lobed; spines few and small; 
POT OF HI PPEASTRUM JOIINSONI. Fig. 184. 
deep red. with a single white stripe down 
flic keel; it is a profuse bloomer, and 
amenable to the most ordinary care. Tt 
' the oldest known hybrid 1 lippeastrum. 
being raised by an English watchmaker 
named Johnson, who, in 170t>, crossed 
1 lippeastrum Regime with II. vittatum. 
F.nglish Hawthorn and Other Hedge Plants. 
Could you give me some information 
regarding plants suitable for hedges? I 
wish to plant a few hundred feet of 
hedge and would particularly like to 
knew about the thorns. Is the English 
variety of hawthorn hardy here in the 
northern panhandle of West Virginia, 
where extreme temperatures of 25 below 
zero have been recorded? What is the 
English hawthorn like? Thorns grow 
wild here. They have long spikes. On a 
neighboring farm are two “haw” trees, 
• is they are called, which are a foot in 
diameter and have probably been stand¬ 
ing there for the better part of a century. 
They are practically thornless and bear 
scarlet fruit. G. o. 
Hollidays Cove, W. Va. 
T HE English hawthorn Crata'gus 
Oxyaeautha) is not reliably hardy 
where the temperature goes much below 
15 degrees below zero; it therefore would 
not be wise to plant it for hedge pur¬ 
poses in your section. There are scat¬ 
tered throughout the country, some quite 
old specimens of this thorn that have be¬ 
come thoroughly acclimated and have 
withstt >od the rigors of our northern 
'\ inters without injury, but that fact 
gives jo assurance that every plant of 
this species will be as fortunate and to 
use it for hedge where the temperature 
goes sis low as 25 degrees below zero en¬ 
tails a risk that cannot he ignored. This 
species may be briefly described as fol¬ 
lows: The leaves are oblong, obtuse. 
flowers small, white, numerous corymbs, 
20 to 25 flowered ; fruit small, scarlet, a 
handsome shrub, growing 10 to 15 feet 
high. 
For ornamental hedges, California 
privet is used more extensively than any 
other shrub. It is very popular and is 
generally considered the ideal hedge for 
ornamental purposes. It grows quickly, 
and its foliage is so abundant as to pro¬ 
duce a wall of deep rich green, and is al¬ 
most evergreen, as it does not shed its 
leaves until late Winter and then only in 
the exposed situations. It can be kept 
at any height, from 18 inches up to 15 
feet or more, and may be sheared into 
any desired shape; the cost for the plants 
is less than for any other hedge plant, 
except the Osage orange. The follow¬ 
ing are also used extensively for orna¬ 
mental hedges (for descriptions and 
prices see nursery catalogues) : Althaea, 
American arborvitre. Berberis Tliun- 
bergii, Deutzia gracilis, European beech, 
hemlock, spruce, Hydrangea panieulata 
grandiflora, I.igustrum Ibota, Norway 
spruce, Retinispora plumosa auroa, Rosa 
rugosa, Spinoa Thunbergii, Viburnum 
denta turn, etc. For utility hedges the 
following are quite useful: Honey locust, 
Osage orange; both of these have large, 
sharp spines, making a formidable barrier 
that few animals would care to go up 
against the second time. The honey 
locust is the more ornamental of the two, 
the foliage being very handsome. k. 
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