Three Garden Beauties 
winters. I make a practice of mulching heavily with 
strawy manure, at the roots of all the prunus family. 
Prunus padus, the European bird cherry, a some¬ 
what slim, tall shrub-like tree, bearing drooping, 
white, racemes in early spring, followed by small 
red berries so dear to the feathered tribe. 
Somewhat related to it, but much earlier and more 
profuse in bloom, is the Russian May Day tree, 
P. Maackii, always in bloom by May first with me. 
It is a broad spreading tree, fully thirty feet in diam¬ 
eter and nearly the same in height, the semi-pendant 
branches sweeping the ground. I am surprised that 
I do not find this admirable species catalogued by 
the nurserymen. My plants were raised from seed 
brought from Russia by Professor Budd, of the Iowa 
Agricultural College. 
DEUTZIA LEMOINEII—EGANDALE, ILLINOIS, I9O5 
Deutzia VI 7 HEN the naturalist, Thunberg, 
Lemoineii VV desired to honor his friend and 
patron, Johann Van der Deutz, he attached his 
name to a handsome group of shrubs, and intro¬ 
duced to cultivation the deutzia of our gardens. 
Some fifteen species and many varieties are now 
known, the great majority of them coming from 
Eastern Asia and the Elimalayas. 
Unfortunately but few of them are reliably hardy 
with me, and up to the advent of D. Lemoineii I had 
about given up their cultivation. 
D. scabra and its forms, crenata , and the Pride of 
Rochester, as well as D. gracilis, had succumbed 
to our rigorous winters. 
Of late years, Lemoine, of France, has been 
hybridizing them, using the most hardy of the family, 
D. parvifolia, as one of the parents, and has produced 
several excellent forms. I have tried only one, 
D. Lemoineii, here illustrated, which has not only 
proved to be a very handsome and graceful shrub, 
but has stood several winters unprotected and un¬ 
harmed. 
It flowers in broad panicles of pure white and is 
contemporaneous with the lilac, so that it may be used 
as a front shrub to a group of syringas. 
It grows about three feet high and soon forms a 
spreading bush of equal diameter. 
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