THE NATIONAL NURvSERYMAN 
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A Sporty Child 
Can be Shaped at any Age 
He refused to set a price on one but said he would j>[ivc me 
one and he sent me what proved to be the most beautiful and 
is now scattered everywhere. I recently saw specimens near 
Red River, 125 miles northwest of Ft. Worth. 
As those know who have grown Rosed ales in large num¬ 
bers, about one in a thousand after we have long, wann rainy 
spells will show a sport and these sports arc all alike, rather a 
part growing pyramidal tree, just the same as the Arbor Vitae 
parent—the mother. 
A Lombardy Evergreen 
A good many years ago 
we found in a row of seed¬ 
ling Arbor Vitae a tree that 
looked almost exactly like a 
pyramidal Cypress. 
(Cupressu's Pyramidalis). 
It is surely a hybrid and a 
fine cypress stands to the 
southeast of the Arbor Vitae 
from which the seed were 
gathered, and the wind 
generally comes from that 
direction when pollenization 
is most likely to take place. 
This tree grows from cut¬ 
tings like a willow, almost, 
and one rarely or never dies 
in transplanting. We sus¬ 
pect if some one noted for 
producing hybrids had pro¬ 
duced this he would call it 
the most valuable and 
beautiful evergreen in ex¬ 
istence. Once or twice we 
have seen the mercury 
here drop from up about ninety down to zero in a day and 
never has the leader or terminal bud been hurt at all. The 
tree in the picture had never been trimmed. 
A Chinese Arbor Vitic say twenty feet high may be cut 
back at any point or outline, even to a stump four feet high 
and it will at once cover itself with green. They, (Pyramidal 
Hybrids grace green or beauty green) possess the same quality 
but Rosedalc and most of those of .smooth outlines will not 
respond to such treatment. 
Truly the Chinese Arbor Vitas has not had the apprecia¬ 
tion due it, cither for its own self or as a mother of a great host 
of beautiful seedlings which include every form or type from a 
globe to that of a lombardy 
poplar. 
One cold day on the 
plains a man wished he had 
a grove to protect, his 
cattle, a bystander said 
why not build a wind 
break of lumber. He said 
it was not so good. It was 
disputed. Another by¬ 
stander said they could 
settle it on a certain ranch 
which had a row of Arbor 
Vitee ten feet high and also 
a solid board fence the 
same height. So they 
borrowed a sample wind 
mill on a low portable 
tower and found it ran 
furiously at any distance 
behind the fence and stood 
still behind the hedge, both 
near to it and back aways. 
We have a Japan Tam- 
arix {T. Jap. Plunwsa) 
growing among some 
Chinese Arbor "Vits that 
has a limb on it that seems to be a perfect evergreen—a 
sport. If it proves to be, it adds something very valuable 
to the list of the landscape men. 
A Rosedale Arbor Vitae 18 years old—10 ft high 
Seedlings of an Unlimited Number of Shapes 
While we mean, and generally are understood as meaning, 
the open fast growing trees when we speak of Chinese, we 
must not forget that what is commonly called Golden is a 
Chinese too, and the whole tribe likes our climate. In one of 
the parks at San Antonio, we found among a lot of Chinese 
Arbor Vitae one tree that is certainly a cross with our big 
native Cypress {Taxodium distichum) and it was a tree that 
commanded admiration; twenty feet tall, with horizontal 
branches six to eight feet and from the side branches hung 
pendulant limbs half the size of a jicncil and three or four feet 
long. It took but a moment to decide on Bridal Veil as a 
name for it. It grows reasonably well from cuttings but does 
not seem to feel well on an exposed location on black lime 
land. We have had two seedlings like the old one, sold under 
the name of Weeping or Pendulata or Filiformis. 
Large Trees can be Moved 
Two years ago we shipped to the City Park at El Paso, six 
hundred miles, forty-two trees, not one of which was under 
sixteen feet in height, and every tree is living today and in 
perfect health. 
Last 
May groups of those of beautiful fonn be planted to 
please the eye of man and groves of them be planted to shelter 
him and his animals from dust and cold winds. 
Mr. Henry Kallen of Kallen Lunnemann, Boskoop, 
Holland, sailed again on S. S. Noordam from Rotterdam to 
make his annual call on the trade. Shipping over here in 
Holland kept us busy from the middle of January. His 
headquarters are at Maltus & Ware, 14 Stone Street, New 
York City. 
