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differ in this respect and on shoots produced from the bases 
of old trees the large leaves are quite green. T. vulgaris is 
a fine round-headed tree with rather small, somewhat pendul¬ 
ous branches, and it appears to have been more often planted 
in the neighborhood of Boston than any other Linden. 
There are a number of large specimens in front of an old 
house on Centre Street near Orchard Street, Jamaica Plain, 
and in Olmsted Park. The flowers of this tree are now 
fading, so in its flowering time it is intermediate between its 
two supposed parents. There is another supposed hybrid 
of the same parentage and a native of Hungary, known as 
T. vulgaris var. pallida. This tree has larger leaves pale 
on the lower surface, and in habit and general appearanee 
resembles T. platyphyllos more than the commoner forms of 
T. vulgaris. It is propagated in some of the Dutch nurseries 
where it is sold as T. vulgaris or europaea, and in the Arbor¬ 
etum collection it is the most rapid growing and the most 
shapely of all the species and hybrids, grving promise of 
beeoming an excellent street tree for this region. 
Two Linden trees are found only in eastern Europe, the 
silver Linden, T. tomentosa or argentea, as it is sometimes 
called, and T. petiolaris. The Silver Linden is a tree with 
erect branches forming a broad, compact, round-topped 
formal head, and large erect leaves dark green and lustrous 
above and white and covered below with short thiek felt. 
This distinct and handsome tree has not been much planted 
in eastern Massachusetts but it can be often seen in the 
neighborhood of New York and Philadelphia, and there are 
a nmnber of good specimens in Central and Prospect Parks. 
T. petiolaris is a more beautiful tree; this also has leaves 
which are silvery white on the lower surface but they hang 
down on long slender stalks and flutter gracefully in the 
breeze. The branches, which are also pendulous, form a 
rather narrow but open head. This tree is not known in a 
wild state and all the plants in cultivation have been derived 
from a single individual found ninety years ago in a garden 
in Odessa. This beautiful tree appears to have been more 
often planted near Boston than the Silver Linden, but is 
still rare and little known here. A supposed hybrid of this 
tree with T. americana and sometimes sold in nurseries as 
T. alba spectabilis is one of the most rapid-growing of the 
Lindens and a very handsome tree with the leaves of the 
size and shape of its American parent but silvery white on 
their lower surface. Plants raised at the Arboretum from 
the seeds of a tree of T. petiolaris whieh was growing in the 
neighborhood of T. Americana, the two flowering at the 
same time, are identical with trees of this hybrid found in 
European nurseries. T- vestita is probably the proper name 
for it. 
Mueh attention in late years has been paid in Europe 
to another supposed hybrid Linden, T. euchlora, or as it is 
more generally known, T. dasystyla. This is a pyramidal 
tree, with large dark green leaves lustrous on their upper 
surface. It grows rapidly; its habit is good, and it is now 
largely planted as a street tree in Germany and Holland. 
Its origin is uncertain although usually considered a hybrid 
of the little known T. rubra of the Caucasus. T.euchlora 
is perfectly hardy here and promises to be a useful tree in 
New England. 
As a rule the trees of ea.stem Asia grow much better in 
the eastern United States than the related species of Europe, 
but this is not true of the Lindens. All the European Lindens 
flourish here but none of the Asiatic species give mueh 
promise yet of being handsome or valuable trees in this 
climate. Those whieh have been tried here are hardy but 
they suffer from various fungal diseases and are short-lived. 
It is too soon, of eourse, to form an opinion on the valueof 
the Lindens recently discovered in western China, but of 
those of eastern Siberia, northern China and Japan only 
T. japonica has proved really satisfactory here. This is a 
small tree with pendulous branches, related to T. cordata, 
of which it has sometimes been considered a v.ariety. It 
has no special ornamental value, although it is perfectly 
hardy and healthy and flowers and produces fruit in the 
Arboretum every year. 
TRADE-MARKS PROTECTED 
The Validity of Trade-Marked Varieties of Fruits is Recog¬ 
nized in Missouri Court 
Probably the only case of its kind, that of Stark Bro’s 
Nurseries & Orchards Company of Louisiana, Mo., vs. C.H. 
Hartman, a local nurseryman, came up before the circuit 
court of Jackson county. Mo., wherein the plaintiffs sought 
among other relief to protect and have recognized certain 
trade-marks they have obtained on choice new varieties 
of fruits which they have commercialized. 
The following excerpts from Stark Bro’s petition upon 
which the court granted full relief and costs, will deeply 
interest fruit growers and orchardists as they cover points 
which have long been in controversy. 
“That nursery stock may be propagated and grown in 
different ways or systems; that plaintiff in the course of its 
developments and experience has originated and propagated 
new and distinct varieties of nursery stock never before 
grown; that plaintiff is the owner of certain trade-marks 
on certain varieties of its stock, and has obtained registra¬ 
tion for such trade-marks, as is provided by law, and such 
varieties have become known to the public as having been 
grown by plaintiff.’’ 
Upon an order of court, with other relief, the defendant 
was enjoined from further selling nursery stock under names 
owned and registered as trade-marks of plaintiff and from 
carrying out and performing any contracts for stock sold 
by such representations. 
This will mean much to the enterprising nurserymen 
who have had the foresight to register their introductions. 
In the case of Stark Bro’s this will protect such of their 
widely advertised leaders as Delicious apple. Champion, 
Chicago, Giant Jeniton, Henry Clay, Ben Hur, Black Ben, 
.Senator, Stark King David, Fame pear. Van Deman quince. 
Gold plmn, Illinois blackberry. Banner and Stark Eclipse 
grapes, etc.- Louisiana Press Journal. 
Enclosed you will please find check for one dollar ($ i .00) for which 
kindly renew my subscription to the National Nurseryman. 
I like your paper very much and would dislike very much to do 
without it. It has greatly improved, especially during the past year. 
Yours very sincerely, 
E. G. Morley. 
