THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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nearly white flowers and fruit about the size of a pea. 
There is a fine specimen of this tree in front of the gar¬ 
dener’s house in the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cam¬ 
bridge. It is impossible within the limits of this ar¬ 
ticle even to mention the names of all the species, 
hybrids, forms and varieties of these plants in the collec¬ 
tion which has been in process of formation for nearly 
forty years and must now be one of the most complete in 
existence. It will well repay a careful study, especially 
the new collection at the base of Peter’s Hill. Few 
plants are better suited to the New England climate than 
the Crabapples; they all produce beautiful flowers and 
many of them brilliant fruit. It should not be forgotten, 
however, that all Apple-trees are liable to be attacked 
and killed by the San Jose scale, and that it is unwise to 
plant them unless this pest can be kept in check by care¬ 
ful spraying. 
A New Diervilla 
Among the plants brought from Korea a few years ago 
into the Arboretum by Mr. Jack is a form of Diervilla 
florida which has been named var. venusta. This is one of 
the handsomest of all Diervillas and one of the earliest to 
flower. It is very vigorous and every year completely 
covers itself before the leaves are half grown with large 
rosy pink flowers. Few of the shrubs introduced by the 
Arboretum in recent years give greater promise of use¬ 
fulness and popularity in northern gardens. 
Bush Honeysuckles 
For northern gardens there are no more beautiful 
shrubs than some of the Bush Honeysuckles, with their 
myriads of yellow, white, rose color or red flowers which 
in summer or autumn are followed by lustrous, usually 
scarlet fruits. Many of these shrubs are able to show 
their greatest beauty in this climate, but this can be ob¬ 
tained only by planting them in rich soil and with suf¬ 
ficient space for free growth in all directions. In poor 
soil and when crowded by other plants they are usually 
miserable objects. The large growing kinds like the dif¬ 
ferent forms of L. tatarica, L. bella and its varieties with 
white and with rose-colored flowers and L. notha should 
be planted as isolated specimens at least twenty feet 
from any other plant. L. Morrowi, a plant of the Amoor 
region in eastern Siberia requires even more space, for its 
lower branches which cling close to the ground naturally 
spread over a great area. This shrub has gray-green 
foliage, comparatively large white flowers and bright red 
fruits. It is one of the most useful of the early intro¬ 
ductions of the Arboretum into the United States, and has 
been largely planted in the Boston parks. Like many 
other Bush Honeysuckles L. Morrowi hybridizes easily 
with other species, and most of the plants raised from 
seeds, now sold by American nurserymen as L. Morrowi 
are hybrids of that species with L. tatarica and are erect 
growing plants of little value for those who want plants 
with the peculiar habit of L Morrowi. Among less vig¬ 
orous growing plants, attention is called to two hybrids 
of L. Korolkowi in the collection, L. amoena and L. Ar- 
noldiana. These have small, gray-green foliage and 
small, bright pink, and very attractive flowers, and are 
hardly surpassed in grace and beauty by any honey¬ 
suckles in the collection. 
Flowering Ashes 
This is the common name for a group of Ash trees 
(Fraxinus) with elongated white petals which make the 
flowers conspicuous. They are natives of southern and 
southeastern Europe, the Himalayas and western and 
northern China. A shrubby species, F. dipetala, is com¬ 
mon in California, and two Mexican species extend into 
the territory of the United States, one in southern Texas 
and the other in Arizona where it ranges as far north as 
the rim of the Grand Canon of the Colorado River. The 
type of the group, Fraxinus Ornus, is a common tree in 
southern Europe, and is now in flower at the upper end 
of the Ash Group near the top of the eastern slope of Bus¬ 
sey Hill. Manna is the hardened sap of this and a re¬ 
lated species. Another species of Flowering Ash, F. 
Buncjeana, is also in flower near F. Ornus. This is an 
old inhabitant of the Arboretum, and is an irregularly 
growing shrub ten or twelve feet high from the mountains 
near Peking. It flowers here regularly every year and 
produces large crops of seeds. The plant of a third 
species, Fraxinus Paxiana, will soon be in flower. This 
is one of Wilson’s discoveries in western China and is 
flowering this year for the first time in America. It is 
a small tree remarkable for the large size of the nearly 
globose terminal winter-buds. 
NEW QUARTERS FOR McllUTCHISON & CO. 
Last May McHutchison & Co., the Import House, 17 
Murray street, New York City, purchased the building at 
95 Chambers street; which runs through to 77 Reade 
street, a full block long. The building consists of five 
floors, basement and sub-basement. They expect to 
occupy part of the building May 1st. 
Since they commenced business 15 years ago, they 
have moved four times and each time have doubled their 
occupied space. The latest move will give them room 
to grow without the necessity of changing their address. 
All communications should now be addressed to 
McHutchison & Co., 95 Chambers street, New York. 
C. E. Wilson & Co., of Manchester, Conn., are plan¬ 
ning to start in the nursery business, growing a gen¬ 
eral line of fruit and ornamental stock, also seedlings in 
variety. Mr. Wilson, who will personally superintend 
all of the work has had long experience in growing and 
handling all kinds of stock and we feel sure will please 
the most critical. 
Can you inform me where 1 can obtain peach trees 
grafted on plum stocks? I am informed they are more 
hardy and do better in a heavy clay soil than those 
budded on peach stocks. 
C. W. E. 
