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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs of Merit for New England 
Head hij Mr. Wni. II. Judd of the Arnold Arboreluin at the EigJdh Annual Convention of the 
Neiv England Nurserymen’s Association held in Boston, January 28 and 29, 19/9 
I WANT to try to take you through the year with a se- 
leelioii of a lew ot the best and most atlraetive 
Howeriug trees and shrubs that should he mote 
eouuuoiily seen and grown in gardens. Some ot the suh- 
jeets to he named are not new, hut eertainly are as good 
as many of the new ones and may have been overlooked 
hv I lie growers of ornameidal trees and shrubs. 
"l)tiring Deeemher and January, we have in flower, 
Ilamametis Vernalis, a native of Missouri and Arkansas. 
This is a small bushy shrub and is covered with deep yel¬ 
low strap-sha])cd flowers smaller than those ol the com¬ 
mon witch hazel that flowers in October. Coming to the 
end of January and in February, we have 11. Mollis in 
flower, iirohahly the best and handsomest of these shrubs 
in the size and color of its flowers which are a bright 
yellow with a claret colored calyx. The foliage is good 
and the shrub is perfectly hardy and vigorous and no 
garden is complete without a shrub or two ol this and the 
previous mentioned winter flowering variety. 
Ilelonging to the same 1 amity is Corylopsis Goloana, the 
leaves of which resemble a Witch Hazel but the Iragrant 
eaiiary yellow^ flowers are produced iii drooping racemes. 
Th(' shrub is tall and spreading w ith suh-erect hranehes, 
and flow ers in May. 
The first shrub to unfold its leaves in Spring is Prin- 
sejiki sinensis, a perfectly hardy tall and vigorous shrub 
with spreading spiny hranehes and clusters of bright yel¬ 
low flowers ])rodue('d in the axils ol the leaves. I he 
berry like fruit that comes later is about the size of a 
eranherry, and is red. 
One of the handsomest of tin' Asialie deciduous rhodo- 
(hMulrons is Bhododendron Sctdippenhachii. A ])erl('etly 
hardy shriJ) and in early May hears heautilid large llesh 
pink^flowers. It should he planted in the shade for the 
flowers are of a thin texture and lade out (|uiekly in the 
sun. Several hundred of seedlings were rasied last y('ar 
and it should soon become a popular variety, although in 
one or two Massachusetts gardens are some fair sized 
])lants already. 
Bhododendron coreanum (R. Poukhanensis) has been 
called to your attenlion before. This is a delightful low% 
compact imsh with a profusion of rosy mauve fragrant 
flowers juoduced every May and the hush is never in¬ 
jured by any drought or heat. The common variety 
“Yodogawa” is only a double flow^ered form of this 
species. 
Bhododendron nuuronulaium is an upright deciduous 
shrub that mwer fails to flower every year about the end 
of April before tln^ foliage appears. It hears ])ale rose 
colored flowers lhat last in good condition for nearly 
three weeks. 
Bhododendron CaroUniamnn which flowers in June is 
one of the best broad leaved evergreens recently intro¬ 
duced and never fails to give a ci' 0 [) of its pale rose i)iid': 
clusters of flowers, either in sun or shade every June. 
There are numerous good varieties of flow^ering apples, 
too many to describe, Imt a selection of one or tw o of the 
best include Matas Arnoldiana, sii])posed to he a hybrid 
between Matas cerifer or Matas floribnnda, both its par- 
ents being hybrids. It is a low-, wide s])reading bushy 
tree wdth long arching branches, extremely beautiful 
when completely covered with its large flowers that 
change from rose to w bite and in the fall are covered wdtli 
red fruits. Another of more tree-like habit is Matas Sie- 
boldii catocarpa, handsome in spring or autumn. The 
flowers are pink and white and the fruit which covers 
the hush is bright scarlet. The foliage is lohed and this 
variety used to he called Matas toringo incisa. The douhhi 
flowered form of Matas ioensis known as Bechtels Crab 
should he seen more than it is for the beautiful double 
pink flowers like small roses always give considerable 
pleasure and interest to the public. 
The iHwv roses are numerous hut one of the best ini re¬ 
duced from Cdiina is without doubt Bosa Uagonis. The 
long arching branches are completely covered frorii end 
to end with beautiful ])ale yellow^ flowers. The shrub is 
(|uite hardy and grows fast, and is one of the earliest to 
flow^er, often by the middle of May. Another mwv and 
interesting rose is Bosa onieiensis, a vigorous tall grower 
having the young stems covered with broad bright red 
prickles, and hears pure white fragrant flowers with 
only four petals. Its nanu' is d('rived from the sacred 
mountain of Omei in China where it is common, and 
promises to he a valuable plant here on account of its 
liardiness. It should also make a good hedge plant. It 
flowers the middle of May. 
Bosa spinosissinui altaica, although an old variety of 
the Scotch rose, is one of the best and deserves to be 
grow n more. It never fails to flower every year about 
the end of May, and is one of the best and hardiest of all 
the single flowered roses that can he grown in tliis 
climate. 
Bosa maltiflora cathayensis should he taken hold of 
by the hybridist. It is a climber and Chinese representa¬ 
tive of the well-known multiflora, hut hears large clus¬ 
ters of single pink flowers with a centre of yellow 
anthers flowering about the middle of May. It fruits 
freely and is om; of the parents of the Crimson Rambler. 
The cotoneasters have recently attracted the most at¬ 
tention of any of the new^er Chinese shrubs. There are 
about fourteen varieties useful as decorative shrubs es¬ 
pecially so as they fill a double purpose by being sbow y 
both in flow^ers and fruit. The very best ones include 
first of all, Cotoneaster racemiftora soongorica. It is a 
tall, much branched, wide spreading shrub and during 
May the slender arching branches are closely packed 
with clusters of w bite flow ers in upright trusses, and in 
the fall the shj'ub is comj)letely covered wnth bright red 
