. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. ite in which the whole of them bear red berriesat certain stages of growth: Viburnum cassinoides, cotinifolium dilitatum,Lantana, o p u 1 u s, Sieboldi, tomentosum andWrightii. In the case of a few of these the redcolored berries give way to black in the end, butthe others maintain the red color until almost thelast. And in the case of sterilis, sometimes calledoxycoccos, the clusters of red berries hang on allWinter, being very ornamental. Besides their red berries, these shr
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. ite in which the whole of them bear red berriesat certain stages of growth: Viburnum cassinoides, cotinifolium dilitatum,Lantana, o p u 1 u s, Sieboldi, tomentosum andWrightii. In the case of a few of these the redcolored berries give way to black in the end, butthe others maintain the red color until almost thelast. And in the case of sterilis, sometimes calledoxycoccos, the clusters of red berries hang on allWinter, being very ornamental. Besides their red berries, these shrubs all bearpretty clusters of white flowers in early Spring,nearly all of them having large corymbs of flowers,for which feature alone many of them are planted. What needs attention as well, in- connection withthese viburnums, is their beauty of growth, as arule. Everyone of them makes a shapely shrubnaturally, and when a slight pruning is given themfrom time to time, it makes the few tall growingspecies become of more compact growth. Of the list, cassinoides and opulus are natives;the rest European or Rhus Cotlnns, Mist Bush These notes on viburnums are suggested from aconviction that nurserymen might push the salesof them to the satisfaction of customers and totheir own profit. Fall Planted Magnolias. There is something in the disturbance of the rootsof magnolias in Autumn acting against the welldoing of the trees when transplanted. It is cheaperto throw away the trees than to transplant themthen, as the labor of planting will be saved, forall such planted trees will die. It is the same withthe tulip tree, liriodendron. These trees havefleshy roots or more nearly so than most trees, andit is evident that trees with roots of this naturedo not like disturbance in the Fall. When pos-sible to secure a ball of soil with a tree the caseis different. It is then no more of a disturbancethan the planting of a tub specimen would be. It sometimes happens that a customer very
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