Snowflake Tree

The Canadian Horticulturist says this is the garden name in Germany of our White Fringe. This is near the "Snowdrop tree," which is Halesia tetraptera.

Combining Fences

Since the idea of combining shrubs too weak to form in themselves protective fences, with a few strands of barbed wire to give them the necessary force, a number of plants are being named for use that had no value before as hedge plants. Mr. Manning of Massachusetts, has introduced the red "Osier" or Dogwood, and we think it one of the best that has yet been named.

Mixed Beds

Much interest is given to beds of Rhododendrons and other plants that flower but once a year by putting in Gladiolus, Lilies or; some other plant between them that flowers at at other seasons. We saw some very gay effects from Chrysanthemums among Rhododendrons the past season. Lilies are said to work well with roses.

Acer Macrophyllum

The Oregon maple we saw for the first time in flower under cultivation in Philadelphia this year. In foliage and habit it is superior to the Sycamore maple, its near neighbor. Like all things from the Pacific coast, however, it misses the atmospheric moisture it so much loves in its native place, and always gets killed back more or less when young. When it finally reaches a good height, it seems hardier.

White Coquette, Or Coquette Des Blanches Rose

A very beautiful white hybrid perpetual rose, under this name, was figured in the Journal des Roses for June.

Princesse Stephanie Pelargonium

This is regarded as one of the best of the new race of Liliputian Geraniums, of which we have now Comte de Flandre, Comtesse de Flandre, Comte de Hainaut, Souvenir de Louis Van Houtte, and Princesse Clementine.

The little plants bear an enormous number of very large heads, double as "daisies," though the plants are only a few inches high.

Phacelia Parryi

This remarkably pretty annual, discovered a few years ago in Southern Utah, by Dr. C. C. Parry, has at length found its way to the seed trade.

Double Phlox Drummondii

It is surprising that this old favorite has so long resisted the endeavor of the florist to produce a double variety, but it has given up at last.

New German Aster

Among the novelties of the coming season is a German Aster, four and a half inches across, very double, with each floret rolled up like a needle.

Japan Fringe Tree

The Gardening World illustrates Chionanthus retusus. The white flowers seem to be in erect cymes instead of in loose pen- dulous racemes; and the petals are only about an inch long, and blunt instead of tapering to fringe, as in our species. It was introduced from Japan by Veitch.