The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07

isttcs Of the American trees are more
fully Illustrated, there is COMPENSATION
IN the greater number of varieties of
most OF the foreign species, due to the
fact that these have been carefully Gull
t1vated and attentively WATCHED by so
many generations Of gardeners In the
group or elmS. for example, there is but
one variety of the American elm Ul-
mus Americana)-a particularly beautiful
semi-pendulous elm from Indiana The
UlmuS campostris-or English elm. as
1t is usually called in this country-is
represented by dozen or more varieties,
from the curious twigged elm Of Europe.
with little clusters Of twigs at the ends
OF the branches, reminding one of the
needles on some pines, to the curious
Persian elm, with It's outrageous bushy
head, In it's present half-grown state not
unlike the bay trees of our ornamental
gardens. Scattered sfngly over the hill
side where they are growing, therefore,
the foreigners-from Europe Siberia
China, Japan-make more Important
showing than the domestic species which
are shown with them, namely, the Amer
lean, rock and slippery elms
Varieties, unless strongly marked and
propagated from some recognized natu-
raj sport, as such a deviation from
heredity is called-are not greatly en-
couraged, it may be added, Just as
among the shrubs, none but the best
known hybrids are admitted While not
pretending to be park for the study of
technical forestry, the eArboretum is still
further from being refuge of mere
horticultural refinements The natural
tree is always the center OF interest In
the remarkable group of fruit trees there
are no cultivated pears, plums, peaches
or app1es--only the original native spe-
Giles, so far as they can be determined as
SUCH The apples, for instance are often
no bigger than peas-so that it is a
pleasantly with the gardener
to offer them to visitors as the variety
with which Eve tempted Adam-and most
of the pears, plums and peaches are not
much nearer the fruits of our orchards.
The trees, Of course. will be the even
tual glory of the Arboretum Even now
and apart from the great hemloek grove
and the old woodland spaces which have
been spared from former generations,
there are many we'll grown and beautiful
young trees that were set out at the be-
ginning of the scientific plantations
twenty years ago. But it Is in the lilacs
or forsy thias, privets, analias or rhodo-
dendrons, where hundreds Of specimens
have reached their prime, and In the sys-
tematic collections OF vines and shrubs,
that the visitor may obtain the clearest
idea Of the perfection which will come
to every part of the grounds, 25, so or
100 years hence. The shrubs alone occupy
between four and FIVE acres, and include
about Zoo varieties in long, parallel beds,
having a total length of nearly three
miles The horticultural value of such an
exhibit where the most notable varieties
Of each shrub are ranged in convenient
order for the 1eisurely study Of the land
scape gardener or botarist Is Obvious.
Similarly the various vines, climbing Bit
tersweet or Roxbury waxwork-an APP
propriate name in the Roxbury section
Of Boston-trumpet flower, clematis, wild
grape, wistaria and the rest occupy each
its space of twenty or thirty feet, or
enough for full and beautiful display
IN which to Chamber undisturbed over
and along the low, stone walls which
mark the limit of the Arboretum.
But. after all. most persons would
agree the only way in which the Ar
boretum seems to be definitely museum
u In its system Of cataloguing. Each