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NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1888.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Editorial Articles:—Asa Gray. The Gardener’s 1
Monthly.
The White Pine in Europe
The Forests of the White Mountain Francis Parkman. 2
Mrs. Schuyler Van
Landscape Gardening.—A Definition
Rensselaer. 2
Floriculture in the United States Peter Henderson. 2
How to Make a Lawn Professor W. J. Beal. 3
Letter from London W. Goldring. 4
A New Departure in Chrysanthemums A. H. Fewkes. 5
New Plants from Afghanistan Max Leichtlin. 6

Iris Tenuis, with figure Sereno Watson. 6
Hardy Shrubs for Forcing Wm. Falconer. 6
C. C. Pringle; Professor W.
Plant Notes
Trelease. 7
Wire Netting for Tree Guards A. A. Crozier. 7
Artificial Water, with Illustration 8
Some New Roses Edwin Lonsdale. 8
Two Ferns and Their Treatment F. Goldring. 9
Timely Hints about Bulbs John Thorpe. 9
Entomology:
Arsenical Poisons in the Orchard Professor A. S. Packard. 9
The Forest:
The White Pine in Europe Professor H. Mayr. 10
European Larch in Massachusetts 11
Thinning Pine Plantations B. E. Fernow. 11
Book Reviews:
Gray’s Elements of Botany Professor G. L. Goodale. 11
Kansas Forest Trees Professor G. L. Goodale. 12
Public Works:—The Falls of Minnehaha—A Park 12
for Wilmington
Flower Markets:—New York—Philadelphia— 12
Boston

Asa Gray.

T HE whole civilized world is mourning the death of Asa Gray with a
depth of feeling and appreciation perhaps never accorded before to a
scholar and man of science.

To the editors of this Journal the loss at the very outset of their labors is
serious indeed. They lose a wise and sympathetic adviser of great
experience and mature judgment to whom they could always have turned
with entire freedom and in perfect confidence; and they lose a contributor
whose vast stores of knowledge and graceful pen might, it was reasonable
to hope, have long enriched their columns.

The career of Asa Gray is interesting from many points of view. It is the
story of the life of a man born in humble circumstances, without the
advantages of early education, without inherited genius—for there is no
trace in his yeoman ancestry of any germ of intellectual greatness—who
succeeded in gaining through native intelligence, industry and force of
character, a position in the very front rank of the scientific men of his age.
Among the naturalists who, since Linnæus, have devoted their lives to the
description and classification of plants, four or five stand out prominently in
the character and importance of their work. In this little group Asa Gray has
fairly won for himself a lasting position. But he was something more than a
mere systematist. He showed himself capable of drawing broad
philosophical conclusions from the dry facts he collected and elaborated
with such untiring industry and zeal. This power of comprehensive
generalization he showed in his paper upon the “Characters of Certain New
Species of Plants Collected in Japan” by Charles Wright, published nearly
thirty years ago. Here he first pointed out the extraordinary similarity
between the Floras of Eastern North America and Japan, and then explained
the peculiar distribution of plants through the northern hemisphere by
tracing their direct descent through geological eras from ancestors which
flourished in the arctic regions down to the latest tertiary period. This paper
was Professor Gray’s most remarkable and interesting contribution to
science. It at once raised him to high rank among philosophical naturalists
and drew the attention of the whole scientific world to the Cambridge
botanist.

Asa Gray did not devote himself to abstract science alone; he wrote as
successfully for the student as for the professional naturalist. His long list of
educational works have no equals in accuracy and in beauty and
compactness of expression. They have had a remarkable influence upon the
study of botany in this country during the half century which has elapsed
since the first of the series appeared.

Botany, moreover, did not satisfy that wonderful intellect, which hard work
only stimulated but did not weary, and one of Asa Gray’s chief claims to
distinction is the prominent and commanding position he took in the great
intellectual and scientific struggle of modern times, in which, almost alone

and single handed he bore in America the brunt of the disbelief in the
Darwinian theory shared by most of the leading naturalists of the time.

But the crowning labor of Asa Gray’s life was the preparation of a
descriptive work upon the plants of North America. This great undertaking
occupied his attention and much of his time during the last forty years of his
life. Less fortunate than his greatest botanical contemporary, George
Bentham, who turned from the last page of corrected proof of his work
upon the genera of plants to the bed from which he was never to rise again,
Asa Gray’s great work is left unfinished. The two volumes of the
“Synoptical Flora of North America” will keep his memory green, however,
as long as the human race is interested in the study of plants.

But his botanical writings and his scientific fame are not the most valuable
legacy which Asa Gray has left to the American people. More precious to us
is the example of his life in this age of grasping materialism. It is a life that
teaches how industry and unselfish devotion to learning can attain to the
highest distinction and the most enduring fame. Great as were his
intellectual gifts, Asa Gray was greatest in the simplicity of his character
and in the beauty of his pure and stainless life.

It is with genuine regret that we read the announcement of the
discontinuance of the Gardener’s Monthly. It is like reading of the death of
an old friend. Ever since we have been interested in the cultivation of
flowers we have looked to the Monthly for inspiration and advice, and its
pages have rarely been turned without finding the assistance we stood in
need of. But, fortunately, the Gardener’s Monthly, and its modest and
accomplished editor, Mr. Thomas Meehan, were one and the same thing. It
is Mr. Meehan’s long editorial experience, high character, great learning and
varied practical knowledge, which made the Gardener’s Monthly what it
was. These, we are happy to know, are not to be lost to us, as Mr. Meehan
will, in a somewhat different field and with new associates, continue to
delight and instruct the horticultural public.

Americans who visit Europe cannot fail to remark that in the parks and
pleasure grounds of the Continent no coniferous tree is more graceful when
young or more dignified at maturity than our White Pine. The notes of Dr.
Mayr, of the Bavarian Forest Academy, in another column, testify that it
holds a position of equal importance as a forest tree for economic planting.
It thrives from Northern Germany to Lombardy, corresponding with a range
of climate in this country from New England to Northern Georgia. It needs
bright sunshine, however, and perhaps it is for lack of this that so few good
specimens are seen in England. It was among the first of our trees to be
introduced there, but it has been universally pronounced an indifferent
grower.

The Forests of the White Mountains.

N EW Hampshire is not a peculiarly wealthy State, but it has some
resources scarcely equaled by those of any of its sisters. The White
Mountains, though worth little to the farmer, are a piece of real estate which
yields a sure and abundant income by attracting tourists and their money;
and this revenue is certain to increase, unless blind mismanagement
interposes. The White Mountains are at present unique objects of attraction;
but they may easily be spoiled, and the yearly tide of tourists will thus be
turned towards other points of interest whose owners have had more sense
and foresight.

These mountains owe three-fourths of their charms to the primeval forest
that still covers them. Speculators have their eyes on it, and if they are
permitted to work their will the State will find a most productive piece of
property sadly fallen in value. If the mountains are robbed of their forests
they will become like some parts of the Pyrenees, which, though much
higher, are without interest, because they have been stripped bare.

The forests of the White Mountains have a considerable commercial value,
and this value need not be sacrificed. When lumber speculators get
possession of forests they generally cut down all the trees and strip the land
at once, with an eye to immediate profit. The more conservative, and, in the

end, the more profitable management, consists in selecting and cutting out
the valuable timber when it has matured, leaving the younger growth for
future use. This process is not very harmful to the landscape. It is practiced
extensively in Maine, where the art of managing forests with a view to
profit is better understood than elsewhere in this country. A fair amount of
good timber may thus be drawn from the White Mountains, without
impairing their value as the permanent source of a vastly greater income
from the attraction they will offer to an increasing influx of tourists. At the
same time the streams flowing from them, and especially the Pemigewasset,
a main source of the Merrimac, will be saved from the alternate droughts
and freshets to which all streams are exposed that take their rise in
mountains denuded of forests. The subject is one of the last importance to
the mill owners along these rivers.
F. Parkman.

Landscape Gardening.—A Definition.

S OME of the Fine Arts appeal to the ear, others to the eye. The latter are
the Arts of Design, and they are usually named as three—Architecture,
Sculpture and Painting. A man who practices one of these in any of its
branches is an artist; other men who work with forms and colors are at the
best but artisans. This is the popular belief. But in fact there is a fourth art
which has a right to be rated with the others, which is as fine as the finest,
and which demands as much of its professors in the way of creative power
and executive skill as the most difficult. This is the art whose purpose it is
to create beautiful compositions upon the surface of the ground.

The mere statement of its purpose is sufficient to establish its rank. It is the
effort to produce organic beauty—to compose a beautiful whole with a
number of related parts—which makes a man an artist; neither the
production of a merely useful organism nor of a single beautiful detail
suffices. A clearly told story or a single beautiful word is not a work of art
—only a story told in beautifully connected words. A solidly and
conveniently built house, if it is nothing more, is not a work of architecture,
nor is an isolated stone, however lovely in shape and surface. A delightful

tint, a graceful line, does not make a picture; and though the painter may
reproduce ugly models he must put some kind of beauty into the
reproduction if it is to be esteemed above any other manufactured article—
if not beauty of form, then beauty of color or of meaning or at least of
execution. Similarly, when a man disposes the surface of the soil with an
eye to crops alone he is an agriculturist; when he grows plants for their
beauty as isolated objects he is a horticulturist; but when he disposes
ground and plants together to produce organic beauty of effect, he is an
artist with the best.

Yet though all the fine arts are thus akin in general purpose they differ each
from each in many ways. And in the radical differences which exist
between the landscape-gardener’s and all the others we find some reasons
why its affinity with them is so commonly ignored. One difference is that it
uses the same materials as nature herself. In what is called “natural”
gardening it uses them to produce effects which under fortunate conditions
nature might produce without man’s aid. Then, the better the result, the less
likely it is to be recognized as an artificial—artistic—result. The more
perfectly the artist attains his aim, the more likely we are to forget that he
has been at work. In “formal” gardening, on the other hand, nature’s
materials are disposed and treated in frankly unnatural ways; and then—as a
more or less intelligent love for natural beauty is very common to-day, and
an intelligent eye for art is rare—the artist’s work is apt to be resented as an
impertinence, denied its right to its name, called a mere contorting and
disfiguring of his materials.

Again, the landscape-gardener’s art differs from all others in the unstable
character of its productions. When surfaces are modeled and plants
arranged, nature and the artist must work a long time together before the
true result appears; and when once it has revealed itself, day to day
attention will be forever needed to preserve it from the deforming effects of
time. It is easy to see how often neglect or interference must work havoc
with the best intentions, how often the passage of years must travesty or
destroy the best results, how rare must be the cases in which a work of
landscape art really does justice to its creator.

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lack of clearly understood terms by which to speak of it and of those who
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“gardener” then had an adequately artistic sound. But as the significance of
the one term has been gradually specialized, so the other has gradually
come to denote a mere grower of plants. “Landscape gardener” was a title
first used by the artists of the eighteenth century to mark the new tendency
which they represented—the search for “natural” as opposed to “formal”
beauty; and it seemed to them to need an apology as savoring, perhaps, of
grandiloquence or conceit. But as taste declined in England it was assumed
by men who had not the slightest right, judged either by their aims or by
their results, to be considered artists; and to-day it is fallen into such
disesteem that it is often replaced by “landscape architect.” This title has
French usage to support it and is in many respects a good one. But its
correlative—“landscape architecture”—is unsatisfactory; and so, on the
other hand, is “landscape artist,” though “landscape art” is an excellent
generic term. Perhaps the best we can do is to keep to “landscape gardener,”
and try to remember that it ought always to mean an artist and an artist only.
M. G. van Rensselaer.

Floriculture in the United States.

A T100theflorists
beginning of the present century, it is not probable that there were
in the United States, and their combined green-house
structures could not have exceeded 50,000 square feet of glass. There are
now more than 10,000 florists distributed through every State and Territory
in the Union and estimating 5,000 square feet of glass to each, the total area
would be 50,000,000 feet, or about 1,000 acres of green-houses. The value
of the bare structures, with heating apparatus, at 60 cents per square foot
would be $30,000,000, while the stock of plants grown in them would not
be less than twice that sum. The present rate of growth in the business is
about 25% per annum, which proves that it is keeping well abreast of our
most flourishing industries.

The business, too, is conducted by a better class of men. No longer than
thirty years ago it was rare to find any other than a foreigner engaged in
commercial floriculture. These men had usually been private gardeners,
who were mostly uneducated, and without business habits. But to-day, the
men of this calling compare favorably in intelligence and business capacity
with any mercantile class.

Floriculture has attained such importance that it has taken its place as a
regular branch of study in some of our agricultural colleges. Of late years,
too, scores of young men in all parts of the country have been apprenticing
themselves to the large establishments near the cities, and already some of
these have achieved a high standing; for the training so received by a lad
from sixteen to twenty, better fits him for the business here than ten years of
European experience, because much of what is learned there would prove
worse than useless here. The English or German florist has here to contend
with unfamiliar conditions of climate and a manner of doing business that is
novel to him. Again he has been trained to more deliberate methods of
working, and when I told the story a few years ago of a workman who had
potted 10,000 cuttings in two inch pots in ten consecutive hours, it was
stigmatized in nearly every horticultural magazine in Europe as a piece of
American bragging. As a matter of fact this same workman two years later,
potted 11,500 plants in ten hours, and since then several other workmen
have potted plants at the rate of a thousand per hour all day long.

Old world conservatism is slow to adopt improvements. The practice of
heating by low pressure steam will save in labor, coal and construction one-
fifth of the expense by old methods, and nearly all the large green-house
establishments in this country, whether private or commercial, have been
for some years furnished with the best apparatus. But when visiting
London, Edinburgh and Paris in 1885, I neither saw nor heard of a single
case where steam had been used for green-house heating. The stress of
competition here has developed enterprise, encouraged invention and driven
us to rapid and prudent practice, so that while labor costs at least twice as
much as it does in Europe, our prices both at wholesale and retail, are lower.
And yet I am not aware that American florists complain that their profits
compare unfavorably with those of their brethren over the sea.

Commercial floriculture includes two distinct branches, one for the
production of flowers and the other for the production of plants. During the
past twenty years the growth in the flower department of the business has
outstripped the growth of the plant department. The increase in the sale of
Rosebuds in winter is especially noteworthy. At the present time it is safe to
say that one-third of the entire glass structures in the United States are used
for this purpose; many large growers having from two to three acres in
houses devoted to Roses alone, such erections costing from $50,000 to
$100,000 each, according to the style in which they are built.

More cut flowers are used for decoration in the United States than in any
other country, and it is probable that there are more flowers sold in New
York than in London with a population four times as great. In London and
Paris, however, nearly every door-yard and window of city and suburb
show the householder’s love for plants, while with us, particularly in the
vicinity of New York (Philadelphia and Boston are better), the use of living
plants for home decoration is far less general.

There are fashions in flowers, and they continually change. Thirty years ago
thousands of Camellia flowers were retailed in the holiday season for $1
each, while Rosebuds would not bring a dime. Now, many of the fancy
Roses sell at $1 each, while Camellia flowers go begging at ten cents. The
Chrysanthemum is now rivaling the Rose, as well it may, and no doubt
every decade will see the rise and fall of some floral favorite. But beneath
these flitting fancies is the substantial and unchanging love of flowers that
seems to be an original instinct in man, and one that grows in strength with
growing refinement. Fashion may now and again condemn one flower or
another, but the fashion of neglecting flowers altogether will never prevail,
and we may safely look forward in the expectation of an ever increasing
interest and demand, steady improvement in methods of cultivation, and to
new and attractive developments in form, color and fragrance.
Peter Henderson.

How to Make a Lawn.

"A essential
SMOOTH, closely shaven surface of grass is by far the most
element of beauty on the grounds of a suburban home.”
This is the language of Mr. F. J. Scott, and it is equally true of other than
suburban grounds. A good lawn then is worth working for, and if it have a
substantial foundation, it will endure for generations, and improve with age.

We take it for granted that the drainage is thorough, for no one would build
a dwelling on water soaked land. No labor should be spared in making the
soil deep, rich and fine in the full import of the words, as this is the stock
from which future dividends of joy and satisfaction are to be drawn. Before
grading, one should read that chapter of Downing’s on “The Beauty in
Ground.” This will warn against terracing or leveling the whole surface, and
insure a contour with “gentle curves and undulations,” which is essential to
the best effects.

If the novice has read much of the conflicting advice in books and
catalogues, he is probably in a state of bewilderment as to the kind of seed
to sow. And when that point is settled it is really a difficult task to secure
pure and living seeds of just such species as one orders. Rarely does either
seller or buyer know the grasses called for, especially the finer and rarer
sorts; and more rarely still does either know their seeds. The only safe way
is to have the seeds tested by an expert. Mr. J. B. Olcott, in a racy article in
the “Report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture for 1886,” says,
“Fifteen years ago nice people were often sowing timothy, red top and
clover for door-yards, and failing wretchedly with lawn-making, while
seedsmen and gardeners even disputed the identity of our June grass and
Kentucky blue-grass.”

We have passed beyond that stage of ignorance, however; and to the
question what shall we sow, Mr. Olcott replies: “Rhode Island bent and
Kentucky blue-grass are their foolish trade names, for they belong no more
to Kentucky or Rhode Island than to other Northern States. Two sorts of
fine Agrostis are honestly sold under the trade name of Rhode Island bent,
and, as trade goes, we may consider ourselves lucky if we get even the
coarser one. The finest—a little the finest—Agrostis canina—is a rather
rare, valuable, and elegant grass, which should be much better known by
grass farmers, as well as gardeners, than it is. These are both good lawn as

well as pasture grasses.” The grass usually sold as Rhode Island bent is
Agrostis vulgaris, the smaller red top of the East and of Europe. This makes
an excellent lawn. Agrostis canina has a short, slender, projecting awn from
one of the glumes; Agrostis vulgaris lacks this projecting awn. In neither
case have we in mind what Michigan and New York people call red top.
This is a tall, coarse native grass often quite abundant on low lands,
botanically Agrostis alba.

Sow small red top or Rhode Island bent, and June grass (Kentucky blue
grass, if you prefer that name), Poa pratensis. If in the chaff, sow in any
proportion you fancy, and in any quantity up to four bushels per acre. If
evenly sown, less will answer, but the thicker it is sown the sooner the
ground will be covered with fine green grass. We can add nothing else that
will improve this mixture, and either alone is about as good as both. A little
white clover or sweet vernal grass or sheep’s fescue may be added, if you
fancy them, but they will not improve the appearance of the lawn. Roll the
ground after seeding. Sow the seeds in September or in March or April, and
under no circumstance yield to the advice to sow a little oats or rye to
“protect the young grass.” Instead of protecting, they will rob the slender
grasses of what they most need.

Now wait a little. Do not be discouraged if some ugly weeds get the start of
the numerous green hairs which slowly follow. As soon as there is any thing
to be cut, of weeds or grass, mow closely, and mow often, so that nothing
need be raked from the ground. As Olcott puts it, “Leave one crop where it
belongs for home consumption. The rains will wash the soluble substance
of the wilted grass into the earth to feed the growing roots.” During
succeeding summers as the years roll on, the lawn should be perpetually
enriched by the leaching of the short leaves as they are often mown. Neither
leave a very short growth nor a very heavy growth for winter. Experience
alone must guide the owner. If cut too closely, some of it may be killed or
start too late in spring; if left too high during winter, the dead long grass
will be hard to cut in spring and leave the stubble unsightly. After passing
through one winter the annual weeds will have perished and leave the grass
to take the lead. Perennial weeds should be faithfully dug out or destroyed
in some way.

Every year, add a top dressing of some commercial fertilizer or a little
finely pulverized compost which may be brushed in. No one will disfigure
his front yard with coarse manure spread on the lawn for five months of the
year.

If well made, a lawn will be a perpetual delight as long as the proprietor
lives, but if the soil is thin and poor, or if the coarser grasses and clovers are
sown instead of those named, he will be much perplexed, and will very
likely try some expensive experiments, and at last plow up, properly fit the
land and begin over again. This will make the cost and annoyance much
greater than at first, because the trees and shrubs have already filled many
portions of the soil. A small piece, well made and well kept, will give more
satisfaction than a larger plot of inferior turf.
W. J. Beal.

Horticultural Exhibitions in London.

At a late meeting of the floral committee of the Royal Horticultural Society
at South Kensington among many novelties was a group of seedling
bulbous Calanthes from the garden of Sir Trevor Lawrence, who has
devoted much attention to these plants and has raised some interesting
hybrids. About twenty kinds were shown, ranging in color from pure white
to deep crimson. The only one selected for a first-class certificate was C.
sanguinaria, with flowers similar in size and shape to those of C. Veitchii,
but of an intensely deep crimson. It is the finest yet raised, surpassing C.
Sedeni, hitherto unequaled for richness of color. The pick of all these
seedlings would be C. sanguinaria, C. Veitchii splendens, C. lactea, C.
nivea, and C. porphyrea. The adjectives well describe the different tints of
each, and they will be universally popular when once they find their way
into commerce.

Cypripedium Leeanum maculatum, also shown by Sir Trevor Lawrence,
is a novelty of sterling merit. The original C. Leeanum, which is a cross
between C. Spicerianum and C. insigne Maulei, is very handsome, but this
variety eclipses it, the dorsal sepal of the flower being quite two and one-
half inches broad, almost entirely white, heavily and copiously spotted with

purple. It surpasses also C. Leeanum superbum, which commands such high
prices. I saw a small plant sold at auction lately for fifteen guineas and the
nursery price is much higher.

Lælia anceps Schrœderæ, is the latest addition to the now very numerous
list of varieties of the popular L. anceps. This new form, to which the
committee with one accord gave a first class certificate, surpasses in my
opinion all the colored varieties, with the possible exception of the true old
Barkeri. The flowers are of the average size and ordinary form. The sepals
are rose pink, the broad sepals very light, almost white in fact, while the
labellum is of the deepest and richest velvety crimson imaginable. The
golden tipped crest is a veritable beauty spot, and the pale petals act like a
foil to show off the splendor of the lip.

Two new Ferns of much promise received first class certificates. One
named Pteris Claphamensis is a chance seedling and was found growing
among a lot of other sporelings in the garden of a London amateur. As it
partakes of the characters of both P. tremula and P. serrulata, old and well
known ferns, it is supposed to be a natural cross between these. The new
plant is of tufted growth, with a dense mass of fronds about six inches long,
elegantly cut and gracefully recurved on all sides of the pot. It is looked
upon by specialists as just the sort of plant that will take in the market. The
other certificated fern, Adiantum Reginæ, is a good deal like A. Victoriæ and
is supposed to be a sport from it. But A. Reginæ, while it has broad pinnæ of
a rich emerald green like A. Victoriæ, has fronds from nine to twelve inches
long, giving it a lighter and more elegant appearance. I don’t know that the
Victoria Maidenhair is grown in America yet, but I am sure those who do
floral decorating will welcome it as well as the newer A. Reginæ. A third
Maidenhair of a similar character is A. rhodophyllum and these form a trio
that will become the standard kinds for decorating. The young fronds of all
three are of a beautiful coppery red tint, the contrast of which with the
emerald green of the mature fronds is quite charming. They are warm
green-house ferns and of easy culture, and are supposed to be hybrid forms
of the old A. scutum.

Nerine Mansellii, a new variety of the Guernsey Lily, was one of the
loveliest flowers at the show. From the common Guernsey Lily it differs

only in color of the flowers. These have crimpled-edged petals of clear rose
tints; and the umbel of flowers is fully six inches across, borne on a stalk
eighteen inches high. These Guernsey Lilies have of recent years come into
prominence in English gardens since so many beautiful varieties have been
raised, and as they flower from September onward to Christmas they are
found to be indispensable for the green-house, and indoor decoration. The
old N. Fothergillii major, with vivid scarlet-crimson flowers and crystalline
cells in the petals which sparkle in the sunlight like myriads of tiny rubies,
remains a favorite among amateurs. Baron Schroeder, who has the finest
collection in Europe, grows this one only in quantity. An entire house is
filled with them, and when hundreds of spikes are in bloom at once, the
display is singularly brilliant.

A New Vegetable, a Japanese plant called Choro-Gi, belonging to the Sage
family, was exhibited. Its botanical name is Stachys tuberifera and it was
introduced first to Europe by the Vilmorins of Paris under the name of
Crosnes du Japon. The edible part of the plant is the tubers, which are
produced in abundance on the tips of the wiry fibrous roots. These are one
and a half inches long, pointed at both ends, and have prominent raised
rings. When washed they are as white as celery and when eaten raw taste
somewhat like Jerusalem artichokes, but when cooked are quite soft and
possess the distinct flavor of boiled chestnuts. A dish of these tubers when
cooked look like a mass of large caterpillars, but the Committee pronounced
them excellent, and no doubt this vegetable will now receive attention from
some of our enterprising seedsmen and may become a fashionable
vegetable because new and unlike any common kind. The tubers were
shown now for the first time in this country by Sir Henry Thompson, the
eminent surgeon. The plant is herbaceous, dying down annually leaving the
tubers, which multiply very rapidly. They can be dug at any time of the
year, which is an advantage. The plant is perfectly hardy here and would no
doubt be so in the United States, as it remains underground in winter. [A
figure of this plant with the tubers appeared in the Gardener’s Chronicle,
January 7th, 1888.—Ed.]

Phalænopsis F. L. Ames, a hybrid moth orchid, the result of intercrossing
P. grandiflora of Lindley with P. intermedia Portei (itself a natural hybrid
between the little P. rosea and P. amabilis), was shown at a later exhibition.

The new hybrid is very beautiful. It has the same purplish green leaves as P.
amabalis, but much narrower. The flower spikes are produced in the same
way as those of P. grandiflora, and the flowers in form and size resemble
those of that species, but the coloring of the labellum is more like that of its
other parent. The sepals and petals are pure white, the latter being broadest
at the lips. The labellum resembles that of P. intermedia, being three-lobed,
the lateral lobes are erect, magenta purple in color and freckled. The middle
or triangular lobe is of the same color as the lateral lobes, but pencilled with
longitudinal lines of crimson, flushed with orange, and with the terminal
cirrhi of a clear magenta. The column is pink, and the crest is adorned with
rosy speckles. The Floral Committee unanimously awarded a first-class
certificate of merit to the plant.

A New Lælia named L. Gouldiana has had an eventful history. The
representative of Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, the great orchid importers,
while traveling in America saw it blooming in New York, in the collection
of Messrs. Siebrecht & Wadley, and noting its distinctness and beauty
bought the stock of it. The same week another new Lælia flowered in
England and was sent up to one of the London auction rooms for sale. As it
so answered the description of the American novelty which Messrs. Sander
had just secured it was bought for the St. Albans collection, and now it turns
out that the English novelty and the American novelty are one and the same
thing, and a comparison of dates shows that they flowered on the same day,
although in different hemispheres. As, however, it was first discovered in
the United States, it is intended to call it an American orchid, and that is
why Mr. Jay Gould has his name attached to it, In bulb and leaf the novelty
closely resembles L. albida, and in flower both L. anceps and L.
autumnalis. The flowers are as large as those of an average form of L.
anceps, the sepals are rather narrow, the petals as broad as those of L.
anceps Dawsoni, and both petals and sepals are of a deep rose pink,
intensified at the tips as if the color had collected there and was dripping
out. The tip is in form between that of L. anceps and L. autumnalis and has
the prominent ridges of the latter, while the color is a rich purple crimson.
The black viscid pubescence, always seen on the ovary of L. autumnalis, is
present on that of L. Gouldiana. The plants I saw in the orchid nursery at St.
Albans lately, bore several spikes, some having three or four flowers. Those
who have seen it are puzzled about its origin, some considering it a hybrid

between L. anceps and L. autumnalis, others consider it a distinct species
and to the latter opinion I am inclined. Whatever its origin may be, it is
certain we have a charming addition to midwinter flowering orchids.
W. Goldring.
London, February 1st.

A New Departure in Chrysanthemums.

T HE Chrysanthemum of which the
figure gives a good representation
is one of a collection of some thirty
varieties lately sent from Japan to the
lady for whom it has been named,
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy of Boston, by a
young Japanese once a protégé of
hers, but now returned as a teacher to
his native country. As may be seen, it
is quite distinct from any variety
known in this country or Europe, and
the Japanese botanist Miyabe, who
saw it at Cambridge, pronounces it a Fig. 1.—Chrysanthemum—Mrs. Alpheus Hardy.
radical departure from any with
which he is acquainted.

The photograph from which the engraving was made was taken just as the
petals had begun to fall back from the centre, showing to good advantage
the peculiarities of the variety.

The flower is of pure white, with the firm, long and broad petals strongly
incurved at the extremities. Upon the back or outer surface of this incurved
portion will be found, in the form of quite prominent hairs, the peculiarity
which makes this variety unique.

These hairs upon close examination are found to be a
glandular outgrowth of the epidermis of the petals, multi-
cellular in structure and with a minute drop of a yellow
resinous substance at the tip. The cells at first conform to
the wavy character of those of the epidermis, but gradually
become prismatic with straight walls, as shown in the
Fig. 2.—Hair from
Petal of
engraving of one of the hairs, which was made from a
Chrysanthemum, drawing furnished by Miss Grace Cooley, of the
much enlarged. a— Department of Botany at Wellesley College, who made a
resin drop. b—
epidermis of petal microscopic investigation of them.
with wavy cells.
This is one of those surprises that occasionally make their
appearance from Japan. Possibly it is a chance seedling; but since one or
two other specimens in the collection are striking in form, and others are
distinguished for depth and purity of color, it is more probable that the best
of them have been developed by careful selection.

This Chrysanthemum was exhibited at the Boston Chrysanthemum Show
last December by Edwin Fewkes & Son of Newton Highlands, Mass.
A. H. Fewkes.

New Plants from Afghanistan.

Arnebia cornuta.—This is a charming novelty, an annual, native of
Afghanistan. The little seedling with lancet-like hairy, dark green leaves,
becomes presently a widely branching plant two feet in diameter and one
and one-half feet high. Each branch and branchlet is terminated by a
lengthening raceme of flowers. These are in form somewhat like those of an
autumnal Phlox, of a beautiful deep golden yellow color, adorned and
brightened up by five velvety black blotches. These blotches soon become
coffee brown and lose more and more their color, until after three days they
have entirely disappeared. During several months the plant is very showy,
the fading flowers being constantly replaced by fresh expanding ones. Sown
in April in the open border, it needs no care but to be thinned out and kept
free from weeds. It must, however, have some soil which does not contain
fresh manure.

Delphinium Zalil.—This, also, is a native of Afghanistan, but its character,
whether a biennial or perennial, is not yet ascertained. The Afghans call it
Zalil and the plant or root is used for dyeing purposes. Some years ago we
only knew blue, white and purple larkspurs, and then California added two
species with scarlet flowers. The above is of a beautiful sulphur yellow,
and, all in all, it is a plant of remarkable beauty. From a rosette of much and
deeply divided leaves, rises a branched flower stem to about two feet; each
branch and branchlet ending in a beautiful spike of flowers each of about an
inch across and the whole spike showing all its flowers open at once. It is
likely to become a first rate standard plant of our gardens. To have it in
flower the very first year it must be sown very early, say in January, in seed
pans, and transplanted later, when it will flower from the end of May until
the end of July. Moreover, it can be sown during spring and summer in the
open air to flower the following year. It is quite hardy here.
Max Leichtlin.
Baden-Baden.

Iris tenuis.*

T HIS pretty delicate species of Iris, Fig. 3, is a
native of the Cascade Mountains of Northern
Oregon. Its long branching rootstocks are scarcely
more than a line in thickness, sending up sterile leafy
shoots and slender stems about a foot high. The
leaves are thin and pale green, rather taller than the
stems, sword-shaped and half an inch broad or more.
The leaves of the stem are bract-like and distant, the
upper one or two subtending slender peduncles. The
spathes are short, very thin and scarious, and enclose
the bases of their rather small solitary flowers, which
are “white, lightly striped and blotched with yellow
and purple.” The sepals and petals are oblong-
spatulate, from a short tube, the sepals spreading, the
shorter petals erect and notched.

The peculiar habitat of this species doubtless Fig. 3.—Iris tenuis.
accounts in good measure for its slender habit and
mode of growth. Mr. L. F. Henderson, of Portland,
Oregon, who discovered it in 1881, near a branch of the Clackamas River
called Eagle Creek, about thirty miles from Portland, reports it as growing
in the fir forests in broad mats, its very long rootstocks running along near
the surface of the ground, just covered by moss or partly decayed fir-
needles, with a light addition of soil. This also would indicate the need of
special care and treatment in its cultivation. In May, 1884, Mr. Henderson
took great pains to procure roots for the Botanic Garden at Cambridge,
which were received in good order, but which did not survive the next
winter. If taken up, however, later in the season or very early in the spring,
it is probable that with due attention to soil and shade there would be little
trouble in cultivating it successfully. The accompanying figure is from a
drawing by Mr. C. E. Faxon.
Sereno Watson.
* TENUIS. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad., xvii, 380. Rootstock elongated, very slender (a line
thick); leaves thin, ensiform, about equaling the stems, four to eight lines broad; stems
scarcely a foot high, 2 or 3-flowered, with two or three bract-like leaves two or three inches
long; lateral peduncles very slender, as long as the bracts; spathes scarious, an inch long;
pedicels solitary, very short; flowers small, white marked with yellow and purple; tube two or
three lines long; segments oblong-spatulate, the sepals spreading, one and one-half inches
long, the petals shorter and emarginate; anthers as long as the filaments; styles with narrow
entire crests; capsule oblong-ovate, obtuse, nine lines long.]

Hardy Shrubs for Forcing.

S HRUBS for forcing should consist of early blooming kinds only. The
plants should be stocky, young and healthy, well-budded and well-
ripened, and in order to have first-class stock they should be grown
expressly for forcing. For cut flower purposes only, we can lift large plants
of Lilacs, Snowballs, Deutzias, Mock oranges and the like with all the ball
of roots we can get to them and plant at once in forcing-houses. But this
should not be done before New Year’s. We should prepare for smaller plants
some months ahead of forcing time. say in the preceding April or August,
by lifting them and planting in small pots, tubs or boxes as can conveniently

contain their roots, and we should encourage them to root well before
winter sets in. Keep them out of doors and plunged till after the leaves drop
off; then either mulch them where they are or bring them into a pit, shed or
cool cellar, where there shall be no fear of their getting dry, or of having the
roots fastened in by frost. Introduce them into the green-house in
succession; into a cool green-house at first for a few weeks, then as they
begin to start, into a warmer one. From the time they are brought into the
green-house till the flowers begin to open give a sprinkling overhead twice
a day with tepid water. When they have done blooming, if worth keeping
over for another time, remove them to a cool house and thus gradually
harden them off, then plant them out in the garden in May, and give them
two years’ rest.

Shrubs to be forced for their cut flowers only should consist of such kinds
as have flowers that look well and keep well after being cut. Among these
are Deutzia gracilis, common Lilacs of various colors, Staphyllea Colchica,
Spiræa Cantonensis (Reevesii) single and double, the Guelder Rose, the
Japanese Snowball and Azalea mollis. To these may be added some of the
lovely double-flowering and Chinese apples, whose snowy or crimson-
tinted buds and leafy twigs are very pretty. The several double-flowered
forms of Prunus triloba are also desirable, but a healthy stock is hard to get.
Andromeda floribunda and A. Japonica set their flower buds the previous
summer for the next year’s flowers, and are, therefore, like the Laurestinus,
easily forced into bloom after New Year’s. Hardy and half-hardy
Rhododendrons with very little forcing may be had in bloom from March.

In addition to the above, for conservatory decoration we may introduce all
manner of hardy shrubs. Double flowering peach and cherry trees are easily
forced and showy while they last. Clumps of Pyrus arbutifolia can easily be
had in bloom in March, when their abundance of deep green leaves is an
additional charm to their profusion of hawthorn-like flowers. The Chinese
Xanthoceras is extremely copious and showy, but of brief duration and ill-
fitted for cutting. Bushes of yellow Broom and double-flowering golden
Furze can easily be had after January. Jasminum nudiflorum may be had in
bloom from November till April, and Forsythia from January. They look
well when trained up to pillars. The early-flowering Clematises may be
used to capital advantage in the same way, from February onward. Although

the Mahonias flower well, their foliage at blooming time is not always
comely. Out-of-doors the American Red-bud makes a handsomer tree than
does the Japanese one; but the latter is preferable for green-house work, as
the flowers are bright and the smallest plants bloom. The Chinese Wistaria
blooms as well in the green-house as it does outside; indeed, if we introduce
some branches of an out-door plant into the green-house, we can have it in
bloom two months ahead of the balance of the vine still left out-of-doors.
Hereabout we grow Wistarias as standards, and they bloom magnificently.
What a sight a big standard wistaria in the green-house in February would
be! Among other shrubs may be mentioned Shadbush, African Tamarix,
Daphne of sorts and Exochorda. We have also a good many barely hardy
plants that may be wintered well in a cellar or cold pit, and forced into
bloom in early spring. Among these are Japanese Privet, Pittosporum,
Raphiolepis, Hydrangeas and the like.

And for conservatory decoration we can also use with excellent advantage
some of our fine-leaved shrubs, for instance our lovely Japanese Maples
and variegated Box Elder.
Wm. Falconer.
Glen Cove, N. Y.

Plant Notes.

A Half-hardy Begonia.—When botanizing last September upon the
Cordilleras of North Mexico some two hundred miles south of the United
States Boundary, I found growing in black mould of shaded ledges—even
in the thin humus of mossy rocks—at an elevation of 7,000 to 8,000 feet, a
plant of striking beauty, which Mr. Sereno Watson identifies as Begonia
gracilis, HBK., var. Martiana, A. DC. From a small tuberous root it sends
up to a height of one to two feet a single crimson-tinted stem, which
terminates in a long raceme of scarlet flowers, large for the genus and long
enduring. The plant is still further embellished by clusters of Scarlet
gemmæ in the axils of its leaves. Mr. Watson writes: “It was in cultivation
fifty years and more ago, but has probably been long ago lost. It appears to
be the most northern species of the genus, and should be the most hardy.”

Certainly the earth freezes and snows fall in the high region, where it is at
home.

Northern Limit of the Dahlia.—In the same district, and at the same
elevation, I met with a purple flowered variety of Dahlia coccinea, Cav. It
was growing in patches under oaks and pines in thin dry soil of summits of
hills. In such exposed situations the roots must be subjected to some frost,
as much certainly as under a light covering of leaves in a northern garden.
The Dahlia has not before been reported, as I believe, from a latitude nearly
so high.
C. G. Pringle.

Ceanothus is a North American genus, represented in the Eastern States by
New Jersey Tea, and Red Root (C. Americanus and C. ovalus), and in the
West and South-west by some thirty additional species. Several of these
Pacific Coast species are quite handsome and well worthy of cultivation
where they will thrive. Some of the more interesting of them are figured in
different volumes of the Botanical Magazine, from plants grown at Kew,
and I believe that the genus is held in considerable repute by French
gardeners.

In a collection of plants made in Southern Oregon, last spring, by Mr.
Thomas Howell, several specimens of Ceanothus occur which are pretty
clearly hybrids between C. cuneatus and C. prostratus, two common
species of the region. Some have the spreading habit of the latter, their
flowers are of the bright blue color characteristic of that species, and borne
on slender blue pedicels, in an umbel-like cluster. But while many of their
leaves have the abrupt three-toothed apex of C. prostratus, all gradations
can be found from this form to the spatulate, toothless leaves of C.
cuneatus. Other specimens have the more rigid habit of the latter species,
and their flowers are white or nearly so, on shorter pale pedicels, in usually
smaller and denser clusters. On these plants the leaves are commonly those
of C. cuneatus, but they pass into the truncated and toothed form proper to
C. prostratus.

According to Focke (Pflanzenmischlinge, 1881, p. 99), the French cross one
or more of the blue-flowered Pacific Coast species on the hardier New
Jersey Tea, a practice that may perhaps be worthy of trial by American

gardeners. Have any of the readers of Garden And Forest ever met with
spontaneous hybrids?
W. Trelease.

Wire Netting for Tree Guards.—On some of the street trees of
Washington heavy galvanized wire netting is used to protect the bark from
injury by horses. It is the same material that is used for enclosing poultry
yards. It comes in strips five or six feet wide, and may be cut to any length
required by the size of the tree. The edges are held in place by bending
together the cut ends of the wires, and the whole is sustained by staples over
the heavy wires at the top and bottom. This guard appears to be an effective
protection and is less unsightly than any other of which I know, in fact it
can hardly be distinguished at the distance of a few rods. It is certainly an
improvement on the plan of white-washing the trunks, which has been
extensively practiced here since the old guards were removed.
A. A. Crozier.

Artificial Water.

O NE of the most difficult parts of a landscape gardener’s work is the
treatment of what our grandfathers called “pieces of water” in scenes
where a purely natural effect is desired. The task is especially hard when the
stream, pond or lake has been artificially formed; for then Nature’s
processes must be simulated not only in the planting but in the shaping of
the shores. Our illustration partially reveals a successful effort of this sort—
a pond on a country-seat near Boston.

It was formed by excavating a piece of swamp and damming a small stream
which flowed through it. In the distance towards the right the land lies low
by the water and gradually rises as it recedes. Opposite us it forms little
wooded promontories with grassy stretches between. Where we stand it is
higher, and beyond the limits of the picture to the left it forms a high, steep
bank rising to the lawn, on the further side of which stands the house. The
base of these elevated banks and the promontories opposite are planted with

thick masses of rhododendrons, which flourish superbly in the moist, peaty
soil, protected, as they are, from drying winds by the trees and high ground.
Near the low meadow a long stretch of shore is occupied by thickets of
hardy azaleas. Beautiful at all seasons, the pond is most beautiful in June,
when the rhododendrons are ablaze with crimson and purple and white, and
when the yellow of the azalea-beds—discreetly separated from the
rhododendrons by a great clump of low-growing willows—finds delicate
continuation in the buttercups which fringe the daisied meadow. The lifted
banks then afford particularly fortunate points of view; for as we look down
upon the rhododendrons, we see the opposite shore and the water with its
rich reflected colors as over the edge of a splendid frame. No accent of
artificiality disturbs the eye despite the unwonted profusion of bloom and
variety of color. All the plants are suited to their place and in harmony with
each other; and all the contours of the shore are gently modulated and softly
connected with the water by luxuriant growths of water plants. The witness
of the eye alone would persuade us that Nature unassisted had achieved the
whole result. But beauty of so suave and perfect a sort as this is never a
natural product. Nature’s beauty is wilder if only because it includes traces
of mutation and decay which here are carefully effaced. Nature suggests the
ideal beauty, and the artist realizes it by faithfully working out her
suggestions.

A Piece of Artificial Water.

Some New Roses.

T HE following list comprises most of the newer Roses that have been on
trial to any extent in and about Philadelphia during the present winter:

Puritan (H. T.) is one of Mr. Henry Bennett’s seedlings, and perhaps
excites more interest than any other. It is a cross between Mabel Morrison
and Devoniensis, creamy white in color and a perpetual bloomer. Its flowers
have not opened satisfactorily this winter. The general opinion seems to be

that it requires more heat than is needed for other forcing varieties. Further
trial will be required to establish its merit.

Meteor (H. T., Bennett.)—Some cultivators will not agree with me in
classing this among hybrid Teas. In its manner of growth it resembles some
Tea Roses, but its coloring and scanty production of buds in winter are
indications that there is Hybrid Remontant blood in it. It retains its crimson
color after being cut longer than any Rose we have, and rarely shows a
tendency to become purple with age, as other varieties of this color are apt
to do. For summer blooming under glass it will prove satisfactory. In winter
its coloring is a rich velvety crimson, but as the sun gets stronger it assumes
a more lively shade.

Mrs. John Laing (H. R., Bennett,) is a seedling from Francois Michelon,
which it somewhat resembles in habit of growth and color of flower. It is a
free bloomer out-of-doors in summer and forces readily in winter. Blooms
of it have been offered for sale in the stores here since the first week in
December. It is a soft shade of pink in color, with a delicate lilac tint. It
promises to become a general favorite, as in addition to the qualities
referred to, it is a free autumnal bloomer outside. For forcing it will be tried
extensively next winter.

Princess Beatrice (T., Bennett,) was distributed for the first time in this
country last autumn, but has so far been a disappointment in this city. But
some lots arrived from Europe too late and misfortunes befell others, so that
the trial can hardly be counted decisive, and we should not hastily condemn
it. Some have admired it for its resemblance, in form of flower, to a
Madame Cuisin, but its color is not just what we need. In shade it somewhat
resembles Sunset, but is not so effective. It may, however, improve under
cultivation, as some other Roses have done; so far as I know it has not been
tried out-of-doors.

Papa Gontier (H. B., Nabonnaud.)—This, though not properly a new
rose, is on trial for the first time in this city. It has become a great favorite
with growers, retailers and purchasers. In habit it is robust and free
blooming, and in coloring, though similar to Bon Silene, is much deeper or
darker. There seems to be a doubt in some quarters as to whether it blooms

as freely as Bon Silene; personally, I think there is not much difference
between the two. Gontier is a good Rose for outdoor planting.
Edwin Lonsdale.

Two Ferns and their Treatment.

Adiantum Farleyense.—This beautiful Maidenhair is supposed to be a
subfertile, plumose form of A. tenerum, which much resembles it,
especially in a young state. For decorative purposes it is almost unrivaled,
whether used in pots or for trimming baskets of flowers or bouquets. It
prefers a warm, moist house and delights in abundant water. We find it does
best when potted firmly in a compost of two parts loam to one of peat, and
with a good sprinkling of sifted coal ashes. In this compost it grows very
strong, the fronds attaining a deeper green and lasting longer than when
grown in peat. When the pots are filled with roots give weak liquid manure
occasionally. This fern is propagated by dividing the roots and potting in
small pots, which should be placed in the warmest house, where they soon
make fine plants. Where it is grown expressly for cut fronds the best plan is
to plant it out on a bench in about six inches of soil, taking care to give it
plenty of water and heat, and it will grow like a weed.

Actiniopteris radiata.—A charming little fern standing in a genus by itself.
In form it resembles a miniature fan palm, growing about six inches in
height. It is generally distributed throughout the East Indies. In cultivation it
is generally looked upon as poor grower, but with us it grows as freely as
any fern we have. We grow a lot to mix in with Orchids, as they do not
crowd at all. We pot in a compost of equal parts loam and peat with a few
ashes to keep it open, and grow in the warmest house, giving at all times
abundance of water both at root and overhead. It grows very freely from
spores, and will make good specimens in less than a year. It is an excellent
Fern for small baskets.
F. Goldring.

Timely Hints About Bulbs.

S PRING flowering bulbs in-doors, such as the Dutch Hyacinths, Tulips
and the many varieties of Narcissus, should now be coming rapidly into
bloom. Some care is required to get well developed specimens. When first
brought in from cold frames or wherever they have been stored to make
roots, do not expose them either to direct sunlight or excessive heat.

A temperature of not more than fifty-five degrees at night is warm enough
for the first ten days, and afterwards, if they show signs of vigorous growth
and are required for any particular occasion, they may be kept ten degrees
warmer. It is more important that they be not exposed to too much light than
to too much heat.

Half the short stemmed Tulips, dumpy Hyacinths and blind Narcissus we
see in the green-houses and windows of amateurs are the result of excessive
light when first brought into warm quarters. Where it is not possible to
shade bulbs without interfering with other plants a simple and effective plan
is to make funnels of paper large enough to stand inside each pot and six
inches high. These may be left on the pots night and day from the time the
plants are brought in until the flower spike has grown above the foliage;
indeed, some of the very finest Hyacinths cannot be had in perfection
without some such treatment. Bulbous plants should never suffer for water
when growing rapidly, yet on the other hand, they are easily ruined if
allowed to become sodden.

When in flower a rather dry and cool temperature will preserve them the
longest.

Of bulbs which flower in the summer and fall, Gloxinias and tuberous
rooted Begonias are great favorites and easily managed. For early summer a
few of each should be started at once—using sandy, friable soil. Six-inch
pots, well drained, are large enough for the very largest bulbs, while for
smaller even three-inch pots will answer. In a green-house there is no
difficulty in finding just the place to start them. It must be snug, rather
shady and not too warm. They can be well cared for, however, in a hot-bed
or even a window, but some experience is necessary to make a success.

Lilies, in pots, whether L. candidum or L. longiflorum that are desired to be
in flower by Easter, should now receive every attention—their condition
should be that the flower buds can be easily felt in the leaf heads. A
temperature of fifty-five to sixty-five at night should be maintained, giving
abundance of air on bright sunny days to keep them stocky. Green fly is
very troublesome at this stage, and nothing is more certain to destroy this
pest than to dip the plants in tobacco water which, to be effective, should be
the color of strong tea. Occasional waterings of weak liquid manure will be
of considerable help if the pots are full of roots.
J. Thorpe.

Entomology.

Arsenical Poisons in the Orchard.

A SWestern
is well known, about fifty per cent. of the possible apple crop in the
states is sacrificed each year to the codling moth, except in
sections where orchardists combine to apply bands of straw around the
trunks. But as is equally well known this is rather a troublesome remedy. At
all events, in Illinois, Professor Forbes, in a bulletin lately issued from the
office of the State Entomologist of Illinois, claims that the farmers of that
state suffer an annual loss from the attacks of this single kind of insect of
some two and three-quarters millions of dollars.

As the results of two years’ experiments in spraying the trees with a
solution of Paris green, only once or twice in early spring, before the young
apples had drooped upon their stems, there was a saving of about seventy-
five per cent. of the apples.

The Paris green mixture consisted of three-fourths of an ounce of the
powder by weight, of a strength to contain 15.4 per cent. of metallic arsenic,
simply stirred up in two and a half gallons of water. The tree was
thoroughly sprayed with a hand force-pump, and with the deflector spray

and solid jet-hose nozzle, manufactured in Lowell, Mass. The fluid was
thrown in a fine mist-like spray, applied until the leaves began to drip.

The trees were sprayed in May and early in June while the apples were still
very small. It seems to be of little use to employ this remedy later in the
season, when later broods of the moth appear, since the poison takes effect
only in case it reaches the surface of the apple between the lobes of the
calyx, and it can only reach this place when the apple is very small and
stands upright on its stem, It should be added that spraying “after the apples
have begun to hang downward is unquestionably dangerous,” since even
heavy winds and violent rains are not sufficient to remove the poison from
the fruit at this season.

At the New York Experimental station last year a certain number of trees
were sprayed three times with Paris green with the result that sixty-nine per
cent. of the apples were saved.

It also seems that last year about half the damage that might have been done
by the Plum weevil or curculio was prevented by the use of Paris green,
which should be sprayed on the trees both early in the season, while the
fruit is small, as well as later.

The cost of this Paris green application, when made on a large scale, with
suitable apparatus, only once or twice a year, must, says Mr. Forbes, fall
below an average of ten cents a tree.

The use of solutions of Paris green or of London purple in water, applied by
spraying machines such as were invented and described in the reports of the
national Department of Agriculture by the U. S. Entomologist and his
assistants, have effected a revolution in remedies against orchard and forest
insects. We expect to see them, in careful hands, tried with equal success in
shrubberies, lawns and flower gardens.
A. S. Packard.

The Forest.

The White Pine in Europe.

T HE White Pine was among the very first American trees which came to
Europe, being planted in the year 1705 by Lord Weymouth on his
grounds in Chelsea. From that date, the tree has been cultivated in Europe
under the name of Weymouth Pine; in some mountain districts of northern
Bavaria, where it has become a real forest tree, it is called Strobe, after the
Latin name Pinus strobus. After general cultivation as an ornamental tree in
parks this Pine began to be used in the forests on account of its hardiness
and rapid growth, and it is now not only scattered through most of the
forests of Europe, but covers in Germany alone an area of some 300 acres
in a dense, pure forest. Some of these are groves 120 years old, and they
yield a large proportion of the seed demanded by the increasing cultivation
of the tree in Europe.

The White Pine has proved so valuable as a forest tree that it has partly
overcome the prejudices which every foreign tree has to fight against. The
tree is perfectly hardy, is not injured by long and severe freezing in winter,
nor by untimely frosts in spring or autumn, which sometimes do great harm
to native trees in Europe. On account of the softness of the leaves and the
bark, it is much damaged by the nibbling of deer, but it heals quickly and
throws up a new leader.

The young plant can endure being partly shaded by other trees far better
than any other Pine tree, and even seems to enjoy being closely surrounded,
a quality that makes it valuable for filling up in young forests where the
native trees, on account of their slow growth, could not be brought up at all.

The White Pine is not so easily broken by heavy snowfall as the Scotch
Pine, on account of the greater elasticity of its wood. The great abundance
of soft needles falling from it every year better fits it for improving a worn-
out soil than any European Pine, therefore the tree has been tried with
success as a nurse for the ground in forest plantations of Oak, when the
latter begin to be thinned out by nature, and grass is growing underneath
them.

And finally, all observations agree that the White Pine is a faster growing
tree than any native Conifer in Europe, except, perhaps, the Larch. The
exact facts about that point, taken from investigations on good soil in
various parts of Germany, are as follows:

Annual Growth
Years. Height.
During Last Decade.

The White 20 7.5
37 centimeters
Pine at reaches meters.
“ 30 “ 12.5 “ 50 “
“ 40 “ 18.5 “ 60 “
“ 50 “ 22.5 “ 40 “
“ 60 “ 26.5 “ 40 “
“ 70 “ 28.5 “ 20 “
“ 80 “ 30.0 “ 15 “
“ 90 “ 32.0 “ 20 “

For comparison I add here the average growth on good soil, of the Scotch
Pine, one of the most valuable and widely distributed timber trees of
Europe.

Annual Growth
Years. Height.
During Last Decade.

The Scotch 20 7.3
36.5 centimeters
Pine at reaches meters.
“ 30 “ 11.6 “ 43.0 “
“ 40 “ 15.7 “ 41.0 “
“ 50 “ 19.4 “ 37.0 “
“ 60 “ 22.1 “ 27.0 “
“ 70 “ 24.0 “ 22.0 “
“ 80 “ 26.0 “ 17.0 “
“ 90 “ 27.5 “ 15.0 “
“ 100 “ 28.5 “ 10.0 “
“ 120 “ 30.0 “ 7.5 “

That is, the White Pine is ahead of its relative during its entire life and
attains at 80 years a height which the Scotch Pine only reaches in 120 years.
It appears then that the whole volume of wood formed within a certain
period by an acre of White Pine forest is greater than that yielded by a
forest of Scotch Pine within the same period.

As far as reliable researches show, a forest of White Pine when seventy
years old gives an annual increment of 3 cords of wood per acre. On the
same area a forest of Scotch Pine increases every year by 2.4 cords on the
best soil, 2 cords on medium soil, and 1.5 cords on poor soil.

But notwithstanding the splendid qualities which distinguish the White Pine
as a forest tree its wood has never been looked upon with favor in Europe.
Many of those who are cultivating the White Pine for business seem to
expect that they will raise a heavy and durable wood. These are the qualities
prized in their own timber trees, and they seem to think that the White Pine
must be so highly prized at home for the same qualities, when in fact it is
the lightness and softness of the wood which are considered in America. It
would seem also that some European planters believe that a Pine tree exists
which will yield more and at the same time heavier wood than any other
tree on the same area. It is a general rule that the amount of woody
substance annually formed on the same soil does not vary in any great
degree with the different kinds of trees. For instance, if we have good soil
we may raise 2,200 lbs. per acre of woody substance every year, from
almost any kind of timber tree. If we plant a tree forming a wood of low
specific gravity, we get a large volume of wood, and this is the case with the
White Pine. If we plant on the same ground an Oak tree, we will get small
volume of wood, but the weight of the woody substance will be the same,
that is, 2,200 pounds of absolutely dried wood per acre.

It is remarkable that there is hardly any difference in the specific gravity of
the wood of the White Pine grown in Europe and in its native country. I
collected in Central Wisconsin wood-sections of a tall tree and compared
the specific gravity with the wood of a full-grown tree of White Pine from a
Bavarian forest. The average specific gravity of the Bavarian tree was 38.3.
The average specific gravity of the American tree was 38.9. In both trees

the specific gravity slightly increased from the base to the top. Professor
Sargent gives 38 as the result of his numerous and careful investigations.

I was much surprised that the thickness of the sap-wood varied much in
favor of the Bavarian tree.

The sap-wood measured in thickness:

Of the Bavarian tree. Of the American tree.

At the base 2.7 centimeters 9 centimeters.
In the middle .4 “ 6 “
Within the crown .3 “ 4 “

I am inclined to believe that on account of the generally drier climate of
America a greater amount of water, and, therefore, of water-conducting sap-
wood, is necessary to keep the balance between the evaporation and
transportation of the water. The wood of the White Pine is certainly better
fitted for many purposes than any tree with which nature has provided
Europe, and yet one can hardly expect it to easily overcome fixed habits
and prejudices. It will devolve upon the more intelligent proprietors of
wood-land in Europe to begin with the plantation of the White Pine on a
large scale. No Conifer in Europe can be cultivated with so little care and
risk as the White Pine; the frost does not injure the young plant, and the
numerous insects invading the European trees during their whole life-time
inflict but little harm. Subterranean parasites are thinning out the plantations
to some extent, but in no dangerous way.
H. Mayr.
Tokio, Japan.

Abies amabilis.—Professor John Macoun detected this species during the
past summer upon many of the mountains of Vancouver’s Island where with
Tsuga Pattoniana it is common above 3,000 feet over the sea level. The
northern distribution of this species as well as some other British Columbia
trees is still a matter of conjecture. It has not been noticed north of the
Fraser River, but it is not improbable that Abies amabilis will be found to

extend far to the north along some of the mountain ranges of the north-west
coast.

European Larch in Massachusetts.

I NAgriculture
1876 the Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of
offered a premium for the best plantations of not less than
five acres of European Larch. The conditions of the competition were that
not less than 2,700 trees should be planted to the acre, and that only poor,
worn-out land, or that unfit for agricultural purposes, be used in these
plantations.

The prize was to be awarded at the end of ten years. The committee
appointed to award the prize were C. S. Sargent and John Lowell. The ten
years having expired, this Committee lately made the following report:

Mr. James Lawrence, of Groton, and Mr. J. D. W. French, of North
Andover, made plantations during the spring of 1877 in competition
for this prize. Mr. Lawrence, however, at the end of one year withdrew
from the contest, and Mr. French is the only competitor. Your
Committee have visited his plantation at different times during the past
ten years, and have now made their final inspection. The plantation
occupies a steep slope facing the South and covered with a thin coating
of gravelly loam largely mixed towards the bottom of the hill with
light sand. This field in 1877 was a fair sample of much of the hillside
pasture land of the eastern part of the State. It had been early cleared,
no doubt, of trees, and the light surface soil practically exhausted by
cultivation. It was then used as a pasture, producing nothing but the
scantiest growth of native Grasses and Sedges with a few stunted Pitch
Pines. Land of this character has no value for tillage, and has
practically little value for pasturage. Upon five acres of this land Mr.
French planted fifteen thousand European Larch. The trees were one
foot high, and were set in the sod four feet apart each way, except
along the boundary of the field, where the plantation was made

somewhat thicker. The cost of the plantation, as furnished by Mr.
French, has been as follows:

15,000 Larch (imported), $108 50
Fencing, 20 81
Surveying, 6 00
Labor, 104 69
———
Total, $240 00

This, with compound interest at five per cent. for ten years, makes the
entire cost to date of the plantation of five acres, $390.90.

The Trees for several years grew slowly and not very satisfactorily.
Several lost their leaders, and in various parts of the plantation small
blocks failed entirely. The trees, however, have greatly improved
during the last four years, and the entire surface of the ground is now,
with one or two insignificant exceptions, sufficiently covered. There
appear to be from 10,000 to 12,000 larch trees now growing on the
five acres. The largest tree measured is 25 feet high, with a trunk 26
inches in circumference at the ground, There are several specimens of
this size at least, and it is believed that all the trees, including many
which have not yet commenced to grow rapidly or which have been
overcrowded and stunted by their more vigorous neighbors, will
average 12 feet in height, with trunks 10 to 12 inches in circumference
at the ground. Many individuals have increased over four feet in height
during the present year. It is interesting to note as an indication of what
Massachusetts soil of poor quality is capable of producing, that various
native trees have appeared spontaneously in the plantation since
animals were excluded from this field. Among these are White Pines 6
to 8 feet high, Pitch Pines 14 feet high, a White Oak 15 feet high and a
Gray Birch 17 feet high. The Trustees offered this prize in the belief
that it would cause a plantation to be made capable of demonstrating
that unproductive lands in this State could be cheaply covered with
trees, and the result of Mr. French’s experiment seems to be conclusive
in this respect. It has shown that the European Larch can be grown
rapidly and cheaply in this climate upon very poor soil, but it seems to

us to have failed to show that this tree has advantages for general
economic planting in this State which are not possessed in an equal
degree by some of our native trees. Land which will produce a crop of
Larch will produce in the same time at least a crop of white pine.
There can be no comparison in the value of these two trees in
Massachusetts. The White Pine is more easily transplanted than the
Larch, it grows with equal and perhaps greater rapidity, and it produces
material for which there is an assured and increasing demand. The
White Pine, moreover, has so far escaped serious attacks of insects and
dangerous fungoid diseases which now threaten to exterminate in
different parts of Europe extensive plantations of Larch.

Your Committee find that Mr. French has complied with all the
requirements of the competition: they recommend that the premium of
one thousand dollars be paid to him.

Answers to Correspondents.

When the woods are cut clean in Southern New Hampshire White Pine
comes in very, very thickly. Is it best to thin out the growth or allow the
trees to crowd and shade the feebler ones slowly to death?
J. D. L.

It is better to thin such over-crowded seedlings early, if serviceable timber
is wanted in the shortest time. The statement that close growth is needed to
produce long, clean timber, needs some limitation. No plant can develop
satisfactorily without sufficient light, air and feeding room. When trees are
too thickly crowded the vigor of every one is impaired, and the process of
establishing supremacy of individuals is prolonged, to the detriment even of
those which are ultimately victorious. The length is drawn out
disproportionately to the diameter, and all the trees remain weak.

Experience has proved that plantations where space is given for proper
growth in their earlier years, yield more and better wood than do Nature’s
dense sowings. Two records are added in confirmation of this statement,
and many others could be given:

1. A pine plantation of twelve acres was made, one half by sowing, the other
half by planting at proper distances. In twenty-four years the first section
had yielded, including the material obtained in thinnings, 1,998 cubic feet,
and the latter, 3,495 cubic feet of wood. The thinnings had been made,
when appearing necessary, at ten, fifteen and eighteen years in the planted
section, yielding altogether ten and three-quarter cords of round firewood
and seven cords of brush; and at eight, ten and twenty years in the sowed
section, with a yield of only three and one-fifth cords of round firewood at
the last thinning and seven and four-fifths cords of brush wood.

2. A spruce growth seeded after thirty-three years was still so dense as to be
impenetrable, with scarcely any increase, and the trees were covered with
lichens. It was then thinned out when thirty-five, and again when forty-two
years old. The appearance greatly improved, and the accretion in seven
years after thinning showed 160 per cent. increase, or more than 26 per
cent. every year.

The density of growth which will give the best results in all directions
depends upon the kind of timber and soil conditions.
—B. E. Fernow.
Washington, D. C.

Book Reviews.

Gray’s Elements of Botany.

F IFTY-ONE years ago, Asa Gray, then only twenty-six years of age,
published a treatise on botany adapted to the use of schools and colleges.
It was entitled “The Elements of Botany.” Its method of arrangement was so
admirably adapted to its purpose, and the treatment of all the subjects so
mature and thorough, that the work served as a model for a large work
which soon followed,—the well-known Botanical Text-book, and the same
general plan has been followed in all the editions of the latter treatise.
About twenty-five years after the appearance of the Elements, Dr. Gray

prepared a more elementary work for the use of schools, since the Text-
book had become rather too advanced and exhaustive for convenient use.
This work was the “Lessons in Botany,” a book which has been a great aid
throughout the country, in introducing students to a knowledge of the
principles of the science. Without referring to other educational works
prepared by Dr. Gray, such as “How Plants Grow,” etc., it suffices now to
say that for two or three years, he had been convinced that there was need
of a hand-book, different in essential particulars from any of its
predecessors. When we remember that all of these had been very successful
from an educational point of view, as well as from the more exacting one of
the publishers, we can understand how strong must have been the motive
which impelled the venerable but still active botanist to give a portion of his
fast-flying time to the preparation of another elementary work. In answer to
remonstrances from those who believed that the remnant of his days should
be wholly given to the completion of the “Synoptical Flora,” he was wont
to say pleasantly, “Oh, I give only my evenings to the ‘Elements.’” And, so,
after a day’s work, in which he had utilized every available moment of
sunlight, he would turn with the fresh alertness which has ever
characterized every motion and every thought, to the preparation of what he
called fondly, his “legacy” to young botanists. That precious legacy we
have now before us.

In form it is much like the Lessons, but more compact and yet much more
comprehensive. Its conciseness of expression is a study in itself. To give it
the highest praise, it may be said to be French in its clearness and terseness.
Not a word is wasted: hence, the author has been able to touch lightly and
still with firmness every important line in this sketch of the principles of
botany. This work, in the words of its author, “is intended to ground
beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly
as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical
instruction should always begin; also to be a companion and interpreter to
the Manuals and Floras by which the student threads his flowery way to a
clear knowledge of the surrounding vegetable creation. Such a book, like a
grammar, must needs abound in technical words, which thus arrayed may
seem formidable; nevertheless, if rightly apprehended, this treatise should
teach that the study of botany is not the learning of names and terms, but
the acquisition of knowledge and ideas. No effort should be made to

commit technical terms to memory. Any term used in describing a plant or
explaining its structure can be looked up when it is wanted, and that should
suffice. On the other hand, plans of structure, types, adaptations, and
modifications, once understood, are not readily forgotten; and they give
meaning and interest to the technical terms used in explaining them.”

The specific directions given for collecting plants, for preparing herbarium
specimens, and for investigating the structure of plants make this treatise of
great use to those who are obliged to study without a teacher. The very
extensive glossary makes the work of value not only to this class of
students, but to those, as well, whose pursuits are directed in our schools.
The work fills, in short, the very place which Dr. Gray designed it should.
G. L. Goodale.

The Kansas Forest Trees Identified by Leaves and Fruit, by W. A.
Kellerman, Ph.D., and Mrs. W. A. Kellerman (Manhattan, Kansas). This
octavo pamphlet of only a dozen pages contains a convenient artificial key
for the rapid determination of seventy-five species of trees. By the use of
obvious characters the authors have made the work of identification
comparatively easy in nearly every instance, and even in the few doubtful
cases, the student will not be allowed to go far astray. The little hand-book
ought to be found of use even beyond the limits of the State for which it
was designed.
G. L. Goodale.

Public Works.

The Falls of Minnehaha.—A tract of fifty acres, beautifully located on the
Mississippi, opposite the mouth of the Minnehaha, has been acquired by the
City of St. Paul, and land will most probably be secured for a drive of
several miles along the river. The bank here is more than 100 feet high,
often precipitous, clothed with a rich growth of primeval forest, shrubbery
and vines. It is hoped that Minneapolis may secure the land immediately
opposite, including the Falls of Minnehaha and the valley of the stream to
the great river. In this event a great park could be made between the two

cities, easily reached from the best part of both, with the Mississippi
flowing through it and the Falls as one of its features. This, in connection
with the park so beautifully situated on Lake Como, three miles from St.
Paul, and the neat parks of Minneapolis and its superbly kept system of lake
shore drives, would soon be an object worthy of the civic pride of these
enterprising and friendly rivals.

A Park for Wilmington, Del.—After many delays and defeats the people
of this city have secured a tract of more than 100 acres, mostly of fine rocky
woodland, with the classic Brandywine flowing through it, and all within
the city limits, together with two smaller tracts, one a high wooded slope,
the other lying on tide water, and both convenient to those parts of the city
inhabited by workingmen and their families. A topographical survey of
these park lands is now in progress as preparation for a general plan of
improvement. Of the “Brandywine Glen” Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted once
wrote: “It is a passage of natural scenery which, to a larger city, would be of
rare value—so rare and desirable that in a number of cities several million
dollars have been willingly spent to obtain results of which the best that can
said is, that they somewhat distantly approach, in character and expression,
such scenery as the people of Wilmington have provided for them without
expense.”

Flower Market.

Retail Prices in the Flower Market.

New York, February 23d.

There is a glut of flowers, particularly of tea roses of an indifferent quality.
Bon Silene buds cost from 75 cts. to $1 a dozen, Perle des Jardins,
Niphetos, Souvenir d’un Ami, and Papa Gontiers bring $1.50 a dozen. C.
Mermets are very fine and from 30 to 35 cts. each. Not more than one in
three La France roses is perfect; they bring from 25 cts. to 50 cts. each.
Mde. Cuisin and Duke of Connaught are 25 cts. each, Bennets 20 cts. each
and Brides 25 cts. each. American Beauties are $1 to $1.50 each, according
to the location where they are sold. Puritans cost 75 cts. each, and

Jacqueminots 50 cts. Magna Chartas are the most popular of the hybrid
roses at present. They, Anna de Diesbach and Mad. Gabriel Luizet bring
from $1 to $1.50 each.

Mignonette is very plentiful, well grown and of the spiral variety; it brings
75 cts. a dozen spikes retail, very large spikes bring as high as 15 cts. each.
Hyacinths, Lilies-of-the-Valley and Tulips bring $1 a dozen. Lilacs cost 25
cts. for a spray of one or two tassels. Violets are abundant, mostly of the
Marie Louise variety, and bring $2 a hundred. Fancy long stem red
Carnations cost 75 cts. a dozen; short stem Carnations are 50 cts. a dozen;
the dyed Carnations, named “Emerald,” are in brisk demand and sell for 15
cts. each. Daffodils are $1 a dozen; those dyed bring 20 cts. each. Finely
grown Forget-me-not brought in small quantity to retail dealers sells for 10
cts. a spray. Calla Lilies bring $2 and $3 a dozen, and Longiflorum Lilies $4
a dozen.

Philadelphia, February 23d.

Heavy demands for flowers dropped off short on Ash Wednesday, and
decreased each day until Saturday, when the regular orders for loose flowers
caused the trade to pick up again. The demand for Orchids is steadily
growing; a fair quantity is used at balls and parties, but nothing in
comparison to Roses, Violets and Lily-of-the-Valley. Violets have been in
greater demand, so far, than for several years. Large quantities of Tulips
have been used recently for table decorations, especially the pink varieties,
the favorite color for dinners and lunches. The American Beauty Rose,
when cut with long stems, and really first class in every other respect, has
been in great demand, at the best prices. Md. Gabrielle Luizet is scarce, the
local growers not having commenced to cut in quantity; it is frequently
asked for. Carnation plateaus in solid colors have been used freely. Lilacs
are considered choice and have been in good demand. Retail prices rule as
follows: Orchids, from 25 cts. to $1 each; La France, Mermet, Bride and
Bennet Roses, $3 per dozen; Jacques, $4 to $5; American Beauty, $4 to $9;
Puritan, $4; Anna de Diesbach, $5 to $7.50; Papa Gontier, Sunset, Perle des
Jardins and Mad. Cuisin, $1.50; Bon Silene, $1.00; Niphetos, $1 to $1.50.
Lily-of-the-Valley, and Roman Hyacinths, bring $1 per dozen; Mignonette,

50 cts., and Freesia the same per dozen; Heliotrope, Pansies, Carnations,
and Forget-me-nots, 35 cts. per dozen. Violets bring from $1 to $1.50 per
hundred; Lilium Harrisii, $3.00 per dozen; Callas $2 per dozen, and Lilacs
$2 per bunch of about eight sprays. Daffodils sell briskly at from $1 to
$1.50 per dozen.

Boston, February 23d.

The season of Lent is always looked forward to by the florists with anxiety,
for the rest from receptions, assemblies and balls cuts off one of the chief
outlets for the choicest flowers: a few warm days are sufficient to overstock
the market, and prices take a fall. Buyers are learning, however, that at no
period of the year can cut flowers be had in such perfection and variety as
during February and March, and although not much required for party
occasions they are bought for other purposes in increasing quantities every
year, so that the advent of Lent does not now produce utter stagnation in the
flower trade. In Roses there is at present a large assortment offered. From
the modest Bon Silene, and its new competitor, Papa Gontier, up to the
magnificent American Beauty and Hybrid Perpetuals, may be found every
gradation of color, size and fragrance. Retail prices vary from 75 cts. per
dozen for Bon Silenes and $1.50 to $2 for Perles, Niphetos, etc., up to $3
and $4 for the best Mermets, Niels and La France; Hybrids and Jacques of
best quality bring from $6 to $9 per dozen. In bulbous flowers a large
variety is shown. Lily-of-the-Valley sells for $1.50 per dozen sprays;
Narcissus of various kinds, Hyacinths and Tulips for $1 per dozen; Violets,
50 cts. per bunch; Pansies, Mignonette, Heliotrope, Forget-me-not and
Calendulas, 50 cts. per doz. Long stemmed Carnations are to be had in great
variety at 75 cts. per dozen; Callas 25 cts. each, and Smilax 50 cts. a string.
At this season Smilax is at its best, being its time of flowering, and the
flowers are deliciously fragrant.

Publishers’ Note.

A photogravure of Mr. A. St. Gaudens’s bronze medallion of the late Professor
Asa Gray will be published as a supplement to the second number of Garden
and Forest.

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our
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bedding
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Principal of Highlands Academy, Highlands, N. C.

Transcriber's Note:

Missing and/or damaged punctuation has been repaired.

Fig. 3, Iris tenuis, has been moved from p. 10 to p. 6

Errata:

p. 3: (Floriculture) 'county' probably error for 'country'. "... scores of young
men in all parts of the country have..."

p. 4: (Lawn) 'whch' corrected to 'which' "... finely pulverized compost which
may be brushed in."

p. vi: (WESTERN N. C. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND TREES).
'Rhodendron' corrected to 'Rhododendron' "Descriptive Price List sent on
application. Detailed description of the new Rhododendron Vaseyi, with each
List."

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