THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 14:, 



words "landscape gardener" printed on his letterheads, but to 

 the more cultured product of Amherst, Technology, and 

 Harvard. 



I have abundant opportunities to see and stud}- these ris- 

 ing, active, and intelligent young men. They are being turned 

 out in such numbers that I wonder what must become of them 

 all. Now I have noticed that nearly all these youths and their 

 teachers can talk pleasingly on landscape designs, but that, so 

 far as practical gardening is concerned, they know very little 

 indeed. Yet these men are intruding themselves upon those 

 who have forgotten more of horticulture than these new 

 fledged landscape artists know, and in not a few cases are al- 

 lowed to draw plans, make changes, and suggest, or even 

 superintend, plantings for which they are grossly unfitted. I 

 think I am safe in saying that not one landscape gardener, 

 architect or artist — choose whatever term you like best — in ten, 

 is competent to draw up plans, suggest proper plantings and 

 see such carried out. — From an article by IV. X. Craig in 

 Gardener's Chronicle. 



MIRACULOUS WHEATS 



r I 'HE notion that there is a wonderful wheat which will 

 ■*• make the fortune of anyone who plants it seems to be 

 almost as old as agriculture itself. In this country, at least, 

 such an assertion was made for the so-called Jerusalem wheat 

 as early as 1807, and, under the name of Alaska wheat, this 

 identical variety is still being pushed upon the unwary at 

 exorbitant prices for seed. Almost equally exaggerated claims 

 are made for the Stoner variety, but this particular wheat has 

 not such a long history. 



Because of the many attempts that have been made by 

 promoters to foist these wheats, under one name or another, 



