FORESTRY NOTES. 259 



SEEDLING PHLOXES. 



Some plants as well as animals have a remarkable prepotency; that 

 is, the power of impressing themselves on their offspring. For instance, 

 the black Galloway among the cattle wipes all the horns from his prog- 

 eny and makes each one a present of a black overcoat. Some phloxes, like 

 Mad. Meuret, will reproduce themselves. The Cross of Honor never does 

 this, the plant almost invariably produces flowers of a lilac tinge. 



Crepuscule does not always reproduce its own color, but invariably 

 gives a symmetrical head and a very large floret and continuous bloom. 

 I find this the most satisfactory of all to breed from. Plant the best 

 sorts in close proximity, let the bees do the rest. You plant the seed and 

 raise miracles. 



Nature makes no mistakes in the blending of colors. A large bed of 

 seedling phloxes in continuous bloom until the first of November is one 

 of the finest spectacles of the flower garden. Out of a thousand you can 

 pick some of marvelous beauty. 



The Phlox Manual tells how to raise from seed. A little girl following 

 directions has raised some as fine as those produced by European experts. 



A gentlemen said from some well bred seed I sent him he secured one 

 that .$10 would not buy. Said he, "I first saw it in the dark. It shone 

 like a lamp." Another gentlemen secured one with variegated foliage. 

 In short we find ourselves in wonderland. Some of ours have richly 

 variegated blooms. Seed must always be sown in the fall. The next 

 summer they bloom and you know in a short time just what you are 

 doing. 



FORESTRY NOTES. 

 c. s. harrison, york, neb. 



Norway Poplar — The Sudden Saw Log. 



This never saw Norway, but was found growing among the Norwegians 

 of Minnesota, hence the name. Its origin, like that of the Carolina 

 poplar, is unknown. Professor Hansen thinks that it was one of Pro- 

 fessor Budd's importations under the name of the Giant Asiatic poplar. 

 I think I had the same thing thirty years ago. Attention was first called 

 to it by Professor Green of the Horticultural Department of Minnesota 

 Agricultural College. He says: "It is the most rapid growing tree on 

 our grounds." We secured some for this station and in one year had 

 hundreds of trees eight and ten feet tall from cuttings set in the spring. 

 One fall I cut some for fence posts which at four years measured fifteen 

 inches in circumference three feet from the ground. 



A farmer in Minnesota in fifteen years had trees seventeen inches 

 through and fifty-five feet tall. The groves among the Norwegians were 

 examined by a United States government expert and he made a favorable 

 report, w^hich was published in "Forestry and Irrigation." 



