THE QABDENER'S MONTHLY 



[January, 



the well-known nian»ifactnrer of this and siinilnr 

 articles in rhihulelpliia, and wehave the following 

 about it : "I have made ' Cydonia ' into butter, 

 and will forward you a sample. Its quality for 

 jellies, &c., is in my opinion, equal to the bitter 

 orange. For butter I do not think it could be 

 used to advantage over orange or lemon. You 

 will find the .seeds inclosed, perhaps they are of 

 Bome value to you." 



Pear Bi.igiit.— A New Jersey correspondent 

 Bays: "What do you think of syringing the pear 

 trees that blight, with carbolic acid or other pre- 

 paration, and how strong would it do to use it? 

 Would chloride of lime in water injure trees? 



Did any one ever try salt around the trees, and 

 with what result?" 



[Better ])aint the trees with oil— or wash with 

 lime and sulphiu- in the winter season. — Ed. 

 G. M.] 



HifiiiLANi) IIardv RAsrnKRRY. — A. O. W., St. 

 Jose])h, Mich., says : "Is the Highland Hardy 

 Raspberry one of the old varieties re-named, or 

 is it something new ? It is being largely dissemi- 

 nated as a new kind, and if it is not, it should be 

 known." 



[The Raspberry has been extensively and very 

 cheaply advertised; beyond these advertisement* 

 we know nothing of it. — Ed. G. M.] 



lORESTRY. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



LIGNEOUS MARVELS, 



Or, The Three Big Trees of Uppa- Sandusky. 



BY WM. T. HARDING, C0LUMBU.S, O. 



There are no objects more generally useful, 

 beautiful, or interesting, in the physical geogra- 

 phy of our country, than the grand indigenous 

 old trees. 



"The forest trees .... 

 So mossy, vast, yet green in their old age," 

 ■will never fail to attract the attention of every 

 intelligent being, who finds a companionship in 

 Nature. 



In the neighborhood of Upper Sandusky, Wy- 

 andot County, Ohio, where I was engaged in lay- 

 ing out a cemetery, during the Spring and Sum- 

 mer of 76; and while in search of the beautiful, 

 under the guidance of a genial friend, I was in- 

 duced to follow a romantic pathway,which pleas- 

 antly led us from the bluff above, down easy 

 verdant slopes, to the river side, where the sil- 

 very Sanduskj' gently glides on. And oh ! what 

 a striking picture was there. Prolific scenes of 

 matchless beauty, spread around us. The native 

 roses and hawthorns were profusely scattering 

 their odorous blossoms over the sunny landscape, 



so beautifully varied with all the charms which 

 pretty wild flowers, and irregular low spreading 

 bushes, springing through luxuriant gra.ss, could 

 give. 



Even the sleek looking cattle seemed as happy 

 as any well-favored kine could possibly be, as 

 they quietly cropped the rich verdure around. 

 All nature seemed to equally share in the pas- 

 toral scene, so picturesquely unique. 



The poetic limning of Burns was only wanting to 

 invest it with such sylvan charms as " Ye banks 

 and braes o' bonny Doon." But, from a lack of 

 fitting language to fully describe its many pleas- 

 ant features, I am constrained to stop ; and in 

 lieu, say something about the big button-wood, 

 near by, and in whose shadow I musingly sat. 



The subject under notice is botanically known 

 as Platanus occidentalis — the western plane-tree 

 — or more generally called the button-wood — and 

 often, erroneously, sycamore. That it is no ordi- 

 nary specimen, the reader will admit, when its 

 gigantic dimensions are known. Its altitude is 

 about one hundi-ed and sixty feet. 



At four feet from the ground the colossal trunk 

 measures forty-eight feet in circumference. At 

 the height of fifteen feet from the base, the mas- 

 sive trunk ramifies into eight large column-like 

 shafts, the round measurement of which, is 



