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THE OAIIDENERS MONTHLY 



[ December, 



considerable sm-ccss had attended their cfForts. 

 New Egyptian Cotton, new Cinnamon from Ja- 

 pan, that would be half hardy if not more than 

 half, new Nepentheses or Bornean pitcher plants, 

 and the Darlington pitcher plants from Ctilifor- 

 nia; these will give an idea of the scope of this 

 immense establishment. 



It was my aim to take this day also to examine 

 a type of a hardy tree nursery, but the day is 

 gone at this immense place, and I must leave 

 this for another one, and take the omnibus back 

 to London. 



" You're a furrincr, I see," said the kind- 

 hearted guard, " and I suppose like to see all the 

 interesting things?" It always surprised me how 

 a man in his own born country should be taken 

 for a "furriner," but I admitted that it was just 

 80. "Well," said he, "there is a curiosity you 

 will hardly meet with in any part of the world. 

 A church wedged in between two of the gayest 

 kind of taverns." " But," said I, " tell us about 

 these gardens, whose they are, and anything you 

 know about them." And it is wonderful, as Sir 

 Walter Scott once said, how much there often is 

 under a tarpaulin hat or fustian jacket. 



Arboretum Segrezianum — An enumeration 

 of the trees and shrubs cultivated at Segrez, 

 Seine et vise, by Alphons6 Lavallee. — Mr. Lav- 

 allee is a wealthy young gentleman. President 

 of the leading Horticultural Society of France, 

 and who takes a great interest in every- 

 thing that pertains to Horticulture, and espe- 

 cially the Arboricultural branch ; and he has 

 collected together over four thousand species or 

 marked varieties of ligneous plants, and which 

 form, perhaps, the finest arboretum in the world. 

 There is a collection of over one thousand in 

 Germantown, out of which seven hundred and 

 fifty were exhibited at the Centennial, and this 

 is thought to be pretty full, and one may judge 

 from this how superior is this one of Monsieur 

 Lavallee. The great value of this "enumera- 

 tion" is in the care with which the correct name 

 is raked out from the mass of synonyms, and the 

 authorities given for the names. If they have 

 been figured, references are made, and the na- 

 tive country of each is appended. It is a work 

 that will be of great service to any one interested 

 in tree culture. 



It is possible that a little more acquaintance 

 with American literature Avould have prevented 

 some errors. Our old friend, the Heath-leaved 

 Arborvitje, and which everv American who has 



ever watclied the growth of a lot of seedlings, 

 knows is but an Arborvitic that has retained 

 through life its juvenescent character, is now 

 carried out of " Retinospora," where Carricre 

 placed it, into Cupressus, and actually reduced 

 to the same thing as " C. (Ret.) squarrosa." And 

 our other friend, " Tom Thumb," which in our 

 country grows out of its juvenescence after a half 

 dozen years or so, and assumes its hitherto de- 

 layed full Arborvitae character, is also made a 

 Cupressus — C. squarrosa Elwangeriana. The 

 further error is made of giving Mr. Barry as the 

 author of the name "Retinospora lOlwangeri- 

 ana," which we all know he is not. The way in 

 which foreign botanists worry and fuss over these 

 simple things, is very amusing to Americans. 

 The work can be had of Bailliere et Fils, Paris 

 or London. 



Corrections. — A friend well-informed on Cali- 

 fornia botany, kindly suggests that Mrs. Briggs' 

 " Butterfly Tulip " is a Calochortus, and that the 

 " White Tulip " is a Cyclobothra. " Poweridia- 

 num " is of course a misprint for pomeridianum. 

 So in Mr. Falconer's article, p. 324, speaking of 

 the hardihood of Evening Primroses, it should 

 be 4°, not 40° below zero. And in addition we 

 have the following, although the printer insists 

 that in these cases the fault is in the " copy," 

 and is none of his. 



"New London, Conn., November 6th, 1877. 



"Mr. Editor: — You make me say in Novem- 

 ber number of the Monthly, p. 332, that the lati- 

 tude of New London is 47° 2V N. What I 

 wrote was 41° 21^ N. I would hardly warrant 

 the English "^alnut to bear fruit at Quebec, 

 which is about 47° N. Yours truly, 



"Robert Co it." 



"Rochester, N. Y. 

 "Mr. Editor: — In printing my last communi- 

 cation, p. 343, the substitution of the words ' if 

 one' for 'if any,' you do such extreme violence 

 to the sense that I am tempted to call attention 

 to the mistake. Eugene Glen." 



Guano. — It takes a long while for the world to 

 find out the value of things. Guano and its good 

 qualities is mentioned by a Spaniard, Alonsa 

 Barbade Potosi, in 1640, translated into English 

 by the Earl of Sandwich in 1670. 



The Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio.— These 

 grounds, under the management of Mr. Beck, 

 are said to be models of good taste, and they have 



