isn.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



3Yt 



had a marked effect on the garden culture of the 

 Daytonians. 



Business Enterprise. — It was remarkable that 

 in the same number that we noticed the beauti- 

 ful new Violet, Belle de Chatenay, and remarked 

 that it was probably not yet in our country, it 



Tradescantia Virginica are perhaps the best 

 known by it Though we cannot decide which 

 our correspondent means (if either), we may 

 say that both are " cultivated in this coun- 

 try," where, if they must have " popular names," 

 they are tolerably well known as " Spiderwort " 

 and " Foxglove." The former he can find wild 



DOUBLE WHITE VIOLET, " BELLE DE CHATENAY." 



should be advertised in that very number by 

 H. A. Dreer. We herewith give an illustration 

 of it. 



Thomas S. Kennedy, op Louisville. — A Louis- 

 ville paper before us speaks complimentarily of 

 the appointment of this gentleman as one of the 

 Vice Presidents of the American Pomological 

 Society. It is always a sign of worth when one's 

 neighbors praise. 



SCRAFS AND QUERIEiS. 



Ephemeron Flower. — "Classic" asks us if the 

 plant known as " Ephemeron flower " is in cul- 

 tivation in this country ? As we have repeatedly 

 said it is little use in bothering with the "popu- 

 lar " names of plants, unless like Mignonette and 

 Pansy they have become " household words." 

 There are at least half a dozen kinds of things 

 which have had the name of "Ephemeron" 

 given to it, of which the Digitalis purpurea and 



in the meadows from near which he hails (St. 

 Paul). 



Napoleon's Willow. — F., Boston, Mass., 

 writes : — " Excuse a question which may seem 

 a simple one to you, but happened to arise, and 

 prove an unsettled dispute in a little circle. It is, 

 is the common Weeping Willow of our gardens 

 the same as the one growing over Napoleon's 

 tomb at St. Helena?" 



[It is the same, and tradition says all our Wil- 

 lows sprung from a cutting of that one, having 

 been brought over by Captain Jacob Smith of 

 Rhode Island. Perhaps our old correspondent, 

 A. Smith of Providence, (if still living, for we have 

 not heard of him for some years,) could give us 

 the exact date of the intro Auction, as we have an 

 impression Capt. Smith was one of his ancestors. 

 —Ed. G. M.] 



Sending Stamps for Answers. — A few people 

 — we are glad to say not many — forget to send 

 stamps when a reply is required on their own 

 business. There are others who are over thought- 

 ful, and who send cards or envelopes already 

 stamped and addressed. A man with a score or 

 two of letters coming to his table, does not an- 



