1878.1 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Lime for Orchards. — X. W. A., Lowell, 

 Mass., writes that in the Vol. of the Horticul- 

 turist for 1875, pa<ie 22, there is an excellent 

 paper on the application of lime to orchards. 



L'^TAH ClTiRANT. — A correspondent from 

 Michigan enquires if any have had more expe- 

 rience with this east of the Rock}- Mountains, 



than the provisionally favorable notices that 

 have in times past appeared in the Garden?:il's 

 Monthly ? 



Fruit of Japan Persimmon. — Mr. Looniis 

 sends us a preserved fruit from Japan. It has a 

 flavor partaking of the fig and the date when 

 dried. The one sent was perhaps the kind 

 known in Japan as Yaniato. It has small seeds. 

 We believe it will be hardy anywhere that the 

 common Virginian Persimmon will stand the 

 Winter. 



Forestry. 



COM Ml WICA TIONS. 



WILLOW OAK. 



r.Y S., RUTGERS COLLGE, NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. 



In your March number J. M. says " it would 

 lie interesting to know the farthest Northern 

 l)oint that Willow Oak (Quercus Phellos) has 

 l)een found growing wild. For the information 

 of your correspondent and readers, I may state 

 that this oak is common near Washington, 

 Middlesex county, X. J. Two trees near that 

 village are each between 60 and 70 feet in 

 height, and nearly 3 feet in diameter. I do not 

 recollect ever seeing this tree elsewhere in the 

 central or northern parts of this State. There 

 are said to be several near Mt. Holly. I think 

 that at each of these localities the tree is limited 

 to a comparatively small area. 



Your note on a large cherry tree, page 18, 

 January number, suggests a measurement which 

 I made of a wild cherry tree (Prunus Pennsyl- 

 vanica) growing on the roadside, about a mile 

 south of Warwick, Orange county, N. Y. This 

 tree, three feet above the ground, had a circum- 

 ference of 17 feet 7 inches. It is one of the 

 largest trees which I have seen in that part of 

 Xew York, and the adjacent Highlands of Xew 

 Jersey. 



QUERCUS PHELLOS AND Q. FALCATA. 



1!V HON. ELI K. PRICE, PIIILADELl'lHA. 



To J. M. I answer, that there is a large Wil- 

 low Oak on the east side of the Woodlands, near 

 the southwest corner of the alms house, and 

 three Spanish Oaks in the Woodlands, two or 

 three hundred yards eastward of the mansion ; 



one on the north side of Chestnut street, in front 

 of Mr. Keene's house, near Thirty -seventh street ; 

 and several in the Park, near the southwest 

 corner of the bridge over Belmont Valley, that 

 is, northeast of Horticultural Hall. 



EUCALYPTUS AT NORFOLK, VA. 



BY H. P. WORCESTER. NORFOLK, VA. 



In connection with your remarks upon the 

 "Hardiness of the Eucalyptus," it may be of 

 interest to you to know what success is met with 

 in this locality. 



With slight protection small trees have stood 

 a modei'ately severe Winter, but without protec- 

 tion they have thus far been killed by the first 

 severe frost. I speak of the E. globulus. 

 Whether the E. bicolor is more hardy or not, I 

 shall be able to determine after a trial I am 

 now making. I might say in this connection 

 that another Australian plant, the Cassia fistula, 

 will not stand our Winters, but, when protected, 

 has produced fruit abundantly the second sea- 

 son, in my garden. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



American Forestry and HoirncuLTURE 

 AT Paris. — The forestry exhibit from the nur- 

 series of Thomas Meehan, of Germantown, and 

 which went on the " Constitution " with the 

 others from Philadelphia, for the Paris Exhibi- 

 tion, is not included in the recently published 

 Philadelphia list of exhibitors, because at the 

 request of General l^e Due it was transferred 

 from General McCormick's special list in order 



