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carry working materials through the better 

 rooms. In this conservatory there was a plant 

 of Drac£ena fragrans, with several stems, per- 

 haps twelve feet or more high, and which had 

 retained all its lower leaves through the many 

 years it had been growing, and presented a 

 mass of luxuriant foliage wonderful to behold. 

 The gardener, Mr. Thos. Love, was proud of the 

 feat, a:id well he may be, fori question whether 

 a better specimen of skilful growth was ever 

 seen. If any reader of the Gardener's 

 Monthly knows of a better one, let the fact 

 be known. Mr. Love besides his superiority as 

 a practical gardener, has high merits as a land- 

 scape gardener. The grounds were laid out by 

 him, and are very tastefully arranged. 



Many plants thrive here in the mountains 

 which do but poorly in the lower lands, as 

 beautiful specimens of the English Hawthorn 

 and Mountain Ash testify. In different parts of 

 the grounds are plant houses; for instance a 

 greenhouse, fern house, forcing house in which 

 cucumbers were then in fiuit, and grapery. Mr. 

 Love is a very successful grape grower. Some 

 bunches of certain kinds have been exhibited in 

 Nevv York of a size to challenge competition. A 

 Bowood muscat has been raised of seven pounds. 

 He regards it as of vast importance that the 

 roots of the vines should be rather dry, and 

 that top air should be given at all times. 



Another very intelligent and successful gar- 

 dener I found in Mr. O'Neil, gardener to L. J. 

 Krause, Esq., who besides nice garden grounds, 

 can boast of one of the most complete barns in 

 this part of the county. Mr. Krause 's green- 

 houses are all small; some of them built wholly 

 by the ingenious hands of the gardener. An in- 

 interesting fact in regard to rose culture is ex- 

 hibited in one of these houses. Roses are forced 

 for cut flowers, and are grown in a bank of 

 earth on one side of the forcing house. Half 

 of this bank has air drains at the bottom. The 

 other part is elevated on the solid ground. The 

 part with the air drains has the plants fully one- 

 third better than the other. There are quite a 

 number of small greenhouses, and neat places in 

 the town of Bethlehem ; among these are Mr. 

 Smiley's and Mr. E. P. Wilbur's. Extensive 

 grounds do not seem to exist. The cemetery 

 grounds and the many rural walks — and beautiful 

 they are — seem to be the chief out-door garden- 

 ing experience of the Bethlehemites. 



Lepidium for Bugs. — The American Ento- 

 logist, " recognizes the genial Samuel Miller of 



Bluffton, Mo., under the initials S. M.," in the 

 article on Lepidium^ in a recent number. But 

 our good contemporary must try again. It i& 

 not yet even "warm." To help it a little we 

 will say it need not search south of the Raritan. 

 Dreer's Coleus Plate. — It is seldom that 

 we notice advertisements in the editorial col- 

 umns, though we are often asked to do so. We 

 desire to avoid even the appearance of anything 

 being paid for directly or indirectly, which is 

 given as editorial opinions, and which any pref- 

 erence apparently given to one firm over ano- 

 ther, might be fairly construed into a paid-for 

 "business notice." But we notice this effort of 

 Mr. Dreer, in order to bring prominently for- 

 ward the great change in the manner of adver- 

 tising which is likely to take place. Mr. Pen- 

 nock once advertised in our columns colored 

 plates of Caladiums ; Mr. Henderson, Pansies, 

 and Mr. Scott the Waverly Carnation ; and now 

 Mr. Dreer follows with the Coleus. We believe 

 the money spent in printer's ink for the two 

 pages a colored plate occupies, would not be half 

 as telling as the colored illustrations of the thing 

 itself. We have no doubt this style of advertis- 

 ing will grow. 



Addressed Envelopes. — It is a pleasant 

 thing to receive a stamp wlien one desires a re- 

 ply to a letter, but we must again beg of our cor- 

 respondents not to send stamped envelopes, 

 with the addresses already written on them. It 

 is extremely rare that a letter can be answered 

 at once on receipt ; for often some investigation 

 has to be made. In the meantime a busy man 

 cannot remember that some particular person 

 sent an addressed envelope. We have scores 

 of these addressed and stamped envelopes lying 

 around, and always in the way. It is mistaken 

 kindness to send such things. 



Civilization: is its cause Natural or 

 Supernatural ?— By a " Wayfarer in search of 

 Truth," Philadelphia, Published by C. H. Marot. 

 The doctrines of evolution, which this work at- 

 tacks, have some bearing on horticultural pur- 

 suits ; and horticulture considers itself especially 

 interested in the progress ; but we find very lit- 

 tle in this book that will warrant an extended 

 notice in our magazine. It is more in the way 

 of theologians and metaphysicians. We may 

 however, say that the point of the work turns on 

 the meaning of terms. The author believes that 

 evolution is opposed to Christianity ; but this de- 

 pends on what one understands by evolution, 

 and by Christianity. From our experience of 



