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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[January, 



threc-fiiiarters of a mile in length, and twenty 

 feet in depth, giving a grand power of capture. 

 The cleaning and curing is all done by Chinese. 

 The profit on each can is small, but .3000 salmon 

 manipulated in a single day yield great returns. 

 Fears, however, are entertained that the enorm- 

 ous catch will exhaust the supply. 



Among the Chinese who have come to this 

 country a gardener, as we think, has not yet 

 been heard of. At the Centennial there were 

 specimens of curiously dwarfed trees, but they 

 scarcely seemed worthy of a paragraph from 

 anybody. The Americans prefer big trees to 

 small ones; a professor of dwarfing would not 

 find employ among us, and yet it is worthy 

 of inquiry whether they may not have some 

 secrets or plans of horticultural skill worth 

 adopting. To China our gardens owe much. 

 What is more beautiful or profuse than the Wis- 

 taria and some of the Magnolias ? It is related 

 of the opulent merchant Consequa, that when a 

 supercargo called on important business, he was 

 found gazing on his Wistaria, which received its 

 first name from him, and would not be called otf 

 for mere money making. 



The lover of knowledge will never be discour- 

 aged under the most unfavorable circumstances. 

 Galileo Galilei when a boy matriculated at Pisa 

 as a medical student, but mathematics was his 

 ambition, and we first hear of him listening 

 outside the door of a room in which Ricci, the 

 Court Mathematician of Florence, who was 

 teaching the pages of the Grand Duke a little 

 Euclid. We next find him watching the long 

 swing of the lamp. The observation of the 

 student and the immediate practical application 

 of it, was the forerunner of the greatness of the 

 man. He applied the knowledge to the more ac- 

 curate measurement of the pulse beat. We 

 know the rest. 



An estimate of the annual injury to the coftee 

 plant by the fungus HemilliaYastatrix in Ceylon 

 alone, gives a loss of ten millions of dollars. 



Fears. — At the Rochestier meeting, Mr. P. 

 Barry referred to the changes which had taken 

 place in the last quarter of a century. An old 

 catalogue revealed the fact that nearly all 

 the pears of that date had been superceded, and 

 of the grapes not a variety with the exception 

 of the Norton's Virginia were preserved, and 

 this was about the way it went through all 

 the old catalogue. Mr. Barry knows. 



Little Things. — The value of little things was 



never better exemplified than in the career of 

 Chapelier, the Frenchman, who collected all 

 the crusts of bread thrown away in Paris, 

 cleaned them, and put them up in nice little 

 baskets for soups, etc., rebaking them carefully. 

 He retired with a fortune of thirty thousand 

 francs a year. He was a wit as well as a phil- 

 osopher, and was never weary of saying that 

 "human beings sometimes reasoned, but that 

 they never failed to eat, and very often too 

 much." 



Bees continue to he a fruitful subject for study. 

 If a queen is removed from the hive, the bees 

 select certain of the worker's eggs, or even 

 young larvte two or three days old, the cell is 

 enlarged, and a totally different food is sup- 

 plied ; the result is that in five days, less than 

 would be required for a worker, a queen is 

 hatched. The marvel is, so far, inexplicable, and 

 without a parallel in all animal creation. The use 

 made of bees in fertilizing a peach house, marks 

 the advance and use of scientific discovery. But 

 what appropriate place does such a career find in 

 a horticultural journal? We answer that there 

 are many ways yet untried by which the pro- 

 ducts of land, and therefore gardeners may be 

 turned to account, and it will be the pleasure 

 and duty of " Xotes and Queries " to point out 

 several in future notices. 



Gardeners shotdd be interested in the curious 

 replanting of teeth, now practised. Dr. Magitot, 

 a Frenchman, has published full particulars of 

 cases in which diseased teeth were taken out and 

 the root operations of the periosteum was cut 

 away and then were replanted, not transplanted, 

 in the same socket, where after a few days or 

 weeks, they became firm and serviceable. Out 

 of sixty-three operations, in four years, five were 

 failures. The pulling of teeth from one human 

 jaw in order to plant them in another, is very 

 far from being an accomplished fact. See the 

 Odontological Societj/^s Transactions, The Revieto- 

 of Dental Surgery, etc. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Editorial Letter. — About Raspberry 

 time I looked in on the pretty little city 

 garden of P. R. Freas, the well known and 

 able editor and proprietor of the German- 

 town Telegraph. It comprises, I should sup- 

 pose, an acre of ground, long and narrow as 

 city gardens must necessarily be, and we fancy 



