1880. 



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soon decay and crumble to the earth. The liv- 

 ing voice of the preacher, in such a place of 

 worship, together with the generations of listen- 

 ers who have profited by his teachings, will 

 soon be hushed in silence. The giver of such a 

 gift, however, has done a great work, and, when 

 completed, and the title-deed executed and pre- 

 sented to a grateful people, he can well afford 

 to die, for he has literally and truly fought a 

 good fight with his selfish heart, and been a co- 

 worker with God in his migty efforts to redeem 

 the world. But is lie not also a good man who 

 converts ten, fifty or a hundred acres into a per- 

 petual preachinsj-ground, where God's servants 

 and teachers are not men, but everything beauti- 

 ful in nature, which the Great Maker and 

 Builder of the world has created and given to 

 us, a free gift, to make us happier, wiser and 

 better in all our earthly pilgrimage, and prepare 

 us to enter the pearly gates, and walk the golden 

 streets, and drink of the water of the River of 

 Life, and eat of the fruit of that tree which 

 shall be for the healing of the millions who go 

 hence to be happy forever ? The man who pro- 

 vides such a preaching-ground and such living, 

 truthful preachers, who now and evermore will 

 speak such loving words to the poor and 

 the rich, the heart-sick and the sorrowing, the 

 bereaved and the disappointed, shall have a 

 name which shall live with the unborn millions 

 of earth, and he shall evermore be counted a 

 good and faithful sei-vant of his day and genera- 

 tion." 



Autumn Berries. — Autumn tints are famous 

 but autumn berries no less deserve admiration. 

 On the lawn there can be fewer prettier orna- 

 ments than some of our pretty berried shrubs. 

 Viclc gives a colored plate of the following in 

 his July monthly. He has in this plate several 

 Hawthorns, Ampelopsis, White Snowberry, Actse- 

 as, Berberry and Euonymus. Besides this 

 one might add the nice violet berried Callicarpa 

 purpurea. It is superb at this season. 



Cornelia Koch Rose. — Mr. C. M. Hovey, in 

 a remarkably interesting supplement to Mr. 

 EUwanger's history of American Roses, says 

 that Cornelia Koch is the correct orthography 

 of this rose. It is pronounced Cook, and hence 

 is often written erroneously Cornelia Cook. It 

 was raised by Mr. Koch, florist of Baltimore, 

 about 1857, from Devoniensis. 



Sunflowers in Autumn. — The Sunflower as a 

 single specimen is too coarse to be beauti- 



ful, but a dozen seeds sown in one spot make a 

 bunch which is not over coarse, and if not 

 sown till the middle of May, will give a mass of 

 moderate sized flowers in the autumn that any 

 lover of an attractive autumn garden will be 

 proud of. 



QUERIES. 



Variegated Ailanthus. — Mr. W. F. Heins, 

 Paterson, New Jersey, sends a photograph of a 

 Silver Variegated Ailanthus. It will be pretty if 

 constant. 



Ampelopsis Virginica. — There are few more 

 useful garden ornaments than the Virginia 

 Creeper. We are reminded by a note from a 

 correspondent, that like all things else, it varies 

 from seed, and, if observers would look closely 

 at wild forms, some good varieties worthy of 

 culture might be discovered. 



Kentucky Blue Grass. — L. P., Pittsburg. Pa., 

 writes : I am advised to use Kentucky Blue 

 Grass for a lawn, — but I should suppose a green 

 lawn is the great desideratum, and the blue of 

 this grass disagreeable. What is your opinion ?" 

 • Kentucky Blue Grass makes an excellent lawn 

 grass. It generally crowds out all less desirable 

 plants, and makes a close, tough sod. It is not 

 blue in Pennsylvania, though darker than other 

 grasses, except when manured with phosphates 

 or chlorides, when it has a shade equal to the 

 Kentucky grown article. It is the soil of Ken- 

 tucky that gives it the peculiar tint there which 

 suggested the name. The only Blue Grass in 

 Pennsylvania is Poa compressa, and which is 

 the " Blue Grass" of the botanists. It is, how- 

 ever, of little value to agriculturists, and has no 

 popular name, or at least none that is generally 

 accepted. The only " Blue Grass" of the seed 

 trade is the " Kentucky Blue Grass," and you 

 are not likely to get hold of the botanist's Blue 

 Grass in making your lawn. 



Salt on Walks. — S., Danville, Pa, writes: 

 "Will you inform me through the magazine, 

 whether salt is practically available for destroying 

 grass on the sides of roads and in the paths, etc.?" 



[Salt is a very good thing for destroying weeds 

 on walks, noting that the drainage does not over- 

 flow and destroy plants near by. — Ed. G. M.] 



i Hardiness of Hvacinthus candicans. — Mrs. 

 I R. B. E., writes : " I notice Mr. Hovey says in 

 ' his catalogue that this bulb is ' hardy with the 



