Editorial JVoies, 349 



The tTurdiii des I'lantes, l^arls. 



This garden has become since the war the most fashionable resort, in Paris. A 

 large collection of new and rare shrubs has just been imported from Algeria, and are 

 now being arranged in the great Conservatory. Two new reading rooms are to be 

 added, one of these to contain a complete scientific library. 



To Destroy Red Ants. 



Naptha is mentioned as being a sure remedy ; try it. 



Plant for Table Decoration, 



The beautiful half hardy Japanese shrub, Enonymus japonicuvi avier variegatmn, 

 is recommended as forming a very chaste plant for table decoration. It is described 

 with much enthusiasm by an English gardener, who says : " With us the E?ionymus 

 almost vie with the Crotons in the brilliancy of its finely marked foliage, glowing 

 with bright yellow and green." 



Bit/ Sliiptnents of Grapes, 



In one month, Vineland, N. J., shipped, in round numbers, 336,000 pounds of 

 grapes. 



Keepinff Jt'hiter I'ears, 



At the winter meeting of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, at Zanesville, Mr. 

 Bateham explained Dr. Ayer's successful method of keeping winter pears out of doors 

 during the winter. This is simply to gather the fruit when mature, or before sharp 

 frosts occur, and lay it in piles of one or two bushels each, not over six inches in 

 depth, upon smooth grass near the house, and under the shelter of a tree, an ever- 

 green preferred ; then cover with forest leaves five or six inches thick, and throw 

 some sticks or brush on top to prevent the leaves from blowing away and keep small 

 animals off. Leave it thus till hard freezing weather sets in ; then take off the 

 brush or sticks and cover the fruit and leaves with old coflFee sacks or carpet, the 

 better to exclude light and air, but not to exclude wet nor frost, indeed, the more 

 freezing the better. As the fruit is wanted for use bring some into the house, and 

 if frozen let it thaw in a dark cellar, kept closely covered up, and then keep a few 

 days in a warm room till mellow. 



Early Deatrice Peach, 



It is now discovered that this new variety of peach, concerning which fruit growers 

 anticipated rich prospects, is considerably injured by the curculio. Colonel Wilkins, 

 of Kent county, Md., who has a very large peach orchard, says that the Early Bea- 

 trice Peach have all fallen from the sting of the curculio. 



Hardy Ornatnental Trees, 



Mr. J. B. Garber, of Columbia, Pa., says that in his locality, last winter, where 

 every species of vine, tree, and shrub suffered severely from frost and cold, some 

 trees brought from the South lived uninjured. The Magnolia Macrophylla, the 

 Salisburia adiautifolia and the Virgdea lutea, were not in the least affected. Of 

 Arbor Vitaes, the Japan lived, while the Chinese died. 



A. Plea for the Ailatithus, 



W. D. Brackenridge, of Maryland, thinks it worth while' to put in a few words in 

 favor of that badly abused tree, the Ailanthus glandulosa, but more commonly 

 known as the Paradise tree, or tree of Heaven, and right here we are ready to 

 admit its faults ; the first of these being a tendency or disposition to send up 

 suckers from the roots, to the great detriment of sober-kept grass plots and pave- 



