350 £!di.torlal JVotes. 



ments, but the next and crowning evil of all is the offensive odor emitted by the 

 flowers of the male tree, which bears erect, greenish spikes, while the feinalu variety 

 is not in any way offensive in the smell of its flowers, which are followed by large 

 and somewhat pendant bunches of flat seed, and these are withal somewhat orna- 

 mental, and any individual of taste will admit that the long pinnate, deep green 

 foliage of either sex, constitutes them invaluable subjects of great beauty in the 

 formation of large groups of trees on a lawn, imparting thereto an oriental and 

 tropical aspect. Now our advice is, to discard the male and adopt the female 

 variety, as both are easily propagated by cuttings of the roots. The wood is close 

 grained, very heavy and susceptible of taking on a fine polish. 



Vinegar frotn, Watermelons, 



A correspondent of the AgriculUirist remarks that, perhaps it is not generally 

 known that a very fine white vinegar can be made from the juice of watermelons. 

 We had a very great quantity of melons last season, and, after we had cut out their 

 crimson cores for eating, scraped the shells, from which we gained a large amount of 

 juice. This we carefully strained, and put into jugs with small glass bottles in 

 their mouths. Wo set the jugs out into the sun, and in time had a fine flavored, 

 clear, strong, white vinegar. The vinegar at a certain stage will be very bitter, but, 

 when perfected, loses this and acquires true vinegar taste. 



Tree Tieinon Verbena, 



The London Gardeyier'' s Chronicle calls attention to the pretty effects which can be 

 had from the common Lemon Verbena when trained as a standard. The wavy 

 spikes of flowers are very graceful and the odoriferous character of the plant will 

 always make it a favorite in any form. 



CoHtfress of Rose Growers, 



At the meeting of the Congress of Rose Growers, held this summer, at Lyons, 

 out of fifty seedling roses shown, the following four were selected to be named and 

 certificated : 



H. P. Madame Vaugerf. (Lacharme), a fine large flower of the Victor Verdier 

 race ; color, clear salmon flush. A fine rose. 



H. P. Captain Christy (Lacharme), light salmon, petals edged with white, a new 

 and fine distinct habited kind. 



Tea, Shirley Hibberd (Levet), a small Tea, of the Madam Faleot race, so valuable 

 for florists, light salmon buff', beautiful in the bud. 



Tea, Marie Guillet (Gruillet fils), a fine white, with large outer petals, which prom- 

 ises to make fine show roses. 



Asters as Decorative flants. 



The Florist and Pomologist says that the perennial asters, sometimes termed 

 Autumn daisies, furnish some most valuable decorative plants for the open ground 

 during autumn. Aster Amelhis is one of the best of them, bearing plenty of flower- 

 ing stems numerously branched at the top, the flowers violet blue; neat clumps of 

 this dotted about shrubbery borders, or at the back of mixed beds, form most wel- 

 come masses of a very acceptable hue of color in our gardens, right up to November. 



A violet-colored variety of A. Amcllus, named bessarabicus, is a good decorative 

 plant also. 



Sap, 



At a recent meeting of the Belgian Cercle d' Arboriculture, one of the professors 

 told his audience of horticulturists that sap does ?iot circulate ; and another main- 

 tained that there is ?io such thing as sap. 



Wonderful is science, — by and by some old Herr Professor, will make out we don't 

 need heads ; and some old fool will be ready to go a step further with such follies. 



