1879. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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(Memphis), tells us that he planted out a lot 

 of Eucalyptus in 1877. They grew twelve feet 

 (luring the season, but were destroyed by the first 

 white frost that killed the potatoes." Then the 

 Xew York Tribune follows with this paragraph, 

 "a lot of Eucalyptus globulus, planted in the 

 Spring of 1877 by Mr. Stewart, of Memphis, 

 Tenn., grew twelve feet during the season, and 

 were destroyed by the same white frost that killed 

 the potatoes." Any one can see that this is but 

 slightly altered from our note, but there is no 

 credit to the Gardener's Monthly for the 

 language, or to the Avalanche ^ov t\\e fact. iN'ow 

 we do not object to this. In twenty years of 

 editing this magazine we have never made a com- 

 plaint of any injustice on the part of any one 

 using our "ideas," "facts," or paragraphs. Our 

 exchanges are quite welcome to make any use 

 the}' choose of what we write, and in any form 

 they prefer ; only we do not like to come under the 

 l)an that "there are none perfect, no not one" in 

 the proper treatment of the New York Tribune, 

 and so are tempted to call attention to what, 

 from its own stand point, it ought to regard as 

 slight indiscretions. 



Grafting Gooseberries and Currants. — 

 Our readers will remember that long before the 

 grafted gooseberries made such a sensation at the 

 Centennial, the matter had been brought before 

 them and the whole secret explained in detail by 

 Mr. Chas. Brulot, at page 196 of our magazine 

 for 1874. Recently a correspondent inquired 

 what had become of the idea, and we replied. 

 "We may now add that the writer of that article, 

 who is also one of the most intelligent propagat- 

 ors, as well as practitioner of general gardening in 

 the country, is now at Lime Rock, Connecticut, 

 and any one who really wants to work up the 

 grafted currant and gooseberry business can have 

 a chance to engage with him. 



Harvard Botanic Garden. — The report 

 of Director C. S. Sargent to the president of the 

 Harvard University, shows a healthy state of 

 progress. The plants are being arranged in the 

 grounds systematically. In the arboretum diffi- 

 culty has been found in preserving system and 

 yet giving the grounds the advantage of land- 

 scape beauty. Mr. F.L.( )lmstea<l is trying to work 

 out a plan, for the incidental expenses of which 

 public spirited Boston gentlemen have contri- 

 buted $2,000. It is to be hoped that Mr. Sargent 

 will persevere in his determination not to sacrifice 

 beauty to mere dr}' arrangement. For our part 



we never could see the sense of so much " syste-^ 

 matic " thought in the arrangement of trees in 

 an arboretum, as if they were so many dry 

 branches in an herbarium. With a map and 

 guide annually printed, and corresponding with 

 numbered trees on the grounds, anything can be 

 easily found when desired by the student , and 

 then there is no necessity for forcing a dwarf to 

 grow alongside of a giant, nor the swamp-lover 

 be forced to make its bed with that one that 

 wants to lie on dry ground. And then there is 

 no necessity to " leave room " for future addi- 

 tions to the separate groups, but a beautiful plan 

 can be worked out at once. There never has 

 yet been a " systematic " arboretum that was 

 known of, that was finally satisfactory, even as^ 

 a piece of system, while they have been perfect 

 frights to all lovers of thac which is beautiful. 



Mr. Sargent takes occasion to show how much- 

 is being done for forestry through the medium 

 of the garden, which is one of which all Ameri- 

 cans, as well as Boston people, should be proud, 

 for its influence is universal. 



Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps. — The Illus- 

 trated Annual Phrenology for 1879 has a good 

 portrait and account of the life and services oT 

 this distinguished and very successful teacher of 

 botany, who, though now in her 8Gth year, is 

 still hale and active. 



Mr. F. W. Poppey. — This excellent landscape , 

 gardener has returned from an engagement in 

 California, and is now at Orange, K. J., where 

 those who love beautiful gardens can address him. 



Mr. De J^iedman. — Our young and energetic 

 botanical correspondent, VladimerDe Niedman,. 

 who spent some time last year in Philadelphia, 

 is now exploring the wilds of Australia. The 

 last Summer was spent on the Burdigan, where 

 he narrowly saved his life from the natives, suf- 

 fering severely from thirst in his escape. He 

 was at last accounts naming and sorting his spe- 

 cimens at Brisbane, and was to start again as 

 soon as the season opens for the "Humpybong." 



Col. Edward Wilkins. — Few persons when 

 enjoying the results of progress ever think of to 

 whom they are indebted for so much of their 

 pleasure and prosperity until they lose their 

 friends, and then they stop to think of what they 

 have done for them. Thus it is in the death of Col- 

 Ed. Wilkins,ofChestertown,Md., which happened 

 at his home on the 2Gth of Dec, in his 60th year. 

 He is one of the fathers of the immense modem 



