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[May, 



trees are easily raised from seed, and this 

 may have been a seedling tree, and the parent 

 have derived the pollen from one of our reij;ular 

 garden sorts as the Kiefter did. If we are to 

 have a new race in these Pears, would it not be 

 worth while to retain the maternal name? 

 Thus Lie Compte Sand Pear: and Kiefter Sand 

 Pear. It will distinguish the race from the 

 common kind. 



Impeoved Dewberries. — A. C.L., Madison, 

 Ind., says: "Much has been written concerning 

 the Dewberry, but after careful search I have 

 never been able to find any one who has them 

 for sale. . Do you know of such a person?" 



[Of true Dewberries no improved kinds are 

 knoVn under culture. The Wilson's Early has 

 some relation to the Dewberry."] 



White Rosmarin Apple. — Mr. F. J. M. 

 Otto, Sandusky, Ohio, writes : " I sent you with 

 to-day's mail an apple, the grafts of which were 

 imported from Tyrol by Mr. Grass of this place. 

 Xame of apple, White Rosmarin. In Austria 

 this apple is highly prized for its keeping quali- 

 ties, its high flavor, aroma, and color. They 

 bring in southern Tyrol from 15 to 25 cents 

 each, for shipment to St. Petersburg. They 

 grow there, in Tyrol, to perfection. I have 



grafted some old trees which bore here last year, 

 very full, and every thing said about this apple 

 proved true. The specimen I sent you is rather 

 small, I have another specimen painted, which 

 I will send you as soon as finished; this one I 

 send you merely to taste. This apple grows 

 stronger here than in Tyrol. It has done so 

 well here and withal is such a delicate fruit for 

 table or kitchen use, that I thought it miglit be 

 of interest to you. Fruit, scions, or trees are 

 not for sale." 



[We regard this communication as very inter- 

 esting, as probably fixing a foreign origin to a 

 very common apple in the old German settle- 

 ments about Philadelphia, known as the "sheep 

 nose." So far as we can judge from a single 

 specimen, and without the Philadelphia speci- 

 mens immediately before us for comparison, 

 the two are identical. It would appear also 

 that this kind sometimes goes by this name in 

 the Old World, so that even the name "sheep 

 nose" may be an importation. At least an excel- 

 lent German gardener in our office at the time 

 we were examining it, without any inquiry 

 from us, volunteered his expression of pleasure 

 at seeing the "sheepnose" of his own land also 

 in ours.— Ed. G. M.] 



Forestry. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



VERNACULAR NAMES OF PACIFIC TREES. 



BY PROF. C. S. SARGENT, BROOKLINE, MASS. 



Either you have quoted him very badly, or Mr. 

 Lemnion makes some bad blunders about his 

 Sierra trees. Abies magnifica is Red Silver Fir 

 as he says; but the White Silver Fir is Abies 

 concolor, which may well be called the White 

 Fir. Abies grandis does not grow in the Sierras, 

 and I doubt if Mr. Lemmon has ever seen this 

 tree growing. Of its economic value I know 

 nothing. It is a tree of the northwest coast, and 

 only reaches California in some of the northern 

 coast counties. 



The Western Tamarack is no Tamarack at all 

 in the Eastern sense of the word, but Pinus con- 

 torta, the name having been given, I fancy, by 



Eastern settlers, from the resemblance in form 

 to the Eastern Larch. 



Larix Occidentalis is a far Northern tree, and 

 onl)^ comes into the extreme northern counties 

 of California. 



[The names are just as Mr. Lemmon ap- 

 plied them. Indeed it was chiefly to draw at- 

 tention to this general confusion of " popular 

 names" that we referred to the matter at all. — 

 Ed. G. M.] 



TIMBER OF KENTUCKY COFFEE. 



BY BOB'T "W. FURNAS, BROWNVILLE, NEB. 



Noticing your inquiry in the March number of 

 the Gardener's Monthly in relation to the 

 uses of Kentucky Coflee Tree timber, permit me 

 to say it is one of the best varieties of timber for 

 posts. It is equal to mulberry for such pur- 



