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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{September . 



five feet high. This variety is perfectly hardy, 

 and ripens a quantity of seed yearly. These 

 three varieties should be extensively planted. 



I was very much interested in reading Mrs. D. 

 W.'s description of the wild flowers of South 

 Carolina, and 1 hope to see many more such 

 articles describing the native flowers of our 

 Southern and Western States in the Monthly 

 hereafter. But why is it that such beautiful 

 plants have not been introduced into cultivation 

 before this? What could be more handsome 

 than the Styrax and the Andromeda as described 

 by Mrs. D.W. And the Sarracenias ; why should 

 they be left unseen in the Carolina meadows ? 

 Is there not in South Carolina some enterprising 

 person who would form and offer for sale collec- 

 tions of her native plants? It would pay some 

 one to do so. I must confess I envj' Mrs. D. W. 

 her drives among such beautiful plants. B)'^ the 

 way, however, is Sarracenia pux-purea found 

 growing wild on Long Island? I have often 

 searched for it, but in vain ; and now I am told 

 it does not grow on Long Island. What say 

 you or any of your readers ? 



I have a plant, a Cyperus, under the name of 

 Cyperus Lapus. Now I see in the catalogues C. 

 Lepus, C. Laxus and C. Laxpus. I suppose they 

 are all the same. If so, which is the correct 

 name? [There is a C. laxus, and a C. leptos. 

 Ed. G. M.] 



Will Mr. John Paget please give through the 

 Monthly his method of forcing strawberries, 

 and such other information that in his opinion 

 be necessary to enable a person to force them 

 successfully ? His success with strawberries is 

 remarkable. What variety or varieties would 

 he recommend ? 



Will some of your renders please give us their 

 experience wiih the Beauty and Sharpless Seed- 

 ling Strawberries, and how they compare in size, 

 flavor and productiveness with Chas. Downing 

 and Seth Boyden ? 



In the June number of the Monthly, page 

 176, 1 noticed a few remarks b}^ Mr. Isaac Hicks 

 on the Meriam Pear. We have one dwarf tree 

 of it here, and that is enough. It casts its leaves 

 about the tenth of August, and besides I have 

 never seen one pear on the tree. I think our 

 tree is correct to name, as we obtained it from 

 Hovey & Co. Louise Bonne de Jersey is cast- 

 ing its. leaves very early this season. Some of 

 our trees have only a few leaves left on them at 

 this early date. 



Have any of the readers of the Monthly 



fruited Hovenia dulcis ? I am told that it is a 

 new Japanese fruit. Can this be true ? I doubt 

 it ; as I do not recollect ever seeing the name 

 before. What is it, anyhow ? Will some one 

 give me some information concerning it ? 



NOTES AND QUERIES-NO. 4. 



BY JACQUES. 



W.B. — .John Kay was the first to raise Zoology 

 to the rank of a science ; and the first scientific 

 classification of animals was attempted in his 

 " Synopsis of Quadrupeds." Modern botany 

 began with Ray's " History of Plants," and the 

 researches of an Oxford professor, Robert Mor- 

 rison ; while Grew divided with Malphigi the 

 credit of founding the study of vegetable phy- 

 siology, which has made and is still making such 

 advances. 



Mr. Max Cornu has detected a new malady 

 which attacks the plants of the Rubiacese 

 grown in hothouses. It appears that an Anguil- 

 lula deposits its eggs in the roots, which then swell 

 and decay, the plant perishing rapidly. Pre- 

 cipitated sulphur has been recommended as an 

 effective remedy. 



The Wheelbarrow. — Pascal, the philosopher, 

 born 1623, we are assured the world over was the 

 inventor of the wheelbarrow. How long it 

 took to find this indispensable machine more 

 useful, perhaps, than Babbage's Calculator, and 

 then Schentzl's, and now Thompson's. The 

 English government expended for Babbage's in- 

 tended machine seventy thousand pounds, and 

 the result is an unfinished afRiir placed in the 

 keeping of King's College, London. We can 

 do without it, but who would say the same of the 

 wheelbarrow ? 



Black Walnut. — A correspondant who posses- 

 ses, as he believes, the largest Black Walnut 

 tree in the Eastern States, and which he wishes 

 to sell, had the curious reason given for non- 

 purchase, that trees near mansions had almost 

 always a ring for hitching, or a horse-shoe im- 

 beded out of sight. These would surely injure 

 the saw. It is probable that experience has 

 taught the sawyer to beware. Moral — Don't put 

 iron into trees. 



Peojyle are to live and enjoij. — Gardens afford 

 the many great enjoyment, and hence give a 

 profit ; and yet not a word is said or a professor 

 engaged to teach the young how to garden or 

 plant. If the boys must thumb a Greek lexicon 



