1882. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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The Rose.— The passage " Mary Ann" would 

 seek from Spencer, is this : 



"Eternal God, in hia almightie power 

 To make ensample of his heavenly grace, 



In Paradize whylomedid plant this flowre; 

 Whence he it fetched out of her native place. 

 And did in stocke of earthly flesh enrace. 



That mortal man his glory should admyre 

 In g«ntle ladies' breste, and bounteous race 



Of womankind, in fayrest flowre doth spyre, 

 And beareth fruit of honor and all chast desyre" 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Odr Correspondents. "A friend in Indiana, 

 pleasantly writes : 



•' I was very much pleased with Mr. Harding's 

 * Under the Hawthorn,' which in this connec- 

 tion was doubly interesting to me. But the 

 Monthly has such a splendid corps of contribu- 

 tors that every page is replete with information 

 for all classes of readers, and I always think after 

 reading each number, what a treat you must 

 have, to be in correspondence with such enter- 

 taining and instructive gentlemen and ladies 

 ft-om all parts of the country, and most likely 

 entire strangers, personally, to you." 



Pleasant it is, and yet it has its dark side. It 

 is unfortunately the case that there are but 

 twenty-four hours in one day, and of these even 

 six or seven must go for sleep. Hence, the edit- 

 or's correspondence has to be very one-sided. 

 Fortunately the great majority are tender hearted 

 and kind, and write him dozens of letters to his 

 one in reply. They know it is easier f»r a hun- 

 dred persons to write to one than for one to 

 write to a hundred. Yet the editor often wishes 

 he could show his appreciation of his correspon- 

 dents better than he does. 



The Phylloxera in France. — By the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Charles Joly, we have received the 

 report of M. Tisseraud, on the efforts made to 

 conquer this foe to the vineyard during the year 

 ending 1880. It is very pleasant to learn from 

 M. Tisseraud that " the Phylloxera, like the vine 

 mildew, is in a fair way to be conquered by sci- 

 ence." It appears the insect can certainly be 

 destroyed, wherever the grapes are in a situation 

 to have the roots submerged during the winter 

 season, and some useful insecticides have been 

 discovered. The best preventative is the roots 

 of American species. 



Horticulture.— There seems to be a misap- 

 prehension in the minds of even intelligent per- 

 Bons, as to the use of the word "horticulture." 

 In moat cases they mean pomology. Horticul- 



ture has to do with fruit culture ; but then, so 

 has agriculture. Wliether it should be treated 

 from the agricultural or the horticultural stand- 

 point, depends on its special treatment. As a 

 general thing, however, our Professors of horti- 

 culture are really agriculturists. 



Laws Against Weeds —A correspondent from 

 Berlin, Conn., writes : 



" I have been querying of late what course our 

 law-makers will take when next they meet, in re- 

 gard to the law about carrots and Canada thistles. 

 No attention is paid to the present law by the 

 majority of the people, and it does not beget re- 

 spect for law to have plain, specific directions re- 

 main a dead letter on the statute book." 



"We do not know what more anyone could ex- 

 pect. If our correspondent will examine the 

 back numbers of the Gardener's Monthly, he 

 will find that we have always opposed these en- 

 actments as silly in the extreme. 



Diamond Tuberose. — After our letter-press 

 was struck off for last month, w^e received a brief 

 note from Nanz & Neuner not to make any note 

 of it. It was of course too late. After this the 

 advertisement came to the publisher, as the 

 reader may have noted, (page 14, Dec. No.) with- 

 drawing offers to sell it. Since then we have had 

 notes from Peter Henderson, V. H. Hallock, Son 

 & Thorpe, to the effect that a tuberose under 

 this name was offered to them, and found to be 

 in no way different from the Pearl, and suggest- 

 ing that Nanz & Neuner had been victimized. 

 Whether Nanz & Neuner had this suspicion 

 when making the advertisement above referred 

 to, we do not at this moment know. For fear 

 there may be something wrong we think it due 

 to our readers, as this number is now going to 

 press, to make this cautionary signal, as the 

 weather men would say. 



Law of Branches Overhanging Neighbors.— 

 The Philadelphia PuUic Ledger says : 



Two persons own land separated by a line 

 fence, which is common property between the 

 two parties. One has a.n apple tree on his side 

 of the fence, whose limbs overhang the fence on 

 the side of the other. Apples fall on either side. 

 The question often asked is, Do the apples that 

 fall on one's land belong to one or the other, or 

 to both ? This subject haa been several times 

 discussed, with some contradictory decisions and 

 judgments, but the rules are now pretty well es- 

 tablished . If the stem or trunk of the tree grows 

 so close to the line that parts of its actual body 

 extend into each, neither owner can cut it down 

 without the consent of the other, and the fruit is 

 to be equitably divided. If the stem of the tree 



