THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[October, 



a small box containing three tomatoes (Acme), I 

 which you will see are blighted by something j 

 which is beyond our understanding, and if you 

 will be kind enough to give us your opinion 

 about it, 3'ou will greatly oblige a number of the 

 readers of the Gardener's Monthly in this 

 county, as the disease is quite common here. I 

 had five varieties of tomatoes planted in rows 

 four feet apart, and, none are affected but the 

 Acme. We have had a very dry summer 

 which might affect that variety." 



[The disease here referred to has been very 

 serious in many quarters. It is not confined to 

 any one variety. So far as we have seen, it is 

 manifested just before maturity. It appears as 

 a dark, rather hard spot, and soon after decay 

 spreads over the whole fruit. In the earlier 

 stages it may be noted by a change in the tint, 



from the natural dark green to a light green. If 

 cut across at this time, the mycelium, or thread 

 of the fungus, may be readily seen through a 

 pocket lens. We have no knowledge, as yet, of 

 the genus or species the fungus belongs to. — 

 Ed. G. M.] 



Yucca Fibre for Tying Purposes. — Mr. J. B. 

 Garber, Columbia, Pa., saj's : *' Your Texas cor- 

 respondent is right aa to the value, as a tying 

 material, of the Yuccas— page 259. For many 

 years I have been using the leaves of the Yucca 

 filamentosa to tie up the young shoots of grape 

 vines, dahlias, tomatoes, and any other plants 

 requiring to be tied to stakes or trellis, and I 

 would not know of any substitute so strong and 

 convenient. The variety Yucca gloriosa is not 

 sufficiently hardy to stand our clime, but the 

 filamentosa answers every purpose." 



Forestry. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Planting Seedlings from the Forest. — Mr. 

 George May Powell makes the very good sug- 

 gestion, that sprouting acorns or nuts from the 

 forest may be planted with no more trouble than 

 the setting out of cabbage plants, and the train- 

 ing of the young to look after the growth of 

 these " forest babies," would be one of the best 

 means of inducing the incoming generation to 

 take an interest in forestry. 



Graduates in Arboriculture. — Eleven stu- 

 dents received diplomas in the School of Arbori- 

 culture at Paris, under M. Dubreuil, at the sum- 

 mer examination. 



Succession of Forest Growths. — There is a 

 prevailing impression that when a forest is cut 

 or burnt down, it is succeeded by trees of a 

 different character. This is certainly the case 

 in many instances, but the reverse could per- 

 haps bring forward as many illustrations. During 

 a recent trip through parts of the Province of 

 Quebec it was interesting to note the immense 

 number of young sugar maples coming up under 

 the shadow of aged trees. The su^ar maple is 

 a much more common tree than the writer had 



supposed. There are immense tracts covered 

 almost wholly by these trees. Under them the 

 seedlings are often so thick that one might im- 

 agine a rabbit could scarcely force its way 

 through. In all our forest experience in the 

 United States we do not remember any kind of 

 tree which produces its seedlings in such num- 

 bers, and so thickly together under the parent 

 tree as do the Canadian sugar maples. 



Roadside Forestry. — Those who think it 

 worth while to encourage street tree-planting as 

 i an incident in forestry should at least endeavor 

 ! to educate the street tree-planter what to choose. 

 The streets in Canadian towns follow the poor 

 example of many American ones, and plant 

 little else but the silver maple. There will be a 

 fall in the price of tooth-picks if this sort of tree 

 continues in the favor of planters. Montreal 

 varies the planting acceptably by using a good 

 deal of ash, and in Quebec some lindens are 

 used. 



Forestry in Canada. — The forestry conven- 

 tion which met in Montreal the day before the 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, was a remarkably 

 successful meeting. The two bodies were 



