1882. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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merged, as suggested by Dr. Warder, at Roches- 

 ter, and the members of each worked together- 

 for the common good. The Lieutenant Gover- 

 nor of Quebec honored the meeting with his 

 presence, and Dr. Warder, Dr. Loring and other 

 eminent gentlemen made addresses. Mr. Little, 

 the Vice President, worked enthusiastically to 

 get up a good meeting, and the great success 

 which followed must have been very gratifying 

 to him. It was the general impression among 

 the people of Montreal that this meeting would 

 do more to awake an interest in forestry in 

 Canada than anything that had occurred for 

 some time. We are surprised that there has 

 been so much lethargy hitherto ; for much as we 

 have known that the prosperity of Canada de- 

 pended a great deal on her timber interests, we 

 had no idea of the very great extent to which 

 this is true. In Quebec the writer found, by 

 inquiry amongst the business men, almost the 

 universal answer that timber was at the bottom 

 of the most important interests in that city. 

 We found that in a large number of cases where 

 timber was cut away, the land was not cleared 

 away for agricultural purposes, but was suffered 

 to grow up again into timber. But much that 

 was growing was useless stuff, and there was the 

 same objection we see everywhere, namely, that 

 an immense amount of dead rubbish abounded 

 everywhere, making excellent material for some 

 future forest fire. In fact, there is so much ig- 

 norance prevailing about the proper manage- 

 ment of forests, both as to caring for second 

 growths and the building up of absolutely new 

 ones, that especially in Canada where there is so 

 much in forestry under her leading industries, 

 that a forestry convention ought to find good 



material for a meeting there every year, as well 

 as for an exceptional one like this. 



Forestry Planting. — Many directions are 

 given to people who know little about how to 

 plant forests. The best advice is to put the mat- 

 ter in charge of some one who knows what he 

 is doing. Douglas & Sons, of Waukegan, are 

 doing good work for forestry by planting and 

 caring for the trees for several years. According 

 to the Country Gentleman : 



" Dr. Warder says that H. H. Hunnewell, of 

 Boston, has contracted with Douglas & Sons, of 

 Waukegan, the well-known nurserymen, for the 

 planting of several hundred acres with the hardy 

 Western catalpa, the soil being first broken up 

 and planted with grain for one year or more 

 before setting out the catalpas. They are placed 

 four feet apart, requiring nearly 3,000 for an 

 acre, and Mr. Douglas agrees to furnish the 

 trees, plant and tend them until old enough to 

 take care of themselves, at the rate of three 

 cents each. This would be eighty dollars an 

 acre, probably one of the most profitable in- 

 vestments, on the part of the land owner, that 

 can be made." 



Mr. Hunnewell has set an excellent example as 

 the best method of procedure in forest planting. 



Spark Arrestors. — Recently, in reply to a 

 correspondent, it was stated that no spark arrest- 

 ors on railroad engines had been successful. If 

 the sparks were arrested the draft was destroyed. 

 A recent Boston paper, referring to the para- 

 graph in the Gardener's Monthly, says that 

 there is now an invention which promises abso- 

 lute success. The Old Colony Railroad Company 

 is putting it on all their new locomotives, and 

 on all the old ones as they come to the shop. 

 The arrangement costs $250 for each appliance, 

 but it will be cheaper than forest fires. 



Natural History and Science. 



COMMUNICA riONS. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM NEW JERSEY. 



BY MR. FRANK L. BASSETT, HAMMONTON. 



As the genus Sabbatia is called annual or bi- 

 ennial in our text books, I would say that I have 

 specimens of S. lanceolata with the remains of 



last year's flower growth, this year's flowers, and 

 crowns at the base for next year's flowers ; also, 

 S. chlorides with last year's flower stem and this 

 year's flowers. 



I notice, also, that Amphicarpum Purshii is 

 called by Wood perennial, and by Gray, annual 

 or biennial. I have specimens with both kinds 

 of flowers mature, and the seed from which it 



