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own roots. Gardening has always in- 

 sisted on this and we are glad to say Mr. 

 Dawson not only corroborates our ad- 

 vice in this but is making a special effort 

 to get up all of their varieties on their 

 own roots. This is done by raising them 

 from cuttings of the current year's wood 

 put in in julv. But they are hard to 

 strike. All" of' the new fine lilacs intro- 

 duced within the last ten or twelve years 

 were until a year or two ago grafted 

 plants, hence many of the original plants 

 are now perforated by borers till they are 

 almost dead, in fact many have died and 

 sprouts from the stock roots (when not 

 on privet) are growing in their place. 

 Had they been raised from cuttings every 

 sprout that came up from the root would 

 be identical with the parent, so that if 

 the borers should riddle and kill out one 

 stem plenty other stems, true to kind, 

 would sprout up for the root to perpet- 

 uate the varietv. When possible at all 

 get your lilacs on their own roots. 



Shorti.\ (tAlacifolia, although now 

 not rare in cultivation, is a plant of great 

 interest as well as being one of much 

 Ijcauty when it is in bloom. In 178S the 

 elder 'Michau.x, the noted French bot- 

 anist, collected a specimen of it in the 

 North Carolina mountains. Aside from 

 that little dried plant in Michaux's her- 

 barium in France, not a vestige of this 

 plant had ever been found or seen by any 

 one for a hundred years after; indeed 

 many looked upon it as a mythical plant. 

 In 1877, however, it was accidentally re- 

 discovered and in about the same place 

 where Michaux found it, and in quantity, 

 and since then it has been distributed far 

 and wide. Mr. Dawson has it growing 

 in flats, and he assures us that mats of it 

 grown in this waj'are one of the loveliest 

 things in the way of flowers he knows of. 

 It is hardy here, but needs the shelter and 

 partial shade of a rock work or cold frame 

 to get it in really good form. 



A Variegated Nasturtium.— In the 

 greenhouse Mr. Dawson called our atten- 

 tion to a variegated leaved form of a 

 dwarf scarlet flowered nasturtiunt that 

 was very marked. The habit of the plant 

 v.'as quite stocky and leafy, and the leaves 

 were of medium size, green and broadly 

 banded with clear white; indeed the 

 plants showed a strong resemblance to 

 the variegated leaved Madame Salleroi 

 geranium. 



Is the Harvard School of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture. It adjoins the Arbor- 

 etum. Prof. B. M. Watson is the in- 

 structor in horticulture. Practical and 

 scientific branches are taught, and there 

 are ample greenhouses and outdoor 

 grounds for the prosecution of the work, 

 and the inimitable arboretum close by 

 affords them a field for further instruc- 

 tion. Ten students are now taking the 

 horticultural course. "Whv do they take 

 this course — to what ultimate use do 

 they put it? we asked our old friend the 

 professor. "Well," he replied, "some of 

 the young men after leaving here get into 

 a landscape gardener's office and take up 

 landscape work as a profession; others 

 seek positions as .superintendents of pri- 

 vate estates; and not a few have fine 

 properties of their own and being con- 

 cerned in improving and beautifying them 

 come here and study with aptness and 

 interest." 



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