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• • • GARDENING. 



Nov. /5, 



erected in the college grounds. No doubt 

 this is a much better arrangement and 

 much more convenient ior the students, 

 indeed the extraordinary size of the 

 botanical class of to-day (240 students) 

 over what it was when the lectures were 

 given at the garden (when 80 to 100 

 students attended) are proof enough of 

 the desirableness of the change. Besides, 

 in the new building theie are far greater 

 facilities for laboratory work, and much 

 more room than in the old one. In this 

 Iniilding is also displayed the wonderful 



ltL.\SCIIKACOLLECTIO.\ OF GLASS FLOWERS 



And we have to thank Dr. Goodale, for 

 an invitation to view it and for his kind- 

 ness in showing and explaining it to us. 

 About a thousand species of pi nts in 

 four hundred genera, if we remember 

 aright, are so far represented in this col- 

 lection, and it is being added to at the 

 rate of a hundred plants a year. Each 

 "flower" consists of a spray of leavesand 

 blossoms, 12 to 20 inches long, lite size 

 and lifelike in color, form, and the 

 minutest scientific particular. An analy- 

 sis of the flower parts enlarged forty to 

 fifty diameters is also given, and occas- 

 sionally fruits in whole and in secti m are 

 shown'. These specimens are made by a 

 secret process, and the coloring is inde- 

 structible. The artists are L. and R. 

 Blaschka, father and son, living in Hoster- 

 witz, Germany, and Harvard University 

 has a 10-yearcontract with them by which 

 they bind themselves to assiduously prose 

 cute this wo kanddono work of any kind 

 for any other person or persons whatso- 

 ever during this period. These flowers are 

 mounted on white card board, properly 

 and plainly labelled and displayed before 

 the public'in a series of glass cases. And 

 they have created so much interest that 

 all day long while the museum is open 

 there is a crowd of people poring over 

 them. Thier beauty, life-likeness and per- 

 fection are astonishing, and their botan- 

 ical accuracy perfect both to the eye and 

 the microscope. In proof of the latter 

 Dr. Goodale took up a little blossom that 

 had been accidentally broken off the spray 

 in its transit hither from Germany and 

 asked us to examine it. It was perfect. 

 He then gave us a powerful magnifying 

 glass to aid our eyes, and we found that 

 the backs of the waxy petals were a 

 thicket of little pointed tubercles, such 

 were also peculiar to the natural flower, 

 but in neither the natural nor artificial 

 blossoms were they visible to the naked 

 eye. It is almost incredible that such 

 nicety of workmanship could be performed 

 by human fingers, but there it is. 



Grandma's Shagbark.— Apropos ofour 

 notes on Hale's paper shell hickory one of 

 our western readers writes: "Manyyears 

 ago a large tree of that variety stood 

 near my grandmother's bam, and was 

 wonderfully prolific, bearing as those nuts 

 do (only every alternate year) thin white 

 shells, large as almonds, with a finelj- 

 flavored, delicate meat. That farm passed 

 out of the family at he • death, and the 

 tree was cut down and sold to a cooper's 

 manufactory. No trees of that choice 

 variety are growing there no at, I am told. 

 This was on the farm now owned bv 

 David N. Clarke of Milford.Conn. These 

 nuts are sometimes prescribed by physi- 

 cians as a regulator and cathartic they 

 c mtain an oil much pleasanter than cas- 

 tor or olive oil. Choice Ohio hickory nuts 

 of the common variety in th s market 

 bring from $1 to $2 per bushel, $1.50 is 

 the average price. But the dalers are 

 said to mix the new nuts with those left 

 over from the previous year, and the 

 oil in the second year old nuts is rancid." 



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