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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



place. One 24 feet in circumference, on Jonathan's Creefc. AU 

 of the preceding were in Haywood and its adjacent counties, in 

 the mountains in the western part of North Carolina. They 

 grow in the rich coves and valleys, at the base of the mountains, 

 where are also large Oats and big Chestnuts. All of these Tulip 

 trees have a height of upwards of 100 feet. 



Near Rising Sun, in the southern part of Indiana, are many 

 large Tulip Trees, such as 18 feet 6 inches in circumference, 16 feet 

 6 inches in circumference, and 17 feet 9 inches in circumference. 

 The elder Michaux measured one, three and a half miles from 

 Louisville, Kentucky, which was 22 feet 6 inches in circumference 

 at 5 feet from the ground, and whose elevation he judged to be 

 from 120 to 140 feet. A few years ago I visited Dr. Short, 

 the botanist, who dwelt near the locality of this tree. He in- 

 formed me that he had seen it, but that it was blown down many 

 years ago during a thunderstorm. He assisted me in measuring 

 some large Tulip Trees in that vicinity, but we found none up- 

 wards of 6 feet in diameter. 



Dr. A. Flournoy, who lives near Shreveport, in Louisiana, 

 told me that he saw a Tulip Tree in Middle Tennessee, which 

 squared 50 inches at the butt, and measured 105 feet to the first 

 limb. From this tree a dug-out boat or canoe was made, which 

 was 105 feet long. A young gentleman informed me that one 

 was cut down near his father's, in East Tennessee, on a small 

 creek emptying into the Pigeon River, in Sevier County, which 

 was 14 feet in diameter. 



The Tulip Tree is a moderate grower, and difficult to transplant 

 from the woods, as I know very well from experience, having 

 tried several and. failed. I counted 215 annuals rings in one at 

 Camp Stoneman, near Washington, in the district of Columbia, 

 which was 2 feet 6 inches in diameter, and another which had 

 nine annual rings, and was 5 inches in diameter. They grow on 

 upland, in a soil of moderate fertility. Professor Meek, the well- 

 known geologist and paleontologist, informed me that there wa3 

 a Tulip Tree standing on the farm of G. C. Schank, near Middle- 

 town Point, in New Jersey, which was 10 feet in diameter. 



Professor "Wood in his " Class Book of Botany,' ' states that 

 he measured a Tulip Tree which had been recently felled, which 

 had a circumference of 23 feet at 4 feet from the ground, at 

 30 feet from the ground it was 5 feet in diameter, the whole 

 height 1 25 feet. 



Where the large Tulip Trees grow and grew, Pines suitable 

 for lumber are rare. The timber of the Tulip Tree is used as a 

 substitute for the Pine : hence, the large Tulip Trees of the 

 country are fast disappearing. 



The Tulip Tree is decidedly ornamental and deserving of 

 general cultivation. Its smooth curious leaves afford a fine con- 

 trast with those of other tree3. In autumn its leaves turn 

 yellow, or yellow with green spots. Occasionally some of its 

 leaves are very beautiful, being yellow with green along the rims, 

 or tinged with brown ; I saw such on the Indian Reservation, on 

 Cataraugus Creek, near Buffalo, New York, in the fall of 1865. — 

 S. B. Buckley — {American Gardener's Monthly.) 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



A meeting on the subject of the Horticultural Division op 

 the forthcoming International Exhibitions, will take place 

 on Friday, May 13th, in the Council Room of the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at South Kensington, when the attendance 

 of the exhibitors is especially requested. The Bishop of Win- 

 chester, Vice-President of the Sooiety, will take the chair at 

 noon precisely. 



The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have 



elected Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., to serve on the 

 Council, in place of the late Gen. Hon. C. Grey, and his Grace 

 the President has nominated his lordship one of the Vice- 

 Presidents of the Society for the current year. 



We are informed that Mb. William Paul, of Waltham 



Cross, will hold an exhibition of Roses in Pots, at the Crystal 

 Palace, from May 28th to June 4th. 



— — We are very pleased and not surprised to see a second 

 edition already of the Rev. S. Reynolds Hole's " Book about 

 Roses." We said on its first appearance that it is " a very 

 captivating book, containing much valuable information in a 

 style which cannot fail to please," and the public have agreed 

 with us. In this second edition the few corrections needed 

 have been made, and we again recommend it as one of the 

 most readable of instructive books. Of the new Roses the 

 author recommends Abbe Giraudier, Charles Turner, Ferdinand ! 



de Lesseps, Jules Chretien, Lord Napier, Louis Van Houtte, 

 Mademoiselle Eugenie Verdier, Perle Blanche, and Thoma3 

 Methven. 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



kitchen garden. 



A good sprinkling of the Cape Broccoli may now be sown, 

 likewise Grange's Impregnated Cauliflower and Walcheren 

 Broccoli. These will succeed the Cauliflowers sown in Fe- 

 bruary. A small first-sowing of Endive may be made. With 

 regard to Peas, Beans, Horn Carrots, Cresses, Lettuces, Radishes, 

 Spinach, &o., I may repeat my advice offered in one of my 

 former calendars — viz., to sow a little more when the preceding 

 sowing is fairly above ground. Sow a row of Gherkins if not 

 done. Those raised in heat in boxe3 should be hardened forth- 

 with, preparatory to planting out. The bed may be made by 

 digging a trench 1 foot deep by 3 feet wide in a sunny spot well 

 sheltered from the wind, such shelter being of the utmost im- 

 portance. A collection of all the weeds in the garden, the 

 trimmings of ditch sides, old Ferns, and hedges, blended with a 

 little hot manure, will do well. Keep the manure low, and fill 

 up the trench as a mound nearly 2 feet above the ground level. 

 Soil it over slightly, and raise deeper hillocks where the plants 

 are to be set. Those who cannot obtain hand-glasses may 

 stretch some sticks or hoops across, and cover-up at night with 

 old mats. Such, however, should not trust their plants out 

 until another week. 



fruit garden. 



The spring disbudding of fruit trees is a matter of consider- 

 able importance at this period, for on the thinning properly and 

 in due time, success in ripening both wood and fruit is mainly 

 dependent. This process should not be completed at one dress- 

 ing, the operation is too severe. The trees should be looked 

 over about thrice — viz., first, when the young shoots are about 

 2 inches long, a second time in about a week afterwards, and 

 finally in about another fortnight. The first dressing should 

 consist chiefly in rubbing-off foreright or ill-placed shoots, at 

 the second thinning a selection of the necessary quantity of 

 wood, and in the proper position, may be made, and at the 

 last all the gross shoots or robbers should be stopped in order 

 to equalise the sap. Gradually thin Apricots, remembering 

 that as the spring has been rather capricious, many may drop 

 in the stoning process. Use the engine where the red spider 

 is feared ; those, however, who have followed the directions 

 given as to the use of sulphur, will save themselves endless 

 trouble, and the trees much starvation, which these cold even- 

 ing ablutions are sure to produce. No wonder Peach trees 

 gum; a rich and deep soil beneath, and such sudden de- 

 pressions of temperature in the shoots, are quite sufficient of 

 themselves to produce the evil, 



FLOWER GARDEN. 



In this department the next few weeks will be devoted to 

 filling-np the flower-garden beds and clumps intended for the 

 summer and autumn display, and when a change has taken 

 place in the weather, every exertion should be made to have 

 the planting-out completed with all possible dispatch ; and pre- 

 mising the plants intended for each bed have been previously 

 determined and hardened off, no great difficulty will be met 

 with in filling-np the beds. Some allowance must, however, be 

 made in regard to the time when it is desired to have the 

 principal display of flowers ; if early, the plant3 will require 

 planting more thickly, and need not be stopped ; if not before 

 a later period in the summer, somewhat thinner, and the flower 

 buds should be pinched off as they appear, till the plants have 

 filled the beds. There are two objects mainly to be held in 

 view in arranging the planting of parterres and flower gardens ; 

 one is to produce a striking effect by employing plants only of 

 a decided colour — principally red, blue, and yellow, using white 

 for separating the different divisions. When the colours are 

 well contrasted this plan is very effective, particularly when 

 viewed from a distance, and it is well adapted for situations 

 where the beds are not numerous, and where there is a con- 

 siderable breadth of either grass or gravel to overpower. Xet a 

 repetition of the same flower, however brilliant, is seldom so 

 pleasing on a close examination as where variety both in form 

 and colour has been called into play, and where the gradations 

 into which the primary colours run have been arranged in ac- 

 cordance with the rules governing their distribution. There 

 is now no lack of colours to effect this, as nearly every class of 

 bedding-out plants presents sufficient variety for the purpose. 

 In single beds or in the mixed flower garden much may be ac- 



