Octotcr 15, 1874. ] 



JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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attributed solely to the elimination of all watery jiiices by the 

 warmth of an American anmmer. 



Tills mention of standards reminds us that the Forsythia 

 grown in this form has, when in flower, an extremely interest- 

 ing effect, especially if planted amidst shrubs of an evergreen 

 character. When grown as a bu9h, an exposed situation 

 should bo avoided ; a warm corner, or a south exposition, 

 sheltered by tall evergreens, will protect the flowers from the 

 cutting March winds, and preserve them in beauty for a longer 

 period. 



The Forsythia blooms whilst comparatively small. It was 

 introduced, as we have already stated, from China in 1815 by 

 Mr. Fortune, who discovered it in company with the beautiful 

 Weigela rosea in the garden of a mandarin near Tiughae, and 

 subsequently growing wild in the province of Ghekiang. 



One other species is in cultivation, F. suspensa, from Japan, 

 but is less frequently met with in gardens than the foregoing, 

 though of earUer introduction. It was on this species that 

 the gonus was first founded, in honour of Wilham Forsyth, 

 a horticulturist of some note, formerly gardener at Kensington 

 Palace. — (IK. Tliompson's EmjUsli Flower Garden, Eeeiscd hy 

 the Author.) 



THE LABOUR OF FRUIT CULTURE. 



Speakiso of planting fruit, the remirk is often made that 

 " it is no use to set out trees ; they do no good any more in 

 these parts ;" and yet it is beyond dispute that there is no 

 country on the face of the globe that in this respect can beat 

 this one. The fact is, we have been spoiled by the very abun- 

 dance of our riches. Time once was when all one had to do 

 was to stick in a tree and leave the rest to nature. Immense 

 crops resulted from this simple plan without any effort on the 

 part of the fruit-grower. Nowhere else could this be done. 

 IJy the sweat of one's brow is he to labour, not only lor his 

 daily bread, but for his fruit also. No one could expect this 

 Eden-like dispensation to last. Bugs and blight are sure to 

 find out the fruit trees, and one his to battle with them in 

 order to succeed in America as well as elsewhere. 



It is very i-emarkable that those in daily communication with 

 the soil, as fruit-growers and gardeners, should expect fruit 

 trees to grow without some care. Look at the labour required 

 to grow the commonest farm crops. Besides the horse labour, 

 and the wear and tear of machinery, and the cost of manure, 

 one has to walk somo eighteen miles after the plough in order 

 to get an acre of Wheat-land ready for sowing ; and yet with 

 all this hard work and heavy expense, the profit is often not 

 more than lo dols. an acre. It is so of all farm and garden 

 cropj. Everyone knows that the labour is enormous — hoeing, 

 digging, working away for ever. 



Fruit culture, to be successful, requires some expense and 

 some labour ; but it requires not nearly as much labour as 

 many other kinds of things do ; and in proportion to the 

 labour, the profits are generally greater. 



It is one of the lessons our folks have to learn, that the day 

 when Nature took care of our fruits for us, and gave us full 

 crops without trouble or care, is gone by. Fruit-growing takes 

 its stand now with all other things. It will yield good returns 

 with ordinary care. He who does not yet know this, and cal- 

 culates to do as his fathers did, had better leave fruit trees 

 alone. — T. Meehan (in i'orneijs' Weekly Press). 



NEW BOOK. 



Notice siir qiidques Especes ct Varietes da Lis, dc. Par 

 J. H. Keelicie. 



The beautiful and varied tribe of Lily has of late come so 

 much into favour, that any work on the subject must have an 

 interest to many horticulturists. The little brochure named 

 above can hardly be designated as a work, but is simply an 

 example of the extreme care with which many of the foreign 

 nurserymen enter into their cultures, a care which is emulated 

 by many in our own country. 



Messrs. Krelage & Son of Haarlem are well known for the 

 extent of their bulb cultures ; and the little book, of which this 

 is the first part, is intended to give a detailed scientific and 

 popular account of the many varieties of Lilies cultivated by 

 them. It contains a well-drawn and coloured plate of Lilium 

 Wittei and several characteristic woodcuts, and is mainly 

 occupied with descriptions of Lilium Thunbergianum and its 

 varieties, Lilium Humboldtii, Lilium tigrinum, and Lilium 

 Wittei. With regard to this latter, it seems very doubtful 



whether it is not a white form of auratum, somewhat more 

 prized but not really more different than many of the varieties 

 one sees in very large collections of imported bulbs. Indeed 

 the whole question of some of these Japan Lilies is involved 

 in doubt, some believing that auratum itself is but a variety, 

 while Krameri bears sufficient analogy to it to make it doubtful 

 as to its being really a distinct species. 



Lilium Wittei, we learn, was flowered first in the gardens of 

 M. Van Leuwen at Rotterdam in 181)7 ; it was offered to an 

 English house afterwards, by whom, I daresay, it was believed 

 to be only an auratum, and ultimately bought by Messrs. 

 Krelage, who say it is so scarce that it will be some time before 

 it can bo offered for sale. It is not, however, because tho 

 " Grapes are sour " that I venture to question if people will 

 care very much for that. 



An interesting and chatty chapter on L. Thunbergianum 

 flore-pleno occupies the first place. We are given curious 

 heraldic and poetic notes on the tribe, while a very exhaustive 

 botanic treatise exhibits much care and research. In it wo 

 are told that Paruy sings of it — 



" Tho Lily, moro noble aud moro brilliaat still, 

 It3 form majestic to heaven upreara. 

 King of the ;,'ardens, this favourite of Flora 

 Charms us at once by its perfume and beauty." 



While Da Boisjolin says — 



" Noble child of the sun, thou Lily majestic I 

 Towards thy parent orb, which dazzles thee not. 

 Lift with true pride thy sovereign form : 

 Thou kins of the flowers, the Rose is thy queen ! " 



But we are not only treated to poetry, but given good, sound, 

 solid, practical teaching, aud the whole brochure may be re- 

 garded as a fitting adjunct to the carefully prepared little 

 treatise of Messrs. Teutschel & Co., of Colchester. To one 

 who, like myself, has been long an admirer of these lovely 

 tribes — who can look on the time when I first bloomed tho 

 lancifolium section, when tho price was two guineas a-bulb — 

 who was a witness of the sensation occasioned by the appear- 

 auoe of Lilium auratum — it is a matter of hearty congratulation 

 to see it coming once moro to the front, aud to admire the 

 beautiful additions being so constantly made to our gardens 

 and the increase to our stores of information. — D., Deal. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



Messes. Veitcii & Sons have issued a coloured plate repre- 

 senting their new Tea Rise Duchess of EDiNBUKon, which is 

 an excellent representation of the original, and convoys a good 

 idea of what that charming Rose is like. 



In some portions of the country kust on Blackbehkies 



is becoming quite common. It arises, perhaps, from want of 

 a full supply of food in connection with the liygrometric con- 

 dition of the atmosphere, and the only remedy that suggests 

 itself is good culture, thinning-out the plants, aud mulching 

 well with leaf mould aud manure, or muck and manure, or 

 manure alone. A sure remedy" is the removal and burning of 

 the diseased bushes. — {Canada Farmer.) 



There is a Currant bush at Rochester, New Hamp- 



shire.which, though growing among the branches of an Elm 

 20 feet from the ground, has borne well for more than a dozen 

 years. 



James Dougall, of Amherstburgh, sent specimens of 



a NEW SEEDLING Cherry to the meeting of the State Pomolo- 

 gical Society at Adrian, Michigan, which will be likely to prove 

 valuable if its good qualities are maintained in other localities. 

 The fruit is black, and the specimens averaged by measure- 

 ment three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and were of good 

 quality. The best ones had been previously picked, aud those 

 sent were hardly full-sized. Mr. Dougall stated that this new 

 sort ripened uniformly a week earlier than E arly Purple Gean 

 on trees standing side by side. — (Canada Farmer.) 



There were 20,.500 packages of fruit shipped from 



Benton Harbour, Michigan, on September 2nd. 



Flavoor of Califoenian Aiiles. — The Pacific linral Press, 

 in a recent article, says : — But with regard to Californian Apples 

 there can, we think, be but one opinion — namely, that they 

 are, in a remarkable degree, lacking in strength and variety of 

 flavour. Apple consumers here universally acknowledge it, and 

 so little is expected from Californian Apples in this respect that 

 the growers give little consideration to the question of flavour ; 



