172 Notes and Gleanings. 



Red Dutch, vVhite Dutch, Victoria, Cherry, White Grape. 



The Long-bunched Holland was recommended for trial. 



Deciduous Trees. — Mr. Budd of Iowa presented an essay on deciduous 

 trees, confined mostly to the Ash family. One point he made was, that every 

 timber lot should be protected from fire and cattle, just as grain is. 



A number of essays were read by their titles, and referred to the Publishing 

 Committee, with power to publish or not, at its discretion. 



At the afternoon session, there was considerable debate upon stock vs. root 

 grafting, arriving at no conclusion as to which was best. 



The Committee on Evergreens reported a list for culture, which was adopted, 

 as follows : — 



For Timber Belts. — White Pine, Norway Pine, Norway Spruce, Scotch Pine, 

 Austrian Pine, and American Arborvitae. 



For High Screens. — Norway Spruce and American Arborvitae. 



For Low Screetis. — Siberian Arborvitae, American Arborvits, Hemlock, and 

 Red Cedar. 



Ornamental Trees. — All the foregoing, and the White, Black, and Red Spruce:, 

 Picca Pichta, Cembrian Pine, Pinus Mitis, Irish and Swedish Junipers. 



Shrubs. — American Yew, Tamarlx-leaved and Waukegan trailing Juniper, 

 Savin, Pinus Maghus, Pinus Pumilis, and Andromeda Floribunda. 



Dr. Walsh of Rock Island, State Entomologist, delivered a short extempore 

 address on the codling moth, canker-worm, and bark-louse, and the means of 

 exterminating these pests, — a most valuable address, and abounding in ideas of 

 great worth to every orchardist in the West. 



At the evening session, Mr. Edgar Sanders of Chicago read a most interest- 

 ing paper on floriculture. 



D. Wilmot Scott of Galena gave a description of a new method of heating 

 a window propagating-tank by means of a kerosene-lamp. The chimney of the 

 lamp is made double, of tin, and to hold water ; in other words, is the boiler. 

 The water in the chimney is connected with the water in the tank by means of 

 pipes, — one entering the chimney at the top, and the other at the bottom ; thus 

 creating a flow of water from the chimney through the tank according to certain 

 well-known principles. The advantages of the lamp as a heater are constancy, 

 steadiness, and ease with which it can be regulated by turning the wick up or 

 down. This tank enables ladies to do their own propagation of roses and flow- 

 ers from cuttings, and starting seeds. 



Mr. Greenbaum of Wisconsin said he was using large lamps in heating two 

 propagating-tanks thirty feet long. Preferred the mode to any other, as Veing 

 cheaper. 



After three days' session, late in the evening of the third day tlie society 

 adjourned. Prominent horticulturists from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and 

 Minnesota, were present ; and the meetings were of great proni \o all. The 

 Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, though in its infancy, has grown into 

 proportions of manhood, and laid out work for the future which societies of 

 greater age might do well to imitate. D. IT. S. 



