178 Notes and Gleanings. 



SuEL Foster, Muscatine, lo., writes us, " I have lately been on a journey to 

 Chicago, thence to Waukegan, thirty-five miles north on the lake, where I saw 

 acres, and tens of acres, of seedling evergreens, pears, &c. 



" We in the West are beginning to appreciate the evergreen-trees, and are 

 going to plant them more and more from year to year ; and we nursery-men are 

 beginning to anticipate the demand, and are starting them by the million. 



" I have been in the West a good many years ; but I never before saw so 

 extensive, grand, and beautiful a sight as our prairie-farms now present in shocks 

 and stacks of wheat and luxuriant growth of corn. The wheat-crop of Iowa is 

 very heavy, and the prospect of corn is equally good." 



Campanula carpatica. — As a summer bedding-plant, the old blue Catn- 

 panala carpatica is worthy of a much wider recognition. Being a hardy peren- 

 nial, it will do well in almost any situation ; but it should not occupy a damp 

 and low position during the winter. It commences to bloom by the beginning 

 of June, and will continue to flower through the summer. The seed-pods should 

 be gathered, as they have an unsightly appearance, and their removal tends to 

 induce the production of fresh flowers. The tufts should be lifted in early spring, 

 divided if necessary, and replanted, using some good soil about the roots. It is 

 invaluable for ribbon-borders, and, when once tried, will not be readily abandoned. 

 There is a so-called variety to be met with in some places, under the name of 

 Bowoodiana, said to be much darker in color and more branching in the habit 

 than the old variety. — Florist. 



Napoleon III. Strawberry. Messrs. Editors^ — With your permission, 

 I desire to make known my success with this comparatively unknown variety. I 

 would state, in the first place, that I am noX. pecuniarily interested in any manner 

 in the sale of any plants ; giving to my numerous friends what I raise in excess. 



I have fruited Napoleon III. for two years upon the same soil, and subjected to 

 precisely the same culture, with the following varieties, — Wilson's Albany Seed- 

 ling, Triomphe de Gand, Lady-Finger, Bardett, Mead's Seedling, French's 

 Seedling, Royal Hautboy, Dr. Nicaise, Charles Downing, Green Prolific, Golden- 

 seeded, Golden Queen, and quite a number of unassuming ones ; and, if I were 

 to be limited to a single variety, that one would be N'apoleon III. It is very 

 hardy, withstands the intense heat of the sun, stools but moderately, bears its 

 fruit upon long and strong fruit-stalks, coxcombs but little more than the Triomphe 

 (plants of second-year fruiting almost lose coxcomb propensity, being almost 

 purely conical), and yields a mass of large, delicious, white-fleshed fruit. Rain, 

 perhaps, affects the color of the fruit more than any other variety : but, taking 

 all in all, I think its superior has not yet come forth ; and it is a variety that I do 

 not see how any amateur can well afford to be without. S. B. Heiges, 



York, Penn. Secretary of Penn Fruit-Growers' Society. 



lWc are glad to give space for our correspondent's experience with the 

 Napoleon III., and regret that we have not yet fruited it. We have a good bed 

 set this spring ; and next year we hope to speak of its merits from personal 

 acquaintance. — Eds.'\ 



