i82 Notes and Gleanings. 



Bedding Plants. — I send you the name of a few bedding plants that stood 

 the last dry summer, bedded out, giving satisfaction. Double Geranium Glory 

 de Nancy (my plants were large when planted out), Geranium General Grant, 

 scarlet, Madame Vaucher, white, Bicolor, two-colored, Nierejnbergiafnitescens (by 

 the by, I had this plant eighteen or twenty years ago, without a specific name, 

 and now it comes as a new species, by the name of Frutescens), a charming bed- 

 ding plant, all the time in bloom. Justicea carnea, Petunias in variety, Mada- 

 gascar Vincas, Bouvardia leiantha, Zinnias in variety. Phlox Drummondii in 

 variety, Lantana in variety. Double Portulacca in variety, Mesembryanthemum, 

 Alternantheras, Alyssum in variety and double, a Blue Diptercanthus (spec- 

 tabile). Double Sanvitalia procumbens. R. P. 



Queens, Long Island. 



Large Asparagus. — June 2 being prize day for asparagus, Mr. J. B. Moore 

 presented four bunches for competition, and out of curiosity one bunch, contain- 

 ing twelve stalks, was placed on the scales by the committee, and found to weigh 

 fifty-three ounces. It is hardly necessary to add that it took the first prize. There 

 were also on exhibition, from New York, one bunch of the famous Conover's 

 Colossal, sent on, no doubt, with a view to "astonish the natives." It has been 

 claimed that this asparagus will attain four times the size of any other variety ; 

 this bunch, although containing eighteen stalks, weighed only fifty-six ounces, and 

 possessed no points of superiority over that shown by Mr. Moore. We hope 

 our New York friends will try again another season. 



C. N. Brackett, in Mass. Hort. Soc. Veg. Com. Report. 



The High Bush Blueberry. — Doctor James Hall, one of our oldest and 

 most experienced fruit growers, has growing in his orchard near Davenport, what 

 he at first supposed to be the true " whortleberry ; " but those who are acquainted 

 with the fruit, pronounce it the New Etigland high bush blueberry. The tree 

 or shrub is a vigorous grower, and a prolific bearer ; propagates very readily 

 from layers ; the fruit is very pleasant, and is about half the size of the Con- 

 cord grape, and has a heavy bloom, resembling that fruit very much. 



The doctor is planting this fruit very extensively, and considers it a valuable 

 acquisition to the small fruit family. 



Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society. 



Mulberry Trees. — In China the constant plucking of mulberry leaves for 

 silkworms, causes the vigor of the tree to ebb away, when they are rooted up 

 and replaced by young trees. Hearth and Home. 



The Walter Grape. — W. H. Coleman, in the Country Gentleman, says, 

 the chief merit of the Walter grape would seem to be its keeping qualities, in 

 which it resembles its parent, the Diana. In point of flavor and tenderness of 

 pulp, it is surpassed by several of the newer kinds. 



