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bloom. When such shrubs as the 

 above can be grown without any extra 

 care, it is not a matter of surprise that 

 my host had grounds where one could 

 spend days, wandering along the serpen- 

 tine paths, observing on every side var- 

 ieties of shrub and flower calculated 

 to please the eye and charm the mind, 



surrounded by an atmosphere filled 

 with the perfume of innumerable sum- 

 mer flowers. Certainly there are great 

 facilities for the cultivation of gardens 

 in the vicinity of Douglas on the Isle 

 of Man, and the people have not been 

 careless in taking advantage of the op- 

 portunities nature has given them. 



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Opnamental Birehes. 



Mr. Russell, in a paper before the 

 Mass. Hort. Soc , recommended these 

 trees as particularly desirable, whether 

 for planting in masses for timber, or 

 simply on open grounds. The paper 

 white birch is one of the best for tree 

 grouping, and has been fitly termed 

 " The Lady of the Forest." In a 

 thicket of other trees " it shoots up its 

 stately white stem without a limb until 

 it overtops its companions of other 

 kinds with its thick-leaved top, one of 

 the neatest, most graceful trees of the 

 New England woods." 



Fopestpy in Kansas. 



Mr. R. Douglas states that in Kan- 

 sas 147,340 acres has been planted 

 with forest trees, as follows : — 11,600 

 of Black Walnut ; 12,486 of Maples; 

 2,637 of Honey Locust ; 55.553 of Cot- 

 ton-wood; and 65,771 of other varieties. 



Good Hardy Border Plants. 



M. H. Lester, in The Gardener's 

 Monthly, recommends the following 

 trees as having been particularly attrac 

 tive at the Botanic Gardens, at Wash- 

 ington, D.C, viz. : 



(1) Anemone Japonica, a beautiful 

 herbaceous plant, with tall branching 

 flower stems two or three feet high, 

 which commences to bloom when spring 

 flowers are done, and lasts till frost. 



(2) Helianthus multiflorus plenus, 

 or double perennial Sunflower, which 

 grows about four feet high, and com- 

 mences to bloom about the last of July 

 in that latitude ; and 



(3) Platycodoyi grandijlora, one of the 

 Bell Worts, which is very beautiful. 

 It grows about two feet high, and is 

 covered with lovely blue flowers, until 

 cut down by frost. 



The Folding- Sawing Machine. 



It is scarcely in accordance with the 

 object of this journal to encourage the 

 destruction of forest trees, but rather 

 to preserve them. Yet the builder 

 must have lumber, and the housekeep- 

 er her tire- wood, for these supplies the 

 best tools are the most economical. 

 Our engraving represents a machine 

 which is so constructed that it can be 

 worked by one man, and as it only 

 weighs 41 lbs., it can be carried to the 

 woods and back with ease. It folds up 

 as completely as a pocket knife, and 

 can be quickly adjusted for either saw- 

 ing down a tree, or for cutting up logs 

 for either lumber or tire-wood. It is 

 claimed that from five to six cords of 

 wood per day can be cut with this 

 machine, but having never given the 

 instrument a trial, we cannot give any 

 personal testimony concerning it. 



