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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 449. 



acre was always six to eight times that of toungya Teak plan- 

 tations made by the Karens in the forests. 



Bonn, Germany. 



Dietrich Brand is. 



Notes. 



The green fruits of Nasturtiums (Tropasolum), valued for 

 pickling, now cost fifty cents a quart in our markets. 



One of the most interesting exhibits at the Florists' Conven- 

 tion in Cleveland was a collection of hardy Phloxes shown by 

 The Storrs Harrison Company, of Painesville, Ohio. During 

 the past three or four years the improvement in these plants 

 has been as great as in any other class of perennials, and now 

 in variety, in the length of time through which they bloom, and in 

 their varied and delicate beauty they leave very little to be desired. 



The name of the donor of the new range of greenhouses 

 recently completed for the Department of Botany of Smith 

 College has up to the present not been announced. Last week, 

 however, a bronze tablet placed at the entrance of the Palm- 

 house bears this inscription : "The Lyman Plant House. A 

 Memorial Tribute to Anne Jean Lyman, by her Son, Edward 

 Hutchinson Robbins Lyman." It is a noble gift appropriately 

 dedicated to a useful service. 



A correspondent of The Rural New I 'orker writes that the 

 ordinary annual garden Coreopsis, or, as seedsmen call it, 

 Calliopsis, makes an admirable window plant. In the early 

 autumn seedlings come up abundantly where these plants are 

 grown, and some thrifty ones are taken up, potted and kept in 

 the ordinary way and brought in before frost. Under good con- 

 ditions these plants will begin to flower in a sunny window 

 about the middle of January and continue for many weeks. 



At the first annual exhibition of the American Dahlia Society 

 in Philadelphia last week there were more than five hundred 

 vases on exhibition, many of them containing twenty-five 

 blooms of the kind. Mr. W. P. Peacock, of Atco, New Jersey, 

 the well-known specialist, received twelve first prizes ; Mr. 

 W. H. Maule received first prize for the best novelty, a .pink 

 flower called La France ; and other large collections were 

 shown by Mr. A. Blanc, W. Atlee Burpee and H. G. Faust and 

 Cornell University, which sent a collection of 225 varieties. 



In some notes on growing Radishes under glass in American 

 Gardening, Professor B. T. Galloway states that in order to 

 have all the roots attain marketable size at the same time it is 

 essential to use only the larger seed. For this purpose the 

 ordinary commercial seed is screened through a sieve made 

 of a sheet of brass perforated with holes 8-iooths of an 

 inch in diameter and placed about one-sixteenth of an inch 

 apart. Less than two-thirds of the seed will remain in the 

 sieve, but ninety percent, of these will germinate and the entire 

 crop will attain edible size at about the same time. 



In connection with the horticultural display of the exhibition 

 of the American Institute, which opened on Monday in Madi- 

 son Square Garden, the Dahlia Society will hold a conference 

 on October 6th, when Rev. C. W. Bolton and Lawrence K. 

 Peacock, secretary of the society, will make addresses ; on 

 October 9th successful cultivators will give their experience in 

 the growing of fruits ; vacant-lot farming will be discussed 

 by Mr. Kelgaard on the 13th, and there will be exhibits by 

 the growers ; on the 16th the subject of addresses will 

 be the relation of woman to floriculture. These meetings will 

 all be held in the reception room which adjoins Concert Hall, 

 where the floral exhibition will be located. 



The first chestnuts to reach this city in any considerable 

 quantity came from the Alleghany Mountains, near Oak- 

 land, Maryland, a week ago, and sold at wholesale for 

 $10.00 a bushel. Larger and better-colored chestnuts have 

 since been received from the Wallkill Valley in this state, the 

 first lots commanding $9.50, and later shipments $8.00 a 

 bushel. The crop in West Virginia and Tennessee is said to 

 be very heavy, and, indeed, Chestnut-trees are generally 

 loaded with nuts, so that these high prices will not be main- 

 tained. The first hickory-nuts are now on their way to the 

 wholesale merchants, and low prices are anticipated from the 

 start on account of reports of a large supply. In some sections, 

 however, as in northern New Jersey, for example, we have 

 observed that the Hickories are bearing very few nuts. 



As the days become cooler many plants in the herbaceous 

 border which flower in early spring have the good habit of 

 blooming through another period. Among the most note- 

 worthy of these are the Globe-flowers, or Trollius, both T. 

 Asiaticus and T. Europeus, which are now showing their beau- 

 tiful orange and yellow flowers almost as profusely as they 



did in early spring. The sweet-scented and delicate Daphne 

 Cneorum, a prostrate little shrub which does not like the hot 

 weather of our summers, blooms a second time as soon as the 

 nights become cool and the days short. Some of the Iceland 

 and Alpine Poppies do the same thing, and they are beautiful 

 at whatever season they are seen. These plants, like the 

 hardy autumn flowers, wiil not turn black at the first frost, but 

 will keep on blooming long after the Coleus, Alternanthera 

 and other so-called bedding plants are entirely killed. 



An unusual offering on last Saturday, for this time of year, 

 was strawberries, said to be second-crop fruit, from southern 

 New Jersey. These sold for 51.25 a quart. Huckleberries 

 have been in continuous supply since the middle of May, 

 when the first came from North Carolina ; those now coming 

 from the mountains of New York cost fifteen cents a quart. 

 Large perfectly grown quinces may be had for J1.00 a half- 

 bushel. Oranges, from Jamaica, are of fair quality for early 

 fruit, and their tartness is quite acceptable after the rather 

 insipid Mediterranean summer oranges. The main depen- 

 dence for this fruit will be upon Jamaica during the next two 

 months, since but little of the limited Florida crop will leave 

 that state, and the early shipments from California are not due 

 here before the mid lie of December. European hot-house 

 grapes are now coming to this country from large commercial 

 graperies near Liverpool, and are arriving in exceptionally 

 good order. 



A case at law of importance to buyers and sellers of Orchids 

 was decided in August in a court of the city of London. The 

 plaintiff bought at the auction sale of a well-known collector 

 several choice and valuable species and varieties, some of 

 which proved untrue to name and of little value, and not feel- 

 ing disposed to stand by such a bargain, he made application 

 that the high prices paid should be refunded. As the request 

 was refused the plaintiff brought action to recover his rights. 

 Two well-known experts testified that they had seen the plants 

 in flower, and they were not true, and another bore witness 

 that no variety of Orchid would alter its character by changing 

 into another variety, and on this testimony the plaintiff re- 

 ceived a verdict with costs. The Orchids in question were 

 the white form of Cattleya Skinneri, which proved to be only 

 the ordinary colored form ; Odontoglossum x elegans, which 

 turned out a pure form of O. Hallii, and Dendrobium x splen- 

 didissimum grandiflorum, said to be D. x Leechianum. 



A correspondent of The Country Gentleman, after stating the 

 well-known fact that farm products now sell for little more than 

 the labor they cost, and that, therefore, the farmer cannot 

 afford to pay another profit on anything that can be produced 

 at home, inquires why so much that is bought at the village 

 store is found on the farmer's table and so little of what he 

 might raise on his own acres. Why, for example, should not 

 ripe strawberries always be had in abundance in their season 

 when they can be grown as cheaply as potatoes, bushel for 

 bushel ; and why should not raspberries be found with black- 

 berries, grapes and all the choicer vegetables which are whole- 

 some, and certainly cheaper than the canned goods which he 

 buys so freely ? The true reply is not that farmers are indolent 

 and not that they lack the space, but that they do not know 

 how to grow fruit and fine vegetables. If they would look 

 upon the garden less in the light of a luxury, and esteem it as 

 the most profitable portion of their farm, and then give as 

 much thought and attention to it as they do to what seems 

 larger affairs, there might be less complaintsof hard times and 

 ill health. 



The demand for American hardwoods in Europe is grow- 

 ing, and oak leads the foreign shipments, although tulip pop- 

 lar, ash, gum and black walnut, whenever a good quality can 

 be secured, are in some demand. European consumers like 

 the quality of American oak, and since it is known to be plenti- 

 ful here it will probably be in increasing demand. Cottonwood 

 has been shipped to Germany in considerable quantities, where 

 cheap wood is required for furniture and other uses. Much 

 of this lumber is forwarded from New Orleans, and since a 

 great part of the oak, ash, poplar, cottonwood and other tim- 

 bers demanded by the foreign market is in the southern states, 

 it is not improbable that lumber for foreign markets will be 

 largely shipped in future from the Gulf ports. In speaking of 

 this matter The North-western Lumberman says that the Euro- 

 pean market requires lumber cut of exact thickness, and of 

 accurate length, trimmed so as to have the butts square and 

 true. Space for piling in the yards of the Old World is 

 an object, so that random, uneven lengths are objectionable, 

 and since the foreign buyer insists that he shall have just what 

 he bargains for, quality should be strictly attended to. 



