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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 450. 



three weeks past. William Scott and Daybreak are the pink- 

 varieties now in season, the dependence for crimson and dark- 

 red being upon new seedlings. Lizzie McGowan is the only 

 white sort being cut in these houses, and the variegated Helen 

 Keller and Minnie Cook complete the list. 



The Rural New Yorker praises the Japanese Ipomceas 

 which have been sold for a few years past under the name 

 Emperor Morning Glories, for the size and brilliancy of their 

 flowers with their sharp color-contrasts of fiery red, blue-black, 

 indigo, maroon, bronze and white. We have observed these 

 vines covering a heap of old stumps and they proved very 

 effective. It is to be hoped that they will not be as difficult 

 weeds to get rid of as the old-fashioned Morning Glory, which 

 itself, by the way, is one of the most beautiful of flowers. 



The Beach Plum, Primus maritima, is a desirable shrub or 

 small tree at all times, and it can be specially commended at 

 this season for the beauty of its abundant fruit. This fruit, 

 though, as a rule, somewhat astringent, varies greatly in its 

 edible quality, and we have lately received samples of it which 

 had just enough of the Wild Cherry flavor to make it piquant. 

 Some Beach plums sent to this office by Mr. Jackson Dawson, 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, were dark purple, with a distinct 

 bloom. Others received earlier were red, others still a clear 

 amber-color, and all were quite as palatable as many cultivated 

 fruits. 



A correspondent of The Country Gentleman writes in an 

 interesting way of a visit to a large farm in England where 

 medicinal and aromatic herbs are cultivated. Henbane, Bel- 

 ladonna, Poppies, medicinal Rhubarb, and Aconite, are grown 

 with Marigold for its tincture of calendula, Lavender for its 

 perfume, Pansies for the oil of violets, and many more. The 

 farm has its own laboratory for chemical work, but the writer 

 thinks that if adjoining farms would unite to raise some of 

 these herbs, a cooperative laboratory for getting the product into 

 marketable form could be run in the same way as creameries 

 now are. 



The abundant clusters of lilac-pink fruit which are now seen 

 on Callicarpa purpurea makes this a most interesting shrub. 

 Since the flowers and fruit are borne from the axils of its oppo- 

 site leaves, these clusters of twenty or thirty little berries are 

 arranged regularly in pairs along the slender branches for a 

 distance of two or three feet, and they are so numerous that 

 the branches arch in a graceful way under their weight. The 

 shrub is only two or three feet high and the flowers are incon- 

 spicuous. An American species, C. Americana, bears still 

 more beautiful fruit, but it is not reliably hardy north of 

 Washington. 



The Gardeners' Magazine gives illustrations of two new 

 single PaBony-flowers, one of which, Mikado, is a beautiful 

 shade of reddish rose, with a soft rose-buff centre, while the 

 other, named Margaret Atwood, is pure white, with a clear 

 yellow centre. The flowers are said to have stouter and more 

 substantial petals than those of most single Pseonies, so that 

 they will stand well in water when cut. The varieties were 

 introduced from Japan, and the Messrs. Wallace, of Colches- 

 ter, who raised them, received an award of merit from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. We have always commended 

 single Pasonies for their beauty both on the plant and when 

 cut, and we cannot have too many good varieties. 



Of the seventy odd thousand trees in the streets of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, fully five thousand were uprooted during the 

 crate on Tuesday evening of last week, and of those remaining 

 a very large proportion were very seriously injured. In the 

 parks the damage done to the trees was equally severe, 

 especially so among the fine specimens in the grounds 

 of the Executive Mansion and in the Smithsonian grounds. 

 It was impossible to get near the White House with a 

 vehicle of any description on Wednesday morning, owing 

 to the fallen trees. The Silver Maples are the worst suf- 

 ferers, scarcely an uninjured tree of this species being left ; 

 the Ginkgoes, the Honey Locusts and the Elms stood the gale 

 well. In the parks some lofty specimens of Libocedrus decur- 

 rens snapped off like pipe-stems, and on examination the wood 

 was found to be perfectly sound. The greenhouse structures 

 in the outskirts of the city were badly shattered, one firm suf- 

 fering to the extent of ten thousand dollars. 



There are many Orchids which are known only from descrip- 

 tions published long ago, and very imperfect ones at that, so 

 that it is not always easy to identify them. Stanhopea Warsce- 

 wicziana was originally discovered on Mount Chiriqui, in 

 Central America, and flowered in Berlin in 1852, and was soon 



after described under its present name. A figure was after- 

 ward published by Reichenbach, and then the plant appears to 

 have been lost sight of. We learn from the Orchid Review 

 that this Stanhopea has just flowered in the collection of J. B. 

 Hodgson, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne, from a plant received 

 from Costa Rica two or three years ago, and the reappearance 

 of this long-lost species is a matter of some interest. Reich- 

 enbach's figure shows a flower of bright yellow, with the excep- 

 tion of the column, while that of Mr. Hodgson's plant is much 

 lighter, though identical in structure, from which it appears 

 that the species may be variable in this respect, although the 

 figures in Reichenbach's work are often so badly colored that 

 one cannot place too much reliance on them. The flowers 

 have a strong aromatic perfume. 



Marquis de Montmort is the Chrysanthemum most fre- 

 quently seen in the florists' windows now, a comparatively 

 new French flower, but not grown for cutting until last sea- 

 son, when it was first offered in this city on September 30th. 

 The main supplies of early Chrysanthemums have been com- 

 ing from Dailledouze Brothers, in Flatbush. These growers 

 sent the earliest flowers of Marquis de Montmort this year on 

 September 22d. They are a pleasing pink, not unlike Viviand 

 Morel, and considered the best early Chrysanthemum of this 

 color yet grown. The flowers are Japanese in type, of good 

 size, and the stem and foliage are excellent. The plants are 

 tall-growing, reaching five feet in height. A few blooms of the 

 same variety came from P. H. Scudder, Glenhead, Long 

 Island, on September 21st, a day earlier than the larger cutting 

 made by Messrs. Dailledouze. The earliest Chrysanthemums 

 of all in trade in this city were flowers of the small pink variety, 

 Madame Marie Masse, which came from Messrs. Garrett & 

 Rose, of Jersey City, on September 17th ; these were followed 

 on the succeeding day by flowers of Madame Gastellier, one 

 of De Laux's introductions, a variety not unlike Madame Fer- 

 dinand Bergmann, and the earliest white Chrysanthemum. 

 Lady Fitz Wigram, an English variety first seen here last sea- 

 son, has been in market since September 22d. The flowers 

 are a clear white and of medium size. The plants are very 

 dwarf growers and have the fault of setting buds too early. 

 Varieties ready for cutting during the early part of the current 

 week are the clear white Chinese Madame Ferdinand Berg- 

 mann, the substance of its petals giving it good keeping 

 quality ; the Japanese Merry Monarch, also white, and with 

 larger flowers, and the well-known yellow, Marion Henderson. 

 Yellow Queen, J. E. Lager and Harry L. Sunderbruch, all 

 good yellow varieties, will be in flower by the close of this 

 week. The season for early Chrysanthemums is nearly a fort- 

 night in advance of last year. 



The novelty in the fruit stores this week are the so-called 

 winter cantaloupes, which can be had for thirty cents each. The 

 variety on sale comes from Spain, and owing to its long-keep- 

 ing qualities the melons endure the sea voyage very well and 

 are offered in fair condition. They are green, egg-shaped, 

 with a hard shell, of good flavor, and have the distinct odor of 

 muskmelons. There are a number of varieties, some with 

 salmon-colored flesh and some with green flesh and a solid 

 interior like a cucumber. Those in the market now belong to 

 the class known as White Antibes with a soft interior and loose 

 seeds. English filberts, in their hulls, are already seen in the 

 fruit stores. Gravenstein, King, Pound Sweet, Snow and Fall 

 Pippin are rated highest of the apples now in market, though 

 the abundant crop makes low prices for even the best of this 

 fruit. Nearly 50,000 barrels were sent to wholesale dealers in 

 this city during last week, and more than 200,000 barrels have 

 been handled in the local trade since the first of September, 

 against less than 83,000 barrels in the corresponding penodof last 

 year. California fruits are still coming east in large quantities, 

 the heaviest shipments of the season to this city having been 

 received during the week ending September 26th, when ninety- 

 five car-loads came, and as many as fifty-seven car-loads were 

 sold here during last week. Grapes and plums comprise the 

 greater part of these receipts. Selected Seckel and Bartlett 

 pears, from cold storage, command good prices; other pears 

 now offered are Beurre Bosc, Sheldon, Beurre d'Anjou, 

 Clairgeau, Louise Bonne, Cornice, D'Alencon, Winter Nelis 

 and Duchess. As many as 22,050 barrels of Jamaica oranges 

 have already been sent to this city this season, and 1,000 boxes 

 of this fruit were last week forwarded to England on special 

 orders. A single cargo which arrived last week contained 

 601,000 cocoanuts. A further idea of the immense quantities 

 of staple fruits consigned to this market may be had from the 

 importations of bananas during September, which amounted 

 to 376,875 bunches, and 1,750,000 boxes of lemons were im- 

 ported during the past nine months. 



