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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 255. 



of the wheels in the gravel is echoed from the side of the 

 woods across a hollow, so that you think there is a waterfall 

 over there. You stop again, and the echo dies away with a 

 low murmuring along the trees, and the stillness is wonderful." 

 Mr. Prime has traveled in many lands, but nowhere does he 

 find nature so rich, so varied or so beautiful as in the heart of 

 his own New England hills. 



Notes. 



Good Carnations have never been so abundant in this city as 

 they are now. 



The American Florist has a flash-light picture of a Mush- 

 room cave inside of the artificial mound under the great dome 

 of the Horticultural Building of the Columbian Exposition. 

 The bed was spawned October 4th and has been bearing for 

 some weeks Mushrooms of the finest quality and in great 

 abundance. 



In former times Live Oak was used largely in naval con- 

 struction, and our old war-ships had their frames and planking 

 principally of this wood, so that a web of historical sentiment 

 and romance has been woven about the tree. The wood is 

 still used to a considerable extent in building ships, but its 

 value has increased largely on account of the diminished 

 quantity now available. 



In 1738, Mr. Menzies, of Culdares, Scotland, brought a few 

 small Larch seedlings, which had been secured in the Tyrol, 

 and planted eleven of them at Blair-Athol. These were the 

 first Larch-trees planted in Scotland, and two of these, which 

 are still standing, are now more than one hundred feet high 

 and in good health. The trunk of the largest one girths 

 eighteen feet nine inches at three feet from the ground. 



Yellow Callas are becoming plentiful. After Richardia Elli- 

 otti appeared another one was exhibited under the name of 

 Richardia Pentlandi. Still later another one from Africa, 

 which was said to have been found in a swamp with other 

 water-plants, was sold at auction in London under the name 

 of Pride of the Congo. Richardia aurata, a name suggesting 

 another yellow flower, is now announced from France, and is 

 said to be a garden-hybrid produced by a nurseryman of Mar- 

 seilles. 



In the last number of the Ainerican Agriculturist, Mr. J. S. 

 Woodward argues against the abundant use of stable-manure 

 or nitrogenous fertilizers in vineyards, as tending to produce a 

 rapid growth of long-jointed and soft wood. A moderate 

 growth of well-ripened wood is much more certain to give 

 abundant fruit of the highest quality. Bone-dust or other phos- 

 phates, together with unleached hardwood-ashes or potash in 

 some form, make the best application to insure strong, short- 

 jointed and well-ripened canes. 



At the last ineeting of the general committee of the National 

 Chrysanthemum Society of England, Mr. Taylor presented a 

 report on the cut blooms that were staged at the Society's ex- 

 hibition last fall. Two lists were presented, showing the num- 

 ber of times each variety was exhibited. The ten flowers of 

 the Japanese section, which were exhibited the greatest num- 

 ber of times, were listed in the following order : Avalanche, 

 Viviand Morel, Sunflower, Ed. Molyneux, W. H. Lincoln, 

 Etoile de Lyon, Stanstead White, Gloire de Rocher, Florence 

 Davis, Monsieur Bernard. The first ten of the incurved sorts 

 were these : Princess of Wales, Empress of India, Lord Al- 

 cester, Jeanne d'Arc, Queen of England, Lord Wolseley, Gol- 

 den Empress, Violet Tomlin, John Lambert, Miss N, A. 

 Haggas. 



Some forms of farm-fences harbor a great many insects, and 

 the old worm-fence, made of rails, with its wide margin of 

 neglected ground, takes the lead in this respect, although 

 followed closely by the stone-wall and the hedge. In a paper 

 read V)efore the Biological Society of Washington, and repub- 

 lished in Science, Mr. F. M. Webster says that even the post 

 and board fence, although its ungrazed margins are narrower, 

 offers much protection to various kinds of insects, as is made 

 plain by the number of cocoons and eggs that can always be 

 seen where the boards and posts come in contact. Among 

 the principal species which are fostered in this way are the 

 chinch-bug, which winters under a covering of leaves or matted 

 grass, the army-worm, the larvse of the stalk-borer and grass- 

 hoppers. The fall web-worm delights to pass its adolescent 

 stage in the crevices about rail-fences and stone-walls, and 

 where in field-corners or in the angles of a worm-fence 

 Raspberry and Blackberry bushes are allowed to grow, the root- 



borer, the saw-fly, and, worst of all, the author of the gouty- 

 gall of the Raspberry (Agrillus ruficollis) will find harbor. 

 Where mulleins grow among the briers, the tarnished plant- 

 bug will pass its winters in comfort, and altogether the fence- 

 corner is a veritable nursery, where injurious insects are prop- 

 agated to the injury of neighboring gardens, orchards and 

 fields. 



Thomas Hogg, for many years one of the best-known and 

 most highly respected among the horticulturists and bot- 

 anists of the country, died suddenly of angina pectoris on the 

 30th of December last, in this city. His father, whose name was 

 also Thomas Hogg, was ardently devoted to horticulture and had 

 charge of the greenhouses belonging to William Kent, Esq., of 

 London, who had the largest private collection of plants then 

 in England. In this situation he became intimate with Mac- 

 nab, of Edinburgh ; Aiton, of Kew ; Pursh, Goldie, Don and 

 other collectors of note. Thomas Hogg, the younger, was 

 born in London on the 6th of February, 1820, and was brought 

 to this country by his father when only nine months old. In 

 the spring of 1822 Thomas Hogg, senior, took a piece of 

 ground in this city where Twenty-third Street and Broadway 

 now meet, but which was then quite out of the city, and com- 

 menced business as a nurseryman and florist, the only other 

 nurseries then about New York being those of Messrs. Pnnce, 

 of Flushing, and Floy and Wilson, in this city. In 1840 the 

 nurseries were removed to Seventy-ninth Street and the East 

 River, and here young Thomas Hogg and his brother James, 

 who had been brought up to the business, assisted their father 

 and took charge of the very flourishing establishment at his 

 death in 1855. In 1862 Thomas Hogg received an ap- 

 pointment from President Lincoln as tjnited States Mar- 

 shal, under which he went to Japan, where he remained 

 eight years. He then resigned, and after a short visit to 

 America he returned to Japan late in 1873 and remained 

 there for two years longer in the customs service of the 

 Japanese Government. His close relations with the authori- 

 ties gave him opportunities for exploring the islands which 

 other foreigners did not possess, and he collected many plants 

 and seeds of horticultural value and sent them home. We 

 hope at some future time to give a complete list of these in- 

 troductions which made Mr. Hogg eminent among the col- 

 lectors of garden-plants. The garden of his brother at the 

 foot of Eighty-fourth Street-, in this city, where most of these 

 treasures were cultivated for the first lime in America, was, 

 for many years, the most interesting spot in the United States 

 to the lovers of Japanese plants. Many of the very best trees,' 

 shrubs and herbaceous plants which have come to us from 

 Japanese gardens, were thus brought to America before they 

 were sent to Europe, and not a few of them are now among the 

 most familiar inhabitants of our gardens. In 1875, Mr. Hogg 

 left Japan the second time, and afterward traveled through 

 China, Ceylon, South America and Central America. Later in 

 his life he went to California, and to Europe several fimes. 

 His last journey to Europe was made two years ago, and while 

 in Paris during an exceptionally severe winter he was attacked 

 by the influenza, and never fairly recovered from its effects. 



During the latter years of his life Mr. Hogg was engaged in 

 no business and devoted his leisure to his favorite studies. 

 His investigations took a wide range, and he was recognized 

 as an authority in many branches of horticultural science and 

 practice. In person Mr. Hogg was tall and spare, but well- 

 knit and muscular, with a strong but refined face and great 

 dignity and gravity of manner. He was almost shrinkingly 

 modest, but in congenial company was one of the most agree- 

 able of companions. He was never married, but was singu- 

 larly devoted to his sister and brother and the members of 

 their famihes. His integrity was above any suspicion ; and 

 the purity, sincerity and unselfishness of his life commanded 

 the respect and won the affection of every one with whom he 

 came in contact. 



Cataloo^ues Received. 



D. S. Grimes, Denver, Col.; Wholesale Price List of Seeds of Rocky 

 Mountain Conifers. — Pitcher & Manda, United States Nurseries, Short 

 Hills, N. J.; Beautifully Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of New 

 and Rare Seeds, Bulbs and Plants.— Sherwood Hall Nursery Co., 

 427-429 Sansome Street, San Francisco, Cal. ; Illustrated Catalogue of 

 Selepted Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Bulbs, Roses, Decorative 

 Plants, Fruit and Ornamental Trees.— J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John 

 Street, New York ; New Annual Descriptive Catalogue of Flower, 

 Vegetable and Tree Seeds. — B. M. Watson, Plymouth, Mass.; Whole- 

 sale Price List of Bulbs, Hardy Decorative Flowering Shrubs, Orna- 

 mental and Fruit Trees, etc. 



