6o 



Garden and Forest. 



[Number 258. 



ago in a nursery in the western states, and which is really 

 a form of P. coronaria, the northern Crab, P. angustl- 

 folia being confined to the southern states. This double- 

 flowered Apple-tree is one of the best among the recent 

 introductions of hardy plants, and it should be more often 

 seen than it is in our gardens. 



A Spanish authority on Roses, Dr. Mariano Vergara, has 

 recently published at Madrid a small book, Bibliografia de 

 la Rosa. Among the contents is a list of books dealing with 

 this plant, of periodicals, existent and deceased, which have 

 been devoted to it, of the catalogues published by Rose- 

 growers in various countries, and of the Rose-growers' asso- 

 ciations and societies in all parts of the world. The practical 

 utility of the little volume is further increased by the fact that 

 only alternate pages are printed, the others being left in blank 

 for manuscript notes. 



A late dispatch to the New York Tribiuie states that one 

 rancher in San Diego County has sown this year 160 acres to 

 mustard on dry mesa land, and though the season has been 

 so dry as to kill barley, the mustard has grown luxuriantly. It 

 yielded a ton of seed to the acre, worth $200 a ton. In the 

 same county the agent of an English syndicate is inspecting 

 sites for the establishment of a beet-sugar colony. The plan 

 is to buy 100,000 acres, divide the tract into twenty-acre colony 

 homes, and settle upon it small English farmers, who will 

 grow sugar-beets to supply the company's factory and re- 

 finery. 



A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes that in 

 Lancashire acres of glass are devoted, and devoted successfully, 

 to the growth of Cucumbers, Tomatoes and some other paying 

 things, which return well for artificial heat and for protection 

 from frost. Thus far the experiment has done admirably, the 

 prices obtained being far in excess of what is commanded by 

 their more sunnily situated competitors. Of course, the fact 

 of being within cartable distance of the Warwickshire coal- 

 fields is a great factor in economizing expense, while prox- 

 imity to markets that seem never to be surcharged also helps 

 wonderfully. 



A recent issue of the London Garden refers to the small- 

 leaved Mock Orange, Philadelphus microphyllus, as a very 

 valuable shrub, especially when in flower, as its flower-laden 

 branches bend over to touch the turf. It is also deliciously 

 fragrant. He adds : " Being an introduction from Mexico, 

 it is not hardy in the more northern districts of England." 

 This plant has proved hardy as far north as New England, 

 where it makes an admirable little shrub for the rock-garden. 

 It is a native of the mountains of southern Colorado and New 

 Mexico, whence it was introduced into cultivation several 

 years ago by the Arnold Arboretum. 



A floor space, 42x27 feet, has been reserved in the centre of 

 the Forestry Building of the Columbian Exposition, for the 

 American Museum of Natural History of this city, which will 

 exhibit a duplicate set from the Jesup Collection of North 

 American Woods. More than 400 species will be represented 

 in the collection by half-sections of trunks 14 inches long, 

 which will be arranged on shelves in two cabinets. Each 

 specimen will be accompanied by a label 12x6 inches. One- 

 half of the label will consist of a map of North America, 

 colored in green, to indicate the distribution of the species, 

 the other half containing a brief description of the tree and its 

 uses. These labels are now being prepared at the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum by an officer of the Museum. 



■ In the Fruit report of the South Haven Sub-station of .the 

 Michigan State Agricultural College, Mr. T. T. Lyon names 

 the following varieties of grapes for a family vineyard in that 

 region which will give in succession fruit of high quality. 

 The varieties are given in the order of their ripening: Early 

 Victor, Winchell, Worden, Lady, Delaware, Diamond, 

 Brighton, Ulster and Jefferson. For a family garden list of 

 red and yellow Raspberries, Hansell, Cuthbert, Golden 

 Queen and Herstine, if protected in winter, are named ; while 

 of Black Caps, Palmer, Hilborn and Earhart for an autumn 

 crop, with Shaffer and Muskingum for canning. For a family 

 plantation of Strawberries, Alpha, Beder Wood, Cumberland, 

 Parker Earle and Gandy are named. 



An instructive bulletin has just been issued by the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, on " Weeds and the Modes of Destroying 

 Them." It sets out by enumerating the various agencies by 

 which weeds are distributed, and then lays down certain 

 general principles to be observed in destroying them. These 

 latter include a study of their habits, with the different methods 



to be used for annuals, biennials and perennials ; certain di- 

 • rections in reference to the rotation of crops, hindering weeds 

 from ripening seed, and the necessity of care in purchasing 

 seeds for the farm and garden. Then follow specific directions 

 for the destruction of the most troublesome weeds, like 

 Canada Thistle, Couch Grass, Burdock, Wild Mustard, etc. 

 The little book contains good illustrations of various noxious 

 growths, and altogether it is worth careful reading, not only by 

 the farmers of Ontario, but by people interested in agriculture 

 and horticulture on this side of the boundary. 



The growing interest in trees in this country is shown by the 

 number of publications relating to them which have recently 

 appeared. The last to reach us is entitled The Woody Plants 

 of Manhatta7t itt their Winter Condition, a pamphlet of twenty 

 pages, in which Professor A. S. Hitchcock has arranged the 

 woody plants of central Kansas according to the appearance of 

 their branchlets in winter and the character of their winter 

 buds. His first division includes such plants as show more 

 than one leaf-scar at each node, with subdivisions in which 

 genera with pubescent and glabrous buds are grouped. In his 

 second division (B) are placed those genera which have one 

 leaf-scar at each node, with two subdivisions, in which are 

 placed plants armed with prickles or thorns and those which are 

 unarmed. A quotation from the description of the White 

 Maple (Acer saccharinum) will serve to show the scope and 

 value of this interesting paper. It reads : " A large tree with 

 reddish or yellowish brown glabrous twigs, V-shaped, opposite 

 leaf-scars not quite meeting, but joined by a line and three- 

 bundle scars. Terminal buds with two or three pairs, the ap- 

 pressed lateral with one or two pairs of smooth ovate-obtuse 

 scales. Common along the Blue and the Kansas River be- 

 low the mouth of the Blue." The list includes sixty-three 

 native plants and four which, common in cultivation, have es- 

 caped from gardens. 



We are indebted to Professor Trelease for advance-sheets of 

 the fourth annual report of the directors of the Missouri Botanic 

 Garden. From them it appears that the income of this mag- 

 nificently endowed establishment amounted last year to $98,- 

 830.97, and that the expenditures were $72,936.40, of which 

 nearly $17,000 were paid for labor in the garden, while only 

 about $500 were spent on the herbarium and $1,600 upon the 

 library. In the herbarium there are now 203,000 specimens, 

 including the 98,000 specimens from the George Engelman 

 Herbarium, the nucleus of the collection. The library con- 

 tains in round numbers 5,000 volumes and 6,000 pamphlets, 

 the whole being appraised at $21,150.00. Visitors to the garden 

 are increasing, 16,000 having entered its gates on the open 

 Sunday in June. The number of species of plants in the gar- 

 den has been greatly enlarged during the year by contributions 

 of seeds and living plants from other botanical establishments, 

 and more than 3,000 packages of seeds were distributed in re- 

 turn. Professor Trelease reports that Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant 

 has presented to the garden his entire botanical library, par- 

 dcularly rich in pre-Linnsean works, which the donor has been 

 collecting for many years. The course of study for garden 

 pupils, one of the most valuable features in this establishment, 

 has been shortened from six to four years, it having been 

 found, after the practical working of the system during the 

 last three years, that the course could be thus modified with- 

 out omitting any of the manual labor or any of the studies 

 originally determined on. Of the seventy-two weekly exercises, 

 each for three months, which the garden pupils receive, 

 twenty are given to the garden proper, including fruit-culture, 

 nine to surveying, drainage and landscape-gardening, six to 

 book-keeping, seven to economic entomology, five to forestry, 

 and twenty-five to botany in its direct application to gardening. 



Catalogues Received. 



Brackenridge & Co., Rosebank Nurseries, Govanstown, Md. ; 

 Wholesale and Retail Catalogue of Orchids. — Alfred BRmcEMAN, 

 37 East Nineteenth Street, New York, N. Y. ; Standard Vegetable, 

 Grass and Flower Seeds. — William Bull, 536 King's Road, Chelsea, 

 London, S. W. ; Novelties and Specialties in Flower and Vegetable 

 Seeds. — ^JOHN Burton, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. ; American 

 Belle Rose. — Iowa Seed Co., Des Moines, Iowa; Fruit and Vegeta- 

 ble Novelties, Vegetable Plants and Roots, Flower Seeds, Roses. — 

 D. Landreth & Sons, 21 and 23 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Flower, Vegetable and Grass Seeds. — William G. McTear, Prince- 

 ton, N. J. ; Descriptive List of Chrysanthemums. — Price & Rked, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; Flower, Vegetable and Grass Seeds. — Isaac F. Til- 

 linghast, La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa. ; Flower and Vegetable 

 Seeds. — ^J. H. Tryon, Willoughby, Ohio ; Price List of Grape Vines. — 

 ViCK & Hill, Rochester, N. Y. ; Flower Seeds and Plants and Small 

 Fruits. 



