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Garden and Forest. 



[February 19, 1890 



practical plans for the preservation and rational manage- 

 ment of the Adirondack forests. It will devote itself systema- 

 tically to the diffusion of knowledge and the propagation of 

 sound ideas regarding the functions and value of this moun- 

 tain forest region as the source of the great water-ways of 

 the state, as a sanitarium, as a source of timber supply and as 

 a preserve for fish and game. The Association invites the 

 largest possible membership. The fee is one dollar per 

 annum, which should be sent to the Treasurer, whose address 

 is given above. 



Notes. 



Orange-growers in southern California have sold their Wash 

 ington Navel Oranges on the tree for $2.75 a box. 



Snowdrops were in full bloom in the open ground in gar- 

 dens near Boston last week, fully five or six weeks earlier 

 than in ordinary seasons. 



The December number of the Journal of the Japanese 

 Horticultural Society contains a colored figure of a remarkable 

 green-flowered Chrysanthemum of the Japanese type. 



Professor J. T. Rothrock and Professor W. T. Wilson, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, have becme associate editors of 

 Forest Leaves, the organ of the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



The best Baldwin apples from Maine and Canada sold at 

 $6.25 a barrel wholesale in Liverpool the first week in Feb- 

 ruary ; Russets ranged from $4 to $5.50, and Greenings from 

 $4.50 to $5. 



High praise is given in German journals to the Messrs. Hen- 

 derson's Tuberose Excelsior Pearl, introduced some ten years 

 ago, and to Albino, which they have recently put on the market, 

 but which was first exhibited by Messrs. Mitchell at Chicago 

 in 1887. 



We recently spoke of the probability that the Okra-plant 

 would soon be cultivated for its fibre. It is not generally 

 known that in Texas it is already used for making lariats. In 

 France it is used for making paper, and in India it is used to 

 adulterate jute. 



The House of Representatives of the General Court of Mas- 

 sachusetts passed a resolution on the 5th of February ordering 

 the State Board of Agriculture to inquire into the condition of 

 the forests in the state, the need and method of their protec- 

 tion for sanitary and other reasons, and the encouragement of 

 tree-planting, and report thereon to the next General Court. 



A correspondent from Media, Pennsylvania, sends the 

 names of twenty-three plants which were in bloom there in 

 the month of December. Of these, Brassica nigra, Capsella 

 Bursa-pastoris, Lepidium Virginicum, Viola cucullata, Stellaria 

 media, Atitennaria plantaginifolia, Nepeta Cataria and Sym- 

 plocarpus fcetidus flowered through the month of January. 



California journalists call attention to a fact which would 

 seem strange enough in any portion of the globe less diversi- 

 fied in its surface than their state. At the time when the Cen- 

 tral Pacific Railroad was blockaded for a week or more by 

 gigantic snow-drifts, Roses were blooming and Oranges and 

 Lemons were ripening their fruit only seventy miles away. 



In the last quarterly report of the Kansas State Board of 

 Agriculture the number of acres of artificial forest is given by 

 counties. The totals are as follows : Acres of Black Walnut, 

 one year oldand over, 17,054; of Maple, 14,171; of Honey Locust, 

 3,415; of Cottonwood, 56,760; of other forest-trees, 120,172. 

 The total value of the wood marketed for the year 1889 is 

 placed at $207,604. 



A statue to Mr. James S. T. Stranahan is about to. be erected 

 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, as an acknowledgment of his many 

 services to the city, and especially of the prominent part he 

 played in the establishment of the park itself. It is a pleasure 

 to know that the work bids fair to be a genuine ornament to 

 the beautiful pleasure-ground, as the sculptor chosen is Mr. 

 W. F. MacMonnies, a native of Brooklyn, who has recently 

 been studying in Paris, and of whose abilities Mr. St. Gaudens, 

 his former master, speaks in the highest terms. 



The fourth annual Orchid Show, which opens to-day at the 

 Eden Musee, promises to surpass in varied interest any of its 

 predecessors. As in former years, the exhibition will be under 

 the direction of Messrs. Siebrecht & Wadley, who announce 

 that they will contribute from their own collection 800 plants 

 of some 300 distinct varieties in full flower. Besides these, 



choice plants from several of the most important Orchid col- 

 lections in various parts of the country have been sent here 

 at great risk and expense. The exhibition will remain open 

 for ten days. 



Herr Otto Froebel, of Zurich, recently explained in Garten- 

 flora that, after long experimenting, he had found Rosa laxa 

 the best stock for grafting. It is a central Asiatic species, the 

 seed of which was sent him some twenty years ago by Dr. Von 

 Regel. It makes no suckers, easily accepts grafts of all kinds, 

 and is thoroughly hardy in Germany ; moreover, its stem nat- 

 urally grows straight, smooth, unbranchedand almost destitute 

 of thorns to a considerable height, so it is especially well fitted 

 for producing standards, while the early ripening of its wood 

 peculiarly fits it for winter forcing. 



A new hybrid Rose, raised at the Arnold Arboretum by 

 Mr. Dawson, is just now flowering for the first time. It was 

 produced by crossing the small, white flowered Japanese R. 

 mulliflora with pollen from the well known hybrid perpetual, 

 General Jacqueminot. The offspring of this cross has the 

 foliage, somewhat reduced in size, the branchlets and the 

 spines of the pollen parent ; the flower is solitary (not 

 clustered as in R. multiflora), about an inch across, cup- 

 shaped, semi-double, with bright pink petals ; and, moreover, 

 it has the real Jacqueminot odor. The plants, as far as they 

 have been tried, are perfectly hardy, while most of the 

 so-called miniature Roses with bright-colored flowers are 

 tender in the severe New England climate. 



Mr. Charles Howard Shinn writes from Niles, California, to 

 the Evening Post that wealthy men looking for long invest- 

 ments can do something in the Pacific Coast region that will 

 last for many generations, paying a larger interest than almost 

 any manufactory in America. The investment recommended 

 would be as nearly indestructible as anything human can be. 

 He thinks that on irrigated lands on the lower Rio Grande, 

 along the Colorado, or in portions of California, Nevada or 

 Arizona, Date Palm orchards would last for ages and pay a 

 steady profit. The Olive is already planted in large groves by 

 associations looking for safe and permanent investments, but 

 no one has planted a Cork-Oak forest. Dates, Persian Wal- 

 nuts, the Figs of Smyrna, the Cork of Spain — all of these are 

 constantly increasing in value; the world's supply is notkeeping 

 pace with the demand, and they offer new and attractive chan- 

 nels for large investments of capital as safe and permanent, he 

 thinks, as brick blocks on the business streets of growing 

 American cities. 



Bulletin No. 63 of the New Jersey Experiment Station is a 

 record of some tests with Tomatoes. From these it appears 

 that nitrate of soda increased the yield invariably, but was 

 most effective when used in small quantities at a time, and, as 

 would have been supposed, when balanced by applications of 

 phosphoric acid and potash. Contrary to a prevalent belief 

 that chemical fertilizers make garden produce watery, taste- 

 less and innutritious, the Tomatoes on the plots where 

 nitrate was used were not only large, smooth and beautiful to 

 the eye, but they were more solid and had fewer seeds than 

 those on the other plots, and the chemical analysis proved 

 their superior nutritive value. The crop was increased by the 

 nitrate from thirty-five to sixty per cent, on the different plots. 

 • Considering ten tons an acre an average yield, and $6.50 a ton 

 an average price, the gain from the use of nitrate ranges from 

 $17 to $39 an acre. This would make an important difference 

 in a state where 15,000 acres are devoted to raising Tomatoes 

 for canneries, besides some thousands more where Tomatoes 

 are grown for market. 



Catalogues Received. 



Alfred Bridgeman, 37 East Nineteenth Street, New York; Seeds. — 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Seeds.— A. D. Cowan & 

 Co., 114 Chambers Street, New York; Seeds. — Henry A. Dreer, 714 

 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Seeds. — B. A. Elliott Co., 

 Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Flowers worthy of General Culture, with descriptive 

 and cultural notes. — Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, etc.— R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 16 and 19 South Market Street, Boston, Mass.; Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, 

 Tools, etc. — D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. ; Seeds. — John Gar- 

 diner & Co., 21 North Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Flower 

 and Vegetable Seeds. — Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y.; Fruit 

 Trees, etc.— James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass.; Seeds. — D. 

 Hill, Dundee, 111. ; Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, etc. — R. D. 

 Hoyt, Bay View, Fla. ; Tropical and Semi-Tropical Fruit Trees, 

 etc.— J. T. Lovett Co., Little Silver, N. J.; Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Ever- 

 greens, etc., with cultural notes. — D. Landreth & Sons, 21 and 23 

 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 



