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Garden and Forest. 



[February 26, 1890. 



group of the bold, rich colored Cattleya Percivalliana, Odon- 

 toglossums by the score, including a good example of O. 

 Rcezlii album, well grown specimens of Vanda snavis, Mil- 

 tottia vexillaria, Cattleya intermedia super ba and many more. 

 A unique Cypripedium is attracting much attention. It 

 resembles C. calurum, but is much darker — a deep purplish 

 red. The origin of the plant has not been made known. 

 The exhibition will remain open all the week. 



Notes. 



In former years the prices of cut flowers have invariably 

 fallen from thirty to fifty per cent, on the arrival of Lent, but 

 this year there has been no decline whatever in prices in this 

 city. • 



Among the floral designs at the funeral of Her Majesty the 

 Empress Augusta was a cross five feet long and more than 

 two feet wide, made of White Lilacs, White Camellias, Lilies- 

 of-the-Valley and Cypripedium Spectabile. 



Nature announces the death, at Malta, of Dr. Gulia, Professor 

 of Botany, Hygiene and Forensic Medicine in the University of 

 Valletta. Dr. Gulia is known by his "Flora of Malta," an en- 

 larged edition of which he left unprinted, and which is to be 

 brought out by his son. 



Mr. F. H. Horsford, of Charlotte, Vermont, and Mr. Edward 

 Gillett, of Southwick, Massachusetts, have combined their nur- 

 series of wild flowers and hardy herbaceous plants, at the latter 

 place, where, under the firm name of Gillett & Horsford, their 

 united business will be conducted hereafter. 



In Leicestershire, England, a lawyer recently brought suit 

 against a farmer, complaining that the latter allowed Thistles 

 to grow in a certain field to such an extent that the plaintiff's 

 garden, some 300 yards away, was seriously injured by their 

 seeds. Damages were awarded to the amount of three guineas. 



We read in the recent issue of Science that the result of the 

 Prang canvass for a popular expression with regard to the 

 national flower gives seventy per cent, of all the votes for the 

 Golden-rod, sixteen per cent, for the Mayflower, and fourteen 

 per cent, divided among the Daisy, the Mountain Laurel, Dan- 

 delion, Sunflower and various other plants. 



According to Dr. Draper's calculations, the weather in this 

 vicinity has been more abnormal this season than for seventy 

 years past. The high temperature of November, of Decem- 

 ber or of January had been matched or overmatched during 

 these seventy years, but taken together their average tempera- 

 ture was higher than that of any corresponding three. 



Between the 21st of last October and the 7th of January 

 George Klehm, of Arlington Heights, Chicago, cut 20,700 Vio- 

 lets in a greenhouse, devoted to this flower, which measures 

 125 feet by ten. H. Dale, of Brampton, Ontario, writes to the 

 American Florist that between November 1st and January 17th 

 he picked 10,550 Violets from a bench 100 feet long and only 

 four feet wide. 



Mr. Vogel, a timber-land explorer, recently returned from 

 north-western Manitoba, reports, in one of the " limits" looked 

 over by him, "150,000,000 feet of White Spruce [Picea alba) 

 log-timber killed by fire during the past season. This fire 

 not only killed the trees, but burned the bark and most of the 

 branches from the trunks, and about a foot of the moss and 

 vegetable deposits from the surface of the ground." 



Our London correspondent called attention to the fact that 

 difficulty had been experienced in England in the cultivation 

 of the handsome Bornean Pitcher-plant, Nepenthes Rajah, and 

 that it was not successfully managed until it was removed 

 from the hot-house to one with a lower temperature. It is 

 worth recording that this plant is and has been flourishing for 

 several years in the stove-house in Mr. F. L. Ames' garden, 

 where it is grown with a general collection of hot-house plants, 

 including a large number of Nepenthes, and where it forms 

 pitchers freely, and is just now passing out of flower. No 

 trouble has ever been found in managing the plant, whose 

 living pitchers Mr. Court, an expert in the cultivation of Ne- 

 penthes saw at North Easton for the first time. 



The January issue of the Illustrirte Gartenzeitung, of Vienna, 

 names 108 "new roses for 1890." Seventy-three of them 

 come from France and onlv five from this country — Rosalie 

 and Marshall P. Wilder are "credited to Messrs. Ellwanger_& 

 Barry, Dinsmore to Mr. Henderson, and The Queen and White 

 Pearl simply to America. But on another page very high 

 praise is given to Rainbow, a sport from Papa Gontier, intro- 

 duced by Mr. J. H. Sievers, of San Francisco, which is called 

 " the newest Rose." In the same number facts are cited with 



reference to the enormous Rose-growing establishment of the 

 Messrs. Strauss in Washington, and are contrasted with the 

 statement that when at a recent ball in Vienna it was decided 

 to make extensive use of fine Roses, the city itself could sup- 

 ply but a very few, and Paris, Nice and Cannes had to be laid 

 under contribution. 



Mention was made in our last issue of a hybrid Rose raised 

 at the Arnold Arboretum by crossing the Japanese Rosa 

 multiflora with pollen of General Jacqueminot. Another of 

 the seedlings produced by this cross has now flowered, and 

 proves to be quite distinct from the plant which flowered first. 

 The second seedling resembles its Japanese parent in foliage, 

 and in its long, stout stems with rather remote, stout, hooked 

 spines. The flowers are produced in clusters like those of R. 

 multiflora. They are, however, semi-double, bright pink, and 

 fragrant, although rather less so than the flowers produced on 

 the first plant. These seedlings seem to show that Mr. Daw- 

 son has hit upon the right means to secure a race of hardy 

 polyantha Roses with bright colored fragrant flowers. 



A writer in a French periodical gives a curious account of 

 the introduction of Nicotiana colossea, a relative of the 

 Tobacco-plant of commerce, which was one of the finest 

 ornamental plants shown at the recent Paris Exhibition. 

 Several years ago he sold some Brazilian Orchids to a lady, 

 whose gardener took the trouble to plant the trimmings and 

 dust, as well as the Orchids themselves, in the greenhouse. 

 A number of seeds germinated, and certain promising young 

 seedlings, transplanted to the open air, proved to he Nicotiana 

 colossea. Its leaves measure forty inches in length by 

 twenty-two in breadth, are purplish and erect when young, but 

 afterward a dark, shining green and spreading. The plant 

 grows to be ten feet or more in height in the open air, where, 

 in France, it has not bloomed. It is an annual in this situa- 

 tion, but a perennial in the greenhouse. 



An idea of the wealth of the city of Paris in works of sculp- 

 ture may be gathered from the fact that sixty-four figures and 

 groups decorate the Tuilleries gardens, while the Luxembourg 

 gardens contain sixty-seven, in addition to a number of decora- 

 tive statues by unknown artists, which were brought from the 

 park at Sceaux, and to the colossal fountain in the Avenue de 

 l'Observatoire, for which Fremiet and Carpeaux supplied the 

 figures. Almost all these works are originals by French sculp- 

 tors, although some are fine copies from the antique. Even in 

 the little Pare Monceau there are seven excellent statues, chief 

 among them the "Sower" of Chapu, and the " Harvester " of 

 Gaudez. As a rule, the placing of the statues has been as ju- 

 dicious as their selection, although occasionally they stand in 

 the middle of a large lawn, where they can be well seen from 

 one point of view only, and where they injure the breadth and 

 repose of the lawn itself. 



In "Humboldt" for December, 1889, is an interesting state- 

 ment of the amounts expended by the Prussian State Forestry 

 Commission to control the ravages of forest insects only. In 

 1884-85 were spent 200,550 marks ; in 1885-86 were spent 171,- 

 404 marks ; in 1886-87 were spent 191,645 marks. Of these 

 sums the control of Hylobius abietis alone took from 107,200 

 to 109,300 marks. In commenting on these facts, Entomologica 

 Americana remarks that the sums are suggestive, and yet the 

 amount was absolutely necessary for the prevention of serious 

 damage. Even with these sums, and the trained officials to 

 apply them, the success in lessening the ravages was not satis- 

 factory. It was not possible to do more than keep the pests 

 in check. The destruction of the Cockchafer in the larval 

 state is also still in the experimental stage, and the results are 

 not satisfactory. The complaints in other parts of the empire 

 of damage by white grubs are even greater than they are in 

 Prussia, and some practical remedy would be a boon of 

 inestimable value. 



Catalogues Received. 



Charles A. McBriue, 64)^ West Bay Street, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, etc.— John R. & A. Murdoch, 

 508 Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 

 Plants, etc. — Pitcher & Manda, United States Nurseries, Short Hills, 

 N. J.; Hardy Perennials, Aquatics, Alpines, Orchids, Ferns and Small 

 Shrubs, Chrysanthemums, etc. — Rumsey & Co., Ld., Seneca Falls, 

 N. Y.; Spraying Pumps.— T. H. Spaulding, Orange, N. J.; Chrysan- 

 themums. — E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, O. ; Small Fruits, Fruit Trees, 

 Seeds, etc. — Fred. Roemer, Quedlinburg, Germany ; Flower and 

 Vegetable Seeds, etc.— E. D. Sturtevant, Bordentown, N. j., and 

 Los Angeles, Cal.; Rare Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants. — The 

 Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O.; Seeds, Plants, Trees, Small 

 Fruits, etc. — Samuel Wilson, Mechanicsville, Bucks County, Pa.; 

 Garden, Flower and Vegetable Seeds. 



