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Garden and Forest. 



[April 2, 1890. 



Notes. 



Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. are about to publish an "Intro- 

 duction to Systematic Botany," by Professor Charles E. Bes- 

 sey, of the University of Nebraska, well known by the botanies 

 which bear his name in the American Science Series. 



The new edition of Darwin's famous " Naturalist's Voyage 

 Around the World," which has just been issued by the Messrs. 

 Appleton, is noteworthy as containing maps and 100 views of 

 the places visited and described. These are chiefly from 

 sketches taken on the spot by Mr. R. T. Pritchett, and greatly 

 add to the interest of the book. 



Two noted Australian nut-bearing trees, which have been 

 tested at the University of California, are the Grevillea an- 

 nulata and the Macadamia temata. The latter is an ex- 

 tremely handsome Holly-Jeaved tree, but of slow growth until 

 well established. It suffered from frost once, but is hardy at 

 Niles. The former is quite tender at Berkeley, and not a suc- 

 cess there. 



Messrs. A. B. Seymour and F. S. Earle, of Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts, announce the publication of a series of fascicles, 

 under the name of "Economic Fungi," to illustrate the dis- 

 eases of useful and noxious plants. Each issue is to have a 

 distinctive character, and the first, which is now ready, treats 

 of fifty species. The fascicles will be supplied either in book 

 form or in loose sheets at the price, respectively, of $3.50 

 and $3. 



The leaf-blight of Quince and Pear (Etttosporium maculatum, 

 Lev.) has of late years been increasing in our orchards and 

 nurseries, causing leaves to fall and the fruit to crack. Pro- 

 fessor Dudley, of Cornell University, reports that the disease 

 can be controlled in all its stages by the copper solutions, so 

 that the nurseryman or fruit-grower who sprays the leaves of 

 his trees once in two or three weeks during the growing 

 season will probably suffer no loss from this cause. 



Consul Fay, writing to our State Department from Stettin, 

 says that the potato crop is one of the best paying in Prussia, 

 and the products therefrom — dextrine, potato-flour, starch, 

 etc. — shipped to the United States from the port of Stettin 

 during the last three months amounted to $50,000. German 

 manufacturers are at a loss to understand why we purchase 

 these products abroad when we have such immense crops of 

 corn, when it is realized that the percentage of dextrine in 

 corn is fifty per cent, greater than in potatoes. 



When the gum drawn from Ficus elastica was first discov- 

 ered to possess economic value no one could have foreseen 

 the myriad ways in which it would eventually be put to use. 

 The most recent, perhaps, and certainly one of the most 

 curious, is reported in the Engineering and Mining Journal, 

 which says that experiments are being made in Germany with 

 India rubber pavements. They were first laid on the carriage- 

 road of a bridge at Linden, Hanover, and are now being tested 

 in Berlin and Hamburg with " extremely satisfactory results. 

 India rubber is said to combine the hardness of the stone 

 pavement with the elasticity of asphalt, but does not become 

 so slippery as asphalt." 



At the Agricultural Exhibition which has just closed, in Paris, 

 M.Millet, a horticulturist of Bourg-la-Reine, showed a really re- 

 markable collection of Violets. The most interesting were 

 Monsieur Arene, with large, dark violet, velvety flowers ; 

 Gloire de Bourg-la-Reine, with very ample, dark green foliage 

 and extraordinarily large, pale blue flowers with rounded 

 petals ; Souvenir de Millet Pere, with pale foliage and blue 

 flowers ; Armadine Millet, with leaves broadly margined with 

 yellowish white and with small, dark blue flowers ; Madame 

 Millet, a variety of Parma with large flowers of a tender rose 

 color, very agreeably perfumed, and Swanley White, another 

 variety of Parma with white flowers. 



It is well known that when our western districts were first 

 settled the best woods were wasted or put to services for which 

 inferior sorts would have answered, with no thought of their 

 future possible value. This was notably the case with the 

 wood of the Black Walnut, of which a recent writer in the 

 Commercial Advertiser says : "Thousands of fine trees were 

 cut down, burned or allowed to rot on the ground, or split up 

 for old-fashioned rail-fences. Now buyers rummage every 

 mile of territory in the state (Iowa) to find logs and put them 

 on the cars to be carried thousands of miles across the ocean 

 to be worked up intofurniture for the adornment of European 



palaces." It is said that last year between 1,200 and 1,500 car 

 loads of old walnut logs were thus exported. 



The Fuchsia, now one of the commonest of garden plants, 

 was introduced into cultivation about a hundred years ago by 

 Mr. James Lee, a nurseryman of Hammersmith, who saw a 

 plant growing in the window of a sailor, who had brought it 

 from the West Indies. The genus had, however, been dis- 

 covered much earlier, as it was described in 1705 by Plunder, 

 who named it for Leonard Fuchs, a Bavarian botanist of the 

 sixteenth century. According to a writer in the Revue de 

 V Horticulture Beige, the species, or one of the species, known 

 to Plumier was Fuchsia triphylla, which was subsequently 

 lost sight of until re-discovered in 1884 on the Island of St. 

 Domingo and sent to Kew for identification. Its flowers are a 

 glowing cinnamon-red, and about an inch and a half in length. 



The Eucharis mite {Rhizoglyphus Robini) occurs much more 

 frequently on Hippeastrums than is commonly supposed. Mr. 

 Veitch, in his recent essay on these plants, does not, however, 

 recommend the destruction of all bulbs affected with this pest; 

 on the contrary, he states that he has never seen a bulb so 

 badly infested as to be incurable. Excessive watering, in 

 Mr. Veitch's opinion, affords the conditions favorable to the 

 increase of the mite and the destruction of the bulbs, which is 

 only another way of saying, keep the bulbs from falling into 

 weak health, and the mite will not hurt them, although it may 

 be present. At Kew there are large bulbs of H. aulicum, 

 which have been in the collection for years and have flowered 

 annually notwithstanding undoubted evidences that the mite 

 is upon them and has been there all along. 



One of the most individual and interesting of the many ad- 

 mirable statues which adorn the streets and parks of Paris is 

 Fremiet's " Jeanne d'Arc," in the Place des Pyramides. Nev- 

 ertheless, after it had stood for a number of years, the sculptor 

 was so dissatisfied with it that he prepared a new statue on the 

 same general lines in the hope that he would be allowed to 

 substitute it for the earlier one at his own expense. His re- 

 quest was refused, however, by the municipality, and if it is 

 true, as recently stated, that the Fairmount Park Association 

 has secured the new statue, they are to be congratulated upon 

 the possession of a work of surpassing excellence and beauty. 

 As shown in drawings that were published last summer in 

 Paris, it preserves the poetic and delicate individuality of the 

 original, while the changes made in the horse, the harness, the 

 pose of the heroine's arm and the form of the standard she 

 carries all seem distinct improvements. 



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