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Garden and Forest. 



[July 2, 1890. 



eastern Massachusetts, this season, lack something in flavor 

 owing to the excessive moisture of the season and the absence 

 of sun at the time the fruit was coloring. O. R. Robbins re- 

 ceived the first prize, and Edward Hastings the second for two 

 quarts of any variety of Cherries with handsome, well colored 

 fruit of Black Tartarian. 



The interest of the exhibition to lovers of wild plants was 

 increased by large collections of these flowers, which are a 

 specialty always at the Massachusetts shows. 



Jacob Manning, of the Reading Nurseries, staged a large 

 collection of hardy herbaceous plants, which we should be 

 glad to describe more in detail, if room could be found. 



Not the least attractive part of this exhibition was the dis- 

 play of Fox Gloves, grouped on the stage at the end of the 

 upper hall, which produced a remarkable and striking effect. 



Notes. 



The profits accruing to the government from the sale of the 

 fruit of the trees (chiefly Cherries) planted along the highways 

 of Saxony amounted in the year 1889 to $35,480. 



In making hairpins for ladies' use an excellent aid to the 

 gardener was unwittingly provided. Of many lengths and 

 varying in thickness from a stout to an almost thread-like 

 wire, there is nothing so handy for pegging down plants in the 

 border. 



Mr. Barkett, gardener to Lord Penzance, recently received a 

 first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society for a 

 hybrid between the Sweet-Brier and Harrison's Yellow Rose. 

 The foliage is larger than that of the Sweet-Brier, and somewhat 

 fragrant ; the flowers are single, two inches in diameter, pale 

 salmon with a yellow centre. 



Among the most interesting contributions made in recent 

 years to the history of decorative art have been Mr. William 

 H. Goodyear's speculations on the role played by the Egyptian 

 Lotus in the ornamentation of Oriental, classic and more mod- 

 ern nations. Originally presented in lecture form, they have 

 since been published in the American Architect and Building 

 News ; and now it is announced that they will be reproduced 

 in atlas form, with illustrations of 2,500 objects and details, 

 under the title "Grammar of the Lotus." An English gentle- 

 man, persuaded thereto by Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the well 

 known Egyptologist, will supply the money for this costly 

 enterprise. 



In a late number of the Illustrirte Gartenzeitung, of Vienna, 

 long quotations are made from the articles on Taxodium dis- 

 tichum, Aster ptarmicoides and Aralia Cashmirica, recently 

 published in Garden and Forest, and to the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum is given the credit for having introduced the last-named 

 plant to European cultivators. Among the novelties recom- 

 mended to its readers by the same issue of this journal are a 

 number of plants of American origin; the Snowflake Rose, in- 

 troduced by the Messrs. Strauss & Company, of Washington, 

 Jpomcea setosa, Eitphorbia heterophylla, introduced by Mr. L. 

 W. Goodell, of Dwight, Massachusetts, and several Pines from 

 our western states and from Mexico, which are not unknown 

 in Europe but have been lost to cultivation in consequence 

 of planting in regions of insufficient warmth. 



A correspondent of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 says that half the 12,000 portraits of distinguished men of all 

 times contained in the Wolff Collection of Engravings, re- 

 cently presented to the Syracuse University, has now been 

 catalogued, and that the list includes the names of 144 bot- 

 anists. Modern celebrities are, of course, included, but the 

 collection is especially rich in pre-Linnsean portraits. Nor did 

 the collector confine himself to single examples, for six dif- 

 ferent portraits of Kaspar Bauhin are noted, seven of Erasmus 

 Darwin, fifteen of Humboldt and no less than twenty-seven of 

 Linnasus. Every style of engraving is represented, and the 

 plates vary from duodecimo to folio size. If the University 

 will permit historians and essayists to reproduce these por- 

 traits, the collection will be a most valuable possession to the 

 country at large. 



In a private letter recently received from Mr. C. G. Pringle, 

 now engaged in exploring the flora of northern Mexico, he 

 writes: " I find myself well located here for exploring the rich 

 region between this city and Tampico. Twice a week at mid- 

 night a train leaves here for that place. About eight A. M. 

 we enter the head of a wonderful canon (3,100 feet elevation), 

 which is full of profuse vegetation. After fifteen miles the 

 train emerges from the canon at eleven hundred feet eleva- 

 tion and enters the tropical forests of the lowlands. In my 



last trip of two days in the upper end of the canon I gathered 

 five hundred specimens in forty species, half trees, and shrubs. 

 There are a very few species here which I know. I have to 

 come back here to dry my plants, as I can get food and shelter 

 in only a few places below, and the vermin in woods and 

 hovels are terrible pests. The rainy season has set in heavily. 

 All the table-land has been dry and brown so far. My pros- 

 pects are good." 



French journals tell us that the estate of Elven, in Brittany, 

 is offered for sale at the price of $60,000. A better investment 

 for this amount of money could hardly be imagined if the 

 purchaser cared for picturesque surroundings and historic in- 

 terest. Elven lies in a romantic country, close to Morbi- 

 han, the ancient stronghold of the Druids, near which stand 

 the prehistoric dolmens of Carnac, while Auray, where King 

 Arthur is fabled to have dwelt, is not far away. The estate 

 itself comprises about 450 acres and a fairly well preserved 

 castle with some other buildings. In this castle Henry Tudor, 

 later King Henry VII. of England, was imprisoned when, 

 after his mother's defeat at the battle of Tewkesbury, he was 

 driven by a stOrm to the coast of Brittany and seized by its 

 Duke. But the present generation will probably be more in- 

 terested by the fact that it is the half-ruined tower of Elven 

 which plays so prominent a part in Feuillet's " Romance of a 

 Poor Young- Man." 



American Horticulture and more especially American 

 Pomology has sustained a serious loss in the death of Patrick 

 Barry. For fifty years he has been an active member of the 

 firm which from small beginnings became famous the world 

 over for enterprise, for accuracy and for business integrity. 

 He has been untiring, too, with his pen, and as author and 

 editor he always had some instructive message, and he always 

 delivered it in a way that compelled attention. Many of the 

 best horticultural societies of the .country owed much to his 

 organizing faculty and administrative force, so that it might 

 be said that his influence has reached every orchard and 

 garden of the country. 



Patrick Barry was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1 8 1 6, and.reach- 

 ing this country at the age of twenty years, he began his life- 

 work as a clerk in the then celebrated nurseries of the Princes, 

 at Flushing, Long Island. Four years later, with small capital, 

 but with the knowledge of the business which he had acquired 

 by a quick intelligence and persevering industry, he formed the 

 partnership with Mr. George Ellwanger, in Rochester, in a 

 business which since that time has constantly grown in power 

 and influence and has become an honor to the nursery trade 

 of the world. 



While he was skilled in all branches of horticulture, he was 

 specially devoted to pomology, and forty years ago his first 

 popular work, entitled "The Fruit Garden," placed him in the 

 front rank, with Downing and Thomas, as an authority in this 

 field. Soon after he became editor of The Horticulhirisl, and 

 conducted it with great spirit and intelligence until it was 

 removed to Philadelphia. In i860 he became Horticul- 

 tural Editor of the Genessee Farmer and for six .years was 

 a constant contributor to that journal. For more than thirty 

 years he was President of the Western New York Horticultural 

 Society, a model organization of its kind, in which position he 

 was always ready not only to give it his counsel, his time 

 and his labor, but to make up any deficit in its treasury when 

 its expenses were greater than its income. He has also been 

 a member of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and here, as in other positions of trust, he 

 gave his best thought to his labors for others. 



Perhaps his most valuable work was the " Fruit Catalogue" 

 of the American Pomological Society, which has been accepted 

 as the standard authority on this subject, not only in this 

 country, but throughout the world. He was Chairman of the 

 General Fruit Committee of this body practically from its 

 beginning, and the Fruit List, which is an exhaustive catalogue 

 of the different varieties of fruits, with their peculiar qualities 

 and degree of adaptation to different geographical locations, 

 was his original conception and was practically carried out 

 by him. But his restless activity was manifested in many 

 other directions. He had accumulated a liberal fortune, and 

 he was identified with the leading financial and philanthropic 

 enterprises of the city of his adoption. Altogether he was a 

 man of rare executive force, sterling judgment, and what was 

 more important, of high character in all the relations of life. 

 Honorable in business, liberal in charities, consistent in his 

 religious profession, he won the hearty affection of those 

 who knew him intimately and commanded the respect and 

 confidence of the entire community. 



