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Garden and Forest. 



[November 26, 1890. 



collections of Orchids and decorative plants. Some specimens 

 of the Mrs. Alpheus Hardy were exceptionally robust and well 

 grown, and a group of new Carnations of striking form and 

 color were shown by Gustavus Schoenfeld, of Westfield, New 

 York. 



Mr. C. M. Weed, of the Ohio Experiment Station, in speak- 

 ing of the Curculio which is destructive of Rhubarb, says that 

 during the present year its life history has been traced, and it 

 now appears that the insect hibernates as an adult, and in 

 spring deposits its eggs in certain common species of Dock, 

 especially Curly Dock— Rumex crispus. From the discovery 

 of the breeding habits of this Curculio it seems evident that 

 the best way to prevent its ravages is to destroy the Dock- 

 plants on which it develops. If these are pulled up, roots 

 and all, say late in June, before they have gone to seed, and 

 burned, a great many of the insects will be destroyed. 



Hundreds of thousands of plants and flowers are now on 

 exhibition in Madison Square Garden. The display is not only 

 remarkable as the collection of a single firm, the Messrs. 

 Pitcher & Manda, but it would be classed as an admirable ex- 

 hibition anywhere. Chrysanthemums are, of course, aleading 

 feature, and although the season is so well advanced many 

 first-class blooms are seen. The bank of Cypripediums in 

 the centre of the Garden could not be duplicated by any 

 establishment in the world, and the exhibition is rich in other 

 Orchids, specimen Palms and Ferns. The immense space 

 is well filled, and the plants are tastefully and effectively ar- 

 ranged. 



The tomb of the poet John Boyle O'Reilly is to be marked 

 in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts, by a giant 

 boulder about twelve feet in diameter, which lies just as the 

 glacier left it on the crest of a picturesque little hill. It would 

 be well if monuments of this sort were more often used in our 

 rural burial-grounds instead of the costly, ugly and obtrusive 

 specimens of the stonecutter's art which are too commonly 

 employed. Even if such a stone cannot be found in an appro- 

 priate place, it can easily be removed and so arranged with 

 vines that will quickly drape it, that it will present a natural 

 appearance. Nothing is needed to fit it for a monument ex- 

 cept that a small space should be smoothed like a tablet to 

 bear the inscription, as will be done in the case of Mr. 

 O'Reilly's tomb. Apart from their harmonious and modest, 

 yet dignified, effect, no monument is so imperishable as one 

 of these which Nature herself has made. 



The great game park which Mr. Austin Corbin has estab- 

 lished near Newport, New Hampshire, and which contains 

 22,000 acres chiefly of mountain land, is being rapidly stocked 

 with animals. Already some 250 head of buffalo, elk, moose, 

 black-tail deer, white-tail deer, red deer, caribou, antelope, 

 and wild boars from the Black Forest of Germany are roaming 

 at large in the park, while contracts for as many more animals 

 have been made with trappers at the west. Some of the spe- 

 cies have already begun to breed, and the scheme promises 

 results as satisfactory to the lover of great game as to those 

 who are interested in any enterprise which involves the pre- 

 servation of large tracts of beautiful country in their natural 

 condition. It is said that Mr. Corbin does not intend to allow 

 his animals to be hunted, and it will be some time before he 

 must decide what shall be done with them when they have 

 multiplied in excess of the capacity of the park to support 

 them. 



In an address before the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 Mr. John Thorpe stated that many forms of Chrysanthemums 

 were undoubtedly introduced from Europe to America before 

 the beginning of the present century, and that he had traced 

 back some varieties as far as 1811, and, indeed, he exhibit- 

 ed a variety which had been cultivated in one family for 

 more than sixty years. There are many kinds to be seen in 

 Virginia that have been known there for over fifty years. 

 They are nearly all Pompons, though some are of the Chinese 

 sorts, as old Lilac, Golden Yellow and the Changeable White. 

 He added that he had lately seen in a volume of the Gardeners' 

 Monthly for i860 an account of an exhibition thirty years ago 

 in Philadelphia in which Chrysanthemum-plants of perfect 

 shape and fifteen feet in circumference were shown. Some 

 of the Pompons, like Madame Lafarge, Sacramento, Rosette 

 and Napoleon, had between two and three thousand flowers 

 expanded at once upon them. 



The inhabitants of New York State seem at last to be awake 

 to the necessity of preserving their forests. Together with 

 the promising outlook of the scheme for forming a great state 



park in the Adirondacks, we have to chronicle the fact that a 

 movement has been started at Kingston for the establishment 

 of a similar park in the Catskills, and that the matter, it is 

 hoped, will be brought before the incoming Legislature. The 

 state already owns 30,000 acres in the Catskill region, and it is 

 probable that this amount will be increased by the Comp- 

 troller's tax-sale which will take place in December. Many 

 private parks have within recent years been established in 

 these mountains, and despite the fact that they were formed 

 to accommodate colonies of summer visitors, the preservation 

 of the forests has been helped, not hindered, by them. The 

 amount of forest which is cleared for the building of houses 

 is very small in comparison to that which must be preserved 

 to perpetuate the charm of neighborhood and outlook upon 

 which the value of the dwellings depends. Their owners 

 have chosen the various sites for their picturesque beauty, 

 and understand that this beauty must be kept as intact as pos- 

 sible. Nevertheless, there is room and need, here as well 

 as in the Adirondacks, for the establishment of a state reser- 

 vation. 



On the occasion of a ball recently given in the club-house at 

 Tuxedo Park the decoration of the ball-room was entrusted to 

 an expert, who, nevertheless, is not a florist — Miss Stearns, of 

 the Associated Artists of 115 East Twenty-third Street. The 

 result proved that something might be done in the way of 

 floral decoration which would lack the conventionality that so 

 often marks such arrangements without falling into the 

 heterogeneousness of amateur attempts. The room is very 

 large and circular in shape, with fourteen windows alternating 

 with fourteen columns which sustain the cornice. On one 

 side is a stage where the musicians were to sit. This was deco- 

 rated in harmony with the pretty woodland scene which formed 

 the background, high Palms flanking the sides, while a row of 

 lower Palms, mingled with Chrysanthemums, bordered the 

 stage, and trailing Ivy fell over the front. Chrysanthemums 

 were also intermixed with the taller Palms, in three shades of 

 pink, making a charming effect as the electric light shone up 

 over them from the foot-lights. This scheme was continued 

 around the room by banking the window-recesses with Hem- 

 lock boughs and great sprays of white Chrysanthemums, the 

 dark green foliage being carried up into the coves of the 

 domed ceiling. The columns were covered with autumn 

 foliage, Oak-leaves of a dark reddish bronze color forming the 

 base, and being shaded gradually up into terra-cotta tones and 

 finally into the yellow of Maple foliage. On this background 

 Chrysanthemums were arranged, likewise in graded colors, 

 beginning below with dark red blossoms and shading up to 

 the capitals, which were encircled by masses of golden 

 Grandiflorums. To obviate, however, an undue contrast 

 between these red and yellow pillars and the pink and green 

 of the stage, the two columns adjoining these were differently 

 treated, being wound with Hemlock foliage interspersed with 

 white Chrysanthemums— the same scheme of color chosen 

 for the window recesses. The total effect of the beautiful room 

 thus adorned was at once dignified and festal, and — an essen- 

 tial consideration in such cases — it made an excellent back- 

 ground for the gay dresses which filled it. 



Catalogues Received. 



William Bull, Chelsea, London, S. W., Eng. ; Tuberous-rooted 

 Plants and Bulbs. — John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, Queens County, 

 N. Y. ; New and Rare Flowers ; Bulbs, Plants and Fruits. — A. M. C. 

 Jongkindt Coninck, Dedemsvaart, Netherlands ; Wholesale Trade- 

 List of Conif eras, Rhododendrons, Roses, Fruit-trees, Hardy Perennials, 

 etc. — Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. ; Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees, Shrubs, Roses, etc. — The Eureka Steam Heating Company, 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; The Plaxton Hot Water Heater. — J. Roscoe Fuller 

 & Co., Floral Park, N. Y.; Hardy Bulbs and Plants.— C. S. Harrison, 

 Franklin, Neb. ; Descriptive Catalogue of Rocky Mountain Ever- 

 greens. — V. H. Hallock & Son, Queens, N. Y. ; Autumn Bulbs and 

 Plants. — C. S. Hood & Co., Corning, N. Y. ; Heaters. — Herendeen 

 Manufacturing Co., Geneva, N. Y. ; The Furman Vertical Water 

 Tube, Steam and Hot Water Heaters. — J. T. Lovett Co., Little 

 Silver, N. J. ; Wholesale Price List of Small Fruits and Fruit-trees. — 

 T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas ; Strawberries, Grape-vines, Fruit- 

 trees, and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. — New York Central Iron 

 Works, Geneva, N. Y. ; Steam Engines and Boilers. — Osgood & 

 Thompson, Binghamton, N. Y. ; Scales. — G. W. Pressey, Hammon- 

 ton, N. J.; Incubators. — Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing 

 Co., Geneva, N. Y. ; Heaters.— Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, N. J.; 

 Orchids. — Reasoner Brothers, Manatee, Fla. ; Tropical and Semi- 

 Tropical Fruit Plants, Economical, Medicinal and Useful Plants, 

 Aquatics, Palms, Orchids, etc. — Syracuse Chilled Plow Co., Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y.; Plows. — P. & E. Transon Brothers, Orleans, France ; 

 Nursery Trade List. 



