November 20, 1S95.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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from other sources for use on the same occasion. Of 

 course, this was apart from the forest of Palms and other 

 decorative plants in pots. In preparation for supplying 

 unusually large quantities at one time the development of 

 some flowers is retarded in the hot-houses, and that of 

 others is hurried forward. 



The loss on unsold flowers is equitably divided pro rata 

 among consignors in the class in which it occurs. Quality 

 is in no small degree determined by weather, soft and 

 mussy stock coming in after muggy days. General high 

 quality of the great masses of flowers seen here is remark- 

 able, as is also their freshness. A much higher grade is 

 demanded now by retail buyers than a half dozen years 

 ago, and flowers sold on the streets are especially of better 

 quality during the past three or four years. The choicest 

 varieties and newest sorts are offered here, and fragrant 

 l)lossoms are always in special request. 



The first buyers come as early as seven o'clock in the 

 morning. Flowers looking dewy and fresh have already 

 been taken from the largest refrigerators used for this sort 

 of storage in the country and displayed in the salesroom, 

 and others continue to arrive. Of carnations, from 5,000 

 to 25,000 are handled in one day, as many more violets 

 and lily-of-the-valley, and 40,000 roses. At six o'clock in 

 the evening the receiving and selling is over, and the stor- 

 ing of the freshest flowers still unsold concludes the work 

 of the day. It is pleasant to record the fact that an)^ flow- 

 ers left over are presented to the hospitals. TIT n n 



New York. ' ^i ■ Jj- t. 



A New H3'brid Oak in the Indian Territor}'. 



WHILE collecting along a little rocky branch a mile 

 south-west of Sapulpa, Indian Territory, on Sep- 

 tember 20th, I was led to observe more closely the Texas 

 Red Oak, Quercus Texana, on account of its occurrence in 

 such large numbers, and while doing this I came upon an 

 Oak plainly different from that species, and which I thought 

 to be a hybrid. After a careful study of it and the sur- 

 rounding trees, I became satisfied that it was a hybrid 

 between the Black Jack Oak and the Black Oak. It may 

 be briefly described as Q. Marilandica x velutina, n. hyb. : 

 a tall, slender tree, scarcely resembling either Q. Marilandica 

 orQ. velutina in general appearance, but more like the latter ; 

 trunk and branches exactly like those of Q. Marilandica, 

 but twigs and branchlets like those of Q. velutina ; buds 

 nearly like those of Q. velutina, but larger ; leaves broader 

 at the upper end and tapering to a narrow, sometimes cor- 

 date base, three to five lobed ; lobing very various, some 

 like Q. Marilandica and some like Q. \-elutina, all shortly 

 bristle tipped ; upper surface of leaves as in Q. Marilandica, 

 but lower surface nearly like that in Q. velutina, but some- 

 what rusty-downy ; petioles slender, nearly smooth and 

 averaging about one inch in length ; acorns long and slen- 

 der-pointed, very rusty-downy when young, but nearly 

 smooth when mature, striped with alternating lines of 

 black and yellow, as in Q. Marilandica ; cup top-shaped, 

 with a scaly edge, longer than that of either Q. Marilan- 

 dica or Q. velutina, but approaching the latter more nearly. 

 One tree only, sixty feet in height, with a trunk about fifteen 

 inches in diameter, and growing in a rocky hollow where 

 Q. Texana is abundant, and Q. Marilandica, Q. minor and 

 Q. velutina are common. 



Independence, Mo. 



B. F. Bush. 



The Names of some North American Tree Willows. 



SALIX LONGIFOLIA, Muehlenberg {Neue Schrift. 

 Gesell Nat. Fr., Berlin, iv., 23S, t. 6, f 6), was pub- 

 lished in 1803. In 1778 Lamarck had published in his Fl. 

 Frane. (ii., 232) a Salix longifolia to which he referred the 

 Salix viminalis of Linnaeus, and the next oldest name of 

 Muehlenberg's plant, Salix fluviatalis of Nuttall {Sylva, i., 

 73), published in 1842, must be adopted, 



Salix rostrata, Richardson {Arctic Exped., 753), was pub- 

 lished in 1S23. In 1 799 Thuillier had published in the second 



edition of his Flore des Environs de Paris a Salix rostrata 

 now referred to Salix repens of Linna;us. Asa Gray in 

 1867 {l\Ian., ed. 5, 564) called the Beaked Willow Salix 

 livida, var. occidentalis. The name occidentalis had been 

 used for a West Indian species by Koch in 1828, and four 

 other varietal names, latifolia, lanata, obovata and lanceo- 

 lata, given to it by Andersson, had all been previously 

 employed in this genus. This common, familiar and 

 widely distributed tree being, therefore, deprived by the 

 rules established by American botanists of any name at 

 all, I am glad to associate with it that of Mr. S. B. Bebb, of 

 Illinois, the learned, industrious and distinguished salicolo- 

 gist of the United States, to whom, more than to any one 

 else of this generation, we owe our knowdedge of American 

 Willows, and to call it Salix Bebbiana. 



Salix flavescens, Nuttall {Sylva, i., 65), was published in 

 1842. In 1828 Host published in his Salix {^x, t. 101) a 

 Salix flavescens now referred to Salix Arbuscula, Linnaeus, 

 and this name being thus unavailable for the Rocky Moun- 

 tain tree, I propose to call it Salix Nuttallii in honor of 

 Thomas Nuttall, who discovered and first described it. 

 The variety Salix flavescens, var. capreoides, Bebb (Garden 

 AND Forest, viii., 373), thus becomes Salix Nuttallii, var. 

 capreoides. 



A large-leaved form of Salix lasiandra discovered by Dr. 

 David Lyall in 1S59 on the lower Fraser River was first 

 described by Andersson {Sal. Mojiog., 34, f. 23) as Salix 

 lancifolia, and in 1868 (De CandoUe, Prodr., xvi., pt. ii., 

 205) as Salix lucida, /i macrophylla. This specific and 

 varietal name having been previously used in Salix, I pro- 

 pose for this variety the name of its discoverer, and call 

 it Salix lasiandra, var. Lyallii. C. S. S. 



Plant Notes. 



Crat.egus APiiFOLiA. — This is a small tree, with delicate, 

 nearly circular, deeply cleft and divided leaves, of the 

 southern states, where it is mostly confined to the coast 

 region, although west of the Mississippi River it ranges 

 inland to central Arkansas. Plants raised from seed gath- 

 ered near Little Rock, Arkansas, have produced plants 

 which have proved fairly hardy in the Arnold Arboretum, 

 although they have not flowered there yet. The Parsley 

 Haw, as Cratsegus apiifolia is often called, is one of the 

 most delicate and beautiful species of the whole genus, 

 and in the Arboretum this autumn it has been speciall)' 

 noticeable for the brilliant deep red color assumed by some 

 of the leaves, while others on the same branch remain 

 unchanged in color. Quite uninjured by frost, the leaves 

 were in their greatest beauty last week. 



Rosa setigera. — The beautiful Prairie Rose should re- 

 ceive another word of praise for the colors it takes on late 

 in the autumn, when the long arching stems turn dark pur- 

 ple and are coated with a glaucous bloom, and the leaves 

 are brilliant orange and scarlet. It is one of the most 

 valuable of all shrubs, and many people think the most 

 beautiful Rose. Its merit as an ornamental plant has often 

 been pointed out in these columns, but we venture to re- 

 mind our readers of its hardiness and vigor, the rapidness 

 of its growth, its graceful habit, and its many clusters of 

 large pure pink flowers, which open later than those of 

 most single-flowered Roses. The Prairie Rose has been 

 largely used with good effect in some of the Boston parks, 

 in which it flowered freely this year, and its beauty was a 

 revelation to the p-ublic. 1'his, perhaps, will lead to a more 

 general use of this delightful plant. 



Leucothoe racemosa. — The most brilliant plant we know, 

 however, in the middle of November in the northern states, 

 is Leucothoe racemosa, a common shrub in moist thickets 

 in the neighborhood of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North 

 America, from Massachusetts southward. This is just now 

 the most conspicuous shrub in the Arnold Arboretum, in 

 Boston, where it has been planted in large numbers, and 

 an object of great beauty, with flaming scarlet leaves which 



