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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 203 



Notes. 



Carnations during- the holidays broug^ht from $2.50 to $4.00 a 

 hundred, and at these prices the markets took everything that 

 w;is offered. 



We have often spoken of llio increasing popularity of Tu- 

 berous Begonias in this country, and some photographs just 

 received from the Messrs. John Laing & Son sliow fields of 

 the single varieties wliich contain as many as 250,000 plants. 

 We shoultl hardly have expected ten years ago that these 

 plants would soon be grown by the acre in open fields on 

 both sides of the Atlantic. 



• Some of the poetical names applied by the Japanese to their 

 Chrysanthemums areThe Border of the Thin Mist, Companion 

 of the Moon, Shades of the Evening Sun, Beacon Light, Waves 

 in the Morning Sun, The Sky at Dawn, First Snow, Disheveled 

 Hair in Morning -Sleep, Star-light Night, Sunny Morning, 

 Leaves and Frost, Golden Dew, i\Ioon-lit Waves and Moon's 

 Halo. This last name we should hardly expect to find applied 

 to a flower of an orange-red color. 



The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the New York Horti- 

 cultural Society will open at Rochester on Wednesday, Jan- 

 uary 27th, and continue two days. We are acquainted with no 

 similar association in the country where the discussions, 

 especially those on fruit-culture, are uniformly of such a high 

 character. The programme provided for this year is one of 

 wide and varied interest, and the essayists who have been 

 secured are men of the highest rank in scientific and practical 

 attainment. 



Among the resolutions passed at the late meeting of the 

 American Forestry Association was one urging upon super- 

 intendents of schools in the various states to require that the 

 high schools shall make forestry, in connection u'ith botany, 

 a subject of instruction, and it was fiu'ther resolved that 

 whereas the interests of agriculture are intimately dei)etident 

 upon proper forest-conditions, and whereas the Government 

 of the United States has lately made large additional a|.>pro- 

 priations to agricultural colleges and experiment stations, it is 

 therefore earnestly recommended that forestry be made a part 

 of the curriculum in the agricultural colleges and experiment 

 work in the various stations. 



The Albemarle Pippin, which many peopleconsider the best 

 dessert apple, apparently cannot be bought in the markets of 

 any American city, and Americans who want to enjoy this 

 product of the Virginia and Carolina foot-hills must go to Lon- 

 don to find it. American Pippins are displayed there in tlie 

 show-windows of all the principal West End fruiterers; anil, 

 like all fruit in London, bring high prices, four shillings the 

 dozen being asked for them last month in the stalls in Covent 

 Garden Marlcet. It is suggested to the growers that it might 

 prove profitable to give Americans an opportunity to purchase 

 this fruit in their own markets. Americans are afways willing 

 to pay for superior quality, and those who have not eaten a 

 Virginia Pippin at its best have only a restricted idea of how 

 good an apple can be. 



A correspondent of an English paperspeaks with enthusiasm 

 of the Christmas Roses at Warwick, where, in one mass, a 

 broad expanse of snowy liloom compelled an expression of 

 admiration. The effect was produced by three hundred 

 clumps of the variety Major of Helleborusniger, all studded 

 with flowers as closely as they could be packed. The blooms 

 were large and beautifully fresh and clean. It is the practice 

 here to grow the plants in a north border, where they remain 

 two, and sometimes three, years. About three weeks or a 

 month before they are wanted in flower the plants are lifted 

 with good balls of earth and placed closely together on the 

 floor of a vinery or other cool structure. A little soil is worked 

 around the roots as the work goes on, and when completed the 

 whole mass is watered through a coarse rose. This washes 

 the soil down among the roots, and leaves the flower-buds 

 clean. As the buds begin to open a little heat is given to 

 lengthen out the flower-stems, as they are better for decorative 

 work when the stems are of good length. After flowering the 

 plants are hardened off, divided, and again planted in the 

 open air. 



Death has recently made serious gaps in the ranks of the 

 men who have shed lustre on French horticulture in recent 

 years. At Passy, on the 5th of December, Alphand, the engi- 

 neer of the city of Paris, died rather suddenly, in his seventy- 

 fourth year. His career commenced at Bordeaux, in 1837, as 

 a civil engineer ; here he attracted the attention of Hauss- 

 mann, who, when in 1874 he became Prefect of the Seine, im- 



ported him to Paris to carry out the emperor's plans for the 

 transformation of Paris. He organized the system of street- 

 planting, which has done so much for Paris, and directed the 

 completion of the Bois de Boulogne, constructed the Bois de 

 Vinccnnes — the people's park of Paris— the Park Monceau 

 and the P,irk of the Bultes Chaumont, all the squares and 

 promenades of new Paris, and the gardens and greenhouses 

 of la Muette, where the plants used for the decoration of the 

 municipal gardens and buildings and squares are grown, perhaps 

 the best-equipped plant-factory in the world. The success of 

 the great Exposition of 1889 was largely due to the knowletlge, 

 taste and marvelous powers of organization of Monsieur Al- 

 phand. He made the plan for the grouping of the buildings and 

 the arrangement of the ground, and personally directed all mat- 

 ters of construction and the arrangement of the exhibits. He 

 had brought to this herculean task the experience gained in 

 the organization of two earlier Lhiiversal Exhibitions, and the 

 co-operation of a perfectly trained and enthusiastic staff; and 

 yet, with all his exceptional advantages, the apparent ease 

 with which Alphand handled the resources placed at his dis- 

 posal was marvelous even to those persons most familiar with 

 the perfection of French organization. Lender the title of Les 

 Promenades de Paris, Monsieur Alphand, many years ago, 

 published a folio volume, splendidly illustrated, in which are 

 described the public works of Paris executed under his direc- 

 tion. Portions of this book, with lists of the trees and shrubs 

 cultivated in the gardens of the city of Paris, were afterward 

 published by Alphand and the Baron Ernouf in a book called 

 L'Art des Jar dins. 



The death of the great engineer was preceded by a few days 

 only by that of Auguste Hardy, the head of the School of Hor- 

 ticulture at Versailles, who, if less known to the general 

 public, was hardly less distinguished in his particular sphere 

 than Alphand was in the larger theatre of his labors. In the 

 interesting and sympathetic sketch of his friend, which Mon- 

 sieur Andre has lately printed in the Revue Horticolc, it is inter- 

 esting to read that Auguste Hardy's love of horticulture be- 

 longed to him l>y right. His great-great-uncle, named 

 Christophe Hervey, was at the head of the Pepinieresdes Char- 

 treux at the Luxembourg, from 1752 to 1796. The son of this 

 Hervey was in 1809 entrusted by Chaptal with the duty of re- 

 organizing these nurseries ; and a few years later he recom- 

 menced in the Luxembourg Gardens the courses of lectures 

 upon the care and pruning of fruit-trees which the Revolution 

 had interrupted. The younger Hervey was succeeded in 181 7 

 in the management of the Luxembourg gardens by Alexandre 

 Hardy, the father of Auguste Hardy, who, naturally enough, 

 determined at an early age to devote his life to horticulture. 

 He became director of the vegetable-garden connected with 

 the palace at Versailles, which he soon made a motlel of their 

 kind; and when, in 1873, these gardens were converted into the 

 National School of Horticulture, he was selected as the head 

 of the new institution, which has gradually grown and im- 

 proved under his able management until it has become the 

 best school of its sort in the world. As first vice-president of 

 the National Horticultural Society, Monsieur Hardy was for 

 years the head and moving spirit of that body, and was enabled 

 to render immense services to French horticulture. No man 

 in France appears to have been more loved and honored by 

 his associates, and the influence of his teachings and of a 

 rare ami delightful personality was felt far beyond the limits 

 of France through the pupils who had been instructed and 

 trained by him. 



As this paper goes to press we learn with regret that Mr. 

 James Taplin, well known as a grower of choice and rare 

 plants, died on Saturday at his home in Maywood, New Jersey. 

 Mr. Taplin commanded respect for his skill in the branches of 

 horticulture to which his life was devoted and tor the straight- 

 forward manliness of his character. He was in his sixty-first 

 year. 



Catalogues Received. 



John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, Queens Co., N. Y.; Sceils, IJulbs 

 and Plants, of New, Rare and Beautiful Flowers; AgricuKurul 

 Seeds. — George Hancock, Grand Haven, Mieli. ; New and Staml.nd 

 Carnations. — Peter IIendekson & Co., 35 and 37 Cortlaudt Street, 

 New York, N. Y. ; " Everything for the Garden." — E. H. Krelai;e 

 & Sox, Haarlem, Holland; ITlouble Herbaceous Chinese P;vc)nies. — 

 Natiunai, Hot Water Heater Co., New York, N. Y. : The Spence 

 Hot Water Healer, for Dwelling's, Grecnhousi'S, etc. — J. M. 'I'lIOR- 

 liURN & Co., 15 Jolin Street, New York, N. V.; Flower, Vegetable 

 and Grass Seeds; Tree and Shrub Seeds. — James N'eiicii & Sons, 

 King's Rcid, Chelsea, London, S. W., ICnglaiul ; Gaiilen and Flower 

 Seeds for 1892 ; Horticultural Implements. 



