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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 206. 



which have proved satisfactory at the experiment station 

 there : Wax Beans — Cylinder Black Wax, Speckled Wax, Sad- 

 dleback and Mammoth Wax ; Green-podded varieties — Osborn 

 Forcing, Dakota Soup, Hatt No. 3 and Shah ; for field-culture — 

 Burlingame, Snowflake and Hatt No. 2^. 



According to Mr. Conder, who has written so much about 

 the flowers of Japan, the Japanese cite 269 color varieties of 

 the Chrysanthemum, of which 63 are yellow, 87 white, 32 pur- 

 ple, 30 red, 31 pale pink, 12 russet and 14 of mixed colors. A 

 fancy prevails in the country that in this flower the same tint 

 is never exactly reproduced, and that in this it resembles the 

 endless variety of the human countenance. 



In the recent report of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion of the State of New York it is said that the interest in the 

 planting of trees on Arbor Day and at other times has been 

 greatly stimulated throughout the state during the past two 

 years, by prizes offered for the best-kept district school-grounds 

 by Mr. Wm. A. Wadsworth, of Geneseo. Last year the first 

 prize of a hundred dollars was awarded to District School No. 

 6, of New Windsor, Orange County, and the second prize of 

 fifty dollars to District School No. i, of Manheim, Herkimer 

 County. 



Professor Baile3% of Brown University, writes in The Brii- 

 nonian that the custom of planting class trees was begun 

 there some thirty years ago, and that a great deal of eloquence 

 and sentiment was expended over the young plants. Every 

 tree is gone, however, the ground having been occupied for 

 other purposes in most cases, although we infer that some of 

 the trees perished from lack of care. He points the moral 

 that if trees are to be planted in future they ought to be placed 

 where there is a reasonable certainty of their remaining, and 

 he might have well added they should never be planted unless 

 they are planted well and there is a reasonable certainty that 

 they will be well cared for afterward. 



In a letter to the American "Forestry Association, ex-Senator 

 Edmunds writes : " The subject of forestry is of immense 

 importance to the future welfare of all our countrymen, as 

 well in Vermont as in the arid regions of our one country. I 

 have seen in Europe much of the remediless evils of stripping 

 the hills and mountain-sides of their forests great or small, 

 and I have seen in our temperate and well-watered climate of 

 Vermont how great has been tlie loss from reckless timber- 

 cutting. The devastations of a dozen years can hardly be re- 

 paired in half a century, and so every energy of reason and 

 persuasion ought to be brought to bear upon the public intel- 

 ligence to avert the evils that so seriously threaten large parts 

 of the republic from the destruction of tlie forests." 



Professor Georgeson, of the Kansas Agricultural College' 

 raised last year a crop of the Japanese Soy Bean (Glycine his- 

 pida), and offers to distribute them to such farmers of his state 

 as are willing to try them. They are unknown, we believe, to 

 the agriculture of this country, although sixty varieties of them, 

 varying much in size, color, earliness.etc, are in use in Japan, 

 and they have yielded in Kansas from twelve bushels to nine- 

 teen bushels an acre on low ground which was too wet for 

 proper cultivation. Professor Georgeson thinks these beans, 

 on account of their nutritious qualities, will prove valuable for 

 farm crops and useful for stock feed, while, at the same time, 

 they are excellent for table use. Professor Georgeson also 

 offers for distribution two varieties of a small red bean which 

 belongs to the species Phaseoles radiatus, also unknown in 

 this country. They are more especially for table use, and are 

 reputed to be the finest-flavored beans in existence. 



A correspondent of Mcehan's Monthly, in writing of Den- 

 taria diphylla, in many places called Crinkle Root, on account 

 of the peculiar shape of its roots, and Pepper Root in other 

 places, on account of the pungent taste of its roots, states that 

 the roots dried and pulverized have long been used as a con- 

 diment by the Canadian Indians just as it was used, according 

 to Michaux, by the Indians of the Carolina mountains. To 

 many persons these roots are quite palatable, and Mr. Meehan 

 endorses the opinion of his correspondent that it is surprising 

 that this root has never been introduced into vegetable-gar- 

 dens. Many garden-plants, like the Radish, Turnip, Horse- 

 radish, etc., belong to the same family, and, in their improved 

 state, have become necessaries of life, and yet, when quite 

 wild, they seemed no more promising as food-plants than 

 the Crinkle Root. By judicious cultivation and selection it is 

 probable that this root might be improved so as to be a valu- 

 able addition to our food-supplies. 



A circular from the Horticultural Department of the Colum- 

 bian Exposition states tliat a Rose-garden has been designed 



on the grounds to contain not less than 50,000 plants, besides 

 special areas for other groups. As substantial premiums are 

 to be offered for Roses in addition to the awards that are to be 

 offered by the National Committee, Rose-growers are invited 

 to prepare plants for this garden. Hardy Roses on their own 

 roots must be in three and a half-inch or larger pots of the cur- 

 rent year's growth, or they may be dormant plants one or two 

 years old. Of course. Tea Roses, Noisettes and other tender 

 kinds will require different treatment, and it is suggested that 

 strong plants in five-inch pots be carried over in cold frames 

 for planting early in the spring of 1893. It is also proposed to 

 have large displays of herbaceous plants during their best sea- 

 son of flowering from the ist of November, 1892, to the ist of 

 April, 1893, including Chrysanthemums, Cyclamens, winter- 

 flowering Primroses, Cinerarias, Calceolarias, Amaryllis, Dutch 

 bulbs and the like. Instructions have been sent to the various 

 firms who propose to contribute flower-seeds, that plants are 

 to be grown from them in the most approved manner without 

 expense to the contributor, and it is expected that awards will be 

 made for the plants produced in the order of their merit. 



"The treasures of the common are endless," writes Mrs. 

 Martin in her Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, of the neighbor- 

 hood of Walmer, in Cape Colony, "and first and loveliest 

 among them all is the little Wax-creeper (Microloma lineare), 

 than which, tiny as it is, I do not think a more perfect flower 

 can be imagined. It is as modest as a little Violet, and you 

 have to seek it out in its hiding-places under the thick foliage 

 of the bushes, round the stems of which it twines so tightly 

 that it is a work of some time to disentangle it. You also get 

 many scratches during the process, for it loves to choose as 

 its protectors the most prickly plants ; but when at last you 

 hold the delicate wreath in your hands, and look into its 

 minute beauties — the graceful curves of the slender stalk and 

 tendrils, no two of which ever grow alike ; the long narrow 

 dark green leaves, and the clusters of brilliant carmine-tinted 

 flowers, each like a tiny exquisitely shaped vase cut out in glis- 

 tening wax — you are amply rewarded. It is, indeed, one of the 

 masterpieces of nature. This little flower does not bear trans- 

 planting well. We often tried to domesticate it in our garden, 

 but the plants invariably died. It was quite the rarest of all 

 our flowers. We have never seen it anywhere but about 

 Walmer, and there it grows only in small patches, five or six 

 plants close together, and then perhaps no more of them to be 

 seen during the whole of a long walk." 



Catalogues Received. 



The Anchor Post Company, 59 West Forty-second Street, New 

 York ; The Anchor Fence Post and Wire Fencing. — Albert Benz, 

 Douglaston, N. Y. ; German Fancy Pansies. — Joseph Breck & So.NS, 

 51, 52 and 53 North Market Street, Boston, Mass.; Vegetable, Grass 

 and Flower Seeds, Garden, Lawn and Greenhouse Implements. — 

 WiLLl.\M Bull, 536 King's Road, Chelsea, London, S. \V., England; 

 Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Bulbs. — Alfred Bridgeman, 37 East 

 Nineteenth Street, New York ; Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Bulbs, 

 Small Frails, Shrubs and Vines. — W. Atlee Bl'rpee & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; Burpee's Seed Annual of Novelties and Specialties for Farm 

 and Garden. — E. R. Cochran & Co., Middletown, Del.; Wholesale 

 Price-list of Peach-trees.— R. Douglas & Sons, Waukegan, III.; Whole- 

 sale Price-list of Hardy Ornamental Evergreens, Shade Trees, Forest- 

 tree Seedlings, Tree Seeds.— J. Wilklnson Elliott, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

 (iriffin's Tuberous Begonias.— H. G. Faust & Co., 64 and 66 North 

 Front Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Garden, Field and Flower .Seeds. — 

 P H. Foster, Babylon, L. I., N. Y.; Wholesale Price-list of Trees, 

 Shrubsand Vines.— John Gardiner & Co., 21 North Thirteenth Street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Flower and Vegetable Seeds, Mushrooms, Poultry. 

 — William Baylor Hartland, 24 Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland; 

 Flower and Vegetable Seeds. — George W. P. Jerrard, Caribou, Me.; 

 Seed Potatoes, Vegetable Seeds. — W. W. Johnson, SnowHake, .\nlrim 

 County, Mich. ; Seedlings of Evergreen and Deciduous Trees, Shrubs, 

 etc. — Harlan P. Kelsev, Linville, N. C; Native Plants of the Southern 

 Alleghany Mountains.— W.M. Henry Maule, 17H Filbert Street, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. ; Seeds of Flowers and Vegetables, Vegetable and Orna- 

 mental Plants.— James Milne & Son, Scotch Grove, Jones County, la.; 

 Hawkeye Grub and Stump Machine.- — C.J. Pennock, Kennclt Square, 

 Chester County, Pa.; Trade Price-list of Carnations. — W. Piercv, 89 

 West Road, Forest Hill, London, S. E., England; Summer-flowering 

 Chrysanthemums, also .semi-early and late sorts. — Plant Seed Compa- 

 ny, St. Louis, Mo.; Vegetable, Grass and Mower Seeds. — Price & Reed, 

 Albany, N. Y.; Flower, Vegetable and Pield .'^eeds. — T. H. Spauld- 

 ING, Orange, N. J. ; New Choice and Rare Chrysanthemums. — Stark 

 Bros., Louisiana, Mo.; Fruit and OrnamentalTrees. — Chas. Stevens, 

 Napanec, Ontario; Wood Ashes. — James Vick's Sons, Rochester, 

 N. Y. ; Vick's Floral Guide. -James li. Wn.D & Bros., .Saicoxie, Mo.; 

 Fruit-trees. — Samuel Wilson, Mechanicsvillc, Bucks County, I'a. ; 

 Flower, Vegetable and Grass Seeds, Small Fruits and Fruit-trees. — 

 I. C. Wood & Bro., Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; Flowering 

 Plants, Shrubs, Vines and Trees. 



