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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 207. 



paper-pulp, the product of pulp for the year being about 

 109,200 tons. 



Curiously as it seems to us, the Japanese rank the purple 

 form of the Wistaria high above the white form, and white 

 blossoms of this plant are very seldom used in their floral 

 designs. 



An enterprising nurseryman in California offers to send free 

 of charge to the children of every public school in the state a 

 package of plants or a collection of Sweet Peas, if the children 

 will pledge themselves to cultivate the plants within the school- 

 grounds. 



It is said that the apple-growers of Albemarle County, Vir- 

 ginia, have lately met a serious loss through the failure of a 

 commission house in Liverpool, to which many of the famous 

 pippins of the region had been consigned. Tliis would seem 

 to be another reason for trying to make a market for these 

 apples in our northern cities. 



Two of the new double Lilacs raised by the Messrs. Le- 

 moine are figured in the number of the Gardenei-s' Magazine 

 which has just come to hand. One of these has pure white 

 flowers, each like a little rosette, and is named Madame Le- 

 moine ; the other, called Leon Simon, has deep purple flowers, 

 which are very double. Both of them received awards by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society last year. 



A correspondent of the American Florist speaks of the re- 

 markable absence of hybrid Roses from the flower-markets of 

 this city this year as compared with former winters, when these 

 Roses have been forced in large numbers. An occasional 

 handful of Magna Charta Roses is all that can be seen in this 

 line, and the result is that the only large Rose offered is Ameri- 

 can Beauty, while Meteor is the only crimson Rose for sale in 

 any quantity, and therefore the supply of these kinds falls 

 very far short of the needs of the market, and they are in very 

 brisk demand. Pink is popular this year, and Madame Cusin, 

 once classed among the most undesirable of cheap Roses, is 

 now a leading favorite, and is sometimes ahead of Catharine 

 Mermet in price. The Bride is still the standard white Rose 

 in this market. 



Royal rank is attributed in Japan to three flowers — the 

 Pseony, the Cherry and the Lotus. The Pseony must always 

 be given the position of honor in a chamber on the dais of the 

 principal recess, and may never be placed on a shelf or in any 

 central place ; and all other flowers must be excluded from 

 the room adorned by its royal presence. A couple of black, 

 withered twigs are sometimes introduced among the leaves and 

 flowers of P?eonies to enhance by contrast the lu.xuriant ap- 

 pearance of their leaves and flowers. The Lotus-plant is 

 excluded from festive gatherings because associated with the 

 spirits of the dead, but holds high rank in the art of floral ar- 

 rangement. It is called the king of Indian flowers, and taste 

 would be grossly violated were it ever combined with the 

 Pseony, which is the royal flower of China, as the Cherry-blos- 

 som is of Japan. 



Some time ago Colonel A. W. Pearson expressed the fear in 

 our columns that the continuous application of copper com- 

 pounds to plants as fungicides might result in the accumula- 

 tion of these salts in the soil in sufficient quantity to cause 

 sterility. In some experiments at the Geneva Station, as re- 

 ported by Professor S. A. Beach in the Country Gentleman, 

 the relatively enormous quantity of two per cent, and five per 

 cent., by weight, of copper sulphate were dissolved and mixed 

 with soil, and plants were grown in this soil. More seeds 

 germinated in the soil treated with copper than in the un- 

 treated soil, but the plants were dwarfed, although they ma- 

 tured earlier than the check-plants in untreated soil. Analysis 

 of the top-soil from a potato-field which had received many 

 applications of Paris green, showed about three-ten thou- 

 sandths of one per cent, of metallic copper. The soil from 

 a field to which Bordeaux mixture had been applied for potato- 

 blight, showed four-ten thousandths of one per cent, of metal- 

 lic copper, or about sixteen-ten thousandths of one per cent. 

 of copper sulphate. To impregnate such a soil as that which 

 was used in the analysis to the depth of one foot with one per 

 cent, of copper sulphate would require more than 32,000 

 pounds of the sulphate to the acre, and if applied at the rate of 

 thirty pounds to the acre every year nearly 1,100 years would be 

 required for its application, provided none of the salts escaped 

 in drainage. 



Mr. S. D. Dill has lately returned from the Pacific coast, 

 whither he went to secure specimens to complete the Jesup 

 collection in the Museum of Natural History. The most inter- 



esting specimen he obtained is a portion of the trunk of a 

 Sequoia gigantea, which was sixty-two feet in circumference 

 eight feet above the ground, and ninety feet in circumference 

 at the surface. It is estimated that the tree contains 400,000 

 feet of lumber, and a piece of the trunk four and a half feet 

 long weighs over thirty tons. The giant stood three hundred 

 feet high, and it was one of a few which still remained of a 

 magnificent grove which is being rapidly converted into lum- 

 ber. Two mills belonging to the company which own the 

 tract cut 130,000 feet daily during the summer season. On 

 another tract owned by this company there stands a forest of 

 these giant trees containing enough timber to keep their mills 

 running at their present capacity for fifty years. A railroad is 

 to be built to this body of timber to convey the logs to the mill. 

 After the trees are cut down and the logs are cut off it is nec- 

 essary to split them up with dynamite into quarters before the 

 lumbermen can handle them. Mr. Dill also secured a speci- 

 men of Ouercus McDonaldi from the island of Santa Catalina, 

 although it was formerly thought that this tree grew only on 

 the island of Santa Cruz. Ouercus Morehus, Pinus latifolia 

 (the tree discovered by Dr. Mayr in 1887), Yucca elata, Quer- 

 cus Engelmanni, O. Palmeri, O.'agrifolia, O. Jacobi and Popu- 

 lus trichocarpa were among the other species of which Mr. 

 Dill collected specimens. 



A correspondent of the American Architect and Building 

 News, writing recently with regard to the World's Fair at 

 Chicago, says : " From an architectural point of view the ex- 

 hibit from Japan promises to be extremely interesting, and it 

 is hoped that nothing will prevent the execution of the plan. 

 Two acres of the space on the northern portion of the much- 

 sought-after Wooded Island are desired for the exhibition. 

 This sylvan spot was not originally intended to contain any 

 building, and it is somewhat amusing to notice that space for 

 such among its sheltering trees has been demanded by the 

 promoters of nearly every exhibiting scheme. If the two acres 

 are provided in a desirable location there will be erected on 

 them a copy of one of the finest specimens of ancient Japa- 

 nese architecture extant, and this structure, together with sev- 

 eral others equally interesting, will be given to the city of 

 Chicago at the close of the fair as a permanent monument of 

 Japanese architecture and landscape-gardening. The build- 

 ing, it is reported, will be erected at a cost of $100,000, while 

 the landscape-gardening will be at a cost of $20,000. One of the 

 other buildings which the Mikado proposes to erect is a repro- 

 duction of one at Kioto, a monastery of the Zen sect. Its name 

 is said to indicate the golden pavilion, and its date of construc- 

 tion runs back to 1397. It is surrounded by a garden, with 

 ornamental and small islands designed in the form of tor- 

 toises. The pavilion at the water's edge is three stories high, 

 and the interior decorations are said to be brilliant with gilt 

 and coloring. Another building which the Japanese Govern- 

 ment proposes erecting is a fac-simile of the so-called Ho-o-do, 

 or Ph<Enix Hall, a structure that dates back to 1052, and is so 

 shaped as to, in a manner, represent the fabulous bird which 

 is not to be destroyed with fire. There is to be a so-called 

 industrial court, where the different workers of Japan will 

 have their place, and at the entrance a copy of the Yomei 

 Gate of Nikke will be erected." 



Catalogues Received. 



A. Bl.vnc & Co., 314 North Eleventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Hints on Cacti. — Edw. W. Cone, Menonionie, Wis.: Descriptive List 

 of Choice Strawberry-plants. — Currie Bros., Milwaukee, Wis.; Hor- 

 ticultural Guide. ^. RoscoE Fuller & Co., Floral Park, Queens 

 County, N. Y.; Flower, Grass and Vegetable Seeds. Bulbs, Smalt I 

 Fruits, etc.— Benj.vmln H.\mmo.\d, Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.; Ii 

 Trade Price-list o£ Insecticides. — Timothy Hopki.ns, Sherwood Hall ' 

 Nurseries, Menlo Park, Cal.; New and Choice Chrysantlieniunis, New 

 Carnations, Roses, Ferns, Violets, Palms, Trees and Shrubs. — jonN- 

 so.N' & Stokes, 217 and 219 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vef;etablc |i 

 and Flower Seeds, Bulbs, etc.— William G. McTe.\r, Princeton, N. J.; 1 1 

 Price-list of Chrysanthemums. — T. V. MuNSON, Denison, Tex.; Grape- 

 vines, Small Fruits, Roses, Shrubs, Shade and Fruit Trees. — L. I,. 

 Olds, Clinton, Wis.; New and Choice Varieties of Seed Potatoes. — 

 Prairie State Incubator Co., Homer City, Pa.; Prairie State Incu- 

 bator and Brooder. — W. W. Rawson & Co., 34 South Market Street. 

 Boston, Mass.; Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Small Fruits, Shrubs and 

 Trees. — W.M. Tricker, Don«:an Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.: New and 

 Rare Water Lilies, Nelumbiums and other Choice Aquatics. — T. C. 

 V..\UGH.\N, Chicago, 111.; Flower and Vegetable Seetis and Plants. — 

 Thos. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, London, England ; 

 Illustrated General Catalogue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, with 

 separate illustrated lists of Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Begonias and 

 Miscellaneous Bulbs for -Spring-planting.^EUGENE Willett, North 

 Collins, N. Y.; Wholesale Price-list of Small Fruit Plants. 



