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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 2io. 



Scab of the Potato, it has been found that spraying the seed 

 potatoes, and the soil about tliein after tliey are in the furrows, 

 with the Bordeaux mixture checks the development of the 

 disease. 



The Peruvian Trumpet Flower, a name which has been 

 applied to Brugmansia suaveolens, will not endure frost, but 

 Meehans' Monthly invites attention to the fact that it will stand 

 very rough treatment, and this makes it a favorite everywhere 

 for summer decoration. The plant can be taken up in the 

 autumn and preserved in the cellar. The numerous large 

 white trumpet-shaped flowers make it very attractive outside 

 of the particular fragrance which is one of its characteristics. 



Certain Japanese writers declare that in placing a floral de- 

 sign in a room care should be taken to contrast its style with 

 that of the adjoining garden, an idea which seems fanciful to 

 us, but is quite reasonable in Japan, where, during most of the 

 year, the paper sides of the house are thrown wide open toward 

 the garden. If the garden, say these writers, consists of an ar- 

 rangement of lakes and hills, the floral group in the room is 

 best when it has a moorland character ; but if the garden be 

 flat and waterless, then mountain-trees and water-plants may 

 be used in the chamber. 



Among the foreign plants which have become very trouble^ 

 some in the Australasian islands the Sweet-brier holds a prom- 

 inent place. "Introduced as a hedge-plant," says Professor 

 George L. Goodale, " it has run over certain lands like a 

 weed, and disputes every acre of some arable plats. From 

 the facility with which it is propagated, it is almost ineradica- 

 ble. There is something astonishing in the manner in which 

 it gains and holds the ground." Corse, Brambles andThisfles 

 also prove much more difficult to eradicate in the southern 

 hemisphere than in the northern, where they originated. 



The Colorado Forestry Association has memorialized the 

 President in behalf of a new forest-reservation, the most im- 

 portant one yet asked for, and including the crest of the Rocky 

 Mountains. This range crosses the entire state, and its high 

 interior region contains one hundred and forty peaks exceed- 

 ing ii,ooo feet in height. Vast areas of timber have already 

 been desolated, and yet this is one of the chief distributing 

 centres of the continental water-system containing the sources 

 of the North Platte, the South Platte, the Arkansas, the Rio 

 Grande, the Dolores, the Gunnison, the Grand, the White, the 

 Yampa, streams which are not only important to Colorado, but 

 to the neighboring states and territories. The petition desig- 

 nates for the proposed forest-reserve all public lands along the 

 crest of the mountain-ranges and spurs of the state, and upon 

 each side thereof for a distance of six miles, more or less, ac- 

 cording to the width of the timber-belts in different localities. 



At the late meeting of the Carnation Society Mr. Lons- 

 dale exhibited some buds of Carnations with specimens 

 of a kind of worm which had worked upon them before the 

 flowers were expanded. In some cases the base of the calyx 

 was eaten through. In other places the petals had been eaten 

 where they had commenced to unfold. In most cases the 

 objective point seemed to be the nectar at the base of the 

 flower, although the petals also seem to have been devoured. 

 Professor Riley identified the marauders as variegated cut 

 worms (Agrotis saucia), and he suggested that they might have 

 been brought into the greenhouse with the earth from some 

 sod-land. He advised the spraying of flie plants with Paris 

 green at the rate of one-quarter of a pound to fifty gallons of 

 water, and a thorough wetting of the soil with dilute kerosene-- 

 soap emulsion. According to a report in the American Flor- 

 ist the remedy was tested at once, and seems to have been 

 effective. 



The plant known variously as the Husk Tomato, the Straw- 

 berry Tomato, the Ground Cherry and the Dwarf Cape Goose- 

 berry is a species of Physalis (P. pubescens), which has been 

 cultivated for years and is well worth growing in the home 

 garden. Professor Bailey has been making some experiments 

 with this and other species of Physalis, of which he gives an 

 account in a late bulletin. He has tested seven species, but 

 only three of them have been cultivated as fruit-bearing 

 plants. The chief objection to the one named above is its 

 prostrate habit, which causes it to spread over too much 

 ground. Professor Bailey has been unable to hybridize it with 

 others. The species P. Peruviana, or the true Cape Goose- 

 berry, is too late for our cliinate. It has been in cultivation for 

 two centuries, and is a valuable food-plant in the Cape of Good 

 Hope and New South Wales, where it is eaten in a variety of 

 ways. The Pepper-leaved Physalis (P. capsicifolia), erro- 

 neously called P. edulis, is unfit for general cultivation for 



fruit, although it is an interesting plant for the botanical 

 student. 



A recent bulletin from the Mississippi Experiment Station 

 gives an account of the southern Tomato-blight, which was 

 studied there a year ago by Dr. Halstead, and which had be- 

 come so destructive as to cause alarm among the growers of 

 that region. The blight is due to a bacterial germ. Plants first 

 wilt, then lose their color and die. This blight seems to be 

 identical with a bacterial disease'of the Potato, and it can be 

 communicated from one kind of plant to the other. The same 

 seems to be true of a blight of Melons and other cucurbita- 

 ceous plants which prevails in the same region. If this is 

 true, it is plain that the soil may become contaminated with 

 bacteria from any one of these three crops, so as to make it unfit 

 for either of the other two. The blight can be more readily 

 disseminated by the Potato, since it is propagated by tubers, 

 which may carry the germs. AH the diseased plants and litter 

 should be burned at harvest-time. Repetitions of either of the 

 three crops on the same field should be avoided, and spray- 

 ing with the Bordeaux mixture is recommended where fear of 

 the blight is entertained. This treatment has proved effica- 

 cious in the case of the Potato. 



A few months ago we quoted from the Bulletin of the Tor- 

 rey Botanical Club an account of a Linden which had faljen 

 root in the decomposed wood of its own trunk. Mr. G. B. 

 Sudworth, of the Forestry Division, of the Department of Ag- 

 riculture, now reports in thesamejournal that he has observed 

 a similar phenomenon in a small White Mulberry which stands 

 in the grounds of the Department. The tree, he says, has been ■ 

 more seriously injured than was described to be the case with 

 the Linden, " a considerable portion of its trunk being de- 

 stroyed by decay. The adventitious roots spring from the free 

 border of a longitudinal crack where the trunk forks, the edges 

 of the wound having been ' healed ' for some time, while the 

 subsequent decomposition of the exposed inner layers of wood 

 formed a quantity of mold, which, lying in contact with the 

 healed borders, seems to have induced the growth of adventi- 

 tious roots from one side into the decayed mass. In consider- 

 ing the precise conditions under which this apparently peculiar 

 growth is produced," adds Mr. Sudworth, " as well as the fact 

 that, as far as observed, the adventifious roots proceed only 

 from vigorous, newly formed wood, perhaps these cases may 

 not be more phenomenal than the production of roots from a 

 cutting or from a layered branch, where new wood is subjected 

 to the same conditions, and therefore seem to be quite analo- 

 gous to the case in which the Linden and Mulberry produced 

 roots, if not an expression of the same law. The apparent in- 

 congruity exhibited by a plant deriving, as it seems, nourish- 

 ment from its own body appears more striking at first thought 

 than if we consider that the lignified part of any living trunk, 

 if reduced by decay, is as fittingly a plant-food as that which 

 may be appropriated by the same individual from its own ac- 

 cumulation of decayed leaves, provided, of course, the neces- 

 sary moisture is present in the humus." 



Catalogues Received. 



C. E. Allen, Brattleboro, Vt. ; Seed and Plant Guide. — George B. 

 Arnold, Benton Centre, Yates Co., N. Y.; Price List of Fruit and 

 Ornamental Trees, Small Fruits and Shrubs. — C. S. Curtice Co., 

 Portland, N. Y.; Grape Vines and Small Fruit Plants.— J. A. Everitt, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. ; Farm and Garden Tools for Cultivation by Hand 

 Power. — D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. ; Flower, Veg;etable, Grain 

 and Grass Seeds, Forest Tree and Hedge Seeds. — A. H. Griesa, Law- 

 rence, Kansas ; Wholesale List of Fruit and Ornamental Trees. — Peter 

 Henderson & Co., 35 and 37 Cortlandt Street, New York; Water 

 Lilies and Aquatics. — Herbert A. Jackson, Successor to Thos. Jack- 

 son, Portland, Me. ; Wholesale Catalogue of Deciduous, Evergreen and 

 Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Vines, Shrubs and Tree Seed. — McMath 

 Bros., Onley, Va. ; Price List of Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, 

 Shrubs, Small Fruits, Descriptive Price List of Strawberry and Vegetable 

 Plants. — H. Meyer, late Woolson & Co., Passaic, N.J. ; Hardy Peren- 

 nial Plants, Bulbs, Ferns and Climbers. — Munroe, De Forest & Co., 

 Successors to MuNROE, Judson & Stroup, Oswego, N. Y. ; CanadaHard 

 Wood Unleached Ashes. — Pitcher & Manda, United States Nurseries, 

 Short Hills, N. J. ; Catalogue of New and Rare Seeds, Plants and 

 Bulbs, Beautifully Illustrated. Collections of Choice Flower and Select 

 Vegetable Seeds. — George Richardson, Lordstown, Trumbull Co., 

 Ohio ; Rare Water Lilies. — Schlegel & FoTTLER, 26 South Market 

 Street, Boston, Mass. ; Vegetable, Grass and Flower Seeds, Hardy 

 Perennial Plants, Large and Small Fruits, Shade Trees. — Shady Hill 

 Nursery Co., Cambridge, Mass. ; Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Herbaceous 

 Perennials. — J. C. Vaughan, 88 State Street, Chicago, 111. ; Garden 

 Seeds and Plants, Tree Seeds. — Weeber & Don, Successors to A. D. 

 CowAN & Co., 114 Chambers Street, New York ; Flower Seeds, Spe- 

 cialties in Vegetable Seeds and Bulbs. 



