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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 212, 



famous author, whose later years were entirely devoted to the 

 cultivation of flowers. 



In a letter testifying to the hardiness of Citrus trifoliata in 

 Philadelphia, Mr. Joseph Meehan writes that even the ordinary 

 Lemon-tree will often survive the winters there when left out. 

 One tree lived unprotected through two successive winters, 

 after which record of it was lost. 



Jedediah Hotchkiss writes to Science that while the Confed- 

 erate soldiers were encamped in the vicinity of the Rappahan- 

 nock River in 1862-63, not only they, but the inhabitants of that 

 region, used freely the leaves of the common American Holly 

 (Ilex opaca) as a substitute for tea. 



The American Architect and Building News recommends, 

 as likely to be of practical assistance to persons interested in 

 the subject, a pamphlet on " The Disposal of Sewage for Iso- 

 lated Country Houses," written by Wm. Paul Gerhard, C. E., 

 and recently published by the Iowa State Board of Health. 



More than three thousand persons are employed by the 

 famous firm of Moet & Chandon in the cultivation of their 

 vineyards near Epernay, the centre of the champagne district 

 of France. The cellars in which the wine which they produce 

 is stored, cover an area of about one hundred thousand square 

 yards, and are cut out of the solid chalk beneath a hill. 



Including the Central Park and the new parks in the northern 

 portion of the city, which as yet are hardly available as such, 

 the vast area of New York contains twenty-three breathing- 

 places, large and small. In Berlin, in addition to the Thier 

 Garten, there are three other large parks and about thirty open 

 places, variously planted, and, even when very small, usually 

 containing statues or other works of art. 



Many Japanese flower-vessels are formed in the shape of a 

 boat. Such vessels, according to Japanese ideas, must always 

 be suspended in an elevated position in order both that the 

 idea of their floating may be expressed, and also that the water 

 they contain may not be seen ; for taste would be grievously 

 violated if water were visible inside a flower-boat, suggesting 

 a leaking or wrecked vessel, and therefore giving birth to 

 ominous suggestions. 



A Philadelphia correspondent of the American Florist speaks 

 of a new bright pink Carnation which is now being propagated 

 in that city by Mr. Colfiesh, and another light pink variety of 

 Robert Craig's named Edna Craig, which is pronounced ex- 

 quisite in color, of good size, and with a heavy stem. These 

 two, with Mr. Lonsdale's Grace Battles, another promising 

 pink variety which has been mentioned before, are soon to be 

 offered to the public. 



Professor Halsted, who has charge of the Exhibition of 

 Weeds at the Chicago Columbian Fair, has sent out a circular 

 requesting specimens from all states and territories. Seeds 

 are especially desired as well as seedlings in various stages of 

 development. The root-system, flower and flower-cluster and 

 seed-vessel are also essential. If the weed is large, specimens 

 must be procured while they are small enough to mount the 

 whole plant, roots and all, upon a herbarium-sheet not over a 

 foot in length. The collecting must be done during the present 

 season, and the specimens sent in for mounting, labeling, etc., 

 by the ist of December. 



Mr. W. R. Lazenby reports in the Bulletin of the Toi'rey 

 Botanical Club that he has compared the catalogue of the 

 plants of Franklin County, Ohio, published in 1891 by Messrs. 

 Selby Sc Craig, with the list, covering the same district, which 

 Professor W. S. SuUivant issued nearly fifty years ago, and 

 which was considered a conscientious one at that time. The 

 total number of plants now credited to the county is 1,002, as 

 against 779 in the early catalogue. Of this total number fifteen 

 per cent, are introduced plants ; but when the additions to the 

 old list, numbering 223, are considered by themselves the pro- 

 portion of foreign plants amounts to nearly forty per cent. 



A book likely to be of great value to tourists has recently 

 been published in Paris under the title Autour de Paris. Its 

 author is Monsieur Louis Barron, and it gives, in charming 

 language and with much historical information, descriptions 

 of all the interesting towns, buildings, landscapes and gardens 

 in the vicinity of the capital, supplying a much-needed guide 

 not only to such famous spots at St. Germain, Fontainebleau, 

 Chantilly and Versailles, but to a multitude of others which, 

 while almost equally delightful, are less celebrated, and there- 

 fore have usually been unvisited even by the most eager and 

 industrious of foreign travelers. The work is published by 

 Quantin. 



Foreign papers describe an amusing exhibition which was 

 recently held in the park at Brussels. The Burgfomaster ap- 

 pointed a certain day when the sculptors of the city might dis- 

 play their skill in the rapid modeling of figures in snow, and 

 the public would be admitted to view the results of their skill 

 for a small admittance-fee, the money going to charitable ob- 

 jects. A number of sculptors entered the novel arena ; by 

 sunset their work was finished, and during the evening it was 

 examined under the electric light by crowds of people. The 

 most conspicuous work was a colossal figure representing 

 Charity, while others were of a more "realistic" sort, notable 

 among these being certain figures of nurse-maids and sol- 

 diers seated, after the manner of their prototypes, on the park 

 benches. 



The recently issued annual report of the Park Commission- 

 ers of Lynn, Massachusetts, is illustrated with charming pic- 

 tures of the ground under their control, and it tells us that, 

 although the town is a great manufacturing centre, the people 

 who frequent the Lynn Woods "seem to have a sense of 

 ownership which begets a feeling of care and responsibility 

 for the property, which is a better protection than a poHce, how- 

 ever watchful, could give." Only three arrests were made 

 during the year, and only one of them was for destruction of 

 property, although the rules against breaking branches and 

 picking flowers are necessarily strict ; and no complaints of 

 rowdyism or improper conduct were preferred. Prairie-hens 

 and quail, introduced into the woods from the west, have 

 made themselves at home and are breeding in a satisfactory 

 way. 



The Cauliflowers for which Erfurt is famous are grown on a 

 low-lying strip of land some miles in length and intersected by 

 warm springs which never freeze, even in this vigorous cli- 

 mate. The ground is cut into beds a hundred yards long by 

 twenty wide, and the water flows around each in ditches about 

 nine feet wide. The beds themselves are raised two or three 

 feet above the level of the ditches, and the plants are watered 

 with a bowl about the size of an ordinary hand-cup fitted to 

 the end of a pole ten feet long, with which the water is taken 

 from the ditches by hand and poured on and around the plants. 

 This involves considerable labor during the hot summer 

 months, but the plants flourish under such treatment and 

 bring a very remunerative crOp. Water Cress is grown in the 

 ditches successfully, because the water is kept at an even 

 temperature all the year round. Erfurt is one of the few 

 places in Germany where Water Cress can be grown in 

 quantity. 



In Dr. Peter Heylyn's Help to English History, published at 

 London in the year 1680, occurs incidentally an interesting bit 

 of horticultural information. Describing the city of Glouces- 

 ter, he says that the region where it lies is " a fruitful and a 

 pleasant Country, being honoured with a full course of the 

 River of Severn and the original fountain of the River of 

 Thames. That part thereof which is beyong the Severn is 

 overspread with Woods ; all which included in one name, made 

 the Forst of Dean. That part that butteth upon Oxfordshire is 

 swelled up with hills, called the Cotswold hills ; but these even 

 covered, as it were, with Sheep, which yields a Wooll of nota- 

 ble fineness, hardly inferior to the best of England. Between 

 these two is seated a most fruitful Vale, fruitful to admirafion 

 of all kinds of grain and heretofore of Vines and Vineyards ; 

 the want of which is now supplied by a drink made of Apples, 

 called Sider, which here they make in great abundance." It 

 certainly seems strange to-day to think of this western part of 

 England as a region where cider was a comparative novelty, 

 and where the manufacture of wine had been carried on. 



Catalogues Received. 



Ames Plow Co., Boston, Mass. ; Plows and other Farming Imple- 

 ments and Machinery. — Wm. Elliott & Sons, 54 and 56 Dey Street, 

 New York ; Vegetable and Flower Seeds and Bulbs. — Wm. M. John- 

 ston, Wilmot, Stark Co., Ohio; The Daisy Force Pump and Sprayer. 

 — C. H. JooSTEN, 3 Coenties Slip, New York; Wholesale Trade Cata- 

 logue of Bulbs a!id Plants. — Lenault-Huet, Ussy (Calvados), France ; 

 C. H. JoosTEN, New York, Agent ; Wholesale Catalogue of Nursery 

 Stock. — Richard Mott, Burlington, Vt. ; Vegetable, Grass and Flower 

 Seeds, Flowering and Foliage Plants, Ti-ees, etc. — C. S. Pratt, Read- 

 ing, Mass.; Price-list of Choice Strawberry Plants and other Small 

 Fruits. — The Geo. L. Squier Mfg. Co., 189-195 Water Street, New 

 Yoiic ; Seeds, Roots, Plants, and Garden Requisites. — Wm. Stahl, 

 Quincy, 111. ; Fruit Trees, Plants and Vines ; Excelsior Spraying Out- 

 fits. — Phil. Strubler, Napierville, 111.; Price-list of Small Fruit 

 Plants. 



