March 30, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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there never could have been any brackish water. I may add, 

 however, that it was always found growing along streams or 

 near wet places. 



Pleasanlville, N.J. Jolul h. Fclcrs. 



Exhibitions. 

 The Boston Flower Show. 



THE annual spring flower show of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society filled its larger hall last week with a col- 

 lection of flowering plants which, in some respects, was the 

 best seen inrecent years at one of these exhibitions, although 

 the low temperature of the opening day made it impossible to 

 bring large specimen plants to the city. 



Nothing from the cultural point of view equaled a collection 

 of Persian Cyclamens staged by Mr. Kenneth Finlayson, gar- 

 dener of Dr. C. G. Weld, of Brookline. The plants were mar- 

 vels of good cultivation, clean and healthy, with large foliage 

 and quantities of large well-colored flowers. As specimen 

 plants nothing so good has been seen in Boston before. From 

 the same establishment were sent a collection of Cinerarias, 

 which are there made a specialty, although this year the plants 

 were hardly equal in finish to those which Dr. Weld exhibited 

 last year. His bulbs, too, especially Hyacinths, were very fine, 

 as were those exhibited by John L. Gardner and N. T. Kidder. 

 Hard-wooded greenhouse-plants never appear at Boston 

 flower shows in any great variety, unfortunately, for cer- 

 tainly there was nothing more interesting in this show than 

 the Chorozemas, Eriostemons, Boronias and Grevilleas exhib- 

 ited by Mr. Gardner. 



Siebrecht & Wadley, of NevvRochelle, exhibited ten varieties 

 of Pitcher-plants, including a new seedling, which received a 

 certificate of merit. Tea Roses were shown in good condition, 

 although none of the collections were exceptionally fine. It is 

 a suggestive fact that Tea, and not hybrid Perpetual Roses, 

 were chiefly exhibited this year in Boston. It is to be hoped 

 that this is an indication that the extravagant habit of forcing 

 hybrid Roses is going out of fashion, and that the more 

 beautiful and delicate Tea Roses are again to take the first 

 place in winter decoration. 



The display of Carnations, owing to the great encourage- 

 ment in the way of prizes given this year to these flowers, was 

 superior to any previous one, the principal contributors being 

 R. L. Lombard and William Nicholson. 



Orchids did not make a feature of the exhibition, although 

 small well-grown collections were staged by E. W. Gilmore, 

 of North Easton, John L. Gardner and N. T. Kidder, Mr. E. 

 Butler setting up a remarkably well-grown plant of Dendro- 

 bium nobile, which took the first prize for a single specimen. 

 The first Theodore Lyman prize for ten Orchids was awarded 

 E. W. Gilmore, and the second to John L. Gardner, Mr. Kidder 

 taking the fii'st of the society's prizes for three Orchids, and 

 Benjamin Gray the second. For stove and greenhouse plants 

 Dr. Weld took the first, and Mr. Gardner the second prize. 

 The first two prizes for six Cinerarias, the first and second for 

 three plants, and the first and second for a single plant went to 

 Dr. Weld, who also captured the first prizesfor Cyclamens and 

 Hyacinths and for the best three pots of Lilium Harrisii. To 

 Warren Elwell was given the first prize for a general display of 

 spring-flowering bulbs, open to florists only, and to R. L. Lom- 

 bard the first prize for six varieties of Carnations, the second 

 going to William Nicholson, and the third to H. K. South- 

 worth. Paul Richwagen was awarded the first prize for twelve 

 blooms of any crimson variety of Carnations with Ferdinand 

 Mangold, and Galvin Brothers for twelve blooms of any pink 

 variety with The Princess. The same firm took the first prizes 

 for any scarlet variety with Hector, and for any white variety 

 with Mrs. Fisher, while Golden Triumph, shown by R. L. 

 Lombard, was considered the best yellow, and Waban, the 

 best Tea Rose introduced since i88q. 



Periodical Literature. 



A good idea of the character and composition of the for- 

 , ests which cover the southern Alleghany Mountains, the rich- 

 est and most productive forests of deciduous trees in the world, 

 is obtained from a report made by Mr. Jed. Hotchkiss, of 

 Staunton, Virginia, on an investigation of the standing timber 

 of the Guiandot Coal-land Association situated in Wayne, 

 Logan and Lincoln counties, in the south-west corner of West 

 Virginia, and published in a late number of Science. The 

 principal timber-trees on about nine thousand acres were 

 counted and measured, and in this way some reliable infor- 



mation has been obtained of the present average condition of 

 the forests of this region. The diameter of the trees was taken 

 at about four feet above the ground, and the length of trunks 

 fit to cut into logs or for long timber was estimated by an ex- 

 pert timber-viewer. Trees less than eighteen inches in diam- 

 eter, with the exception of Hickories and Locusts, which were 

 measured from ten inches upward, were not included in the 

 estimate. To show graphically the results of these measure- 

 ments, Mr. Hotchkiss selects " a tract of 655 acres on the top 

 of the dividing ridge between the waters of the east and tlie 

 west forks of Twelve-pole River, two miles north-east of the 

 new mining town of Dunlow, on the Ohio extension of the 

 Norfolk and Western Railroad and about forty miles south- 

 east from the Ohio River." About one-half of the tract lies 

 on the east side of the dividing ridge facing to the north of 

 east, and the other on the west side sloping south of west, the 

 crest of the hill being about one thousand feet above the level 

 of the sea. It was found that 16,989 trees, or an average of 

 twenty-six large timber-trees to the acre, were growing on the 

 655 acres. Of these 1,986 were White Oaks, 5,886 were Chestnut 

 Oaks, 1,100 were Black Oaks, 736 were Red Oaks, 2,547 were 

 Hickories, 1,900 were Chestnuts, 207 were Locusts, 330 were 

 Maples, 333 Birches, 85S Liriodendrons or Tulip Poplars, 939 

 were Pines, and 167 were Lindens. 



It will be seen that the proportionate percentage of hard 

 woods^that is, of all the trees with the exception of the Lin- 

 dens, Pines and Liriodendrons — is remarkably large, or about 

 eighty-eight per cent. The record of the diameter and length 

 of each of the trees counted shows that most of them are of 

 large size, the Oaks ranging in diameter from eighteen to sixty 

 inches, and in trunk length from twenty to sixty feet. The 

 Hickories range from ten to twenty-seven inches in diameter, 

 and from fifteen to sixty feet in trunk length ; the Pines from 

 eighteen to forty inches in diameter and twenty to seventy 

 feet in trunk length, and the Tulip Poplars from twenty to 

 sixty-six inches in diameter and from thirty to eighty feet in 

 trunk length. • 



Notes. 



Mr. H. E. Chitty, of Paterson, New Jersey, writes to The 

 American Florist that 3,840 plants of the Carnation Lizzie 

 McGowan, occupying a bench surface of 1,100 square feet, 

 produced 60,550 prime flowers in 119 days, while 50,000 cut- 

 tings were taken from the plants during the last month of the 

 time covered by this record. 



The third series of Hooker's Icones Plantarum, consisting of 

 ten volumes, with a thousand plates, has recently been com- 

 pleted. This work, in which are figured new plants from all 

 parts of the world, is indispensable to working botanists, and 

 as only two hundred and fifty copies are printed, this series, 

 like the previous ones, must soon become scarce and difficult 

 to obtain. We are glad, therefore, to be able to announce that 

 a few copies are stiU to be had from the Director of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew, where the work is prepared with the aid of a 

 fund left by Mr. George Bentham for the purpose. The price 

 of the set of ten volumes is only ^5, or twenty-five dollars. 



Monsieur Edward Andr^, the distinguished landscape-gar- 

 dener and the editor of the Revue Horticole, has been elected 

 a member of the National Society of Agriculture of France in 

 the section of "cultures speciales " to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of the late Monsieur Hardey. Membership in this 

 society, which is connected with the Institute of France, is 

 limited to one hundred, and is regarded the highest lienor 

 within reach of French cultivators of tlie soil. Monsieur 

 Andre's associates in the section in which he will take liis seat 

 are Duchartre, Pasteur, Chatin and Henri de Vilmorin. It is 

 eminently fitting that art in gardening should be represented 

 in this august body ; and no man in Europe so well deserves 

 the honor of representing it or can speak with so much au- 

 thority as Monsieur AhdrS. 



Professor Halsted writes that lie has observed during the 

 past winter that eel-worms (nematodes) have been very de- 

 structive among young Ferns. The first leaves of Ferns are 

 very small and delicate, and two or three worms are sufficient 

 to destroy a plant, from which they pass on to the next victim. 

 In one bed of young Ferns noticed the dead plants were sepa- 

 rated from the living by a line as distinct as that between the 

 burned and unburned portion of a meadow in early spring. 

 These pests usually attack plants from the root, and probably 

 at the outset have made their entrance into the Ferns from the 

 soil, but they can also spread from leaf to leaf throughout all 



