April 27, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



193 



GARDEN AND FOREST, 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. 



Ofi'ick ; Tkibunh Building, New Vokk. 



Conducted by 



Prufessor C. S. Sargent. 



ENTKRHD AS SHCOND-CLASS MATTER AT THB POST OFFICE AT NRW YORK, N. V. 



NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1892. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I'AGE. 



Editorial ARTtci.FS : — The Sequoia Reservation 103 



Tlic Love of Nutiire. — I ]()3 



Notes of a Suiiiriier Journey ill Europe. — XIII J, G. Jacfc, 194 



Klowers in'l'own Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. 195 



Foreign CoRREsroNDENCE : — London Loiter W, Watson. 196 



Plant Notes ;— Some Recent Portraits 197 



New OR LiTTLH-KNowN Plants: — Miltonopsis Bleiii splcndens. (With figures.) 



//'. Robinson. 197 



Cultural Department: — An Enji;Iisli Daffodil Farm K C 198 



Hai-dy Ferns S. F. Goodrich. 200 



Shadino; Greenjiouses y. N. Gerard. 100 



Tomatoes from Immature Seed 201 



Early Spling Flowers Johji Bell. 201 



The Forest: — Timber-culture in Eastern Nehraslia E. y. mil. 201 



Correspondence : — Transplanting^ the Trailing; Arbutus Robert Ridgivay 202 



Easter Flowers in Philadelphia IV. If. Taplin. 203 



Spravinj^ Machines and Insecticides -Uteri Salisbniy. 203 



The India-rubber Tree AI. 203 



Insects on Cherry-trees T. G. 203 



Notes 204 



Illustrations: — Miltonopsis Bleui sj:)lendciis, in the collection ot' Mr. F. L. 



Ames, Fifi;- 30 '. 19S 



Miltonopsis Bleui splendens, in the collection of Mr. F. L. Ames, Fig. 31.. 199 



The Sequoia Reservation. 



E>T week we spoke of the efforts of a railway lobby to 

 secure a right of way through Yellowstone Park. 

 We might have adiieii that every one of the forest-reserva- 

 tions which have been set apart for public use under the 

 President's proclamation is threatened with invasion of 

 one kind or another. When the Yosemite Valley was ded- 

 icated to public use there was a strong protest by men who 

 hoped to use it for their personal profit. When it was found 

 necessary to enlarge the reservation, so as to save the 

 streams which Ifow into the valley by protecting the for- 

 ests about their sources, the protest was still more ener- 

 getic. Unless this area was included in the reservation, it 

 was very plain that these highlands would soon be stripped 

 of their timber, and this extension of Goveniment control in- 

 jured no one but unlawful trespassers. The land can never 

 be subdued to agricultural use, and some of the mountains 

 included in it rise above the timber-line. But the men 

 who were selling timber which belonged to the Govern- 

 ment, and the sheep-herders, who were setting forest-fires 

 every year in the hope of benefiting the pasturage to 

 which they had no right, were up in arms at once. 



The big trees south of the famous Mariposa group have 

 already been attacked, and one of the most important 

 groves was taken possession of by a colony for the pur- 

 pose of working them into timber. These wonders of the 

 forest are a part of the nation's inheritance, and the trees 

 are worth infinitely more as they stand than they would be 

 when cut down and sawed up. If they are preserved 

 they will draw visitors from all parts of the country and 

 all parts of the world, and in a purely business point of 

 view fhey would in the long run bring more money into 

 the state as a natural attraction of unparalleled beauty and 

 grandeur than they could in any other wa)''. For the past 

 year they have been protected by detachments of the army, 

 which, under national authority, patrol the reservation. The 



lawless men who covet the timber of these great trees have 

 become enraged because the Government is undertaking 

 \.o preserve the people's property. The California papers 

 contain accounts of acti\'e efforts now being made there 

 and in Congress to reduce the area of the reservation, and 

 the shccp-herders are comphtining that they have been de- 

 prived of their rights. A convention of the sheep men of 

 three counties has lately been held for the avowed purpose 

 of procuring the repeal of the act establishing the Sequoia 

 Reservation, and it is well for the people and for Congress 

 to know that if they relax their vigilance fires will again 

 be sweeping through these forests and savv-mills will soon 

 begin their desolating work. 



No wrong has ever been done to a lumberman or shep- 

 herd by establishing these reservations. No man has a 

 claim to pasturage on Government lands, still less right has 

 any one to cut down the trees which belong to the people, or 

 to kindle fires which will destroy not only the forest as it now 

 exists, but all hope of forests in the future. The agitators for 

 unlimited sheep-ranging boldly denied in convention all the 

 truths in regard to the beneficent influence of forests which 

 have been established b)' centuries of human experience. 

 They asserted that the streams would continue to flow as 

 evenly without forests as with them. Tliey denied that the 

 trampling and browsingof animals injure the growth of the 

 woods. They even denied that fires are ever kindled in the 

 interests of these sheep-herders, although every one who 

 has ever been in California knows better. What they really 

 want is full opportunity to steal the timber from the Gov- 

 ernment forests and to get rich by pasturing their flocks on 

 Government land, where they are sure to do incalculable 

 damage. 



It is not probable that the Government will think of 

 abandoning these forests, or any part of them, in obedience 

 to a preamble and resolutions passed by a convention of 

 would-be trespassers. But it is important that the people 

 of the country should realize the need of constant watch- 

 fulness if these reservations are to be saved. Attacks upon 

 them, open or insidious, may be expected at any time. 

 The men who organize these attacks know just what they 

 want and the most promising schemes for obtaining their 

 ends. The individuals who take active interest in them, 

 on the other hand, are few and scattered, and the reserva- 

 tions will never be permanently safe until their value is 

 generally recognized throughout the country. No one will 

 dare to attack them when an affectionate regard for them 

 has become a universal public sentiment. 



The Love of Nature. — I. 



AI^L human beings draw pleasure from nature in the 

 rudimentary sense of enjoying fresh air, sunshine 

 and a free open outlook. Every one prefers a bright day 

 to a gloomy one, and a balmy air to harsh tormenting 

 winds ; and almost every one will confess that a green 

 landscape is pleasanter to look upon than grimy streets, 

 even though he may have good reasons for preferring a 

 town as a place of residence. Such likings as these, how- 

 ever, prove no real love of nature. They are almost purely 

 physical ; they betray no more sentiment than the animal 

 which is pleased when basking in the sunshine. 



But the great majority of people, even among those 

 whose minds are uncultivated and who do not practice the 

 common proprieties of life, have a deeper feeling for nature 

 than this, and can appreciate something of its true beauty. 

 Stupid and brutalized indeed is the man or woman who 

 does not notice a brilliant flower, or who would not be im- 

 pressed by the view of a mighty mountain chain. On 

 Sundays our parks are crowded with laboring people, who 

 spread through every quiet walk and shadowy glade, and 

 like nothing so well as to saunter or lie upon the grass ; 

 and although part of their pleasure is simply physical, any 

 one who has sympathetically mingled with them knows 

 that a great deal of it is of finer quality. The beauty of the 



