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NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1892. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PA ;n, 



E -ITORIAI. Arti'Jlhs : — The Boundaries of Yellowstone Parit 241 



The Manai^enient of Cemeteries 24: 



Tlie Cork Oak Charles Naudin. 242 



The Morningslde Plateau, New York 243 



Nbw ok LiTruF-KNOWN Plants ; — Viburnum eotiniibliviin. (Witli figui-e,). C. 5. S, 243 



New Orchid? R. A. Rolfe. 243 



Begonia Clh>ii'e de Lorraine. (With fii^iu"e.) 244 



The Grajie " Proiit^ere de Varna" Ed, Aiidri.'. 244 



FoKKiGN Clirre-shondence I — Forest Hill Nurseries Visitor. 245 



Cultural Department :— The Loss ol' Vi^or in Varieties of Strawberries, 



Professor E. S. Cogr. 24S 



Cultivation for Health E. F. Pmivll. 24S 



Plum-tiower Blij^ht Professor Byron D,l!alsted. 248 



Aquilegia Stuartii E. O. Orfet. =48 



Notes on Forsyth ias J. G. Jack-, 249 



Lilies-of-the-vallev, Primula cortusoides. Iris cristata, Begonia Vernon, 



J. N. G. 249 



The Forest; — The Profitableness of Forest-culture B. E. Fernow. 250 



CoRKESPONDBNCK ; — The Winter-killing of Conifers H. H. Hunne^Mell. 250 



Rose Sports C. K. -z^i 



Sweet Alyssum Maiy F Harman. 251 



The Flowers of Eupliorbia Nathaniel 7". Kiduer. 251 



Notes 251 



Illustrations : — Viburnum cotinifolium. Fig. 47 245 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, Fig. 48 247 



The Boundaries of Yellowstone Park. 



IT Is hardly safe to prophesy what this Congress will do 

 in regard to the boundaries of Yellowstone Park, but 

 the situation just now is this : In the House of Representa- 

 tives Mr. Stockdale's bill, which is in the interest of the so- 

 called Montana Mineral Railway Company, and gives them 

 the e-xclusive privilege of using the park as a railroad thor- 

 oughfare, has been favorably reported, and is now on the 

 calendar. The Senate has passed the bill presented by 

 Mr. Warren. This cuts off a small portion of the park 

 north of the Yellowstone River in order to give facili- 

 ties for building railroads to Cook City without invading 

 the park territory, and it adds to the park some 1,200 square 

 miles, although the addition does not include more than 

 one-half of the forest-reservation which was set apart by 

 the President, while the portion of the reservation not in- 

 cluded in the park is restored to the public domain. We 

 should prefer verj' much the original bill of Senator Vest, 

 which included within the boundaries of the park the en- 

 tire reservation made by the President, but even Senator 

 Vest was induced to vote in favor of the Warren bill as 

 probably the best compromise which could be secured. 



The debate on this bill, as reported in The Congressional 

 Record, furnishes some instructive reading. Senator Vest 

 stated, with considerable humiliation, as he said, that he 

 had found after a struggle of twelve years that a persistent 

 and unscrupulous lobby is able to do almost anything it 

 pleases with the public domain, and he e.xpressed the fear 

 that this lobby " would not permit " even the passage of 

 this Senate bill. One would naturally suppose from this 

 that the promoters of this railway scheme comprised a 

 large body of citizeirs vi'ith e,\tensive political and pecuniary 

 influence. On the contrary, it was stated in the debate that 

 this so-called company had never had a meeting ; that no 

 books were ever opened for the subscriptions to its capital 

 stock; that it has never made a report; that it has never 



built a rod of railway ; that under the laws of the state of 

 Montana all its supposed rights were forfeited long ago ; 

 . and finally, that all these people desire is to obtain a fran- 

 chise from Congress for the purpose of selling it to the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad Com])any. Evidence seems 

 to have been submitted to both Houses of Congress 

 which fully justifies these charges against an unscrupulous 

 band of adventurers. Senator Vest (leclares Ihat they liave 

 been able to block all legislation relating to the park sim- 

 ply because they are a compact organization, like an army, 

 persistent, aggressive, untiring and determined to capture 

 this charter and make money by its sale. On the other 

 hand, the friends of the park are few and apathetic, with- 

 out any co-operation and no influence with either great 

 party, because there are no votes in the Yellowstone either 

 for Republicans or Democrats or anybody else. Senator 

 Sanders, in alluding to these statements of Senator Vest 

 concerning the lobby and its power, added that the Senator 

 from Missouri "had spoken with moderation." 



Even if these statements were somewhat exaggerated, it 

 seems to plain people who are not members of Congress 

 that there ought to be sul'ficient virtue in the House of 

 Representatives, when such facts are brought to the atten- 

 tion of its members, to defeat this Mineral Railway job ; 

 and we again call upon all those who are interested in for- 

 ests and forestry, in natural beauty, and in the good name 

 of the country, to make personal appeal to their Congress- 

 men to vote and work against this Stockdale bill. Senator 

 Warren's bill is not all that is desirable, but certainly it is 

 better than nothing. The twelve-mile strip added to the 

 eastern side of the park is more heavily v\'ooded than the 

 part rejected, and it contains the headwaters of all the 

 streams which run into the Yellowstone River and Lake, 

 besides the sources of the Stinking Water River. Jt is a mis- 

 fortune that the portion of the reservation on the south, 

 lying west of the Snake River, is cut off There are some 

 moose here, although the principal breeding-grounds for 

 great game are east of the Snake River. In our judgment 

 the new states make a mistake in permitting these moun- 

 tain-regions to pass under private control, but no law which 

 is opposed by the Senators and Representatives of these 

 states can be passed, and the fact that the Warren bill is 

 supported by the Senators from Idaho, Wyoming and Mon- 

 tana gives some encouragement to hope forits passage in the 

 House. The surrender of a few square miles in the north-east 

 corner is no serious loss, since it leaves a good natural 

 boundary for the park and makes an opening for railroads, 

 which will leave no excuse for any further raids for right 

 of way through the park by speculators. Finally, if this 

 Senate bill passes the House, the boundaries of the park 

 will be fi.xed with some certainty for years to come, at 

 least, and until these boundaries are permanently estab- 

 lished the park will be threatened with invasi<in of one 

 kind or another constantly. .\s the people learn to appre- 

 ciate this region, and become familiar with its uses and 

 value, the next change demanded in its boundaries will 

 probably be a further enlargement of its area. 



The Management of Cemeteries. 



IT seems to be a pretty general belief that in almost 

 every field of human effort demand precedes supply. 

 But in matters where a refined public taste is concerned 

 the supply of good work precedes and creates the demand. 

 For many years the best pictures produced by American 

 artists have not been those which sold the best, and, of 

 course, those which sell the best most truthfully represent 

 the condition of the public taste. Again, our appreciation 

 of the best foreign works of our time has been largely due 

 to dealers who imjiorted the pictures of such men as Corot, 

 Rousseau and Daubigny before we even knew their names, 

 and long before we could understand and properl)' esti- 

 mate their art. It is true that in the long run dealers may 

 have profited by this experiment, but the public has profited 

 by it far more, and it is just that we should feel grateful to 



