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that they perfume the air in all tlie neighborhood of the 

 plants. Its free growth and gracetul habit, in wliich it excels 

 other Privets, make it beautiful, too, after the fiowers have 

 disappeared. 



At a recent meeting of the Society Nationale d'HorticuIture 

 de France, Monsieur Cornu exhibited the yellow-flowered 

 Pjeony, raised from seed collected in Yunnan by Delavay, to 

 which Monsieur Franchet has given the name Pasonia lutea. 

 It is a small-flowered species of no ornamental value, but in- 

 teresting from the unique color of the flowers and the possible 

 influence it may exert in the creation of a new race of yellow- 

 flowered garden Pjeonies. 



Mr. C. L. Mann, of Milwaukee, writes that an Elm-tree cu 

 last winter at Sutton's Bay, Leelanaw County, Michigan, scaled 

 6,487 feet, board measure, by Doyle rule. The first eight feet 

 of the trunk were cut off, and not taken out on account of 

 shake, and a piece of the trunk further up had attached to it a 

 burl about six feet in diameter, and six feet of the trunk were 

 wasted to avoid the task of handling this. A deduction was 

 made for defects in the first log. 



The hybrid L?elia which was raised by Messrs. Sander & Co., of 

 St. Albans, England, from Lselia purpurata, fertilized with the pol- 

 len of Cattleya Mossiae, and named Arnoldiana, is now bloom- 

 in<r in the collection of Mr. Hicks Arnold, of this city. The 

 plant justifies all that was said in its praise when it was awarded 

 a medal and a first-class certificate rather more than a year 

 ago at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, in London. 

 Mr. Arnold's plant carries eleven flowers, and they show the 

 good qualities of both parents, especially in the richness of 

 their coloring, from the pale purple of the petals and sepals to 

 the brilliant dark crimson of the lip. 



Syringa Japonica, the great tree Lilac of northern Japan, cer- 

 tainly improves with age, and the large plants in the gardens 

 of eastern Massachusetts, where this fine plant was introduced 

 several years ago through the agency of the Arnold Arboretum, 

 are better than ever this season, being covered with their 

 immense clusters of creamy white flowers, which stand up 

 boldly above the masses of rich dark green foliage. Among 

 small late-flowering trees Syringa Japonica here at the north 

 has no equal when once it is established in deep rich soil with 

 sufficient room to insure the growth and ripening of its up- 

 right rather rigid branches which, when the plants are well 

 grown, form a compact rather formal head. The largest 

 plants in Massachusetts are now nearly twenty feet high and 

 twelve or fifteen feet through the branches. 



English fruit-growers are now compelled to compete with 

 the most distant countries, for rapid transportation is making 

 proximity to market a secondary factor in fruit-culture. A 

 few years ago apples were first sliipped from Australia to 

 London, and this fruit was so much superior to that grown in 

 England that the latter was, in some cases, practically driven 

 from the market. This year Mandarin oranges have been 

 sent to England from the province of Nagpur, in British India, 

 and the fruit is of such excellent quality that it rivals the 

 oranges grown in less distant countries. Peaches grown at 

 the Cape of Good Hope have also been successfully shipped 

 to London. They were sold in London early in February, the 

 demand being strong. The first crate, containing 35 peaches, 

 sold for 80 shillings. Such prices will be a strong inducement 

 for further shipments. 



The Gardeners' C/ironicUhasa.nmte!-estingnotea.honta.Ta\ip- 

 show which for sixty-seven years has been held at the Orange- 

 tree Inn, Bufley, a small village near Macclesfield, England. 

 So popular is it with the Tulip fraternity that rnany admirers of 

 the flower are attracted to it from Manchester, Macclesfield, 

 Stockport, etc. The show is conducted according to all the old 

 traditions : the flowers are staged in ginger-beer bottles in one 

 room ; in another sit the secretary and the exhibitors, and as 

 the flowers are judged, stewards bring to the secretary the 

 blooms awarded prizes ; the names of the varieties and the 

 exhibitors are entered by him in a book, and the proper cards 

 affixed to them ; they are then returned to the show-room and 

 arranged on a sloping stage — like an old-fashioned plant-stage 

 — placed at one end of the room, where they are on view for 

 a few days, non-subscribers being "admitted on payment of 

 silver at the doors." If any one would witness something of 

 the old enthusiasm which stirs the Tulip-growing fi-aternity, 

 they should pay a visit to the Butley Tulip-show. One curious 

 proviso in the schedule of prizes is, that growers may be re- 

 quired to prove on oath the flowers they bring to the show 

 were grown and bloomed by them. 



At a recent meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club in this city 

 one of the members described an interesting collection of New 

 York plants, accompanied by many drawings, which he had 

 been shown at the British Museum. The collection is in book- 

 form and is prefixed by the following statement, written in 

 New York in 1782 by F. von Langenheim, a captain in the 

 Hessian army-corps: "This manuscript, which has never been 

 printed, contains part of the Flora of New York, and was com- 

 posed by a lady, the daughter of the Governor, Cadwallader 

 Colden, well known for his botanical works, and a physician as 

 well. This lady married a doctor of medicine, Farquhar, a 

 Scotchman by birth, and she died soon afterwards. Some of 

 the names are according to her father and according to 

 Gronovius, and some are according to the Brandenburg Dr. 

 Schoepff, who has read this work. The trivial names are ac- 

 cording to Linnaeus. This work is a remarkable one, because 

 it is that of a lady who possessed such a love for botany that 

 she learned Latin, and, judging by its nature, is so worthy and 

 correct that it contains many, even minute, things." Governor 

 Colden, the lady's father, was the author of Plantce Colden- 

 shamice in Provincia Noveboracensi Americes sponte crescentes 

 quas ad Methoduni CI. Linncei sexualeiii Anno 1742, etc., which 

 in 1749-1753 was published in the Proceedings of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Sciences, at Upsala, as the earliest special contribution 

 to the Flora of New York State. 



Under the title of Dictionnaire Pratique d^ Horticulture et de 

 yar<//«a;o(?. Monsieur S.Mottet has commenced the publication 

 of a translation of Nicholson's Dictiotiary of Gardening. The 

 value of the original work will be increased in its new form by 

 various changes and additions which the translator promises 

 with a view of adapting its contents to the climate of France 

 and the methods of French horticulturists ; and that special 

 parts of the work may be treated in the most authoritative 

 manner possible, and that cultures, especially French, may be 

 properly treated, he has secured the co-operation of such dis- 

 tinguished experts as Andre, the Vilmorins, Bellair, Legros, 

 AUuard, Dard and Mottet, whose contributions will be signed 

 by the initials of the authors. The work will be completed in 

 eighty parts, each of forty-eight pages, accompanied by a 

 chromo-lithograph, a part being promised each month until 

 the completion of the work — that is, at the end of six years. 

 Tlie price of each part is thirty cents, and subscriptions can be 

 sent to the Libraire Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 26 Rue 

 Jacob, Paris, or to Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie., 4 Quai de la 

 Megisserie. The colored plates in the two parts which have 

 already reached us are devoted to a group of Acacias showing 

 flowering branches of fourspecies,and to a group of Anemone 

 fulgens and its varieties. The cuts, which give so much value 

 to the original work, are reproduced in the French edition. 

 Judged by the parts already before us, Monsieur Motlet's pub- 

 lication promises to be a substantial and valuable addition to 

 garden literature. 



Recent issues of German horticultural journals report wide 

 and active interest in the proposed displays at the Chicago 

 World's Fair. Meetings called in various places to awaken 

 such interest and make practical arrangements for contribut- 

 ing have been largely attended ; and at one held in Berlin, 

 where not only local horticulturists but also those from distant 

 towns were present, almost every person announced his in- 

 tention of exhibiting. At this meeting the government grant 

 of 10,000 marks for the assistance of exhibitors was voted far 

 too small to cover needful expenses, as these would involve, 

 for example, the immediate dispatch of an agent to remain in 

 Chicago until the close of the exhibition ; and it was therefore 

 decided that all expenses in excess of this grant should be 

 shared between the exhibitors. Since last January a com- 

 mittee has been actively at work in Hamburg ; the contributions 

 from this place will be particularly numerous; and a special 

 trade-exhibition has been arranged for the month of Septem- 

 ber. At one time, German exhibitors were discouraged by a 

 report that certain American firms had threatened by letter to 

 withdraw their patronage from German firms should these e.K- 

 hibit at Chicago. But Mr. Mason, our consul at Frankfort, has 

 now made public a telegram received from the director of the 

 horticultural section in Chicago, which declares that there is 

 " no truth in the rumor of a boycott," and has promised to in- 

 vestigate the sources of the rumor, and to recommend that, if 

 such threats have indeed been made, those who made them 

 shall themselves be excluded from the e.xhibition. Such a 

 punishment would be none too great for conduct of so selfish, 

 short-sighted and disloyal a sort ; but we cannot believe that 

 any American horticulturist has indeed been guilty of this 

 conduct. 



