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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 245. 



leaves for a long time, and are still very beautiful, especially 

 as the sun shines through them, when they show a very deep 

 crimson tint. 



At the Cliicago Fair, Apache County, Arizona, will exhibit a 

 collection of petrified woods from the famous forest-region 

 along tlie Little Colorado River. Specimens of these singu- 

 larly perfect petrifactions, some of them enormously large, 

 have been seen in this city, but will doubtless be new to very 

 many visitors at Chicago. 



The Chamber of Commerce of the twin cities of Winston 

 and Salem, in North Carolina, at its last meeting passed a reso- 

 lution recommending the Legislature of the state to acquire 

 and preserve a portion of its forest-area, and urging upon the 

 General Government the desirability and importance of a na- 

 tional park in the southern Alleghanies. 



It is not usual to find Sweet Peas blooming in the open air 

 on the 1st of November, but if the Howers are cut off every 

 day the plants will always bloom until severe frosts. The un- 

 usually warm autumn has prolonged the season this year, and 

 within a few days we have seen a beautiful bunch of these 

 flowers picked from a row which had been blooming since July. 



The proprietors of Harpers A'lagasine, in their announce- 

 ments for the coming year, promise some illustrated studies 

 of the old gardens of Italy, by Mr. Charles A. Piatt, the well- 

 known landscape-painter and etcher, besides other articles on 

 "Our great pleasure-grounds in park and forest," while in 

 another publication of the same firm Mrs. Candace Wheeler 

 will write of "Color Effects in the Garden." This recognition 

 of the fact that gardening is enough of a fine art to attract the 

 pen and pencil of artists in other branches, and that it is a 

 topic of sufficient popular interest to command an important 

 place in leading- periodicals devoted to general subjects, is 

 certainly a gratifying one to all who love gardens. 



Mr. E. H. Forbush, director of the field-work against the 

 Gipsy Moth in Massachusetts, writes to Mr. Fernow, Chief of 

 the Division of Forestry, to say that the insect-lime recom- 

 mended by him (see Garden and Forest, vol. iv., p. 142) had 

 been given a very thorough trial during the past two seasons. 

 About four tons of the material have been used, and it was 

 pronounced more useful than anything that the Commission 

 has been able to secure or manufacture for the same purpose. 

 The lime received from German manufacturers retained its 

 freshness for a long time, and its only fault was that it hard- 

 ened during cold storms and occasionally on cold nights, so 

 that the insects could climb over it. If properly applied and 

 watched it is very efficient, and seems more useful in wood- 

 lands than on street-trees, where the dust is continually flying. 



Providence journals have recently stated that Neutakonka- 

 nut Hill will probably be bought by the city and reserved as a 

 public pleasure-ground. The tract so called lies just outside 

 the city limits on the-Plainfield Pike. Part of it is level and 

 covered thickly witli woods, scattered among which are small 

 farms, while another part is described as a "series of natural 

 terraces, strewn with immense boulders, with here and there 

 a giant Oak." From the highest point in this portion an ex- 

 tensive view of Providence may be had. From another eleva- 

 tion Fall River can be seen, and, in still a third direction, the 

 wide and beautiful panorama of Narragansett Bay. A pond is 

 also included within tlie limits of the indicated tract, and, as it 

 thus seems particularly well adapted to its proposed purpose, 

 its acquisition will doubtless be a matter of general rejoicing, 

 especially among the large manufacturing population of the 

 town, for, while Providence already possesses a number of 

 small parks, it has as yet no large, varied and wooded tract 

 suitable for popular refreshment on a generous scale. 



Mr. F. V. Coville writes in a recent number of the Bulletin 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club with regard to his rediscovery of 

 a Rush (Juncus Cooperi), which was described as new by Dr. 

 Engelmann in 1868 from a single specimen, without leaves or 

 root-stock, collected seven years before b)' Dr. J. G. Cooper in 

 San Bernardino County, California. It has since been known 

 only through this single specimen, although Mr. Coville ex- 

 plains he has recently found another in theNational Herbarium, 

 falsely labeled Juncus compressus, and accredited to the Colo- 

 rado Desert in California. In January, 1891, he tells that an 

 expedition sent out by the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, entered Death Valley and encamped at Bennett Wells. 

 Near this camp, and in several other places in this same re- 

 gion, he found J. Cooperi in fruit, standing on the Ijorders of 

 a salt-marsh amid vegetation peculiar to this alkaline region, 

 "in tufts sometimes composed of only a few stems, or occa- 

 sionally attaining the extraordinary diameter of two metres." 



A full description of the plant, drawn up from these living speci- 

 mens, accompanies Mr. Coville's account of its rediscovery. 



About a year ago Garden and Forest told the story of the 

 creation of Highland Park (see vol. iv., p. 553), which was se- 

 cured for the old village of Jamaica, Long Island, by an or- 

 ganization of public-spirited women. One of the interesting 

 features of the ceremonies of Columbus Day in Jamaica was 

 planting memorial trees in this park under the auspices of the 

 Linnean Club. Trees were planted in honor of Columbus and 

 Isabella, of Mr. Brinkerhoff, who gave half the cost of the land 

 in the park, besides one in honor of each of the original incor- 

 porators of the Park Association. During the exercises it was 

 announced that Mr. Henry A. Van Allen had given an acre of 

 ground which bordered on the pond, of which the association 

 owns only a part. This donation is the first step toward ob- 

 taining control of the entire shore, and a " Van Allen tree " 

 was very properly added to the collection. The trees were 

 planted under the direction of Mr. Henry Hicks, of Westbury, 

 Long Island, a graduate of the School of Horticulture in Cor- 

 nell University, and since he took a special course in landscape- 

 gardening there is reason to believe that the trees are not only 

 carefully planted but properly selected and placed. 



A French writer having stated that, so far as he knew, the 

 Purple Beech had never been planted as an avenue-tree, the 

 Monthly Bulletin of the Horticultural Society of Mons recently 

 informed him that an avenue of Purple Beeches, still voung 

 but flourishing, exists in that part of the forest of Soignies, 

 which lies near the Boistfort race-course. We may say, in our 

 turn, that a fine avenue of large and well-developed Purple 

 Beeches is a conspicuous feature of an old country-place near 

 Boston, the trees varying in color from a true purple to a rich 

 dusky bronze. Few persons will regret that avenues of this 

 kind are infrequent. Green is nature's color, in the sense 

 that it is the only color which she uses in large masses of foli- 

 age. The original Purple Beech was a " sport" from the com- 

 mon species. It was wise to propagate it for garden use, as a 

 single bronze-colored or purple tree as beautiful in form as 

 the Beech, used as an accent to relieve great expanses of 

 green, may be advantageous in a diversified landscape-gar- 

 dening scheme. But the presence of even two or three such 

 trees can seriously disturb the repose and unity of a lawn or 

 plantation ; and an avenue of them, while appealing, by its 

 conspicuousness and rarity to the wonder of some observers, 

 can never be as appropriate or beautiful as an avenue of green 

 trees of this or another species. 



The monument to the memory of Audubon, which was pro- 

 jected for this city some time ago by the American Associa- 

 tion of Science, is nearly completed and will be unveiled by 

 the great naturalist's granddaughter before the first of De- 

 cember. It will stand in Trinity Cemetery, near the Audubon 

 family vault, and will eventually face Audubon Avenue, as this 

 street is to be cut through to iS5th Street. The Audubon 

 family once owned all the tract of land lying between the Hud- 

 son liiver, Tenth Avenue, iSSth and 158th Streets, and a por- 

 tion of it is now called Audubon Park, although it is not a pub- 

 lic property, consisting of a group of villas, surrounded by 

 more or less extensive grounds. Some contributions for the 

 monument came from other states, but the major part of the 

 money was raised in New York, largely by the exertions of 

 Dr. Egleston, of the Columbia College School of Mines. It is 

 composed, we are told, of a large square block of bluestone, 

 bearing a relief-portrait of Audubon and various appropriate 

 emblems. This is surmounted by a Celtic cross, nineteen 

 feet high, carved with characteristic Celtic designs, in which 

 basket-patterns, flowers, birds and animals are interwoven, and 

 with Biblical inscriptions on the panels at its base. Thescheme 

 is evidently a good one, but one may doubt whether the exe- 

 cution of it will be as good, for the work has been done in a 

 stone-yard, without the assistance of any artist whose name is 

 familiar to the public. 



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