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cymes of conspicuous yellow flowers an inch and a half in 

 diameter. It belongs to that section of this enormous genus 

 in which the seeds are parallel to the septum in the two-valved, 

 flattened pod. 



Araucaria Cunninghami glauca (cones of), Gardener's 

 Chroiiiele, June 2d. — From the tine specimen of the glaucous- 

 leaved variety of the " Morton Bay Pine," grown in the Tem- 

 perate Hovise at Kew. It is an important Australian timber 

 tree, forming vast forests in the valley of the Brisbane River. 



Sabal palmetto, Gardener's Chronicle, June 2d. — A view of 

 a fine group of this well known Florida tree, growing at Jupi- 

 ter Inlet, on the east coast, from a photograph by Mr. James M. 

 Codman, in the Kew Museum, althougli credit is not given for 

 it to that establishment. 



PiNUS Canariensi.s ; Gardener's Chrojiick, June 7th. 



Yucca filifera. Gardener s Chronicle, June i6th, f. 97 and 

 100; from photographs by Mr. James M. Codman in the Kew 

 Museum (also without credit) and already published in Gar- 

 den and Forest (April lUh, 18S8). 



Notes. 



The Second Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Forestry 

 Association will open at Springfield, in the State House, on 

 the morning of the 8th of August. 



Seven and a half tons of grapes to the acre is a good aver- 

 age yield for a California vineyard, although ten tons an acre 

 is not an unusual crop, and, in a well authenticated instance, 

 fifteen tons an acre have been produced. 



Professor L. H. Daily, Jr., of Cornell University, sails for 

 Europe the last of August to visit experiment stations and 

 study the horticulture of the countries he visits. A leading 

 object of his trip is to collect data for the completion of te.xt- 

 books of horticulture, which he now has partly written. 



The annual excursion of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club, 

 of Boston, was a great success, and the gardeners, who have 

 now well earned a little leisure after the labors of spring 

 planting, thoroughly enjoyed their sail on Massachusetts 

 Bay and their visit to the various islands and other points of 

 interest. 



At the weekly meeting of the Massachusetts Horticutural 

 Society on July 21st, a new white Pansy was shown, which is 

 quite a novelty, from the fact that it is semi-double, the 

 stamens having been changed into petals. It is of good suli- 

 stance, free flowering and entirely white. It will prove an 

 acquisition for the commercial florists. 



Sweet Peas have been greatly improved during the past few 

 years. New colors of remarkable clearness and'brilliancy are 

 being constantly introduced. These flowers are great favor- 

 ites at Newport, Bar Harbor, and other eastern summer re- 

 sorts, and in no part of the country are they grown so suc- 

 cessfully as in the vicinity of Boston, where they are used by 

 the florists in great quantities. 



Dutch bulb-growers having found that the sale of cut blooms 

 of Hyacinths and Tulips, which at one time were sent to the 

 London markets in nnmense quantities from the bulb-fields of 

 Holland, interfered with the sale of bulbs, they have formed 

 an association, the members of which agree not to sell the 

 flowers of these plants. A boycott is established against 

 members of the association who infringe its rules. More than 

 2,000 bulb-growers have already joined this association. 



The railroads have manifested an unwillingness to grant to 

 delegates to the meeting of the Society of A^inerican Florists 

 at New York City the reduction in fares usually given to such 

 gatherings. But, nevertheless, all indications point to an im- 

 mense gathering, and the coming convention will certainly 

 be the largest meeting of florists and gardeners ever con- 

 vened in this country. Programmes and all information may 

 be obtained by addressing Secretary Wm. J. Stewart, 67 Brom- 

 field Street, Boston. 



The Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario held their sum- 

 mer meefing on July i ith and I2th at Picton, Prince Edward 

 County. Rev. Geo. Bell, LL.D., of Queen's College, King- 

 ston, read an instructive paper on Camidian Forests, and the 

 subject of improving fruits liy hybridizing and selection was 

 treated by Mr. P. C. Dempsey, of Albany. The meeting 

 was largely attended, and leading specialists in various de- 

 partments of fruit and flower culture and in forestry partic' 

 pated in the discussions. 



Hon. Sidney Root, President of the Atlanta, Georgia, Park 

 Commission, sends us the photograph of a fine Willow-Oak 

 tree now standing in the grounds of E. W. March, Esq., of 

 that city. It was carried from south-western Georgia in 1858, 

 when its trunk was not as large as a musket-barrel. It now 

 measures seven feet six inches in circumference three feet 

 from the ground, and its branches extend over a circle 

 seventy feet in diameter — a remarkable development for a 

 tree thirty-three years from the acorn. 



The New York Forestry Commission has revoked all the 

 custodianships under which the islands of Lake George have 

 passed into the control of a few private individuals. Many of 

 the men who were made custodians of the islands have built 

 fine houses, and made extensive improvements upon them, 

 imder autliority granted by the Land Commissioners. The 

 action of the Forest Commission will cause some hardship to 

 the persons who have had the use of the state's property, 

 liut it will be approved by public sentiment. 



A recent bulletin of the Ohio Experiment Station gives the 

 most effective methods used in the Prairie States to check the 

 migrations of the chinch bug. But after all the trapping in 

 furrows, burning over stubble, pouring a line of coal tar al-)Out 

 fields liable to invasion and other precautions, the devastation 

 I>y this insect can hardly be held within bounds while the 

 weather is dry. Professor Forbes estimates that in southern 

 Illinois the losses from the depredations of the chinch bug, 

 during five years past, have reached $25,000,000. 



The fondness of the Germans for planting memorial trees 

 is well known. Lindens are most often chosen for the pur- 

 pose, this tree having gradually usurped that place in the af- 

 fections of the Germanic people which was once held by the 

 Oak and being now considered the national tree. On the oc- 

 casion of a recent visit paid by General Moltke to the Spath 

 nurseries near Berlin, he planted an American Linden, of the 

 variety which is known in German nurseries as Tilia Ameri- 

 cana Mflltkei. Near the spot it occupies Prince Bismarck 

 planted a few years ago a specimen of Tilia argentea — the 

 beautiful Hungarian Linden to which reference was made in 

 the article on the trees in Central Park recently published in 

 this journal. 



Some excitement has been caused among Orchid grow- 

 ers in London by the breaking up of several large col- 

 lections. No fewer than five of these have been or will 

 be dispersed within a few weeks. The first was that of 

 the late Mr. John Day, a genuine Orchid lover, an assiduous 

 collector of all classes of Orchids, popular or merely " botani- 

 cal." It was a collection rich in species one seldom sees 

 except in botanical collections. Then followed the small, but 

 very choice and exceedingly well grown, collection of Dr. 

 Duke, a devoted amateur and a true lover of his plants, and 

 the fine collection of Mr. Southgate, at Streatham. Immedi- 

 ately after was sold the celebrated collection of Mr. Philbrick, 

 an eminent lawyer, likewise a great lover of his plants, of 

 which he had a wide and intimate knowledge, and the fifth, 

 l)y far the most extensive and most important, is that formed 

 l)y Mr. Lee, at Downside Leatherhead, in Surrey. This Down- 

 side collection is immense and wonderfully rich in all that is 

 choice among Orchids, and for the most part admirably culti- 

 vated. The first portion has been disposed of at public auction 

 and it will take eight days to sell the entire collection. 



The death of the Rev. E. P. Roe, at his home at Cornwall- 

 on-Hudson, on the 19th of July, deprives us of a collaborator 

 who, we hoped, would do much during many years to come 

 to interest and instruct our readers. Although Mr. Roe's 

 reputation rested most largely upon his labors as a novelist, 

 his horticultural works would have sufiiced to win him solid 

 popularity had they been his only productions. The best 

 known of them is, perhaps, " Success With Small Fruits," 

 originally published in the Century (then Scrihner s) Magazine, 

 and afterwards issued in book form with the same beautiful 

 illustrations; but others of almost equal merit are "The Cul- 

 ture of Small Fruits " and " Play and Profit in the Garden." It 

 was not as a dilettante that Mr. Roe wrote on horticultural 

 subjects. From the year 1874 until his death he was in busi- 

 ness as a nurserj'man and fruit-grower at Cornwall, and his 

 books were the outcome of practical experience, and chroni- 

 cled actual, long continued successes. His flourishing gar- 

 dens and orchards were one of the sights of Cornwall, and the 

 generous hospitality with which he met all who were interested 

 in like pursuits with himself will long be remembered by 

 hundreds of his visitors. Mr. Roe was but just fifty years 

 of age when he died, quite suddenly, of an attack of angina 

 pectoris. 



