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[September 12, 18 



California species, with slender, sprawling branches, small 

 leaves, and minute purple flowers, of no interest as a garden 

 plant. 



Trichcipilia Lehmanni, Garteitflora, July ist. 



ZVGOPETALUM BRACHYPETALUM, var. STENOPETALUM, Gar- 



tenflora, July 15th. 



Aster alpinus, var. SPECIUSUS, Gartcnflora, July ist ; a 

 stately variety of a well known and widely distributed plant, 

 discovered by Dr. Albert Regel, on the high mountains of 

 central Asia. 



Gloxinia gesnerioides, Charles Schubert, Wiener Illustriric 

 Garten^eitung, June. 



Iris Kor<_ilkowii, Gardener's Chronicle, July 14th. 



PiNUS Sabiniana, Gardener's Chronicle, July 14th; tlie well 

 known Digger Pine of California, figured from a specimen 

 grown in the gardens of the Villa Thuret, at Antibes, in the 

 south of France. 



OSTROWSKYA MAGNIFERA, Gardener' s Chronicle, July 21st ; a 

 wonderful Campanulaceous plant, discovered by Dr. Albert 

 Regel on the mountains of Clianat Darwas, in eastern Bokhara. 

 "It is a hardy perennial, witli tuberous roots. As shown, the 

 stem is three feet in heiglit, green, sprinkled with small red 

 spots, with four-leaved whorls at intervals. The leaves are 

 glabrous, rather lleshy, shortly stalked, oblong-acute, coarsely 

 toothed. The inflorescence is cymose, the flowers on long 

 stalks, at first pendulous, afterwards nearly erect ; when fully 

 expanded they measure five and three-quarter inclies in diam- 

 eter. The plant, despite a paleness of color in the Hower, is 

 certainly one of the finest lierbaceous plants ever introduced, 

 and as there can be no doubt as to its hardihood, and little or 

 any as to its adapting itself readily to cultivation, it is sure to 

 become a popular favorite." 



The plant from which this illustration was made was exhib- 

 ited by the Messrs. Veitch at a late exhibition of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society of England. 



Notes. 



A young Apple-tree in a yard on Washington Street, near 

 Eggleston Square, }3oston, was in full Hower on the 2d of 

 September. 



Mr. Albert Koebele, an agent of the Entomological Division 

 of the Department of Agriculture, has sailed for Australia to 

 study the parasites affecting the cottony cushion scale, especi- 

 ally in the interest of horticulture in California. 



It IS exfiected that not more than one million pounds of 

 tobacco will be raised in Egypt this year, although, an the aver- 

 age, thirteen million pounds have been produced in former 

 seasons. The decrease is owing to the recent action of the 

 Kliedive in putting a tax of Ji 57.50 on each acre of ground 

 devoted to this crop. 



At the late convention of Florists a resolution was adopted 

 to the effect that it would be of great advantage to the trade 

 if manufacturers would unite to make pots of uniform size, 

 and members of the Society are invited to sign a circular 

 stating that henceforth they propose to use no other pots than 

 those of the standard size adopted by the Society. A copy of 

 this circular is to be sent to all the potters in the country. 



Mr. John J. Thomas reports in the Country Gentleman that 

 an orchard of Bartlett pears, in which the trees were sprayed 

 with Paris green, show scarcely a defective specimen of fruit, 

 while on another tree, forty rods distant, which was not treated 

 with the poison, nearly every pear is disfigured by the codhn 

 worm in the core and by the curculio on the surface. The 

 Bartlett pear, from its earliness and texture, is particularly 

 liable to attacks of the curculio. 



Mr. F. W. Burliidge describes, in a recent issue of the Lon- 

 don Garden, an interesting specimen of tlie Sycamore Maple, 

 with bright red fruit, growing in a garden near Dublin : "The 

 free itself in growth resembles the type, but the leaves arc 

 smaller and of a more shining or glossv green, being glaucous 

 behind. The leaf-stalks or petioles are bright red, and the 

 fruits, instead of being in dense or short clustered racemes of 

 a greenish hue, are borne in long-stalked clusters, and are red, 

 verging on crimson when fully exposed to the sun," Nothing 

 is known of the history of this tree. 



In speaking of the Rose American Beauty at tlie Florists' 

 Convention, Mr. Edwin Lonsdale said that it could be ob- 

 tained from January till December, and not September, as was 

 reported. The fact that it can be had at all seasons gives this 

 Rose a special value, althougli, in order to give a fair profit, 

 where artificial heat is needed, it ouglitnot tosell at wholesale 



for less than twenty-five dollars a hundred. Mr. Lonsdale 

 finds that in some cases it does better the second year after 

 planting. American Beauty is at this time the main depend- 

 ence of New York florists for long-stemmed Roses, and l>rings 

 at retail from three to four dollars a dozen. 



The Revue Horticole, in- a recent issue, calls attention to 

 Choisya tcrnata, which it considers the most desirable of all 

 early spring-Howering shrubs. It is a Mexican evergreen, be- 

 longing to the same family as the Orange, with beautiful, dark 

 green, shining foliage, corymbs of numerous pure white, 

 deliciously fragrant flowers, which are produced in the great- 

 est profusion during the months of April and May. The 

 fiowers remain fresh for a long time when cut and are well 

 adapted for bouciuets. This plant is not, unfortunately, hardy 

 in the Northern States, but it would proliably succeed anywhere 

 south of Virginia, or in California, where it will, doubtless, 

 find itself perfectly at home. 



Hybrid Gladioli were again the floral feature at the meeting 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, held on the ist of 

 September. Mr. J. Warren Clarke duplicated his remark- 

 able collection of seedlings shown the previous week ; and 

 Mr. James Cartwright, of Wellesley, sent an equally large 

 collection of almost equal merit. Indeed it would be 

 difficult to say which of these two collections contained 

 the largest number of really valuable varieties. Mr. Hun- 

 newell exhibited a dish of twelve Late Crawford Peaches 

 from his orchard-house. The twelve weighed six pounds six 

 ounces, the largest measuring eleven and a half inches in cir- 

 cumference and weighing eleven and a quarter ounces. Such 

 a dish of Peaches, it is safe to say, has never been seen in 

 Boston before. A dish of Red Bietigheimer was conspicuous 

 in a large collection of summer Apples, exhibited by Mr. 

 .Samuel Hartwell, of Lincoln. This is one of the largest and 

 handsomest of the summer Apples, with a smooth, whitish- 

 yellow skin, l.ieautifuUy shaded with red. Its firm texture and 

 sub-acid Havor, however, make it a better cooking than dessert 

 fruit, 



The second annual convention of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Cemetery Superintendents was held in the Clarendon 

 Hotel, Brooklyn, last week. At the meetings on Wednesday 

 and Tliursday a number of papers of great merit were read 

 on important subjects of practical interest. Among them were 

 the following; "An Ideal Cemetery," by Mr. F. Enrich, of 

 Toledo, Ohio; " Landscape Gardening in Cemeteries," by Mr. 

 R, D. Cleveland, of Minneapolis, a son of. Mr. H. W. S, Cleve- 

 land; " Lawns," l)y Mr, W, Salway, of Cincinnati; " Roads," by 

 Mr, O, C, Simonds, of Chicago; " Green-houses and Flowers," 

 by Mr, J. E. Barker, of Boston. The members of the Board of 

 Officers — whose names and addresses have been given in an 

 earlier issue of this journal — were unanimously re-elected. It 

 was decided to hold the next convention at Detroit, in the 

 third week of August, 1889. This association is an organiza- 

 tion, the existence of which is fidl of promise for the better 

 ordering and management of American cemeteries, and it will 

 doubtless have an increasing measure of support from the 

 superintendents and trustees of cemeteries throughout the 

 country. 



Every one who has visited Montreal in August will remem- 

 ber the enormous Cantaloupe Melons and their fine flavor. 

 They are almost round, flattened at both ends, deeply ribbed; 

 the skin green and netted, and the green flesh very thick. 

 After some ineffectual attempts by Boston dealers to import 

 these Melons, the growers about that city have been making 

 experiments with them, and Mr. W. H. Allen, of Arlington, 

 has achieved a striking success. According to the American 

 Cultivator, he imported his seed direct from Montreal and 

 started them under glass with a moderate bottom heat. In 

 fact, he kept the melons under glass as long as he could. 

 One important point in their culture is to water the vines 

 freely, yet after the Melons commence to form, the frint should 

 not be wet. The growers in Montreal place a small pane of 

 cheap glass under each Melon to prevent contact with the 

 earth. Mr. Allen and other successful growers about Boston 

 always import their seed each year direct from some trust- 

 worthy concern in Montreal. Mr. Allen produced fine, ripe 

 specimens this year as early as August ist, two or three 

 weeks earlier than the ordinary Cantaloupe. He sold the 

 largest and most perfect-shaped Melon of the variety ever 

 seen in (Juincy market for three dollars. It weighed nearly 

 thirty pounds. He sold them by tlie box at one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents each, weighing eighteen to twenty pounds 

 to tlie melon. The price soon dropped to one dollar each 

 and is now about seventy-five cents. 



