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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 488. 



Since the present cut in the regions under consideration 



is estimated at 310 million feet a year, against a supply of 



virgin timber of 4,860 million feet, even without an increase 



in the cut, which is always to be expected, there would 



appear hardly sixteen years' millable timber in sight under 



present methods of cutting, and it appears that on the 



Androscoggin, which represents the larger portion, the cut 



is even now as close as it could be. jr „.„„,„ 



Washington, D. C. a. m.. rernow. 



Notes. 



The latest of Mr. W. A. Manda's hybrid Roses to bloom is a 

 seedling from Rosa Wichuraiana fertilized with the crimson Tea 

 Rose Meteor. The flower is a light pink, very double, and the 

 plant is a strong grower, prostrate in habit and with foliage 

 which remained green all winter and stood out-of-doors with- 

 out any protection. 



Nuts for Profit is the title of a little paper-covered book of 

 150 pages which has been prepared by John R. Parry, of 

 Parry, New Jersey. It contains much useful information col- 

 lected from many sources on different kinds of edible nuts and 

 their cultivation as adapted to various sections of the United 

 States, besides some useful receipts for preparing nuts for the 

 table in attractive ways. 



We have received from Professor William Trelease, Chair- 

 man of the Nomenclature Committee of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists, a note, inviting our readers who may have 

 observed cases of misnaming, renaming or any other irregu- 

 larities in the names of plants which are bought and sold in 

 America, to notify him of the .fact by the first of August. It 

 will facilitate the labors of this committee, which reports on the 

 nomenclature of the decorative plants handled by American 

 dealers, if such irregularities are promptly reported and full 

 details are given. 



Special consignments of small lots of sugar corn have been 

 received from the south for a month past, but these have 

 been sold directly to a few of the best hotels, and not opened 

 up in the markets at all. On last Saturday the first corn from 

 Delanco, New Jersey, sold in Washington Market at sixty 

 cents for a dozen ears. Cymlmgs, the flat scalloped squashes, 

 new celery, peas and cabbage are coming from Long Island 

 now, and on Saturday the excessive supply of southern string- 

 beans was further increased by the first large lots of this veg- 

 etable from Long Island. The round sort known as Refugee 

 brought double the price of the less tender flat kinds. Large 

 fleshy Windsor beans are also now in season. Occasionally 

 Peach tomatoes, from California, so named from their strik- 

 ing resemblance to that fruit in shape, color and bloom, are 

 seen in the wholesale markets, where they seem mainly to be 

 regarded as a curiosity. Lima beans are expected daily from 

 the south, and when these and new sweet potatoes are in the 

 market the entire list of fresh vegetables will be complete. 

 Asparagus continues one of the staples, with cauliflower, 

 cucumbers and eggplants. All vegetables are comingin from 

 southern and neighboring states in immense quantities, and 

 although they are of excellent quality the urgency of the de- 

 mand in the wholesale markets does not keep pace with the 

 increasing supply, so that while the consumer pays an average 

 price, the grower finds his profits swallowed up in expenses 

 for packing, transportation, commisions and the like. 



The trays of the Italian and Greek fruit venders which line 

 the curbs of sections of our downtown business streets are now 

 stocked with a wide vaiiety and indicate the range there is to 

 choose from. Each tray offers but one sort, and for a week 

 past peaches, from California, have been abundant and attrac- 

 tive and of unusually good texture and flavor. Apricots are 

 also plentifully seen, with trays of Le Conte pears, bananas, 

 plums and cherries. The bright and showy light Royal Anne 

 cherries are almost as large as the smaller Botan plums now 

 coming from Florida, and Black Tartarian cherries are almost 

 as handsome in their rich dark color and large size. White and 

 red currants from the Hudson River section of the state, and 

 raspberries from New Jersey, are seen in large quantities. 

 The supply of strawberries is beginning to lessen and is 

 mainly from this state. Huckleberries and cherries are com- 

 ing from as far north as New Jersey and New York, and black- 

 berries from Maryland. Northern Spy and Russet apples from 

 last year are still in market, and five barrels were exported 

 so late in the season as last week, when considerable quanti- 

 ties of green apples are being received from North Carolina. 

 In the fancy-fruit stores last year's P. Barry pears are also yet 

 in stock. Niagara grapes, watermelons and muskmelons are 



all to be had, the latter mostly small. Some muskmelons 

 from New Orleans are of extra-large size, however, and those of 

 spicy flavor readily command $3.50 for a box of six fruits in 

 wholesale lots, while some of the same size, lacking in quality, 

 bring but $2.00. Some really good fresh figs came into this 

 market last week from California. They were large, plump, 

 and with an attractive clear purple skin, and while, of course, 

 their flavor had suffered somewhat from the long journey in a 

 refrigerating car, they were pronounced delicious by the few 

 persons who could afford to buy them at $1.00 a dozen, and 

 $2.00 for the choicest. 



Everybody in England has lately been engaged in summing 

 up the progress of the kingdom during the sixty years of 

 Queen Victoria's reign, and The Gardeners' Chronicle pub- 

 lishes an interesting rgsum^ of the progress which has been 

 made in horticulture during this period. In regard to Roses in 

 particular we are reminded that when the young Queen was 

 crowned the Hybrid Perpetuals had not yet risen to the dignity 

 of a class, Tea Roses were almost unknown, the dwarf Poly- 

 antha Roses had not been introduced, and what are called 

 Summer Roses were about the only adornment of gardens. 

 The advance in Hybrid Perpetuals, Roses of exceedingly mixed 

 origin, has been most extraordinary. The hybrid China Rose, 

 Gloire des Rosomanes, may have been in existence at that 

 time, but General Jacqueminot, which is a probable seedling 

 from it, did not appear until as late as 1853. La Reine was one 

 of the introductions of Laffay as early as 1839, but die great 

 number of exhibition Roses which we know to-day were not 

 produced until the sixties or seventies. Of Tea Roses, Safrano 

 and Bon Silene date from 1839, while Devoniensis, the earliest 

 English-raised Tea, was sent out in 1841. All the great Tea 

 Roses have appeared since Niphetos was sent out in 

 1844. In the Noisettes, which, as is well known, are 

 of American origin, there has been great improvement, 

 especially since the introduction of Tea blood into the original 

 stock. Of course, the hybrid Teas are of comparatively recent 

 origin, while the Polyantha Roses, with such developments as 

 the Crimson Rambler, are all modern additions to our gardens. 

 Rosa rugosa came from Japan many years ago, but R. 

 Wichuraiana and other single-flowered species are later addi- 

 tions to our garden plants, while the efforts to hybridize the 

 Sweetbrier, Rosa setigera, and the single-flowered Roses gen- 

 erally with other classes were begun but yesterday. It may 

 be added as a good tendency of the times that the single 

 Roses which were comparatively neglected in the early years 

 of the Victorian era are now assuming the position they 

 deserve as garden plants of the highest decorative value. 



Three plants belonging to the Mustard family, which are 

 weeds in the fields of western Europe, have been reported 

 within the past four years in several localities in the northern 

 United States and Canada. The first of these is Gray Berteroa, 

 Berteroa incana, an annual with a rosette of leaves at the base, 

 numerous white flowers and seed-pods a quarter of an inch 

 long divided into two cells, each of which contains six seeds 

 usually. These seeds are brown, of about the same size and 

 weight as those of Red Clover, and therefore difficult to sepa- 

 rate if the two become mixed. Since an average Berteroa- 

 plant contains five thousand seeds, while a Red Clover plant 

 produces in two years about one thousand, it is very easy to 

 see that if only a small per cent, of the weed seeds germinate 

 they will soon be much more abundant than the Clover. Of 

 course, no Clover or Grass seed should be gathered from 

 fields infested with the Berteroa. Wherever a few plants are 

 found they should be pulled up by hand, and where they are 

 abundant they should be mowed as often as the flowers 

 appear. The Hare's-ear Mustard, Conringia orientalis, is 

 another slender-branching annual, smooth and grayish. It is 

 already in the grain-fields of Manitoba, and the seed of wheat 

 and oats in that region ought to be carefully cleaned. Flax- 

 seed from infested fields should not be saved for sowing at 

 all. It is a conspicuous plant, easily recognized, and it should 

 be pulled or mowed as soon as seen to prevent establishing it 

 in new localities. Its white flowers are handsome enough for 

 the flower garden, and its tender leaves, with a mild mustard 

 flavor, make a good salad, but if ever used in the garden none 

 of the seeds should be allowed to fall. Ball Mustard, Neslia 

 paniculata, so called because its pods, about one-twelfth of an 

 inch in diameter, are nearly spherical, is the third weed. It 

 does not produce many seeds and it has certainly spread 

 slowly, because it has been known in America tor fifty years. 

 It has become abundant and troublesome in the grain-fields of 

 southern Manitoba, however, and it seems to be developing 

 an increasing ability to spread. These plants are described 

 and figured in a circular prepared for the Department of Agri- 

 culture by Lyster H. Dewey, assistant in the Division of Botany. 



