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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 346. 



Notes. 



In converting Redwood into railroad ties it is stated that 

 for every tie produced, which is worth thirty-five cents, tim- 

 ber to the value of $1.87 is wasted. 



On Saturday, October 6th, a certificate was awarded to Mr. 

 Waker Hunnewell by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for blooms of the Chrysanthemum Mrs. E. G. Hill. This is un- 

 usually early to have flowers of the large Japanese sorts in per- 

 fection. 



A California fruit-grower says that although there is a long 

 list of fine Cherries which do well in that state, near the coast 

 or in certain higher elevations away from the sea, the prime 

 favorites are the Black Tartarian, Royal Anne and Purple 

 Guigne. 



The Garry Oak, Ouercus Garryana, is fruiting abundantly 

 this year on the north-west coast. Professor Francis E. Lloyd, 

 of the Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, will be glad 

 to furnish acorns to those who apply to him for them and 

 remit the postage. 



In the canal at New Orleans, near the cemeteries, Pontederia 

 crassipes has become naturalized so as to cover the entire 

 surface of the water for a distance of hundreds of feet. Steam- 

 boats push them aside in their course, but the plants close 

 together quickly as the boat passes and completely occupy 

 the surface as before. 



Up to the beginning of this month 280 car-loads of raisins 

 had left California. Finding storage rates in New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City as low as they are 

 in Fresno, the growers have been rushing their raisins to 

 these cities, where they are held by the combination, who will 

 sell them gradually as the prices and the market warrant. 



Among the Cannas of recent introduction Konigin Charlotte 

 is certainly one of the most beautiful,,, especially when grown 

 under glass. The flower-buds are so densely set on the spike 

 that as soon as one falls another is ready to open in its place, 

 so that the spike seems to last longer than that of most other 

 varieties, while its glowing colors are certainly unexcelled. 



A log of mahogany measuring forty-four feet and four inches 

 long, sixty inches by fifty-six inches across at the base 

 and weighing 2,166 tons, was cut in Guatemala and floated 

 down to Laguna, Mexico, a distance of over three hundred 

 miles, from which port it was to have been sent to the World's 

 Fair. All vessels refused to carry it, and after lying at Laguna 

 for more than a year the log was sawed in two and lately 

 brought to Nesmith Brothers' lumber-yard at Greenpoint, 

 New York. 



A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker, in reply to an 

 inquiry for a low hedge plant which will succeed in dry soil 

 such as is found near the top of a retaining-wall, recommends 

 Ceanothus Americanus. This New Jersey Tea, as it is com- 

 monly called, rarely grows in dry soil to a height of more than 

 two feet, and it would require little pruning. It would make 

 an attractive mass of foliage, and its erect clusters of pure 

 white flowers at the extremity of the leaty shoots of the year 

 last for a long time. 



The London Journal of Horticulture, for September 20th, 

 gives an illustration of a plant of Eremurus robustus, in which 

 the base of the flower-spike is some distance higher than the 

 head of a man standing by it. In a descriptive note it isstated 

 that at the time the picture was taken the plant measured ten 

 feet eight inches to the summit of the spike, which was still 

 growing, only about half the flowers having then expanded. 

 We have seen some fine plants of this noble herbaceous per- 

 ennial in this country, but none of them have attained the 

 dimensions of this English specimen. 



The Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsylvania 

 recommends the celebration of Friday, October 19th, as 

 Autumn Arbor Day, and urges the teachers of the public 

 schools of the state to do what they can to make the observ- 

 ance of the day instructive. One reason for the appointment 

 of this day is that many of the schools in the rural portions of 

 the state close in the spring before the appointed Arbor Day. 

 It might be added that the middle of October is an excellent 

 time to plant deciduous trees in Pennsylvania, when the work 

 is properly done. 



The white scale, which has been so destructive to California 

 Orange-groves, has never been found east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains until this year, when undoubted specimens of the insect 

 were sent from Hillsboro County, Florida, to the Entomo- 

 logical Department, Washington. They were reported in such 

 abundance on the trees as to make it probable that the species 



will thrive perfectly well in the climate of Florida, and unless 

 active remedial measures are at once taken orange-growers 

 there are threatened with great loss. The matter is being 

 studied by an agent of the division, who has gone to Florida. 

 Whether or not it will be found advisable to introduce the 

 imported Australian vedalia into the groves of Florida remains 

 to be seen. 



It is not uncommon for shrubs and trees which flower in 

 the spring to have a second season of bloom in autumn. 

 When the wood ripens early, as it did in many places this sum- 

 mer on account of the long drought, the flower-buds on such 

 plants often open under the influence of fall rains and warm 

 growing weather. This second flowering is not so common, 

 however, on trees and shrubs whose flowers are formed on 

 the wood of the year, but We have recently observed several 

 large Tamarisks of the late-flowering section, which are cov- 

 ered with pink plumes almost as thickly as they were in Au- 

 gust. The branches seemed to have started into new growth 

 at once when the autumn rains began, and they have had time 

 to produce a new crop of buds, which are now fully open. 



Chrysanthemums of the early-flowering sorts are now quite 

 common in the market. In a collection of the kinds sent out 

 by Delaux, which are grown in considerable quantities in the 

 houses of Peter Henderson & Co., the best early white is 

 Madame Gastellier. The flowers are of good substance, broad- 

 petaled, with no appearance of an eve when fully developed, 

 and they were ready for cutting in full form on the 1st of Octo- 

 ber. They remain perfect for a long time if the plants are 

 kept in a cool place. This variety seems to be ten days 

 earlier than Mrs. Bergmann, which was formerly considered 

 theleading early white. Veuve Cliquot isan early yellow variety, 

 winch was ready to cut in quantity on the 2d of October. The 

 flower is a rich chrome-yellow with an orange base. Madame 

 Chauvin, which is quite as early, is a good-sized flower of a 

 light rosy pink color. Monsieur Henri Galice is another early 

 yellow. Other varieties coming into flower are J. B. Duvoir, a 

 deep lilac ; Madame Fleurot, with a light lemon-colored centre 

 changing to white, and broad-cupped, rose-tipped petals ; 

 Eugene Farez, a light bronze, with yellow reverse ; Professor 

 Walter Croz, a fluffy cream-white ; Georges Devred, a good 

 yellow ; Madame Jacob, lilac-rose and silver reverse ; Gustav 

 Grunerwalde, light rose-pink, and a white sport from this 

 variety, which seems to be a first-rate flower, and some days 

 earlier ; Monsieur Francois Katzer, a disheveled Japanese 

 variety, chrome-yellow, and orange reverse, and Monsieur F. 

 L'Usmayer, a good orange. The earliest large-flowered Chrys- 

 anthemum in the collection is Marian Henderson, a good yel- 

 low, from Gloriosum, probably crossed with Mrs. Hardy. 



Until a week ago Silver prunes and Ickworth plums came 

 from California, together with Kelsey plums, and the latter 

 commanded as much as $3.25 a box at the wholesale auctions. 

 The only plums now arriving are Coe's Late Red, a medium- 

 sized fruit — said to have a rich vinous flavor, but whose chief 

 value is in its lateness. Last season these plums were on some 

 of the fruit-stands in this city until the first of February. 

 Peaches constituted the greater part of nearly fifty car-loads of 

 California fruit sold here last week, the varieties including 

 George's Late, Sal way, Heath Cling, Lemon Cling, Orange Cling, 

 Levi Cling and Morris White. Prices have been low, ranging 

 from fifty to eighty cents a box. The limitedsupplies of Verdell, 

 Muscat, Malaga, Cornichon and Tokay grapes sold quickly on 

 the piers at $1.00 to $2.15 a half-crate to wholesale buyers, and 

 boxes made up of Flame Tokays, Black Morocco and green 

 Muscats, arranged attractively in bands of different colors, look 

 very inviting. Stem-cut Florida oranges of good quality are 

 in demand at $2.25 to $2.50 a box, at wholesale, but within the 

 past week many boxes of windfalls have been hurried into 

 northern markets. This bruised and decaying fruit in no case 

 realizes the cost of freight, and many boxes have been left on 

 the hands of the transportation companies by consignees un- 

 willing to handle a worthless grade of fruit. Even the best 

 Florida oranges are yet green, the only ripe and mature 

 oranges being those from Jamaica. Grape-fruit from the same 

 island, of fair size, sells for $1.75 a box, and immense blood- 

 shaddocks, forty of which fill a barrel, are ten cents apiece at 

 wholesale. Slender yellow pineapples, from Florida, known 

 in the trade as the Egyptian Queen variety, ma)' be had at fif- 

 teen cents apiece. The first cargo of 10,600 barrels of Almeria 

 grapes is expected to arrive about the sixteenth of this month. 

 About 8,000 barrels of cranberries have reached New York 

 since September ist, less than half the quantity handled dur- 

 ing the same period last year. There is, however, no advance 

 over the prices of last year, and choice, dark Cape Cod 

 berries may be had at $8.50 a barrel. 



