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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 153. 



tire only from nine to twelve inches high, and will probably 

 prove valuable additions to the list of bedding-plants. 



In a paper on the cultivation of Roses, read at the last weekly 

 meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mr. John 

 N. May, of Summit, New Jersey, said: '* Twenty years ago 

 possibly five thousand Roses a day was the limit of supply for 

 New York City; now as many as fifty thousand a day can often 

 be found there, and in the spring of the year the number may 

 reach a hundred thousand a day." 



It is reported in the Popular Science Monthly that Professor 

 Geddes, of Edinburgh, in consequence of recent investiga- 

 tions, has been led to reject " the commonly accepted views of 

 the origin of thorns. He has found that there is a more or less 

 developed general contrast in vegetative habit between thorn- 

 less and thorny varieties. The thorny varieties or species 

 show a more diminishing vegetativeness than their thorn- 

 less congeners ; in fact, they frequently develop their thorns 

 by the actual death of their germ points." 



In an account of Japanese Pear-orchards, recently published 

 in the A>nerican Garden, Professor C. C. Georgeson said : " The 

 heaviest item of expense is for the destruction of insects. 

 Using no poisons, and having no spraying-pumps, the work is 

 done by hand. A moth lays its eggs in the flower at the base 

 of the pistil, and the larva is removed as soon as it hatches, 

 before it has buried itself in the young fruit. This is delicate 

 work, and, as I was told, could not be (rusted to women and 

 children, who could be had cheaper than men ; but the work 

 richly repays the outlay." 



French journals state that the great Grape country of Cham- 

 pagne, which as yet has been free from the phylloxera, is now 

 threatened by the dreaded pest. In the commune of Treloup in 

 the Department of Aisne, and close to the borders of the De- 

 partment of the Marne, several colonies of the phylloxera have 

 recently been discovered, and although, of course, the most 

 energetic measures of isolation and extermination were at once 

 begun, there is great alarm lest the Marne districts — the great 

 champagne-producing lands — may be infected, as a brisk trade 

 has been carried on by them in the importation of Vines from 

 the now intected village of Treloup. 



In his recently published article on southern California, 

 Mr. Charles Dudley Warner says that the new City of River- 

 side occupies an area some five miles by three, and that 

 "one avenue through which we drove is 125 feet wide and 

 12 miles long, planted in three rows with Palms, Magno- 

 lias, the Grevillea robusla, the Pepper and the Eucalyp- 

 tus, and lined all the way by splendid Orange-groves, in 

 the midst of which are houses and grounds with semi- 

 tropical attractions. Nothing could be lovelier than such 

 a scene of fruits and flowers, with the background of purple 

 hills and snowy peaks." Yet in 1872 there was only a " poor 

 sheep ranch" where this city of some 6,000 inhabitants now 

 stands. 



A "Flower-girls' Guild" was established not long ago in 

 London by certain charitable ladies with a view to improving 

 and cheering the lives of the many girls who sell flowers in 

 the streets at all times of the year. The first step was to pro- 

 vide the often half-clothed girls with warm dresses and bon- 

 nets, which are of a special cut and color — gray, trimmed with 

 scarlet — as the idea of a "uniform " is, in England at least, 

 attractive to all members of the poorer classes. Water-proof 

 cloaks for stormy weather were also provided, and in a build- 

 ing set apart for their use they find dressing and washing 

 rooms, and a cool, well-ventilated place in which to store their 

 flowers at night. In the future a sick-relief fund will be estab- 

 lished as well as evening classes and entertainments. 



At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society the Harvard Botanical Garden sent a flowering speci- 

 men of Hippeastrum aulicnm. This species was introduced 

 to cultivation from Brazil in 1810, and is interesting chiefly as 

 being one of the plants employed to produce by hybridizing 

 and crossing the splendid varieties of this genus now in culti- 

 vation. The flowers of H. aulicum are red, green and pur- 

 plish, between six and seven inches across, with the edges of 

 the segments more or less incurved. When compared with 

 those of some recent varieties they show clearly the improve- 

 ment which has been made in these plants. The flowers of 

 the variety John Ruskin, for instance, measure from eight to 

 nine inches in width, with broad, Hat, imbricate segments. 

 The shades of color have been increased in recent forms to a 

 wonderful extent, and in most cases these shades lack that 

 coarseness which is found in many of the original types. 



Over 1,000 persons met in the hall of the Museum of Natural 

 History on Saturday at the call of the New York State Forest 

 Association. Morris K. Jesup, the President of the Associa- 

 tion, was in the chair, and effective addresses were made by 

 Honorable Warren Higley, Assistant United States Treasurer 

 Ellis H. Roberts, A. W. Gleason and Rev. Dr. Lundy, Presi- 

 dent of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. William Potts, 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Association, 

 ottered resolutions to the effect that it is essential for the state 

 to have absolute control over enough of the wilderness to pre- 

 serve the sources of the streams which rise therein, and that 

 until this control is established the Legislature should take 

 measures to minimize the destruction of the timber in this 

 region. To this end it was urged that laws be enacted to pro- 

 hibit the building of railroads over state lands and the building 

 of dams which should cause the overflow of these lands, and 

 for increasing the efficiency of the state control in preventing 

 forest-fires, in punishing trespassers, in rewooding denuded 

 lands and introducing practical forest-administration. The 

 resolutions were seconded by Ex-President Cleveland, who 

 counseled moderation in asking for appropriations, and sug- 

 gested the expediency of gaining the co-operation of clubs and 

 other property-owners in the Adirondacks. The meeting was 

 altogether the largest and most enthusiastic one ever held in 

 this state in the interest of forest-preservation. 



" Never throw away a morsel of an Orchid-plant capable of 

 growing until it has flowered, even if you are obliged to wait 

 for years for this event." Such is the advice which Monsieur 

 G. Miteau gives in a recent issue of Le Journal des Orchidees, 

 basing it on his own experience, which he tells as follows : 

 " Four years ago, when I began to cultivate Orchids, one of 

 my friends gave me a lot of small bits of a large number of 

 species. Among them were some so miserably small and 

 unpromising that my friends advised me to throw them away, 

 declaring that I should be forced to wait ten years without see- 

 ing a flower, even if they ever flowered at all. Among these 

 scraps of plants was a little bit of Lcelia purpurata, whose life 

 appeared to hang by a thread. I do not know why I did not 

 follow my friends' advice and throw these miserable speci- 

 mens away. I did not do it, however, and the first year my 

 Lcelia purpurata, which had been condemned by the Faculty, 

 produced a little shoot and a minute bulb. The second year^ 

 it produced two bulbs stronger than thatof the preceding year. 

 At last, the third year (it was not to flower for ten years at 

 least), it produced four flowers from a comparatively strong- 

 bulb, and produced a second shoot strong enough to lead me 

 to hope for two flower-shoots the following year, and now it 

 turns out that the variety is a remarkable, new and beautiful 

 one. I exhibited it at one of the meetings of L'Orchideenne, 

 and it obtained a certificate of merit of the first class, receiving 

 the name of Lcelia purpurata, var. Nolisi. Some of the other 

 bits flowered before the Laelia, some at the end of the year, 

 others not until a year later. All the others are in good con- 

 dition, and will doubtless flower next year." 



Catalogues Received. 



Bradley Fertilizer Co., 27 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass. ; Oranges 

 and Vegetables in Florida. — Alfred Bridgeman, 37 East Nineteenth 

 Street, New York, N. Y. ; Vegetable, Grass and Flower Seeds. — W. 

 Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 

 Thoroughbred Stock.— J. L. Campbell, West Elizabeth, Allegheny 

 County, Pa. ; Eureka Incubator and Brooder. — Clarence C. De Puy, 

 Syracuse, N. Y.; All About Broilers and Market Poultry Generally. — 

 R. Douglas & Sons, Waukegan Nurseries, Waukegan, 111. ; Whole- 

 sale Catalogue of Hardy, Ornamental Evergreens. — S. H. Garrett, 

 Mansfield, Ohio; The Garrett Fence Machine; Small Fruits, Fruit 

 Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Ornamental Trees. — Chas. A. Green, 

 Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y. ; Small Fruits and Fruit Trees. 

 — Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany ; Novelties in Bulbs. — William 

 Baylor Hartland, 24 Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland; Flower and 

 Vegetable Seeds. — Hitchtngs & Co., 233 Mercer Street, New York, 

 N. Y. ; Dwelling-Heating by Hot Water.— J. T. Lovett Co., Little 

 Silver, N. J. ; Flower Seeds, Small Fruits, Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees. — Hugh Low & Co., Clapton Nursery, London, E., England; 

 New and Desirable Plants. — Orlando Nursery, Orlando, Fla. ; 

 Orange-trees and Sub-Tropical Fruits. — W. PlERCY, 89 West Road, 

 Forest Hill, London, S. E., England; Early and Late-flowering Chrys- 

 anthemums. — Rea Brothers, Norwood Nurseries, Norwood, Mass. ; 

 Trees, Ornamental Shrubs, Roses, &c. — Storrs & Harrison Co., 

 Painesville, O. ; Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Small Fruits. — James 

 M. TlIORBURN & Co., 15 John Street, New York, N. Y.; Flower, Vege- 

 table, Grass Seeds. — JAMES VlCK, Rochester, N. Y. ; Flower and 

 Vegetable Seeds. — Whitman Saddle Co., 118 Chambers Street, 

 New York. N. Y. ; American and Imported Saddles. — T. W. Wood & 

 Sons, 8 and 10 South Fourteenth Street, Richmond, Va. ; Grass, Vege- 

 table and Flower Seeds. 



