FOREST AND STREAM. 



iOt | 



tiently they would i i a ae ard 11 



■-. . or wOUld not •■veil rise us we passed within fifty 



yards of them, hut would .inly lift their pretty lieade i I 



wonderinglj ! ca ilcade. The bucks and dots 



Were separate, Uut neither were accumulated asiu the autumn. 

 So feme were they on the great plains which strel 

 the Givi [i and Bandy Rivers or. the west, and the Ratflesnak 

 Mountains on the east, s nith of the Sweet water, that you realty 



frighten thenv— they could not be driven 



18, and "la- was actually stoned out front among the 

 ma! Pi 1 1 v '- 1 Idl) $ only one or two. 

 Near the Seminoe Mountains, 30 miles north of Rawlins, 



ue sand dunes which occupy the "bed of an ancient 

 lake, and where tin re w co lious 01 ids oi I 1 I rweel and iit- 



i Ba w "Hi 9i ■- elk, - a small hi rd at a distance. 1 luj 



as we approached they increased affording several long shots 

 without success. Just when we Were going to camp in a grove 

 of aspens, with dense underbrush, a cow-c-lk got up and crashed 

 through the bushes. It was dusky, and w - v re ting 



it, so she got Safely ttway. Suspecting she might have a calf 

 ipper, and soon verified our suspicions, 



i,,,. 1 calf about three weeks old, which screamed so like 



lit was to tight to the tents and tied up, that one 

 of those birds kepi ansu ering it from its nest on a tree not far 

 olf. The young elk was of the dark snull brown color of its 



mother, but irregularly spotted, as are the young of most of 



all of the Ccrvidir, with yello,vish-white. lake the ostrich in 

 Hie soul:, it probably thought itself safe when its head was 



. . mn as anybody approached down went its i tc 



into the grass, while not a muscle of its Ungainly body moved. 

 Plaee n. in a particular position, and it would lie stock-still for 

 a half-hour togei her, watching intently all the time out of its 



large, dark. 1 I leforc dark we led it back to its lair, 



and the lien her cane' and took if away during the night. 



Ascending the mountain next, day we came upon tWOOf 



of l 



1 our way 1 



/illo 



three small comps 



back surprised a herd 1 

 hundred pards from the camp lire. We shot one and enjoyed 

 1 ll 3, although the meal will be fatter in a month than 

 I'.esh. is rather dry and inclined to be tough. Deer 

 is tike it, and neither is as good as nice antelope steaks. Af- 

 ter that, for three days we were, scarcely out of sight, of elks, 

 and nevei beyond where we were sure of getting them by a 

 little exertion. They congregate in the little wooded gullies 

 at the foot of 1 he mountains, where they can hide their col- 

 ors, and whence they can sally out upon the plains, or retreat 

 to the high plateaus near the top of the range. As far 

 wesf as this, however, probably because the country is less 

 fitted for them, they are rarer; but we expect to find them 

 abundant when we get up into the Wind River Mountains. 

 All that we have seen were females and young; the bucks are 

 still rubbing the velvet from their horns in secluded defiles 

 among the hills. 



We aavo seen buffaloes every day— straggling old bulls- 

 alone, or two together, weary and tough, hard to kill and harder 

 to fiat, We had not time to chase them to any purpose. They 

 Were wanderers from the. "northern herd," which only a few 

 1 thronged these Sweetwater plains to such, an extent 

 that, the The Indians always assembled here for their annual 

 1 1 South. Pass was another favorite summer feeding 

 ground for them, but it is rare to see a single buffalo there 

 now. 



The whole country is good hunting-ground for mountain 

 sheen, especially north of the .Seminoe Mountain! Rni bib 



■ : r Hills, the plains being interspersed with small 



ragged hills Ol broken granite, where timber grows in abun- 

 dance, anil about which is splendid pasturage. Such places 

 the sheep love, and there their noble, heads are sure to be 

 found. 1 saw them only once, and then out of range. Seven, 

 Willi an old rain at then 1 head, his horns coiling on either side 

 until Ihc size, of his head was doubled, stood on the very 

 brink of a precipice, five hundred feci, high, and watched us 

 curiously as we [ilea along below. They looked very noble 



— tilt* nobles! game I have ever seen- and one would hesitate 

 before Shooting I ae, lest thus he should ruin beyond power of 

 reparation the inspiring picture of mountain scenery of which 

 t,hfl sheep made so important a part. Kunkst In«eusoi (,, 



%§oodhnd, <$Hrm and §iirden, 



AGAVES. 



OF the many plants suitable for the embellishment of 

 large conservatories, for the ornamentation of flights of 



steps, placing in vases upon terrace walls, or for the thousand 

 and one situations which may be found in a garden or sur- 

 rounding a mansion, during summer, Agaves seem to be spe- 

 cially adapted because they enjoy the full exposure, and even 

 pur hottest weather seems only to add to their growth and in- 

 tensify their markings. Though not. altogether hardy, they 

 , :i be : 1'iwn by persons who have no glass structures what- 

 ever, inasmuch as they can be stowed in a cellar, or even in a 

 stable during winter. In such a situation, however, they 

 must be kept, quite dry, and excluded as much as possible from 

 the light, and for this purpose dry salt hay covered with mal- 

 ting is admirably adapted, as on cold nights they will keep 

 out the frost as well. Agaves are popularly known as Amer- 

 icas Aloes, but they have really nothing in common with the 

 genus Aloe. They arc remarkable for their longevity, and it 

 is a common fallacy that they bloom only once in a hundred 

 years. With most of the species this is true in one sense, for 

 the terminal bud, running up in the form of a flower spike, so 

 completely exhausts the plant producing it that death is the 

 result. The following make splendid specimens, and are 

 worthy of more general cultivation. 



Agave Americana, generally called "The Century Plant." 

 This may he regarded as the type of the family. It forms a 

 handsome plant in all stages of growth, whether the leaves are 

 one foot in length, or six or seven in length and six or eight 

 inches in width. They are thick and massive in appearance, 

 somewhat sparingly furnished with spines at the edges, but 

 armed at the [joints with very formidable ones. A fine speci- 

 men of this variety is now on exhibition at the aquarium in 

 this city. It is known to be nearly sixty years old, was 

 brought here several years ago from Georgia, and is said to be 

 the second plant that has ever flowered in New York. The 

 flower spike has reached the height of seventeen feet, and 

 bears sixteen clusters of greenish-while blossoms, comprising 

 879 flowers, which, with their large yellow anthers, are odd 

 rather Hum beautiful ; but the rarity of its blossoming should 

 make all desirous of seeing it a very fine plant in the collection 

 of George II. Stuart, Phila., bloomed some years ago, and 

 was exhibited for the benefit of the Young Men's Christian 

 Association of that city, w'e believe. Several varieties of this 



ititiful 



■igrttr/, 



The 



noble plant, with variegated leaves, are still more be 

 and desirable than the type, notably A. Americana vai 



A. America Mi mi 

 first of these is the 

 of the leaves beir 

 1 landed with ycllic 

 ety also, but it is 1 

 rower and not dlsr. 



A. An 



StTi 



deeply 



lamner of A. 

 to three feet 

 1 breath, the 



A1.11p.Ais U-TBK erULinBtrSIA. ZOOMtUUAl a»ir,J!U nm Wiouk 

 E > I) 1 I town 11 rusli, U rp rim 1 ■ ■ .- ■ ft pr ■•« - < 



1 ,., or ■.-(.',,.,; i.. .'.'.■.,.■ ..■..;..,./. .,.■:. |i" .■.-■'■, '.J WaliT Sllllke. 

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in garden; nue crow. Curcus .1 nu-ricaniis, presented! tWOllalfl eagles, 



,;,/,,./!«, presented. Aktuitk >:. ijuown, ucii. Snpt 



,i Oiimp EdUKWds.-J. W. Ik writes; "Here in the 



iil i the Uooky Mountains lam regularly receiving the 



Purest and SrucAit and ROD and Ut;x, and a very welcome 



visitor it is. I think, as a sportsman's journal, your paper 



beats the world, being at the head of the spotting jou oal: oi 



Entry." 



J. II. D. C. writing from Corpus Christ], Texas, says: "1 

 ! not be without your papier for ten times its value. Liv- 

 ing in a glorious country for game as I do, il is of immense 

 value. I am getting up a club for you." 



-A Texas correspondent writes: " Last winter two copies 



Ol ■, .iur paper were taken in lb U 1 01 ,a9 I am 



told by the newsmen, about forty, and this number is steadily 



ly HBO Airy to get people to read a few 



i of F. and S. to make them fall in love with it. 



•diopieia 



more robust and useful variet 

 ig dark green while the margi 

 ,v. A. picta might bo mistak 

 lifitc distinct. The leaves are 

 losed in the compact rosuiate 

 ia. They measure from twe 

 long, but do not reach more than two inches i 

 centre ol' the leaf is dark bright green, having a broad mar- 

 ginal band of pure white, and the edges are furnished with 

 small red spines. 



A, Mextcdna is also a very desirable species, making a fine 

 stout growing plant with leaves from two to three feet in 

 length and about four inches wide, very glaucous green, the 

 spines being somewhat small and distant. A plant, of this 

 species is now in bloom in the greenhouse of W. W. Burn- 

 ham, Esq., 169th street and Eighth avenue. 



A. c»m nea has thick massive leaves of an intense deep 

 green color, the apex being armed with a formidable red spine. 

 A . ferox is a massive looking species, with leaves of a dark 

 green color, and profusely armed with stout and sharp dark- 

 reddish brown spikes. It is, in fact, a veritable JVoiime 

 ;,i,,itiire. A. mitrif ovinia is another deep green ami very orna- 

 mental species with brown spines, and A. lopautha, A. potato- 

 rum, A. salmiJitium and A. 1 ' himlmUUiana are all good, tolera- 

 bly hardy, and very ornamental. 



There are a number of varieties that are also very orna- 

 mental, though of smaller growth, and that require a. green 

 house in winter. Fine specimens of the following can be seen 

 in Lhe collections of If. Rathbun, Esq., South Aniboy, N. J., 

 L. Menand <fc Son, Albany, or William Bennett, Flatbush, 

 viz.: A. AiiplitiuU.ii,, Oelmttna, Filiferti, MaciUata, Vencli- 

 iijfcUii, TyUnacmtlia, Marginal*, Ho-hm riaiui and others. 

 The Yucca (Adam's needle) is a near relative of the Aloe, and 

 flic many beautiful plants of Yucca JUamentoaa, ol "Bear's 

 Grass," Of the Southern States, now in flower in Central and 

 Prospect Parks, must meet the admiration of even the most 

 casual observer. 



Don't Rob the Bird's Nest.— In the course of a recent 

 lecture iu Paris regarding the use of birds, an estimate was 

 formed of the damage to crops by the robbery of a. nest, con- 

 taining five eggs. During the first month each young bird 

 eats on an average about fifty-eight Hies or other insects in a. 

 day. The aggregate, multiplied by thirty, for the month 

 makes 7,500 insects to every nest. Every iiisoct eals daily 

 from blossoms and leaves an amount equaling its weight until 

 if reaches maturity. It was calculated that in thirty days 

 each iuseet would damage thirty blossoms, and thereby de- 

 stroy thirty fruits, and that 7,500 inflects would kill 325,000 

 fruits. It will 1« J well, therefore, for farmers' sons to reflect 

 i lamage done to their parents by the wanton robbery 

 of a single nest. 



Gvr RHcts EscDIKWnjs. — Some 1 members of the Central Hor- 

 ticultural Society of France are engaged on some cultural and 

 applicatory experiments with edible tuberous roots of this 

 sedge. Some cakes and a preparation of a kind of orgeat 



■ m the tubers were declared by the society to be excellent, 

 and further experiments were recommended. It had been 

 objected that the cultivation of this plant would ofteu prove 

 unprofitable, it being very susceptible to frosts, destroying 

 the tubers, but by the method of cultivation found most suc- 

 cessful this is of little consequence, as the sowing or planting 

 [a done in May, and the season for lifting and using the tubers 

 commences in August and terminates in Oct. The follow- 

 ing is the analysis of the tubers; In 100 parts there are 7. 10 of 

 water, 38.08 of oil, 39 of starch, 14.07 of crystallisable sugar, 

 0.87 of albumen, 14.01 of cellulose, and 0.89 of gum, coloring 

 matter, salts. 



—We received, the Other day, from Messrs. Beach, Son A. 

 Co., splendid blooms of JMfvm aurolvm, and L. excelxum, 

 grown on their farm at, Peekskill. They also scut spikes, 

 nearly two feet long, of the very singular Lilium candidum 

 ■ ■■■■: in.'iifslrtmum, covered with its curious dilated bract-like 

 white petals; also cultivated specimens of Lilium catutdenxe, 

 with from 7 lo 10 blooms on each spike. This variety, in its 

 native habitat rarely gives more than 3 or i blossoms on each 

 stalk. 



Poison Ivv.— Our article of July 12 has called out the fol- 



lowing from a correspondent i 

 Mb. EiM-ron: I 



;el ( Virgm 



Westchester : 



aimed frequently— -mostly 



loison sumach (poisonous 

 1 apply a remedy handed 

 uke the fresh bark of the 



Itl 



1 b\ 



I sent the baric by 



as hot as 



three applications. I 



hundred miles, to a f 



remedy in the town to stop tl: 



mail, and received his thanks in a few days as it made a Speedy 



cure. 



Would it not be well to request those who try this remedy 

 to report through your paper. I have no fenrs'of the result. 

 Isaac G. DAaiajr&TON. 



Poisox Ivy.— A correspondent in Washington says that "a 

 decoction made of rattlesnake weed (Hieracium venomm) 

 applied to affected parts will, in most instances, afford'immedi- 

 ate relief." 



■aiei 



A Ntiw V akiety of Cotton.— M. Dclcl 

 spector of Agriculture of Cairo, laid befoi 

 gross of Amsterdam some specimens of a u 

 found growing in Egypt. In a field of oott 

 were found some Bahmiehs (MMieus esmi, 

 Cheik-el-Geleil of the environs of Chibui-6 

 Ivi-ypt. noticed some specimens of fastigia 

 quite different to the others, and similar in 

 mieh or Bamia plant. The stems are about 

 straight, and with relatively few brunches, a 

 ing, not spreading as in ordinary cotton pi; 

 planters of that region did not hesitate to < 

 Bahmieh." They collected the 

 plant them separately. The f 

 nearly half a fetfflm (about half an acre)"of t 



the seeds were collected in the same way, and 1 



cotton. The first samples which arrived in 

 Alexandria were distributed among several r 

 sent them to Liverpool, where they were clagsi 

 cotton," and nearly fetched the price of "g 

 Delchevaleiic, in a note addressed to the Cong 

 the idea that this cotton is a hybrid product!! 

 biscus mtimtm and the Egyptian cotton itsel , ___ 

 poses this summer to make some experiments at Cairo, in 

 order to ascertain if this he so. if this hibridisation has reidly 

 taken place between the Hibixr.ux (AOelmoxchux) exriilmtu* and 

 the cotton, the fact will lie of great importance from a scien- 

 tific point of view, for it may give rise to other experiment,- 

 inartificial fertilization between other genera of the same 

 family. Similar facts are not unprecedented in the records ol 

 horticulture. However this may be, the new cotton plant i' 

 taller than the ordinary cotton. It is ereel and scarceh 

 branched, with the exception of two or three small branches 

 at the base, which allow of the plants being planted closer. 

 It lias not the shrubby form of the ordinary cotton plant, 

 which has numerous branches, themselves branched and pro 

 ducing here and there at flic joints a capsule of cotton on ■ 

 long peduncl, 



ie, the In- 



ecent Cou- 

 ttou plant 

 long which 

 a cert ain 

 , in Lower 



nls. Hence the 

 ,11 them " Kotn- 



t.illy in onLr f 

 Jar they Obtained 

 if them, of which 

 id Egypt this pear. 

 lis new variety of 

 in the market of 

 d merchants, who 

 issed above " fair 

 "good fair." 31. 

 ss, Suggested 



between Hi 



pn 

 grow 



leaves, 

 roots a 

 whose 

 what 



1,A< ! 



ehtsle 



v tap-shaped thy 



quintals of it for Jhldau, in the ric 

 the ordinary cotton does not prodni 

 Delchevalerie Informs us that he 

 experiments at Cairo on the. culti 

 plant, and he has kindly promised 1 

 son the results of his' reses m ae 

 question. — (lardmur's Gkionicl , I 



New Kinds of NkwZkalamd Ki.a 

 the different varieties of New Zeala 

 e, si i ton. To the original type < I'ii 

 added six- varieties. 'of which live 

 teutix ■carier/idum is not only remarl 

 for its beauty. Its leaves grow 01 

 feet, and without becoming ai tin lij 

 gracefully at the points. The edee 

 8 v. a beautiful yellow. The onl 

 is that it too seldom produces of 

 multiplied. /'. Unas >■■ v, , ; is an 

 ous variety, the leave- of Which I 

 ling kind, and are of - 



otton plant, the 

 . The capsules 

 he axils of Lhe 

 ry stalks. The 

 irdinary cotton, 

 izomally. And 



irfetj produces 

 ew cotton plant 



ibtained fifteen 

 he Delta, while 



quantity. M. 

 ne.i a series of 

 this new collou 

 now in due sea- 

 ■ this important 



liage-plants, 

 ve a leading 

 have been 

 -cental. I\ 

 Z6, but also 



aighi oi ! 



ery vigor- 



1 those of 



P. Unax 



