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beautiful hybrids between widely different roses. One series had for 
parents the Japanese rose, R. multiflora, and the well-known old 
garden rose, “General Jacqueminot.” Another set, perhaps destined 
to form a new race, is derived from R. d a prostrate anese 
rose with dark green glossy leaves and white flowers, first introduced to 
cultivation through the Arnold Arboretum 
o account t of the Arnold Arboretum “would be complete without 
mention of the “Silva of North America,” the most important con- 
tribution of the present century to dendrological literature; this work 
is inc by Professor Sargent in the building already mentioned, 
where too the artist attached to the establishment, Mr. C. E. Faxon 
pier a his beautiful illustrations. 
Tue JESUP COLLECTION OF Woops IN THE uini MUSEUM OF 
NATURAL History IN New 
'T his vede as already stated, is a remarkable one; and it is 
within bounds Dur that the forest wealth of no other country is rA 
very useful uberior as it gives the gii td distribution. of att 
species, and its physical properties, &c. arge c aracteristic trunk 
specimens are exhibited, with few exceptions, in lar ge cabinets, a arranged 
re supplemented, in the case of trees of commercial importance, 
“ by Aie selected planks or burls, which often show better than 
“ logs the true industrial value of the wood.” They are about five feet 
high, each ni oe Pa "n popular ee ber scientific name, and the 
physical properties giv À map of the United States, with the 
a aig gam distribution: of the tree, Me T its area in a wild state 
being coloured red, accompanies each specim On swing cases life- 
size water-coloured drawi ings of many of the ‘species, by Mrs. C. S. 
Sargent, are already in position. 
RAILWAY GARDENING. 
Anyone interested in railway gardening should visit the different 
stations of the Boston and Albany line. Probably nowhere else in the 
Auburndale and Chestnut Hill two stations facies worth ity. 
A plan of the former, as well as a view of the station building and part 
of the grounds, are given in “ PETIT and Forest,” vol. ii, March 13 
1889; those of the “latter in vol. i, April 3, 1889. One striking 
characteristic ^ all the stations on ‘the Boston and Albany road is the 
entire absence of * bedding 
A nursery e been. established by the Company, in which large 
numbers of native as well as exotic shrubs are propagated (in order to 
