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drought well, but turns brown and becomes disfigured when frost 
comes 
The Soldiers' Home, situated on high ground outside the city, is 
surrounded by fine grounds containing many remarkable specimens 
native we exotic trees. On dry banks and along roadsides not far 
nicera japonica has become naturalised in great quantity, 
and has "al the appearance of a truly native plant. In the woods, 
Smilax n orien S. rotundifolia Podophyllum peltatum, Goodyera 
pubescens, Chimaphila umbellata were seen; all these are 
desirable Hs beautiful garden plants cultivated at Kew. A mass 
of the Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora), with about 100 stems about 
9 inches high, each bearing 2 large waxy-white flower, was a l 
sight; I am not aware that anyone has yet succeeded in cultivating 
this handsome parasite. 
WASHINGTON TO Roan MOUNTAIN. 
On the evening Es July 6th I left Washington for Johnson City, 
Tennessee, a distance of 455 miles. After leaving Pulaski, a pleasant 
summer resort at the foot of the Alleghanies, I saw Rhododendron 
maximum in flower in the woods through which the railway passes, 
Kalmia latifolia was also conspicuous, and Jtea virginica with its 
racemes of white flowers. Ceanothus americanus was in flower 
sunny bluffs, anc in damp spots Cimicifuga racemosa, the Black Snake- 
root, threw up its stems upwards of 6 feet high, bearing long racemes 
of white tlowers. The Vi iper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare), a Sablon 
weed introduced to and naturalised in the United States, afforded m 
of blue in the pastures, and also in dry wild uncultivated s spots; in mee 
parts of Vinge. Tennessee ad Par. and South Carolina this plant has 
become a very troublesome weed. From Johnson City a oni Sei 
railway ruus to Crasher, through the Doe River Canon, 1,500 feet deep, 
one of the most wild and picturesque spots in Eastern North America. 
‘Some of the trees and shrubs noted here in a wild state were the tulip- 
poe Sassafras, Castanea americana, Magnolia acuminata, Platanus 
dentalis, several species of Cornus, Viburnum, Ceanothus ameri- 
canus, 
Bhodode ndron maximum and dina Coniac grew everywhere 
Mong the ues of the wood above the watere 
tain Station I noted Oxyden 2e arboreum, Mitchella 
ee in E and fruit on damp rock ee the Mayflower of the 
New Englanders ae Oe) a beautiful ericaceous trailin x 
shrub not very e in Britain, Adiantum pedatum 
Aspidium RU bh 
"The mountain road which runs from Roan Mountain Station (2,700 
feet above the sea level) to Cloudlands, an hotel built on the summit an 
Roan Mountain, 6,315 feet above sea level, and said to be the highes 
human habitation east of the Rocky Mountains, is about 12 miles ane 
and part of the distance runs - through exceedingly rich deciduous 
forests. No visitor interested i n trees could fail to be struck by the 
the most primitive fashion, the fine trees were ** deadened," i.e., killed 
by ringing, and thé dead stems allowed to stand until they rotted and 
fell. 
The following description is from the gom of the late Dr. Asa 
Gray, in 1884, at Montreal:—*'The Alleghany or Appalachian 
Mo. Bot. Garden. 
