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splashed, dotted and streaked on a light yellow ground. 

 Stem short, calyx open in a rather deep basin. Flesh 

 crisp, sub-acid, juicy, and as white as that of Fameuse. 

 Quality very good to best. (Illustrated on page 137.) 



E. F. Purington, who forwarded the specimens from 

 Franklin county, Maine, where the seedling was raised, 

 writes that Mr. Van Deman named it the Boardman in 

 honorof the secretary of the Maine Pomological Society, 



and adds: ■' The tree fruits every year. Where Bald- 

 wins winter-kill, it comes out all right. During ten 

 years I have never seen a bud killed. When my sister 

 was sick and other food distressed her, she could eat 

 Boardman with impunity. Let the editor try them, and 

 if he can eat enough to hurt him, I will let him try a 

 barrel next year." We recently had an opportunity to 

 see and taste the apple, and were favorably impressed. 



(See page 135 



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PLANTS AND TREES IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



THAT SHOULD BE TRIED FURTHER NORTH. 



HE last number of The American 

 Florist has a handsome picture 

 of the umbrella china tree, a 

 seminal sport of the old china 

 tree, Melia Azedarach, which 

 comes true to this form from 

 seed. We have in Raleigh many 

 fine specimens of this beautiful 

 tree, one of which, not far from my residence, 

 though not more than fifteen feet high, makes a 

 dense leafy arbor over a circle thirty feet in diameter. 

 While this tree is doubtless tender at the north, I 



am sure it can be grown much further north than 

 it is now commonly seen. 



Many years ago I knew in a town in southern Mary- 

 land a large china tree of the common species, which 

 was as handsome as any I iiave ever seen south. This 

 is the only specimen that I s.iw in Maryland, and it was 

 never injured by frost even when the ponds in the neigh- 

 borhood had ice a foot thick on them. This tree was 

 destroyed by a fire that swept a great part of the town 

 years ago. Does any one know of china trees north- 

 ward and how far north they can be grown? * * * 



We have in Raleigh another handsome and remarkably 

 rapid-growing shade-tree that I am persuaded is much 



