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It is easily grown, forms a smooth carpet of green, giving the effect of a 

 White Clover lawn, though forming a more compact mass and not requiring 

 the use of a lawn-mower. It will not bear much trampling on, but might 

 be valuable for clothing steep banks facing south, where grass is very 

 liable to get burnt up in summer. 



3. It is complained that, in consequence of want of care on the part of 

 American seedsmen, Celery from home-grown seed is liable to a pithiness 

 which is not observable in plants grown from foreign seed. 



4. Reports from the different States vary as to the advantages of 

 irrigating Strawberries. In some districts the practice seems to be actually 

 injurious, but in most of the Northern States it is proved to be of value. 



Tropical and sub-tropical fruit are likely to be supplied in increasing 

 quantities to the United States from their new island possessions, and a 

 certain number are here described, and hints given on their culture out of 

 doors. The list includes the Pomelo Grape Fruit or Shaddock, Peen-to 

 Peaches, the Alligator Pear, the Roselle and the Surinam Cherry. 



8. For the prevention of stem-rot and root-lice in China Asters (cure 

 is impossible), it is recommended to start the plants out of doors rather 

 than under glass, and, above all, never in soil where Asters have been grown 

 before. 



June 1 is not too late to sow the seed, and, as a general rule, the richer 

 the soil the better will be the Asters. 



9. A method of boiling and evaporating Sweet Potatos is described, 

 the crop having hitherto been one which,-while cheap and nourishing, was 

 too bulky and too perishable to pay for transportation to any distance. 



10. Beans are declared to be amongst the cheapest foods for supplying 

 protein, but their digestibility is much increased by the skins being re- 

 moved. On the whole they represent a food more suited to a man in 

 active work than to one of sedentary habits. — M. L. H. 



Fendlera rupicola. By W. B. Hemsley (Bot. Mag. tab. 7924).— 



Nat. ord. Sa.rifragaccce, tribe Hydrangea. Native of S.-W. North 

 America. A highly floriferous shrub of dry, rocky regions. The leaves 

 clustered on short lateral branchlets, opposite. Flowers 1 J — 14 inch diam. 

 4-merous, stamens 8, petals white. — G. H. 



Ferns, British Names of. By C. T. Druery (Gard. Ghron. No. 861, 

 p. 418 ; June 27, 1903). — The origin of the popular names of British 

 Ferns is fully dealt with in this paper. There seems to be almost as 

 much confusion about them as there is among the scientific ones. After 

 having given the derivations of the English names and comments on the 

 others, the author says : " So much for the popular and botanical names of 

 our native species, whence it is abundantly clear that the former are more 

 datura) a- a rule, and less open to dispute than the latter. To deal fully 

 with the varietal names would demand more space than this article 

 permits or the general reader would care to traverse, since, while the 

 species number about forty-four only, the varieties run into a couple of 

 thousand." - G. S. S. 



Fertilisers, Commercial {U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Vermont, Bull 99, 

 5/1903). — Gives analyses of fertilisers and a considerable amount of 



