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mental native small trees is Aralia spinosa, and there 
are no less than over thirty species of true Aralias, 
coming from all parts of the globe, as well as some 
dozen or more of Fatsia and other sorts now separated 
from Aralia proper. 
Our native Aralia, spinosa, is an interesting small 
tree. Its prickly stems and club-like shoots have 
caused it to be called Hercules club. It produces im- 
mense leaves, making a shady canopy, enjoyable of a 
summer day. It bears immense beads of greenish 
white flowers. 
The photograph shows, alongside the shrub, Mr. 
Charles Meehan, a well known horticulturist of the 
Isle of Wight and a brother of the writer. For the 
photograph itself we are indebted to Mr. Frederick 
Goudge, of Clapton, London. 
A LITTLE WATER GARDEN, 
This illustration represents one of the principal fea- 
tures of the garden that won first prize, fifty dollars, 
in a competition among Station Agents of the Boston 
and Albany Railroad, a year or two ago, for the best 
improved Station Grounds. 
AQUATIC PLANTING ON STATION GROUNDS. 
It contains a fine plant of the so-called Egyptian 
Lotus, Nelumbium or Nelumbo speciosum, surrounded 
by hardy water lillies. 
Water gardening is well adapted to station ground 
decoration, and no vegetation is more effective or sat- 
isfactory than aquatics. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
Notes of Trees and SHrubs. 
A ’Pa.tent Tree 'Protector. 
Lenora B. Haggerty, of Vienna, N. J., 
has been granted a patent for the tree 
protector shown in the illustration. It 
is designed to provide a simple device 
which may be easily adjusted to differ- 
ent sizes. Figure i is a side elevation 
of a tree equipped with the protector. 
Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. i. 
Fig. 3 is a view showing one of the 
sections of the protector. Fig. 4 is an 
end view of the protector packed for 
shipment. The device consists of a cylin- 
drical body portion 5, comprising two 
members 6 and 7, formed of tin or 
other suitable material, which are pro- 
vided with perforations 8, which are ar- 
ranged in rows, as shown. One edge 
of each member is turned to form a 
roll 9, which has a longitudinal opening 
10, the result of a slight spacing of the 
extreme edges ii and 12 from the faces 
of the members 6 and 7, respectively, 
the edge of the member 6 being turned 
inwardly to form a roll and the edge 
of the member 7 benig turned outward- 
ly. This construction makes it possible 
to engage the two edges ii and 12 with 
each other to hold the rolled edges ot 
the two members together. The free 
edge 13 of the member 6 is provided 
with a series of headed pins 14, which 
are adapted for engagements with the 
different series of perforations 8 of the 
member 7. To hold the guard in posi- 
tion, a sharpened rod 15 is employed, 
which is engaged with one of the rolls 
9, as shown, the lower end of the rod 
projecting beyond the roll for engage- 
ment with the ground. 
The San 'Jose Scale. 
The life-history of the San Jose Scale, 
the greatest insect pest of modern times, 
is a most interesting romance of nature, 
and a tragedy as well, says a writer in 
The Garden Magazine. Commencing in 
June for a period of approximately six 
weeks the females continue to produce 
young, each averaging about four hun- 
dred, or from nine to ten every twenty- 
four hours. 
The new-born wanders forth in search 
of a favorable place to establish itself, 
and within relatively few hours (on an 
average a little over twenty-seven) set- 
tles at some convenient point and works 
its slender, hair-like beak through the 
bark. If it be a female, it never moves 
from this spot, and soon loses legs, an- 
tennse and eyes and becomes virtually 
an animated pump drawing the vital 
fluids from the tree. 
The female scale insect requires about 
thirty days to attain maturity, and the 
male from twenty-four to twenty-six ; 
thus the round of life may be completed 
in from thirty-three to forty days. De- 
tailed studies made at Washington show 
that four entire generations are normal- 
ly developed in a year. The fecundity 
of the insect, in connection with its 
ability to produce a number of genera- 
tions annually, results in an enormous 
increase. 
The San Jose Scale has been record- 
ed upon a large number of food plants, 
but is very injurious to comparatively 
few. The fruit trees — peach, pear, plum, 
cherry and apple — are preferred in about 
the order named. Currant bushes are 
very subject to injury and among or- 
namentals none are worse affected than 
Japanese quince. Lilacs, snowberry, 
willows and some other ornamentals are 
also liable to serious injury. 
