PARK AND CEMETERY 
lOB 
>IAGNOI.lA CONSPICUA. 
hypoleuca and the southern Frazerii will often flower 
before June especially southward. 
Calycaiitlins floridiis, the “sweet shrub” of the 
grandmother’s garden, and farther south (hardly 
north of Wilmington, N. C., I fear) the infinitely 
sweeter Chimonanthus fragrans may be planted. 
Asiniina triloba flowers quite early, has good sized 
foliage and quite good fruit. It becomes a tree of 
twenty-five feet high as far north as Princeton, N. 
J, Irut is commonly seen in IdusIi form. 
James MacPherson. 
Note — In tliis article last month “bays and promontories of 
a pine tree” should have read “bays and promontories of a 
pinetum.” 
CUTTING IMMATURE TREES IN CANADA. 
The cutting of large numbers of immature trees on 
timber limits is said to have finally attracted the atten- 
tion of the Provincial Government of Quebec and the 
cases will be immediately investigated. It is alleged 
that no less than 80,000 trees of a size forbidden by 
statute have been cut by one firm on a limit within one 
hundred miles from Montreal. The legal fine for this 
offence is $3 a tree, so that the total amount would 
reach $240,000. Reports of such illegal cutting have 
become so frequent of late that it is reported that INIr. 
IMorency of Sherbrooke, has been appointed to thor- 
oughly investigate the whole matter and that his ap- 
pointment will very shortly be announced. Mr. 
Morency is an authority on the subject of forestry and 
the Crown lands of the province, being one of the pro- 
vincial cullers. The illegal cutting is supposed to have 
, been done prior to the advent of the Gouin adminis- 
. A PATENT WEED EXTERMINATOR. 
Herman Thoeni, of Spokane, Wash., has pat- 
ented the weed exterminator shown in the illustra- 
tion. Its essential feature is a tube 10 provided 
with a suitable penetrator 12, which is tapered 
to a point, and provided at its upper end with a 
threaded stem 13, adapted to be screwed into the 
solid end 14 of the tube 10. The cap ii is removed 
and the reservoir filled with a siritable liquid and 
the point of the penetrator is pressed into the heart 
of the plant or weed at the root. The finger-piece 
30 and pull 21 are then engaged by the fingers and 
the pull elevated, thereby unseating the valve ig 
and opening the passage 17. The weed-killing 
liquid to pass through, and in practice it has been 
out from the reservoir through the discharge pas- 
sage into the passage 15 of the penetrator and 
downwardly into the heart or root of the plant. 
The valve 19 is maintained in its open position 
only long enough to permit the desired quantity of 
■liquid to pass the same, and in practice it has been 
found that a few drops is sufficient to kill an ordi- 
nary weed. The implement is claimed to be par- 
ticularly useful for killing weeds on lawns and 
other places where hoeing cannot be done. (Pat- 
ent No. 8i2,6t6.) 
WEED EXT'ERMINATOR. 
