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aments. G. eliptica endures the climate of South- 
ern England very well. G. Linheimeri is said to 
be found in Central Texas, and would probably 
stand throughout the lower South. 
Criselinia is in eightspecies from New Zealand, 
Chili and other portions of South America. Two 
or three of the New Zealand kinds are in European 
gardens, and maybe adapted to parts of California. 
Nyssa, “tupelo,” is a genus of five or six spe- 
cies, North American, Himalayan and Malayan. 
Our botanies give at least five species as natives, 
some with six or eight names each, and even the 
best authorities get mixed with them. N. sylvatica 
is a beautiful tree when given room to develop, 
with three to eight fertile flowers in clusters, and neat 
dark green enduring foliage, which changes to a 
beautiful bronzy red in autumn. This species varies 
greatly in the woodlands, and old woodsmen assure 
me that “blackbirds” refuse the fruit of some forms. 
N. aquatica has its fertile flowers solitary, and is 
found further south. N. capitata, the “Ogechee 
lime,” is altogether a southern species. All the 
Nyssas should be cut well back and transplanted in 
a young state. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
SOME RECENT FRENCH MONUMENTS. 
The illustrations on the opposite page, showing 
some, of the public monuments recently erected in 
France to its great men and to commemorate his- 
torical events, also points to the style of monument 
now more usually adopted. Sculptors and art- 
ists generally have for a long time declaimed against 
modern dress, as a barrier to harmonious achieve- 
ments in their art, and many have been the devices 
resorted to to palliate this condition. It is 
certain that the habiliments of to-day do not 
conform to established concepts of artistic 
drapery, as every modern statue will de- 
clare, and so where the genius of the subject 
calls for no representation of physical char- 
acteristics, which is, of course, most fre- 
quently the case, the bust memorial meets 
all requirements. And as will be seen by 
the illustrations this class of monument 
readily admits of both decorative and de- 
scriptive detail. In fact it has come to 
pass that some of the most beautiful crea- 
tions of the sculptor’s art to-day are bust 
memorials. 
The following is a brief description of 
the monuments illustrated: 
Monument to Dr. Pasteur at Melun, 
France, by Houdin. It consists of ajjstela, sur- 
mounted by a bronze bust of the savant. A bas- 
relief represents a vaccinating scene, showing Pas- 
teur and others assisting in the operation. Abronze 
shepherdess on the base is offering the doctor a token 
of homage and renown. 
Monument erected at Tournay on the Belgian 
frontier in memory of French soldiers who fell at 
the siege of Anvers in 1832. It is the joint work of 
M. Constant Sonneville, architect, and M. Debert, 
a young French sculptor. The base is octagonal, 
about 34 feet in diameter, and is surmounted by a 
bronze frieze, reproducing in relief the principal 
episodes of the siege. Above this is a granite shaft, 
with crenelated capital, upon which stands a grace- 
lul figure of Belgium, who with a gesture of grati- 
tude, and hand resting upon her breast, extends the 
laurel in the other toward France. 
The mounment to Maxime Lalanne, the etcher, 
at Bordeaux, by M. Pierre Granet, sculptor of that 
city, consists of a bust of Lalanne in white marble, 
set upon a pedestal of flesh colored marble of Lan- 
guedoc. Around the stela, starting from near the 
ground, is entwined a branch of fusain in bronze. 
Seated astride this branch is the genius of Art, 
holding in one hand a twig of the tree and in the 
other a sheet of paper — that invented by Lalanne 
himself, and well-known to artists. 
The monument to Lapommerage, literary and 
dramatic critic, one of the founders of the Poly- 
technic Association, is erected in Pere La Chaise, 
Paris. Under the stela, which supports a bronze 
bust of the subject, is a bronze plaque, attached to 
the base, showing him presiding at a meeting of the 
Polytechnic Association. 
MEDITATION ON MONEYWORT. 
I have been prompted to write this article, by a 
sincere desire to mitigate an evil, and in the hope to 
MONEYWORT. 
better the appearance of all the burial lots in Grove 
cemetery, New Brighton, Pa., and also ot all other 
parts of the grounds. 
