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but even this is not harmful in moderation in the 
case of some trees. The injury is from fierce winds, 
tearing and bruising the foliage; and this leads to 
the mention of the remedy, viz, to massing of trees 
at points where strong winds are to be feared. 
Banks of pines are good on the outskirts, as their 
needles are not so prone to injury then, deciduous 
trees on the sheltered side of them. With such 
protection any hardy plants maybe set near the sea. 
Joseph Meehan. 
Ambassador Eustis was present at the unveiling 
of a memorial tablet that has been erected on the 
site of the villa at Passy occupied by Benjamin 
P'ranklin from 1777 to 1785. It was at this villa 
that Franklin erected his first lightning conductor. 
The dramatist, M. Manuel, president of the Passy 
Historical Society, presented the tablet. M. Faye, 
a member of the French Academy, spoke of Frank- 
lin’s scientific researches. It reallylooks as though 
the recognition by France of Benjamin P'ranklin 
has stimulated his fellow countrymen into renewed 
energy to fittingly commemorate his services. 
Garden Plants, — Their Geography. Vll. 
CARYOPHYLLALES. 
THE DIANTHUS, PORTULACA, AND TAMAKIX ALLIANCE. 
Silenc has 250 species with numerous varieties 
distributed over the temperate regions of Plurope, 
Asia, Africa and N. America. We have two or 
SILENE PENDULA SILENE PENDULA 
(Nana Compacta.) (Double.) 
three native to the Atlantic states, S. Pennsylva- 
nica being one of the commonest, and five or six 
European ones are adventive. They are pretty 
plants often found in gardens. 
Silene compacta and S. Schafta from Asiatic 
Russia are useful kinds. Great Britain has eleven 
species some of which are admitted to gardens. 
They make a fine display in masses during May 
and June, and such as S. maritima as late as July, 
or S. Schafta as late as September. 
Lychnis has forty species confined to the tem- 
perate parts of the Northern Hemisphere. A doz- 
en species are found 
in the United States 
some of which are 
naturalized. The 
rare little Scotch L. 
alpina, found there 
LYCHNIS, LYCHNIS COELI. 
HYBRID. Rosea. 
only in Glen Isla and the Glova mountains flowers 
in our gardens in May, it is not very showy. L. 
Chalcedonica and its varieties flower in June as do 
some others. Quite a number flower at midsum- 
mer, and L. alba (vespertina) fl. pi. in Aug. — Sep. 
Ccrastiuin has 45 species and twice as many 
names. They 
are found all 
• 
over the world. 
Some are used 
in gardens as 
flowering or 
foliage plants. 
Stellaria 
“sti ch worts,” 
have eighty^five 
species of wide 
distribution, a 
few are useful 
as rock plants, 
and for edges of 
beds or borders. 
A r c n a r i a, 
“Sa n d w o r t s,’ 
have a still larger representation of 160 species and 
are quite ubiquitous. Some are useful plants for 
rock work. A. ciliata which is rather pretty is the 
rare Irish species, having been found there only in 
the vicinity of Ben Bulben, County Sligo. The 
genus, large as It is, appears to have been absorbed 
and distributed into other genera (as far as names 
go) by some American Botanists. 
Sagina in eight or ten species of low growing 
weeds are of wide distribution in the Northern 
Hemisphere. S. procumbens is British, one quar- 
ter of an inch high, and covered in early summer 
with little white flowers. The golden variety of S. 
pilifera is also used in Europe. 
CERASTIUM TOMENTOSUM 
