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with white variegation which unfortunately will not 
endure the intense evaporation in the States, but is 
one of the most striking garden forms in Britain. 
Greyia Sutherlandii is a tender South African 
shrub in but one species. I mention it here be- 
cause it is too beatiful in its flowers to be forgotten, 
let it flower whenever it will. I have seen but 
one plant of it in America — with the late John 
Feast, of Baltimore. It should be tried in Cali- 
fornia. 
StapJiylea has 4 species, American, European, 
Japanese, and Himalayan. They are called “blad- 
der nuts’’ and are rather pretty white flowered de- 
ciduous shrubs. S. pinnata the European form is 
a good forcing plant. 
Euscaphis has two species both Japanese. 
Tiirpinia, has 8 species mostly tropical, but one 
at least is Chinese. 
Pistacia “Pistachio nut,” has 8 species, from 
the Mediterranean, the Canaries, Mexico, and 
China. 
Schinus has 13 species, one of which S. molle is 
familiar in Californian gardens. The leaves when 
broken and dropped on still water, seem as though 
endowed with the power of locomotion. 
Cotimis “Smoke Rhus” has i species extending 
from Southern Europe all through temperate Asia. 
This is how some of the Kew publications put it, 
but others make it a Rhus! It varies, and we have 
a form on the Alleghenies, larger perhaps but not 
unlike it. 
RJms has 118 species, widely distributed over 
the world. Many are “Poison Sumachs,” but sev- 
eral are handsome. Poison Rhus resembles the 
Virginia creeper (although it has but a tri-lobed 
leaf.) Children should be taught never to 
touch it, but should they inadvertently suffer from 
Rhus poison, a druggist should be asked to pre- 
scribe a solution of sodium hypo-sulphite for a 
bath. The inner bark of the Bass-wood (Tilia) 
soaked until it is saponaceous, and applied as a 
poultice with bandages is also said to afford relief. 
The Coriariece, etc., are anomalous but pretty 
shrubs from the Mediterranean countries and the 
Himalayas, etc. 
I have been greatly tempted to write a good 
many tender genera into this alliance, for they are 
often elegant greenhouse plants, and useful for the 
sub-tropical garden in summer, besides many of 
them may be expected to endure ordinary winters 
at the south, and even if killed to the ground oc- 
casionally such half herbaceous genera as Meha 7 t- 
thits will grow again in spring. The Alliance con- 
tains a large number of species natives of the 
warmer parts of the United States. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
The National Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn. 
A bright Tennessee woman once remarked that 
in the blue grass region of that state they lived on 
the fat of the land, while in Chattanooga and its 
vicinity the natives lived on scenery and war 
relics. True it is that both of the latter are much 
in evidence in the Mountain City. Among the 
many points of interest about Chattanooga is the 
Federal, or, as it is commonly called, the National 
Cemetery. It is one of the beauties and show places 
of the town, as well as a place of national historic 
interest. 
Just outside of the city limits of Chattanooga 
and about one mile due east from the court house, 
which is near the center of the city, there lies a 
tract of land comprising about 130 acres, which 
is the property of the government. Seventy- 
flve of these acres are inclosed by a handsome stone 
wall, and form the picturesque and beautiful resting 
place of 13,107 union soldiers. There are two en- 
trances to the grounds, one on Montgomery and the 
other on McCallie avenue. Both of these avenues 
are supplied with trolley lines, and so this cemetery 
is the most accessible of all the historic points 
around the Mountain City, being within ten min- 
utes ride of the leading hotels. Perhaps this, in a 
measure at least, accounts for the number of visit- 
ors, there being an average of 70,000 admitted each 
year. 
Nature has done much for the place, and those 
in charge have made no attempt to coerce her into 
strange and conventional forms. The site of the 
cemetery is a shapely knoll, with easy winding 
boulevards in all directions, and admirable shade is 
furnished both by the fine old native trees and oth- 
ers of more recent planting. On the apex of this 
knoll is a rostrum of rustic design and vine covered, 
from which a fine view of Lookout Mountain and 
Missionary Ridge may be obtained. This rostrum 
is used as a speaker’s stand on the 30th of May of 
each recurring year, at which time the members of 
the G. A. R. meet to decorate the graves of their 
comrades. 
Captain Trindle, the efficient superintendent, has 
been in charge for fourteen years and has many in- 
teresting things to tell, and is always courteous and 
affable to visitors. His house and office are near 
the center of the grounds and form a picturesque 
little group of buildings. 
On the hillsides are the rows of graves, each 
marked with its separate stone, as the custom 
is, and several large shafts and monuments 
are to be seen. The most notable of the 
latter is the one erected by the state of Ohio in 
memory of the Andrews raiders, a picture of which 
accompanies this sketch. It was erected in 1890, and 
