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Selected Notes and Extracts. 
Lilies in the Rock Garden 
When thinking of plants suitable for 
the rock garden one does not always 
take Lilies into consideration, and yet 
some of the very best effects may be 
obtained by their use. 
In a rock garden of large extent and 
bold features there is no reason why 
nearly all but the largest Lilies should 
not be planted; but even in smaller 
places the bold and graceful upright 
Lily form may often redeem a rock 
garden from the over-squatness of treat- 
ment so often seen. Moreover, when 
one thinks of a delicate or brilliant gem 
like tenuifolium, with its scarlet turn- 
cap flower coming, as it does, so early 
in the Lily season; of the small grow- 
ing orange colored philadelphicum ; of 
the many gorgeous and tender colored 
varieties of elegans (thunbergianum), 
with their small stature and large 
bloom; of concolor and coridion, two 
charming dwarf kinds— one sees that 
Lilies in the rock garden should by no 
means be neglected. Several of the 
species are from rocky lands, and the 
complete drainage of the upper portions 
of the rock gardens is greatly in their 
favor. — The Garden. 
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Hardy Dwarf Hedge. 
Amongst flowering shrubs suitable 
for planting as a hedge around a lawn 
is the little dwarf growing Spirsea, An- 
thony Waterer. When covered with its 
bright pink blossoms, as it is generally 
from July to October, it has a very 
pretty effect. One has only to see this 
plant growing in nursery rows to form 
an idea of its suitability for a dwarf 
hedge around a lawn. The Spiraea 
Bumalda and the white variety of the 
same class (Spiraea callosa alba) would 
be very effective for the same purpose. 
— Canadian Horticulturist. 
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Water Lilies for Aquatic Gardens. 
The presence of small streams or 
brooks in the grounds of suburban resi- 
dences is not uncommon, yet attempts 
to make good use of them by cultivat- 
ing a few aquatic plants — particularly 
those deliciously fragrant Water-lilies 
so insistently sought in their native 
haunts — are extremely few. These 
hardy flowers are easily grown and need 
less care than most garden flowers, 
while the pleasing results are in greater 
proportion. Nymphaea odorata is the 
fragrant, white-flowered one above re- 
ferred to. N. lutea is a desirable yellow 
species of similar type. Both are eas- 
ily obtained and grown. — Meehan’s 
Monthly. 
How to Use the Watch as a Compass. 
Very few people are aware of the fact 
that in a watch they are always pro- 
vided with a compass, with which, when 
the sun is shining, the cardinal points 
can be determined. All one has to do 
is to point the hour hand to the sun, 
and south is exactly half way between 
the hour and the figure twelve on the 
watch. This may seem strange to the 
average reader, but it* is easily ex- 
plained. While the sun is passing over 
i8o degrees (east or west) the hour 
hand of the watch is passing over 360 
degrees (from 6 o’clock to 6 o’clock). 
Therefore the angular movement of the 
sun in one hour corresponds to the an- 
gular movement of the hour hand in 
half an hour; hence, if we point the 
hour hand toward the sun the line from 
the point midway between the hour 
hand and 12 o’clock to the pivot of the 
hands will point to the south. — Popular 
Mechanics. 
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Planting Street Trees, 
“The general tendency is to plant 
street trees too closely together. It is 
neither necessary nor desirable to shut 
out all sunlight from the sidewalk or 
roadway; occasional glimpses of sun- 
light are life-giving and add cheerful- 
ness and variety to street life. Some- 
times trees are planted thickly in the 
streets for quick effects, with the inten- 
tion of after thinning. But this good 
intention of the planter is seldom car- 
ried out. It would be wrong, however, 
to say that this is not a good plan Be- 
cause its design is not carried out. For 
I believe the time to be at hand when 
the public in general will be sufficiently 
advanced in horticultural knowledge, 
and in the desire to have its streets 
adorned with well-grown trees, to take 
advantage of the best methods of bring- 
ing about this result. — J. A. Pettigrew, 
in American Florist. 
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The Mango in Cuba* 
Of all fruit trees in Cuba, the Mango 
(Mangifera Indica) stands pre-eminent 
by the size and beauty of the tree and 
abundance and quality of the fruit. It 
must have been imported from India at 
an early day, for groves of it are found 
in all parts of the island, hardier and 
apparently more at home than many 
native trees, thriving in all kinds of 
soils and situations. When fully de- 
veloped, its noble stature, strong, spread- 
ing limbs, ample, thick and glossy ever- 
green foliage, thick clusters of white 
flowers in winter, and abundant drupes 
hanging from long pedicels in summer, 
make it one of the handsomest trees in 
the world. The fruit is about the size of 
an apple or pear, but of unique and 
characteristic shape, which might be de- 
scribed as a flattened cone with oblique 
base, and rounded, slightly incurved 
point. There are dozens of varieties of 
mangoes, some entirely delicious, others 
more or less stringy and resinous, but in 
all of them the bulk of the stone is a 
sore disappointment. The future Cuban 
cultivator who first obtains a notable 
reduction of stone and corresponding in- 
crease of pulp, will do as much for his 
country as the patriot who first estab- 
lishes a well ordered government. The 
mango is perfectly wholesome, in spite 
Df the injurious remarks levelled at it 
by the ignorant and the prejudiced.— 
Dr. Valery Havard in the Plant 
World. 
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Forestry in the High Schools. 
“For the acquisition of knowledge of 
a general nature relating to the forest 
which every man and woman should 
know, the high school is the place. All 
are agreed that in case it should be 
taught at all it does not belong below 
the upper grades of the high school. It 
is also true that a very large proportion 
of our high school graduates would 
never acquire such knowledge unless 
•they get it in the high school, because 
many of them never go to colleges and 
universities, and because many of our 
colleges and universities do not offer 
instruction in many of the most im- 
portant subjects.” — Dr. Jno. Gifford in 
the School Review. 
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Antidote for Ivy Poisoning. 
I believe in proving all things in order 
that we may cleave to those which are 
good, and when I saw the reiteration of 
the statement made in Popular Science, 
I resolved to bring the matter to a test 
by experiencing ivy poisoning for my- 
self. Consequently I am a wiser if not 
a sadder man. The ivy poison “took,” 
as the doctors would say, beautifully. 
Two days after the application of “Rhus 
tox” the eruptions, together with the 
suffering, commenced. For two days I 
employed juice of the wild balsam or 
jewel weed {Impatiens fulva), but the 
state of my arm grew steadily worse. 
Then I gave over the experiment, satis- 
fied of the mythology of the remedy, 
and used camphorated sweet oil and ex- 
tract of witch hazel, which were effec- 
tive. — E. W. V. in the American Botan- 
ist. 
