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to be to cut it back a little at midsummer, after its 
first crop of flowers is over. The young- shoots suc- 
ceeding flower in September and October. 
Begonia \*ernon stands the sun well and is one of 
our best bedding plants. A stock of it should be looked 
up for next year. For indoors obtain a plant or two of 
Gloire de Lorraine, a beautiful winter blooming sort. 
This is a good time to set out a specimen or two of 
Bechtel’s double flowering crab, by those who want a 
really grand thing. It’s fine. The flowers look like 
double roses on the trees. 
Gaillardia compacta, a rather new perennial, is al- 
most a constant bloomer. In fact if a half-dozen plants 
are possessed one need not look in vain for flowers 
from June till November. 
Enquiries are frequent as to the hardiness of the 
English walnut. It is quite hardy about Philadelphia, 
and I have seen it thriving along the shores of Con- 
necticut, and am told by a correspondent he has seen 
nice trees of it near Rochester, near Lake Ontario. 
Spring is the best time to plant it. 
Before winter comes go over orchard trees to make 
sure no borers have gained an entrance. Just below 
and just above ground are where they are found. The 
Mountain Ash and the European Linden have to be 
watched in the same way. 
Between bugs and blights it is pretty hard to ob- 
tain good bunches of grapes nowadays. The simple 
plan of enclosing the bunches in paper bags just as 
soon as they are formed is always effectual in secur- 
ing them. 
When placing Hydrangea Hortensia in cellar for 
the winter, or in covering it up outdoors, do not prune 
it back or there will be no flowers next season. In 
this respect it requires the opposite treatment the 
Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora does. 
Do not omit the red-flowered dogwood from your 
planting list. It is a beautiful tree, one of the many 
attractive ones of early spring. Either fall or spring 
planting suits it. 
If Pyrus Japonica are desired, it is better to plant 
in the fall than in spring, it being a bush that starts 
into leaf so very early in spring, just as does the 
larch and the Japanese snowball. 
The Verbena shrub Caryopteris Mastacanthus, 
which flowers in September and October, is greatly 
loved by bees. Other flowers of the season are passed 
by if this shrub can be reached. 
Elaeagnus Simoni, an almost evergreen, produces 
its cream-white flowers in the last days of October. 
They are deliciously scented. It is regrettable that 
this desirable shrub appears somewhat tender north 
of Philadelphia. 
IMany of the Japanese Pyrus, such as baccata and 
its many varieties, bear beautiful berries at this sea- 
son of the year. Some are yellow, some red, and they 
are in small clusters and about the size of a currant. 
Many shrubs delay the coloring of their foliage 
until very late in the season. These and the various 
“berry shrubs” should be observed to gain informa- 
tion as to their proper positions in plantings. 
Monthly roses of not extra hardy nature can be 
protected by piling sawdust around them sufficient to 
cover the shoots to a height of six to ten inches. No 
need to protect more, as the shoots from the preserved 
parts will give all the blossoms required. Soil will 
answer as well as sawdust. 
Outside window boxes are largely used in cities in 
the winter season. They are made of wood, of desired 
length and width, and planted with dwarf evergreens. 
The evergreens with proper attention last very well 
for one season. 
India rubber plants are popular decorative plants 
for indoors in winter, and for the lawn in summer. 
The Magnolia grandiflora should be. Its leaves are 
very large, bright green ; it stands the air a rubber 
will, and is a hardy plant, so can be used in a less 
^varm room than would suit the rubber. 
Joseph Meehan. 
Liability for Permitting^ Btirial on 'Wron^ Lot. 
Ten thousand dollars actual damages and $5,000 exemplary 
damages were asked by a lot owner in an action against a 
cemetery for the burial on his lot of the corpses of a child and 
an adult not connected with him. It is said that he claimed 
damages for mental anguish arising from the facts stated. 
But if the child was burled on the lot, which was rendered 
exceedingly doubtful by the evidence, it was done in 1884, 
and, the court of civil appeals of Texas says, was known to 
the party suing in July, 1895, at the time he buried the third 
of his children there, and saw a headstone that the father 
of such other child had placed on one of the graves. The 
body of the adult referred to was buried in 1893. The suit 
was instituted on June 21, 1899. More than five years had 
elapsed between the acts on which the suit was based and 
the time that the action was instituted. The injury to this 
lot owner was inflicted, as to the grave of the child, at least 
as far back as 1893, when its father was allowed to place 
a headboard on a grave, the court says, of the child of the 
party suing, as was the injury in permitting the adult to be 
buried on the lot. The action, the court continues, was main- 
tainable on the ground of the disturbance of the plaintiff’s 
use of the burial lot. Then it says that in the only case that 
it has seen which is directly in point, it was held : “He who 
is guilty of a willful trespass, or one characterized by gross 
carelessness, and want of ordinary attention to the rights of 
another, is bound to make a full compensation. Under such 
circumstances, the natural injury to the feelings of the plain- 
tiff may be taken into consideration in trespass as well as 
in other actions of tort,” or. for wrongdoing. It does not say 
what case that was.Wherefore, it concludes that the cause of 
action was barred by limitation, under the Texas statutes, and 
holds, Kruegel against the Trinity Cemetery Company, 63 
Southwestern Reporter 652, that there was therefore no error 
in instructing a verdict for the cemetery company. 
