tilated roam, is not only nauseating but 
without doubt unhealthy. From my own 
experience, and nil that I have been able to 
learn through observation, l believe that, as 
a rule, the air in rooms where plants are 
growing is purer than it would be without 
them. The exceptions are in those enses 
which I have named. One of the most re¬ 
markable instances of a thorough test of this 
question of health fulness of plants in rooms 
that I have ever known personally is that 
of the mother of my nearest neighbor. Mrs. 
Crane is nearly eighty years old, enjoying 
excellent health, both mental and physical, 
Well, my last trial beats all of the others. 
1 made up a club for a good paper, whose 
proprietors promise me a Eiimeluu grape 
vine. The Good Paper sent me a note in¬ 
forming me that he had ordered the vine 
from a certain linn. So that is the last of 
it, 1 suppose ; the clerk of the firm forgot it. 
1 wish you would publish this; probably 
the nurserymen would do belter if you do.— 
\V. J. Rouse, Jiiu'h'iu/bm, Boom Co., Ivy. 
Arboriculture 
DAILY RURAL LIFE. 
THE TULIP TREE: 
] .1 t-iodendroit Tut ipitrrn. 
We have few species of native forest trees 
that excel the tulip in stately magnificence. 
Its tall columnar stem is generally ns straight 
ns an arrow, the branches spreading in very 
large trees, forming an open but graceiul 
bead. Single specimens growing where they 
tire not crowded by other trees assume a 
pyramidal form, and keep it until they are 
very old. As an ornamental tree it ranks 
next, if not quite, the equal of our most 
beautiful species of Hie Magnolia; in fact the 
tulip tree is a member of the magnolia 
family. 
The flowers are large, bell-shaped, com¬ 
posed of six broad, greenish, orange-colored 
petals, succeeded by a cone-shaped cluster 
Erom ilie Diary of n tJrntli-innn near New 
York Citr. 
sideralion, it is one of the most valuable or 
our native species, and should be largely 
planted wherever it will succeed and forest 
tree culture is likely to he remunerative. 
Gnila'i'liiu nail Suiviuil ike Seed. 
The seed is usually gathered from moder¬ 
ate sized trees, and just before it begins to 
fall, the cone-like clusters being picked off 
entire and spread out where they will soon 
dry mill fall apart. If the seed is sown in 
autumn, or even mixed w ith sand and sown 
early in spring, it will germinate and make 
plants six to ten inches high the first season. 
But if the seeds are allowed to get dry be¬ 
fore sowing, they will sometimes remain dor¬ 
mant over the first season and not grow until 
the next. 
Maantremeill ot SeedliilJtM. 
The tulip tree seedlings have large, soft 
roots, with few fibers, and they require fre¬ 
quent transplanting if it is desirable to move 
them after the first two or three years. As 
a rule, the seedlings should lie dug up at the 
end of the first season, the long tap-root, 
shortened to about one-half its original 
length ; then heel-in until the following 
JflormtUttrt 
JLiriodendron Tulipifera. 
and for the past twenty-five years she lias 
lived night and day in a room ol moderate 
size, almost completely filled with plants. 
There are five windows in the room, and 
each is a miniature conservatory of the 
choicest plants. 
To sav that this lady loves plants may be 
superfluous; but I have often thought that 
her success depended more upon this than 
to any extra care bestowed. Such plants as 
Coleuses, Verbenas, Roses and Geraniums 
flourish under her care in a measure that 
would make a professional florist rejoice 
even with all bis modern improvements in 
the way of colored glass, hot water or steam. 
Clientuuts Ripening. 
Sept. 27.— Chestnuts are beginning to 
drop, and as they rattle upon the roof of my 
office, 1 am carried hack in imagination to 
the time when gathering chestnuts wois glo¬ 
rious sport. Living as I have for the past 
ten years iu a grove largely composed of 
r l' R Iff K 
tolling the bedding plants, such as 
is, Heliotropes, &c., which 1 wish 
my green-house. Wo practice a 
system with different kinds of 
For instance, with rose geraniums 
we like to save them with all their large 
leaves, so as to have these for culling and 
working in bouquets during winter; for the 
leaves produced on the plants in the garden 
are usually much larger than those grown in 
the house; consequently we lake considera¬ 
ble pains to save them. The best time to 
tiff such plants is directly after a shower; 
but if it is not convenient to do this, give the 
soil about them a good soaking, then dig up 
carefully and put in pots, and place them in 
a dark room for three or four days, or even 
a week will do no injury. Then put them 
under the staging of the green-house or in 
some warm place where it is light, but not 
in the direct rays of the sun, and leave them 
there for another week. By a little care iu 
lifting the plants and keeping them partially 
shaded until new roots are produced, the 
THE TULIP 
of the Amazon has lately been brought to 
the notice of Europeans. It is known us 
(he Massaranduba, and appears to be a 
species of JUiiumopH, of the natural order 
Sapotume. The wood is valuable, and used 
for various purposes, and the milk flows 
freely from the trunk upon incision, but 
hardens on exposure to the air, and then lias 
an elastic property similar to that of gutta¬ 
percha. This juice is used as food when 
fresh, but never in its pure slate, being either 
mixed with a small quantity of water or 
with coffee or lea like ordinary milk. 
Osncc OvmiKo for Timber. 
Judge Caton, Ottawa, 111., an old resi¬ 
dent of that State and a close observer and 
practical man, thinks the Osage Orange, 
which lie commends as a hedge plant for 
the prairies, might be cultivated as a forest 
tree, on account of its indestructibility as 
timber. It certainly grows rapidly in Cen¬ 
tral Illinois. 
Uiivyimr Trees In Full. 
J. B. Richardson, Sheboygan Falls, Wls., 
writes to a local paper os fifllows:—“ The 
question is often asked us “ do you approve 
of transplanting Fruit Trees ill the fall?” 
We sny positively, no, not in this section of 
the country. In the Middle States it will do, 
but not in a bleak, cold, snowless country 
like tliis. But we do approve of taking up 
all kinds of deciduous Trees (intended for 
spriug planting) in the fall and burying them 
for the winter for various reasons. All half 
hardy, and even the most hardy, are more or 
less injured where loll standing in the Nur¬ 
sery over the winter, by the many severe 
changes from warm to cold—sometimes half 
frozen to death; such trees taken from tire 
Nursery in the spring and planted, invaria¬ 
bly half of them die or become sick, while 
those taken in the fall, while perfectly sound, 
and buried, and planted in the spring, will 
every one grow and make a good growth. 
We speak from large experience, having 
practiced burying trees of many sorts for at 
least twenty years, and the trial in all cases 
has proved most satisfactory. 
PLANT VAPORIZER. 
removal and root-pruning wnon young loicea 
the plant to produce side, or lateral roots, 
which are capable of abstracting a larger 
quantity of nutriment from the soil than is 
possible by one large central, or tap, root, 
that generally penetrates the hard subsoil ; 
consequently transplanted trees grow more 
rapidly than those left in their natural con¬ 
dition and position. The more fibrous roots 
a tree lias, the more readily and the greater 
certainty of its living when transplanted. 
The tulip tree is a difficult tree to make live 
when dug up from the forest; but when 
grown in nurseries, and root-pruned as we 
have described, it may be transplanted with¬ 
out any considerable loss. 
Tire English make use of fin uigenn' 
contrivance which they call a " Ij" r,l, ’ u 1 
nil Vaporizer,” for diffusing liquids ol n 
kind over plants. We give an illnsu.i i 
herewith. It is a modification of tin*yak 
izer used at the toilet for the dispersion 
scented fluids. Any liquid may he oiil i 
over plants in a state of minute division, 
fine spray, ill sufficient quantity l ‘\ 1 “ 
migitly moisten them, without lnlltmu 
disturbing Hie most delicate flower oi 
EXPERIENCE IN BUYING TREES. 
Having some experience in buying fruit 
trees, 1 will give it to the public. My first 
was the Dye-House Cherry. Seeing the ad¬ 
vert iseineiit in the Rural New-Yorker, 1 
answered it. I received price list — forty 
cents for one-year-oUls, sixty cents for two- 
year-olds, seventy-five cents for three-year- 
olds; I sent, $1.80 for three two-year-old 
trees. After a great while X received the. 
trees. 1 planted out with proper care and 
cultivated them well. 1 got a good growth, 
and to-day they are not three feet high; I 
did not cut them back over two inches; I 
could not see either bud or graft about 
them; they were suckers, and very poor 
ones loo. 
My next order was to Stoors & Co. The 
trees were boxed and expressed, but it was 
a month before I was informed of it. When 
I got them they had leaved out. 1 planted 
them, taking great pains; but, it would not 
do. Of five cherry trees received four are 
dead; the other one is alive, hut. lias made 
no growth at all. They were all fine trees. 
Is it right for the fanner to lose money and 
trees by the carelessness of the nurserymen? 
age; and at the same time wun | t 
ing of the liquid us compared with • 
nary process of syringing R * *■ 
tablespoonful applied by the I 
equal to a pint applied by menus "I . 
or Hie ordinary methods m use- 
izer may be used either by 
II,e me of a im,r. a 
means of a Bimtil piece ot t . . 
to the mouth piece. As a <h.- • 
’tiiluilor lor sick rooms it is uk ■ 
for window gardening we ihink i 
made extremely USetul. \V « l ] 
her to have seen one in this> c 
some enterprising implement 
to introduce them. 
Sii.ilnx— AM " 
This beautiful climbing ph'" 1 
sought for by our jmlyreiuc * 
used in banging baskets, - 
reasonable prices. It is m 
the plants for winter deem, ti , 
erence to the advert.semel 
& Co., given lust week, out i 
where they can be had. 
