lowing. Most persons plant a few canes 
along neglected fence rows around their gar¬ 
dens, and expect to obtain a full supply from 
them. As well try to get a good and bounti¬ 
ful vegetable crop, planted in the same way. 
As in the culture of everything else, care, to 
some extent, must be used. Don’t plant them 
along fence rows, for there you get poor 
fruit and but little of it, comparatively, and 
then you cannot keep your gardens looking 
neat and tidy. On the other hand, if you 
Bigarreau. Best Pie cherry—English, or 
Pium-Stone Morello. 
Grapes. —Best two for market—Concord, 
Hartford Prolific. Best two for table—Dela¬ 
ware, Iona. Best two for wine—same as for 
table, or add Walter and Eumelan ; but these 
have not been fully tested. 
Raspberries .—Best two—Kirtland, or Phil¬ 
adelphia and Miami, or Mammoth Cluster 
(Black Cap). 
DAVALLIA TdOOREANA 
This is one of the most beautiful of Ferns 
(see illustration) and a native of Borneo. Its 
rhizomes are rather shorter than those of 
most of the Davallias, are covered with dark 
brown scales, and arc more inclined to con¬ 
ceal themselves in the soil 
than those of the majority 
V: of the genus, many of which 
■■ . have such vigorous rhizomes 
vgg: that not only do t hey trav- 
erse the soil, but project over 
\ and down the sides of the 
‘ ^ pot in which they arc grown; 
M k or if in suspended baskets or 
on the trunks of tree Ferns, 
they twist around them, 
and under favorable circ- 
^ umstances form as it were 
1 a net-work enveloping the 
basket or trunk on which 
they may be grown. The 
shortness of the rhizomes in 
D. Mooreana, and their par- 
o tiality to the soil, as well as 
the stately habit of the 
hsJIk plant, plainly indicate that 
J) w A ty \ pot culture is the most suit- 
able method of growing it. 
The entire lcrigth of the 
f fronds of a plant, of this 
Fern, at present in Messrs. 
' Veitch’s nursery, is nearly 
4 feet. They are extremely 
handsome and gracefully 
? k arched. The outline of the 
' pinnae is triangularly acumi- 
r nate, the base being slightly 
^ narrower than the length 
t> of the sides. These are again 
sub-divided Into numerous 
little did isions bearing a 
great number of small, blunt 
oblique segments. The 
fronds are densely laden 
with elongated cup shaped 
sori, deeply set on the un¬ 
der side, and they conse¬ 
quently give the upper surface u conspicu¬ 
ously dotted appearance. The color of the 
leaf-stalks is pale green tinged with brown, 
and that of the upper surface of the fronds 
pale green. Ordinary stove treatment suits 
tins Fern well; but it will also grow uud flour¬ 
ish in an Intermediate house. A low temper¬ 
ature and comparative dryness, but not too 
much so in winter, causes it to form large 
fronds in early spring, when additional heat 
and moisture are afforded it.—W. F., in Gar¬ 
den. 
The Gardeners’ Montldy for March lias the 
following ;—Otlr readers may remember that 
some years ago there was quite a sensation 
raised by the announcement that an apple 
far superior to the Baldwin in general char¬ 
acteristics had been raised 
in Lancaster Co., Pa. Hot 
from seed, but by a natural 
branching off or develop¬ 
ment, which is technically 
known in the craft an * sport- 
ing.” It wasalso said that 
this apple was known na the ' 
Pen Apple. t " 1 
Mr. E.vgle took the mat- S| J 'f • 
ter in hand last winter, and 0V 1 
went personally to the plaee 
of origin of the Ben, and 
obtained specimens which 
he brought to the meeting ^ 
at Reading, and it turns out 
that the “Pen ” is not at all 
like Baldwin, but ib a very 
different and inferior fruit. 
Those, therefore, who have 
received these apples under v f 
the name of Pen, have not 
t he Pen, in all probability, fit Vl 
hut have a very superior ar- 'Wc/K F 
tide of Baldwin. f jjr-lsJv; 
We still think that there is 
enough difference between p Jj, "/Iv 
the Lancaster Co. Baldwin MljLp jL jji 
and the original to warrant fl J k/ 1 A 
a separate distinction, and jjcji ™ 
would suggest, that as the ' T r 
name of Pen must be drop- • T 
pad, it be known as the p 
Lancaster Baldwin. 
THE WEST BROOK OR 
“SPECKLED APPLE.” 
Louin Blodgett writes 
the Gardeners’ Monthly:—I 
beg to send you a few speci¬ 
mens of my "Speckled, or West Brook Ap¬ 
ple ”—an apple unequaled in productiveness, 
hardiness of tree, and general excellence as 
a dessert market apple. 1 have grown it for 
thirty years, often to the extent of five hun¬ 
dred bushels, (from about twenty-three trees) 
in a single year—and 1 have amvor met its 
equal. It ranges from September to January 
in keeping, as you hco I have often kept them 
until January and February. 
“ I regret that it is not known in Eastern 
Pennsylvania, and shall be glad to diffuse it 
to any wishing grafts ; it would more than 
replace the often failing Bellflower. Nor is it 
known in Eastern New York or New En¬ 
gland. Mr. Downing made a great mistake 
in supposing it identical with some New 
England variety—1 forget the name. It is 
abundant only where 1 have myself dis¬ 
tributed it, in Western"Now York. 
Tine Editor says of it:—“Mr. Downing 
supposed it was identical with the Fall 
Orange of Western New York. In order to 
test the matter, the writer of t his has a tree 
of eacii in his specimen orchard, and the 
growth of the two is so widely different, that 
they cannot possibly be identical, however 
near they may approach in the appearance 
of the fruit.” 
abundance. Plow or hoe the canes enough 
to keep the ground loose and free from weeds 
and grass. Let your last working be about 
the time the fruit begins to color. Cut out 
the old canes every season just after fruiting 
is over. H. T, Harris. 
WHAT AILS THE HYACINTHS'? 
MEASURING THE HIGHTS OF TREES 
E. R. M. has a number of Hyacinths, a 
part having failed to bloom, and appeals to 
us to know what is the cause. Of course we 
cannot tell, for it may be that the bulbs were 
injured last Bummer before they were taken 
from the ground, or afterward . Sometimes 
bulbs that are left, in the ground after bloom¬ 
ing will make a second growth the same sea¬ 
son, the flower-sterns pricking part way out 
of the bulb, and then, when taken up, its 
growth is checked, this causing the bulb to 
“go blind,” as the gardeners term it. Hy¬ 
acinths usually bloom quite freely, but occa¬ 
sionally they fail from some unknown cause. 
In his tale of “ Monsieur Violet, ” Captain 
Marry att tells us, as an instance of the 
great aptitude for applying simple rules pos¬ 
sessed by the Shoshone Indians, that when 
they desired to measure the higlit of a tree 
at any time when its shadow was east on the 
ground, thoy used to place a stick of a given 
length into the ground, and then calculating 
the difference between the length of its 
shadow and its actual bight, and applying 
the same to the shadow of the tree, they 
ascertained its correct hight, thus unknow¬ 
ingly working out a sum in the rule of a 
throe. Any person, however ill-informed, 
might easily get at the exact hight of a 
tree when the sun shines, or during bright 
moonlight, by marking two lines on the 
ground three feet apart, and then placing in 
the ground on the line nearest to the sun a 
stick that shall stand exactly three feet out 
of the soil. When the end of the shadow of 
the stick exactly touches the further line 
t hen also the shadow of the tree will be ex¬ 
actly in length the same measurement as its 
hight. Of course in such a case the sun will 
be at an exact angle of 45". Measurements 
of this character could be best effected in 
the summer, when the sun is powerful, has 
reached to a good hight in the heavens, and 
when the trees are clothed with living green 
so as to east a dense shadow. To many to 
whom this idea might not have oocured, it 
might be made annually a matter of interest, 
thus on warm summer days to take the 
higlit of prominent trees, and so to compare 
notes of growth from year to year. 
GARDEN BREVITIES 
To Make a Good Lawn. —We would advise 
Charles W. Small to top-dress his lawn 
heavily this Spring with barn-yard manure 
or muck, or both, mid after harrowing down 
all lumps, sow Kentucky blue grass seed, 
adding a little white clover ; then go over 
the lawn with a heavy roller. A good, per¬ 
manent lawn cannot be secured upon poor 
soils ; make the land rich enough, and there 
will be no difficulty in getting a fine green 
sward. 
Best Method to Train Tomatoes. —“Nov¬ 
ice ” asks the the best mode of training to¬ 
matoes ; if on a trellis, the cheapest and best 
plan to make one. If tomatoes are t rained 
to a trellis, it prolongs the season of bearing. 
Some gardeners simply tie them up to a 
stake and cut them back, and get good crops. 
Others never cut back, but train \o a com¬ 
mon post and lath trellis, which is probably 
the cheapest that can be made. 
Cabbage from Buds .—The Pacific Rural 
Press says:—“ Take a large head of cabbage, 
strip off the outer leaves, und slip off the 
buds found at the base of the leaves. Take 
these buds and simply set them in rich earth. 
The result will be a flue growth of pabbage 
plants, with heails larger and sounder than 
cun be raised in the ordinary way.” 
Cabbage After Mangels. —M, G., Plymouth, 
Pa., asks if Cold Frame cabbage will grew 
on ground previously cropped with Mangel 
Wurzel. We do not know why it should not, 
if it is in good tilth and condition. 
FLORAL BREVITIES 
FRUITS FOR HOME USE IN OHIO 
Colors on Plant Life.— M. P. Bert, in the 
Ilorticole Belgique, has been going over the 
experiments of General Pleasanton, and 
after detailing the different degrees of injurg 
resulting from variuus colored glasses, con¬ 
cludes by saying“ Lastly, all colors, taken 
alone , are detrimental to plant life ; theii 
union in the proportions constituting ordinary 
or white light is requisite to healthy vegeta¬ 
tion, and it therefore behooves horticulturists 
to renounce the idea of employing colored 
classes or other colored materials for glass- 
1n answer to a request from Ashtabula Co., 
O., for a selection of a small assortment of 
Orchard and Garden fruits, for the farmers’ 
house use, of such kinds as have been well 
tasted iu Northern Ohio, M. B. Bateiiam 
furnishes the House and Garden the follow 
ing list: 
AppLcs. -Best three Summer—Red Astra- 
i-lian, Bi-noni, Primate. Best throe Fall Lam 
Strawberry, Lowell Sweet Swjuir, or Munson 
Sweet. Best three winter—Baldwin, R. I. 
Greening, Talman Sweet. Best two late- 
keeping—Canada Red, Golden Russet. Best 
crab upple—Trausceudant. 
Pears .—Best two Summer—Summer Doy¬ 
enne, Bloodgood, or Osband’s. Best tluoe 
Fall—Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Belle Lucra¬ 
tive or Sheldon. Best three Winter—Lttw- 
Vieor, Bear re Easter, Best two 
rence, 
dwarf—Duchess, Louise Bonne. 
Peaches .—Best two early— Hale’s Early, 
Large Early York. Best two medium—Old 
Mixon Free, Crawford’s Early. Best two 
late—Ward’s Late Free, Crawford’s Late. 
Cherries .—Best early—Early Purple Guigne. are cultivated. 
Best medium—Black Tartariaus, or Black diately after 
Eagle. Best Late—Downer’s Late, or Late unbroken link 
RASPBERRY CULTURE 
