able room. I know of no more effective 
white flower for bouquets and floral orna¬ 
ments ; but of this, its highest recommenda¬ 
tion, I will leave you to judge by the speci¬ 
men exhibited to-day.” 
off the black bark ; had tried this on one of 
Ins trees with decided advantage. He thought 
the openings in the bark should not. be per¬ 
fectly straight up and down, but should de¬ 
viate a little from a right lino ; had learned 
this from Mr. Coffman. 
PLANTS FOR NAME 
STREET TREE PLANTING IN MICHIGAN. 
The following is a Michigan law relative to 
planting trees in the highway :—Any person 
or persons owning or occupying land adjoin¬ 
ing any highway, not less than three rods 
wide, may plant or set out trees or shrubs ou 
each side of said highway contiguous to his 
land, which trees or shrubs shall be set in 
regular rows at a distance not less than six 
feet from each other, and within eight feet 
of the margin of the highway. Provided 
That in incorporated villages or cities the 
Please name the inclosed mosses, sedge 
and crucifer. Thev are among our earliest 
vernal visitors. Welcoming them from 
spring to spring, I have long wished to know 
their full botanical names. Despairing of 
finding them out for myself, the sedge and 
mustard families being so difficult and the 
mosses not beiug included in mv botany, I 
last spring gathered the inclosed specimens 
on purpose to submit to you. 1 have kept 
them only to send you the flower raceme and 
leaf of a golden rod.(inclosedl of which I do- 
sice to know the exact name. The mosses 
and sedge grow in rat her ln’gh oak woods ; 
the crucifer in open place—often ou gravelly 
hills. 1 know several other plants for wkicn 
I would like to obtain names, but for the 
want of specimens 1 must forego troubling 
you further At this time. I send you five 
specimens in all,— Aboljacknaoksic, Hock, 
ford, III. 
Had you numbered the specimens we 
could have readily, and without loss of time, 
referred to them in our answers. You should 
always number the specimens sent, retaining 
duplicates of the same with numbers corre¬ 
sponding. The small yellow flower, on a 
long stem, is a Soludayu, but the specimen is 
not sufficiently complete to determine the 
species. The small, gross-liku plant is a 
Carer, but no botanist will undertake to de¬ 
termine species of their genus without speci¬ 
mens in fruit, as the seed in most instances 
possess the characteristics which enable us 
to separate them. The moss we do not 
know. The very small plant with a rosette 
of leaves at the base is lJniba verna. We 
are always pleased to help botanical students 
to name their specimens, but must insist on 
having those that are perfect—not mere bits 
of leaves, stems or flowers. 
WILD LILIES FROM IOWA 
I will send you by to-morrow’s mail two 
curly Lilly bullm (that is what we call them.) 
Please let mo know the right name. They 
grow wild here. — Samuel M. Helmiuk, 
Columbus City, Iowa. 
There are three wild specimens of lilies 
found quite abundantly all through the 
Northern States, the bulbs of which are 
almost identical, therefore it would be diffl- 
THE BOOMER & BOSCHERT CIDER; PRESS. 
The accompanying engraving represents 
the Boomer & Bobchbrt Cider Press, it is 
seldom we have tho pleasure of presenting 
an improvement of sucli practical utility, 
combining so many essential requisites as 
are embodied in this supple and remarkably 
efficient press. Its peculiar advantage over 
the old-fashioned screw press lies In the fact 
that the power increases in almost a geomet¬ 
rical progression at every turn of the screw 
Tho principle involved will be readily com¬ 
prehended by examining the illustration. 
I lie fiamo is but little different from most 
of those now used in old-fashioned cider 
mills. Tho screw is hm-is'nnt.wi . 
irons, I, I, und K, K. Tlic threads of Uic 
screws working in the nuts arc nut, one 
right and the other left, and by revolving 
the screw to the front both mil s are drawn 
in on the screw shaft, thus straightening out. 
the arms, forcing the follower down until 
the arms, F, become perpendicular—com¬ 
bining in its operation, as will be seen, three 
of the great powers of mechanics in one 
simple operation. 
In regard to their claim, the manufacturers 
say:— 1 We claim for our Press, that it lias 
five times the power of the old screw, und 
requires hut one man t,o operate it. The 
truth of th is statement is easily demonstrated 
It is well understood that in pressing most 
substances, but. little power is required in 
tho early part of the operation. As the 
pressure is applied,Jth© resistance is constant- 
y increasing, requiring a corresponding in- 
crease of power, until at the last stage of the 
operation, the resistance becomes so great 
that, no amount of power can wholly over¬ 
come it. The presses heretofore in general 
use could, in the early part of the work, he 
10 man ; but as the 
the united force of 
required ; and oven 
power sufficient 
When power 
press tho operation must 
in order to develop snffi- 
as to make it 
FRESH-BLOWN FLOWERS IN WINTER, 
The following directions are indorsed by 
the Manufacturer and Builder : — Choose 
some of the most powerful buds of the flow¬ 
ers you would preserve—such as are latest in 
blowing and ready r.o open ; cut them off 
with a pair of scissors, leaving to each, if 
possible, a piece of the stem three inches 
long. Cover the stem immediately with 
sealing-wax ; and when the bu.ls are a little 
shrunk and wrinkled, wrap each of them up 
separately in a piece of paper, perfectly clean 
and dry, and put them in a dry box or 
drawer, and they will keep without corrupt¬ 
ing. In winter, or any other time, when 
you would have the flowers bloom, take the 
buds at night and cut off the end of the stem 
sealed with wax, and put them into water 
into which a little niter or salt has been dif¬ 
fused, and the next day you will have the 
pleasure of seeing the buds open and expand 
themselves and the flowers display their 
most lovely colors and breathe their agree¬ 
able odors. 
i/iiree or tour in^n. was 
then it failed to produce p; 
properly to complete the work, 
is applied to such a 
be so slow at first, i 
cient power towards the last, 
of little practical value. 
“ With our Press, the powe 
at every turn of tho screw, 
decreasing in motion, in precii 
ratio as the power increases, ai 
last the substance becomes n 
accumulate a power almost in- 
development of power, and iue 
unce, are so nearly equal that 
easily perform the task from 
end, which peculiarly adapts it 
tlon of power.” 
Information relative to this valuable im¬ 
provement, may be had by applying to or 
addressing Boomer & Boschert Press Co. 
Syracuse, N. Y., or Boomer & Dunham, 55 
Dey St., New York City. 
j-hh: boomer a.nt> bc 
cult, for us to determine, the name of those 
sent.. By referring to cither Gray’s or 
Wood’s Botanies you probably can determine 
the species sent, if examined when in bloom, 
for it is either f. ilium Philudelphicwn, L. 
canadense, or L. superbum, The first we 
know is abundant, in some portions of the 
Northwest, and we believe all three are 
found there. 
CII3D1R £>R,IGSS. 
Common Council of such cities or villages 
may lix or determine the distance that such 
trees shall be set from the margin of the high 
ways therein. 
And any such person owning or occupying 
land contiguous to uuy highway, and who is 
assessed to any highway or poll-tax, may 
cause to be paid of such tax a sum not ex¬ 
ceeding twenty five, per cent, for any year, 
by planting trees or shrubs in the margin of 
the highway, iri a space not exceeding eight 
feet in width from the margin of tlic high¬ 
way, which sum, when so paid, shall be 
credited upon his highway or poll-tux for 
that year. 
And any overseer of the highway may 
cause a portion not, exceeding ten per cent, 
of the highway tax, in his road district, to 
be expended in setting out trees or shrubs in 
a space not exceeding eight feet in width 
from the margin of the highway. 
HYACINTH FLOWERS A SECOND SEASON 
E. C. IIiscox, writing to the Florist, says : 
“ After Hyacinths have done their duty the 
first year in greenhouse or conservatory, 
I take them to that parr, of tlic garden where 
the sun shines all day, and plunge the pots 
to the rim iu prepared and well-drained ma¬ 
terials, mostly coal ashes. I leave them un¬ 
disturbed till September or October, accord¬ 
ing to the time l want them to flower, and 
take them up, re-potting them carefully in 
good sandy loam. I have adopted this prac¬ 
tice for the last two or three years, and have 
found it to answer well, especially iu the 
case of the single varieties, which succeed 
best under this treatment,. This season I 
have had the following beautifully in flower, 
viz.Prince Albert Victor, Lord Macaulay, 
Leonidas Baron Humboldt, Voltaire, Alida 
Jacoba, Victor Hugo, Norma, L’Ornement 
(le la Nat ure, Mont Blanc, and many others 
having spikes from 6 to 8 inches in length.” 
BOTANICAL QUERIES. 
Please name the Hoiveis sent. No. I is a 
shrub ; blooms iu spring, called here Honey¬ 
suckle ; the other is a wild perennial, bloom¬ 
ing ni spring aud until middle of summer ; 
very pretty. Can you tell what is the euuse 
ol my Canary-bird viue not, blooming j It 
11 vim ‘ fifteen feet long ; looked well 
all the year; planted in a compost, of cow- 
yard manure with some stable manure and 
decayed leaves from the forest; it has not 
showed any sign of flowering yet. — South¬ 
ern Girl. 
The plant you call a Honeysuckle is the 
flame-colored Azalea (A. calenduUicea) , a 
common shrub South. The other plant is a 
species of Pmtste e uioh, bub w© cannot make 
out the species from imperfect specimens. 
We do not know why your Canary flower 
fails to bloom. Try again with fresh seeds. 
iue disastrous arid sometimes ruinous 
consequences of having mi unsuspected 
screw loose somewhere, have made many 
Attempts to remedy the evil, and numerous 
devices have been patented ; but we have 
*een nothing so simple, convenient and ef- 
fective as the Cumming 
I Lock-Nut, here represeut- 
ed. A slot is cut in an or- 
j Ilf dhmry bolt, and a soft cop¬ 
per wire inserted. The nut 
JU cuts its own thread on this, 
and when screwed home 
St the end of the wire is bent 
up, and no amount of jar 
iJlilto or shaking thereafter can 
FEAR BLIGHT 
EUPATORIUM AGERATOIDES, 
Mr. Fahnestock, near Toledo, O., is said 
to have succeeded, thus far, in controlling 
this disease of the pear tree. He says the 
bark of the body of the tree becomes tight, 
it seems to adhere to the wood, becomes dis¬ 
colored, &o. This lie scrapes off and uses a 
wash of copperas water. He then takes a 
sharp instrument and makes longitudinal 
openings, with decided advantage, he thinks, 
to his trees. He spoke of a gentlpman having 
a lino orchard of trees, but. for three or four 
years had no fruit to speak of. lie then 
turned in his hogs and sheep, after which lie 
had line crops. 
Mr. J. H. W. Momma of the Montgomery, 
O., Hort. Soe., thought Mr. Fahnestock's 
idea a good one. Ido ^recommended taking 
Mary Forrer is a member of the Mont¬ 
gomery, O., Hort. Hoc., and recently com¬ 
municated the following to that institution ; 
“ professional gardeners, and I may say 
amateurs, too, are charmed by the introduc¬ 
tion of a white flower which combines the 
qualities of ncing a profuse bloomer, hardy 
and effective iu masses. With this fact in 
view, it seems strange that we so seldom see 
the Eupatorium arjeralaides cultivated in 
our gardens. It is common In all our shady 
woods, blooming during the latter part of 
August aud far into September, The only 
objection that can bo brought forward is its 
rank growth, therefore requiring consider 
FLORICULTURAL NOTES. 
To (let Seeds from Enylrmd .—Gould you 
tell me how to have some flower seeds sent 
from England to this place with tho least 
trouble and without delay } What Is the 
best way to do iti — Tabs, G. Williams 
St. Joseph, j Mo, 
Have them sent by express, the same as 
you would any other article. There being 
no duty on seeds, they should come direct 
and without delay. If only a few, they can 
be sent by mail. 
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