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pepper bush, Clethra alnifolia, which 
makes its display from the close of July 
until early September. It is sometimes 
met with, but rarely seen at its best, 
because it is not planted in wet ground—• 
a position it prefers to all others. When 
on dry ground the flower spikes are but 
hall the size they attain when it is well 
suited; besides this, the leaves are not 
nearly of as healthy an appearance. It 
is a native shrub, found on the borders 
of lakes and pools; and its presence is 
made known often before the plant is 
seen by the fragrance of its flowers. 
These flowers are white and are borne 
in spikes resembling in shape those of 
the spiraeas— Florists' Exchange. 
SAVING ELM TREES 
f^ITY Forester Clarke of North- 
ampton. Mass., says that boiling 
water is the best remedy for the elm 
leaf beetle. 
They can be destroyed by simply 
spraying them with boiling water. This 
kills them instantly and does not injure 
the trees. No scraping off of solid bark 
should be done, as it removes the tree’s 
winter protection and is of no use what¬ 
ever, as the beetles fly, the worms crawl, 
and the pupae or yellow, half-formed 
beetles seem to have a sort of snail 
power to also get down to the ground in 
enormous numbers, and if not scalded to 
death are soon complete beetles, which 
live throughout the winter .—The Coun¬ 
try Gentleman. 
THE TOMB OF RENE OF ANJOU 
l^ING RENE’S body was recently 
exposed by an accident in the 
cathedral at Angers. In repairing the 
choir, workmen broke through the roof 
of a vault in which were two coffins. 
The wooden cases had rotted away, and 
the leaden cover of the one containing 
the old king of Naples and Duke of 
Lorraine and Anjou had been torn off. 
The skeleton had a crown of thin gold 
about its head, and in its hands the 
scepter and globe, which, being of 
bronze, had turned green. The other 
coffin, containing his wife. Queen Isa¬ 
bella of Lorraine, was intact and was not 
disturbed. After the inspection the 
vault was sealed up again. Over it 
there was formerly a splendid tomb, 
destroyed in 1794, hut the vault escaped 
injury, in consequence of the woodwork 
and stalls concealing \l.- Exchange. 
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