The Value Of Timber

The Florida News pertinently asks and answers : " What is timber worth? Nothing, unless your are near a saw-mill. The timber here is very fine, but thousands of acres are being cut down to rot for the want of facilities to work it up and transport it. A saw-mill is next to a full bearing orange grove."

Fruiting Of The Calycanthus

In the wild state some of the plants of the "sweet-scented shrub," or "Carolina Allspice," of gardens, vary much in prolificacy. Some are entirely barren, and others bear fruit profusely. For many years a barren form was propagated by offsets in nurseries, and this gives rise to the impression that it rarely seeds.

Credit To The Late J. C. Louden

Lovers of justice to the memory of this great friend and benefactor to intelligent horticulture, will heartily thank Mr. Hovey for his note in another column. At the same time it is but fair to presume that our Cincinnati friends simply omitted to say "in America," which was no doubt all they intended to claim in Mr. Mr. Strauch's behalf.

Stock For Grafting Roses

The editor of Journal des Roses believes that Rosa polyantha will prove one of the most acceptable of stocks to the rose grafter.

The Drop Or Bag-Worm

As the seasons roll around, we have the usual number of unfortunates who write of some "worm in a bag" which eats the evergreens and destroys them - the arborvitae suffering especially. The remedy is very simple. Look at the trees from week to week, and when the pests are small pick them off and smash them. It is but short work, and very effectual.

Double Honeysuckle

Rev. E. P. Powell has a double yellow honeysuckle. We do not know that there is a double honeysuckle in existence. Do any of our readers?

A Dwarf Stevia

Mr. Massey says that a novelty produced by Mr. Fistler, gardener at the White House Gardens, Washington, is a dwarf form of Stevia serrata. He was shown a large lot of this in 7-inch pots, which stood uniformly about a foot high and with bushy tops about ten inches across. This is their natural habit.

Rosa Lucida Flore-Pleno

In Mr. Ella-combe's garden at Bitton this pretty rose grows and flowers freely. Although much altered by cultivation from the dwarf wild rose of the United States, there seems no doubt of the propriety of referring it as a variety to R. lucida. It seems identical, too, with the rose figured by Andrews in his Monograph as R. Pennsylvanica flore-pleno. The outer petals of this fade into a pale rose, leaving the center of the flower a deep rich rose color. - Gardeners' Chronicle.