A Fine Chrysanthemum

Mr. Wm. Barr, of Orange, New Jersey, tells the Garden: "My gardener, Mr. John Farrell, has been successful this year in growing some of the finest standard Chrysanthemums ever shown in this country. He exhibited eight to the New York Horticultural Society, ranging in height from 7 feet to 8 feet 6 inches. We had one, Elaine, which was 9 feet 6 inches, but that was unfortunately broken by a severe wind storm.

Diseases Of Roses

One would suppose that of all plants the least liable to diseases would be the dear old rose, which has maintained a popular standing for some three thousand years. But the French journals are full of accounts of all sorts of "maladies" that bother the queen of flowers when she is trying to look her best and prettiest. The "Nielle " (mildew) seeming to be the most pestiferous of all these "mal-seant" things.

Early Flowering Azaleas

L' Horticulture Beige says that Azaleas Sigismund Rucker and Wilson Sanders, will bloom easily in September.

Double Bouvardias

The double Bouvardias, raised by Nanz & Neuner, are having a remarkable run of popularity all over Europe.

Begonia Hybrida Gigantea

Under this name Heineman offers a new begonia that has the male flowers six inches across! An Italian paper says one might take the flower for a huge pansy.

Coleus, Nonsuch

Coleuses change very much from what they were under glass when they get into the open ground. The raiser of this one claims that it holds its own through all treatment.

The specimen sent us is very pretty. The leaves are mottled with pink, crimson, yellow and white, edged with green and deeply serrated.

Rose, Mervaille De Lyon

This is a sport from Baroness Rothschild, and is precisely like it in all respects, except the petals are white as snow. It was noted first by Mons. Pernet, of Lyons, in 1879, and sent out in 1882.

Forcing Fruits In America

The ease with which good fruit may be had from the distant ends of our great country by rail or steamboat at any season of the year, has been much against the artificial production of the more tropical kinds. But the superior excellence of fruit carefully raised under glass, finds appreciation in some quarters. Messrs. Christie & Findlay, of Newport, Rhode Island, find it a very profitable investment.

Injury To Fruit Crops By Birds

Sparrows eat fruit buds in the spring, when the poor creatures are on the verge of starvation. In California the linnet does the same. Mr Potter, of Centralia, is about abandoning an orchard of apricots seven years planted. In that time he has not had one fruit, the birds taking all the buds.