New Trees Of North America

Professor Sargent finds three new trees in Florida, but they are of a sub-tropical character, and are no doubt immigrants from a more Northern clime. They are, Myginda integrifolia, an ally of the Buckthorn family; Terminalis Buceras, a Combre-tacean; and an entirely new genus of palms, named by Wendland, Pseudophoenix Sargentii, which we suppose by its name to have some resemblance or relation to the Date palm.

The Heath For Cut Flowers

The English are using extensively Erica hyemalis alba for delicate cut-flower work, and find it profitable.

Hybridization In The Almond Family

Mr. D. B. Wier, of Lacon, Illinois, an intelligent and acute observer is firmly persuaded that peaches, plums and species of the almond family will occasionally hybridize with each other. He has seen cases of forms that admitted of no other interpretation.

Plantain Leaf For Rhus Poisoning

Mr. Thomas Bassler says: " That bruised plantain leaves, either Plantago major or Plantago lan-ceolata, are an excellent antidote against Rhus poison. This reminds us of an expression somewhere in Shakespeare that "plantain leaf is good for broken shins".

Landscape Gardening In Oregon

Much of the gardening prosperity of a community depends on the intelligence of those who happen to locate professionally in any neighborhood. We note by a Portland paper, that the services of Mr. Geo.

Otten are very highly spoken of, and his residence there is regarded as a great gain to Oregon. It is always pleasant to read such good reports.

D. Landreth & Sons

In this ever changing land of ours it is always a pleasure to note the persistence of first-class firms in the nursery and seed business. One of the young sons of one of the partners in the famous house of D. Landreth & Sons, who has recently reached manhood, has been taken into the business, which ensures its continuance to the fourth generation since its its foundation.

Rare Water Lilies

We rarely feel warranted in giving special notice to catalogues, because so many have the same things to sell, and it is not just to give anyone in the trade a lift over another when the advertising columns are free to all; but we are sure all in the trade are glad to encourage the efforts of Mr. E. D. Sturtevant, of Bordentown, New Jersey, to cultivate a taste for hardy aquatics. His beautiful catalogue just issued is just the very thing.

State Agricultural Officers In Pennsylvania

At the annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture' of Pennsylvania, Mr. Thomas Meehan was re-elected State Botanist; and Mr. Edwin Satterthwaite, State Pomologist; Mr. Joseph Willcox, Mineralogist; Prof. Lesley, Geologist; Dr. Warren, Ornithologist; and Prof. Buck-hout, Entomologist. Dr. Leffman was also reelected State Microscopist.