This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The Blue Gum seems at home in Florida. Trees at Leesburg are 20 feet high, with trunks 18 inches round, four years from the seed. Pity such a fast growing tree should give such worthless timber.
England has only eight indigenous timber trees - oak, yew, Scotch pine, ash, wych elm, beech, linden and sycamore - so says the Gardeners" Chronicle. The sycamore is probably the "sycamore maple," and not the buttonwood or plane as it would be understood in America.
Among the most popular of institutions is the Michaux Series of Lectures, given by Prof. Rothrock in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The eminent botanist, Michaux, left a sum of money, in trust, to the American Philosophical Society for the promotion of botany and arboriculture, and a portion of the fund is devoted to this purpose. They are so popular that often there is scarcely standing room. The abstracts we give were prepared for the Public Ledger.
Just as we go to press we have word of the death of William Brown, a prominent seed collector, of Montreal, Canada. It occurred on the 6th of July. Mr. Brown was well and favorably known in the United States, as well as in Canada.
It is with much regret we have to announce the death of Samuel Kinsey, a prominent nurseryman, of Kinsey's Station, Ohio. Mr. Kinsey belonged to the Nurserymen's Association, and it was from one of the members of that body that we had the information of his death. He had done much to build up the nursery business in Ohio, and he was very generally esteemed.
E. D. Sturtevant, Bordentown, New Jersey, whose notes on the flowering of the Victoria regia in the open air, we published last year, writes us that the first flower of this season opened July 20th, forty-five days earlier than last year.
"J. A. T.," New York, writes: "Will you be kind enough to tell me the name of the enclosed specimen? It blooms profusely every summer, and, although I have had it for some years and many have seen it, I have not been able to get its name. The flowers are yellow, as you will see, and are quite pretty, I think."
[The plant is Stigmaphyllum ciliatum, a lovely climber, which, though long in cultivation, is found in but few collections. It is from Brazil. - Ed. G. M.]
Yellow peaches thrive much better than the white variety, the trees ! of the latter kind being troubled a good deal with curled leaf.
 
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