Mirrors At Floral Exhibitions

At the Ghent exhibition of 1888, a large number of mirrors were used in the orchid department, and again in the same department at Berlin in 1890. In both cases the effect produced was wonderful. At Berlin the Throne ball appeared like a fairy land; for the spaces between the mirrors Had been filled with palms, azaleas, and other ornamental and flowering plants, so that the hall looked much larger and more beautiful than on former occasions. Too many mirrors can hardly be used at such exhibitions. - Gartenflora.

Mitraria Coccinea

At one time popular, this gesner-aceous shrub afterward became quite neglected; now, however, it appears to be regaining its former position. It was discovered in 1848 on Chiloc, an island situated a few miles off the southern extremity of Chili. It is evergreen, of semi-scandent habit, the branches clothed with small box-like leaves. Its flowers are tubular, about 1½ inches long and of the brightest scarlet. It blossoms freely in May and June, and is altogether a most desirable plant. It strikes freely from cuttings, and by pinching in a young state handsome bushes may be obtained. It prefers a peaty soil.

A Moment With Science

Caller (great scientist) - The workings of the human mind when asleep are full of wonder. Have you never started up from a sound, dreamless asleep, with every sense on the alert, and with your whole being thrilled with a vivid yet indefinable feeling that something was wrong and instant action required ?

Mrs. Tantrum - Often, and in nearly every case I have found that I was awakened by the fumbling of my husband's night-key at the front door. - N.Y. Weekly.

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LEWIS ROESCH, Fredonia, N. Y.

Money In The Soil

At a recent New York institute a well known horticulturist related his experience for ten years. He began with a run down 50-acre farm, encumbered for $$, 500, and he had no money to stock it, and he was inexperienced. He grew small fruits and plants. In ten years the sales from that farm have aggregated $100,000.

Montlucon Sugar Pear

European apples have rarely been found as good for America as seedlings raised on our continent, but with pears it is different, most of our popular ones being of foreign origin. Any new and good introduction to the old world is worthy trial here. The Belgian Bulletin d'Aboriculture et de Horticulture recently gives a colored plate of Le Poire sucree de Montlucon, which though discovered on the college grounds of Montlucon in 1812 by the gardener, Rochet, has not come into general cultivation. It is a very large russety brown and yellow pear, of excellent flavor, and very productive, and we should imagine from the description, well worthy of American trial. - Thomas Meehan.