Myrica Rubra

This is a new fruiting shrub from Japan, and deserves to be grown in our cool houses for its fine evergreen foliage as well as for its fruit. The latter is dark red and very agreeable to the taste. It is about one inch long and three-fourths inch in diameter. - Garten-und Blumenzeitung.

The National Land Grant

Prof. Goode, in a paper read before the American Historical Association at its recent session in Washington, said he thought the Morrill bill of 1862, granting land to colleges for the purpose of stimulating agricultural schools and experiment stations, did more toward advancing science and scientific methods than any other legislative enactment has ever accomplished.

Native Ferns. The Choicest Plants Of Woods And Glades, And How To Grow Them

NATURE spreads her treasures with a lavish hand, but the majority of her worshipers gather up her flowers only, and fail to note the wonders of t h e c r y p togamic world. They give but a passing glance at ferny dells, and see not the infinite variety of form and color which so delight the eyes of all devotees of the Alices.

Fern gathering seems to create a progressive appetite for itself. Fern-loving people are never satisfied ; the more they have the more they want, hence no fern-draped rock or shady nook is safe from these marauders. Fern culture is by no means confined to greenhouses and to imported species, and no lawn is now considered quite complete without its representation of hardy ferns.

The Navel Orange

What is known as the Navel orange is said by dealers to be the queen of oranges. The best growth comes from Southern California, where the raising of this particular orange has recently become a craze. Last season, in San Bernardino valley, 550,-000 trees were planted, and it is expected that before this season is over there will be 1,000,000 in all set out. The genuine fruit commands a high price, and dealers in California produce here in New York say that not many of the real Navel oranges reach this market. The eastern limit of the supply just now is Chicago, but with the growth of the added trees in the San Bernardino district, there will come plenty of the fruit for New York. Men who are in the orange business, and do not care much for oranges as a rule, say they can not resist the Navel. It has a delicious taste, superior to the " Florida," is more juicy, and seems, in these latitudes, more like ripened fruit when eaten near where it is grown. - New York Sun.

Nomenclature In England

It is interesting to note that our brother horticulturists of England are taking up the question of suit able names for varieties. Just now the discussion is almost wholly confined to conifers, but it is to be hoped that it will broaden out and accomplish the reform so much needed. The total disregard for suitable names has been the direct cause of the introduction of many old varieties of vegetables, fruit and flowers in to this country under new and fanciful names.

Not Manettia Cordifolia

The Manettia mentioned in March issue (p. 181) as brilliant scarlet, tipped with yellow, is Manettia bicolor, not M. cordifolia. The latter is all red, and not so strong a grower as M. bicolor. - David Gindra.