Rapid Growing Street Trees

It is a great mistake to choose the Silver Maple and different Poplars for street trees, merely because they grow fast. In a few years they are objectionable because they are so very large, and have to be removed or hacked down. Such moderate growers as Horse Chestnuts, Norway and Sycamore, or Sugar Maple are much better, even though a trifle less rapid in growth. Few people complain that they are too large for the streets.

Ampelopsis Japonica

Under this name the Gardener's Chronicle says is being cultivated in Europe our common Poison vine, Rhus toxicodendron.

The Double Eschscholtzia

Many double flowers do not produce many seeds, but it is said the double form of this pretty Californian annual produces some seeds, which reproduce the double form.

Weigela Candida

This pretty white variety noticed before in our pages in connection with the nursery meeting at Rochester, and which will probably supersede the old Hortensis nivea, forms a colored illustration in Ellwanger & Barry's new descriptive catalogue.

Large Greenhouses

Mr. Charles Joly, in a paper on the Glasgow Botanical Gardens, notes that the greenhouse at the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham, is 535 metres long; one at the Industrial Palace at Paris, 192; Palm house at Kew, and a house at Laeken, each 120; the new one at Glasgow, 106. A metre is about 31-3 feet.

Lilium Harrisi

This is a variety of Japan species, Lilium longiflorum, but has become naturalized in the island of Bermuda. Importations have been made from there and sold under the name of Bermuda lily.

Lilium longiflorum, or rather as has been already noted in our columns, L. ex-imium Harrisi, is being introduced with great favor among English floriculturists.

Fragrance Of The Gardenia

This once popular flower is likely to be superseded by the double Tabernaemontana, which is just as sweet, just as waxy, and in every way as conspicuous, yet produces flowers more freely and more continuously than the Gardenia. The foliage also has some resemblance to that of the Gardenia.

A New Water Lily

Mr. E. Sturtevant has raised a new variety of lily from Nymphgea De-voniensis, which, though not a species, Dr. Asa Gray thinks may be called N. Sturtevanti, provided a cross (\) is placed before the name in writing it. According to the description the flower is paler than the original. N. Devoniensis was produced from N. dentata, which is a white flowering species, N. Devoniensis being dark red.