Russian Mulberry

We have inquiries about this coming in once in a while, though we have several times told all we know of it. It is a variety of the morus alba, the common white or silk-worm Mulberry, and good enough to grow for silk or timber, but we do not know that it has any special value over any other variety, which are numerous in this species.

Forestry In California

We are indebted to a Santa Cruz correspondent for much valuable information in regard to forestry in California, of which we shall make good use as opportunity offers.

Catalpa Speciosa In Arkansas

"L."says: "I find the Catalpa in this vicinity on Black River, and I have just procured a three-foot log of it for the American Museum of Natural History, New York. There are trees along Black River, in Clay county, Arkansas, fully four feet in diameter, but the growth after the first fifteen or twenty years is very slow. My three-foot specimen - i. e. three feet in diameter - is about 200 years old, by the rings. This holds with dozens of logs examined in the same neighborhood."

The Earthworm

It would be interesting to know just where everything made its first appearance on the globe. We only know that all things play the role of travelers. The earthworm is no exception. It has not got to Manitoba yet; but it soon will be. It is not so many years since they were not in Minnesota; but they are very abundant about Minneapolis now, and possibly through most of that State.

Wild Tea

To the great number of "substitutes for Chinese tea " already on the lists, a Florida correspondent sends us a common weed of that section for name, which proves to be one of the mallows - Sida stipulata.

A Wild Rose

"N," Louisville, Ky., writes: "We mailed you, two days ago, sample of a flower, etc., of a rose we found growing wild here - that is, one plant. Would like to know name of same."

[This appears to be the Cherokee rose, which, after all, is probably but a form of the Macartney rose - a native of China; and, though "wild," probably not indigenous to America. - Ed. G. M.]

Trees By Mail

America is not by any means always in the rear. The English papers are recording, as a wonderful thing, that Mr. Gladstone recently received a tree by mail! They do not seem to know that thousands - nay millions, have gone through the mails in America, for years past - some even bringing up in their own country after their postal experience.