A New Race Of Tomato

Revue Horticole says that a new and very valuable race of tomato has been produced by Mons. Hippolyte Des-champs, chief gardener to the Count of Boisgelin, which is fully equal to President Garfield in good qualites. It bears the name of Boisgelin Tomato.

Minnehaha Grape

Col. Wilder sends a bunch of this seedling, a second cross of Rogers' Muscat of Alexandria on the flower of Massasoit. It is a white variety, and so far as we can see, in no way inferior to some of the European kinds, when grown in the open air.

It must be very gratifying to those who are so patiently laboring in the work of improvement, to find so much to encourage them to persevere.

Trees For The Sea-Coast

The Norway is the best of all the maples for resisting the salt spray from the ocean, and is almost equal to willows and poplars in this respect.

The Silver Fir

The fine specimen, once so famous, growing on the old battle-ground at Germantown, is now nearly dead. Planted in 1800, after the battle of the Revolution, it reached 100 feet high in seventy-five years. In its own country it often grows larger than this. Griger says: " In narrow valleys in the south of Germany, between the Swiss mountains and the Black Forest, on rich friable, loamy soil, it attains the height of 150 feet, with a trunk 16 to 20 feet in girth.

Forests In Japan

There are about 100,000,. 000 acres in Japan, of which one-third is still virgin forest.

Growth of the California Mammoth Tree - This wonderful tree grows rapidly in England. Some specimens about twenty years old are 40 feet high, according to the Gardeners' Chronicle. In our country, it suffers severely from the attacks of a fungus, that few escape, and most die quite young.

The Hemlock Spruce In Europe

It is believed that the Hemlock Spruce does not thrive in Britain. It is, at any rate, seldom planted there. Yet there are fine specimens. There is one 100 feet high at the Duke of Devonshire's at Chatsworth, says the London Garden.

The Colorado Douglas Spruce

As well known in our country, Mr. Douglas demonstrated several years ago that while this form would not make the timber tree that gives the Pacific form such a reputation, for ornamental purposes it is far superior. In England they call it the Blue •Douglas spruce, which may be a better name.

Sugar In Oak Trees

During August, the attention of the writer was attracted by a stream of liquid that had oozed down the trunk of a twenty-year oak, and around which bees and butterflies were hovering in great numbers. The sap came from orifices made by borers, and was quite as sweet as that which is produced by the Sugar maple.