American Forestry In Europe

The work of Robert Douglas and others in setting out trees, and taking the whole contract to care for them for two or three years, is attracting great attention in Europe; and some of our great foresters, who have gone over there to learn forestry, wonder that they never heard of him or his work.

Planting The Red Cedar

It is proposed to plant extensively the Red cedar in Bavaria. The superiority of the wood of this tree (Juniperus Virginlana) over all other kinds of cedar is well known. - Garden.

Practical American Forestry

If the planting of new forests go on as rapidly as it has gone in Kansas, there will soon be no occasion for weeping over the destruction of the old "tinder-box" forests that nature gave us. The assistance of the government of Kansas appears to have been very successful in the aid of forestry, over 20,000,000 forest trees being under successful culture, and there are about 150,000 acres of artificially planted forest trees.

Lobelias

Of these there are not less than twenty kinds. Most of them are suffruticose and erect in growth; some bearing long white or yellow flowers. The majority have long narrow entire leaves. One kind we detected on the mountains of Kaui had a simple stem 12 to 15 feet high, terminated by a spike of lilac-colored flowers. But by far the most interesting kinds met with were on the mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu, at an elevation of about 2500 feet.

Winter In Philadelphia

Philadelphia may soon be classed among the tropical regions of America; when even Florida and Louisiana had 160 to 18° below freezing point, Philadelphia was little lower; and at the worst during the recent blizzard, the glass marked 6 below zero only for a few hours. The steady temperature was about from 40 to 10° above zero. The first week in February, it was for several days about zero, but vegetation does not seem to have suffered much.

Pinus Scopulorum

Mr. Douglas writes that he has experimented very carefully with the Rocky Mountain variety of the Pinus ponderosa, and finds it no more free from the leaf rust under culture, than its relative from the Pacific coast. He has seen the same, or a similar fungus, on the wild trees in the Black Hills of Dakota.

Comfort For Florida

A correspondent of a Philadelphia newspaper writes that the people of Florida are many of them rejoicing over the freezing of their orange trees, because it will destroy so many insects. This sounds like whistling through a ghost-haunted graveyard.