Western New York Horticulttural Society

This excellent Society has held its usual successful meeting, some account of which we have received as we go to press, and from which we expect to draw to the profit of the reader from time to time during the coming season.

Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Lectures

A programme of topics for every week from January 2d to April 10th, has been issued by the Society, and may be had from the Secretary.

Drilling Rocks

By means of a treadle, worked by the foot, Minnis Haden, a colored blacksmith, of Montgomery, Va., has invented and patented a method by which one man can hammer and hold the drill in blasting rocks, or in many kinds of blacksmith's work.

Destruction Of The Mole

A Sunday-school urchin thus informs his teacher : "One day Billy come home holdin' a little mole by the tail, which a bad boy had cot and guv him, and it was alive. Wen my sister see him she said, 'O, you crewel, crewel boy, thro it in the fire this minnit".

Dahlias

The practice of pegging down ever-blooming roses so that they will cover completely the surface of the bed, is well known to produce very pleasing results. It is said that pegging down Dahlias proves quite as satisfactory.

Public Park For Kansas City

It is proposed to take a beautiful tract on Bush Creek, south of the city, for this purpose.

An Upright Elder

This very pretty shrub is known in France as Sambucus fastigiata and S. columnaris, as well as by others of similar import. It grows thick and upright like an Irish Juniper. The varieties of European elder do not, however, do well in the warmer parts of our country, though thriving in the mountain regions.

New Polyantha Rose, Max Singer

This dwarf species of rose - "the dear little creature," we have heard it called, has given a variety in France under the above name, resembling in size and color Bengal Hermosa.

White-Flowered Water Chinquapin

The Yellow Lotus, or Water Chinquapin, Nelumbium luteum, one of America's famous water plants, has produced a white variety, which is receiving marked attention from the cultivators of water plants in England.

Seed Ornaments

Ornamental work made of fruits, cones, seed vessels and seeds, is growing in favor, and the business gives employment to large numbers of women and children.

Tea Rose

The Bride. Under this name Mr. May is now sending out the pure white sport from Catharine Mermet, flowers of which were on exhibition at the meeting in Philadelphia last fall. It is said to be more productive than its parent.