In Battersea Park, London, where there is gathered many gems of ornamental planting, there is a mass of this maple which forms a very attractive feature. The plants are still young but growing fast, and in that moist climate it proves exceedingly valuable.

In our American climate we wish it could find a congenial home. It is grown by several of our leading nurseries, and all unite in commendation of its strikingly handsome characteristics of foliage, so beautifully variegated, but, alas, it does not stand the hot dry sun. Perhaps it may yet be fortunate with those who have for it a good cool, moist locality. Think of a maple, handsome in form and vigorous in growth, covered with a glorious radiance of starry leaves, green and white - striped, not unlike, in effect, the brilliancy of the Euphorbia Variegata.

Apple Growing in Western New York, Occasionally, the apple crops of the western or lake counties of New York bring the owners large sums of money.

Lying within the limits of Niagara county, and bordering on Lake Ontario, are 30,000 acres of land, all suitable for orchard purposes. The breezes from the lake keep up a steady temperature, cool in summer and far from severe cold in winter, affording a climatic temperature of uniform degrees. Almost every farm has its orchard, and some farms are all orchards. Every year there is a crop of some size, and in the alternate years the yield is very large. The orchards are uniformly well cultivated, and the apples are nearly always large, fair and in excellent demand. The varieties most popular are Baldwin, R. I. Greening and Roxbury Russet. From one orchard of 19 acres there was sold, two years since, $7,230 worth of apples. From another orchard of 140 Baldwin trees, there were sold 980 barrels, for $3.25 per barrel.