A Fine Gingko Tree

In the Botanical Garden, at Pisa, Italy, is a Gingko tree, Salisburia adiantifolia, which has attained the height of nearly ninety feet,' and at three feet from the ground is nine feet seven inches in circumferenoe. It was received from England, and planted in 1788. It is a splendid tree, and very remarkable for the rich golden color which the leaves assume before falling.

A Fine Green-House

The new Green-House at Washington, for the erection of which Congress made appropriation at its last session, is nearly completed. It is 470 feet in length, and presents a very fine appearance. One section of this building will contain grape cuttings, now on the way from Europe, embracing every variety grown in that country. Another section will be devoted to the propagation of medical plants derived from foreign points, with a view to their future culture in the United States. Still another division will receive assignments of choice imported floral productions, and yet another to experiments in the growth of fruits, native to Russia and other powers, now exchanging with this department.

A Fine Hedge Or Buckthorn

The finest Buckthorn hedge we have seen in this conn-try, is that enclosing the grounds of Elon Huntingdon, Esq., occupied by R. Mattison & Co.'s nursery, in the north part of the city of Rochester. It is some six or seven years old, about five feet high, and between three and four feet wide from bottom to top, and impenetrable to the sight as a stone wall. Its effect upon the ground enclosed, and indeed upon the neighborhood, is imposing and beautiful.

A Fine Horticultural Library

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society have, we suppose, the best collection of agricultural and horticultural books of any institution in the United States. At considerable expense, a complete catalogue has been prepared and printed, a copy of which we acknowledge the receipt.

A Fine Prize

The Assembly of Iowa has appropriated $1,000 to be used for prizes for the best new apple that will keep in good condition until after April 1, and for a superior plum improved from native stock, the same to be a variety not now in existence, and superior to any in hardiness, productiveness, and quality of fruit. The seedlings must be exhibited from year to year before the State Horticultural Society, and the premium is to be awarded in 1886 by a competent committee appointed by that association.

A Fine Rose Hedge

It is tantalizing for us here in America, who have not yet learned how to make successful rose hedges, to read of one in the garden of Right Honorable Lord Mid-dleton, of Applecross, England, which, during the past growing season, was five feet in height and over two hundred feet long, in the finest possible health, and one sheet of flowers - suck flowers! The variety was Gloire de Dijon, and the hedge was used as a screen to the kitchen garden, and there was no end to the cutting of the roses. These hedges were made by simply constructing a neat wire fence, with five strands; and as the plants grew, they were fastened to the wires. The shoots intertwined in and out, and among each other, filling the hedge quite compactly, and reaching to the top.