Dickson's Emperor Apple

Size large, form irregular, slightly ribbed, color yellow, with dashes of carmine red interspersed, as well as with numerous minute specks of yellowish straw color; the side most exposed to the sun colored with a rich reddish brick color; stalk unusually short for so large a fruit; indicating that it will not be liable to be blown from the tree by the wind, an important merit; eye very large, irregular, and very deeply sunk, cavity for seeds small; flesh yellowish white, juicy; flavor excellent, keeps till January; bears abundantly as a standard, and is certainly one of the very best apples in existence. It was raised at Sea-cliffe Gardens, near Prestonkirk, Scotland, by Mr. Arthur Calder, the gardener there.- N. B. Journal of Horticultural, p. 27.

Didn'T Put In An Appearance

Forney's Weekly Press thus takes to task the Pennsylvanians for not putting in a better appearance at the late meeting of the American Pomological Society: " Pennsylvania, though her orchards are generally bending with the weight of fruit, failed to put in an appearance except here and there single plates from various individuals. No wonder a general impression prevails that Pennsylvania is not a State favorable to fruit growing, and settlers go beyond for fruit locations, when no effort is made to show what she can do."

It does appear a little strange, to say the least, that a State Horticultural Society Of the standing of the Pennsylvania Society, should manifest so little interest in the exhibitions of our National Pomological Society. In life and enterprise the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Society stands second to no other State organization of the kind.

Died

Dr. Von Siebold, to whom we owe the introduction of many fine plants from Japan, died in October last, at the age of seventy-one years.

Dielytra

A correspondent in Hartford, Ct., informs us that he has seen a border some thirty feet long filled up with large Dielytras, all in perfection of growth and bloom, edged on one side with moss pinks, and on the other with Deutzia gracilis! It was exquisitely beautiful.

Dielytra Spectabilis Forcing In Springs

Few plants are more useful for forcing in early spring than Dielytra spectabilis, but it is seldom grown to such perfection as it might be. In going round a garden the other day in the neighborhood of London, we observed some beautiful specimen plants in the conservatory, with the flower spikes growing well up over the foliage. The gardener informed us that, in order to produce this result, he always started his plants in a dark cellar or other such structure, and when the flower spikes are a certain height they are gradually inured to the light, when they produce their beautiful racemes of flowers a good distance clear of the foliage, and the effect such plants have when arranged amongst a collection of other plants is very charming indeed - The Gardener's Record.

Difference In Exposure

A bed about ten feet across cut in the lawn was planted with tulips and hyacinths. In spading manure into this, fall and spring, it had become raised, so that when the surface was rounded off the center was some eight inches higher than the circumference. The same kinds of bulbs were planted all around, and while the hyacinths upon the south and east portion were in full bloom, those upon the north side were just opening, there being one and two weeks' difference caused by this slight elevation.