. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. for best tenacres of forest trees, not less than one thousandto the acre, three years old, and ditto of sugarmaples; and the silk culture receives an offer ofreward for mulberry trees. The ornamental is not neglected, and there are premiums forornamental trees planted in agarden, or by theroad-side. Besides this, we notice the adver-tisement of Mr. Reading as landscape gar-dener, showing that tasteful gardening has atleast hope for encouragement. As a guide to the fruits thriving at Salt LakeCity, we notice offers for Summer, Fall, andWinter apples,
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. for best tenacres of forest trees, not less than one thousandto the acre, three years old, and ditto of sugarmaples; and the silk culture receives an offer ofreward for mulberry trees. The ornamental is not neglected, and there are premiums forornamental trees planted in agarden, or by theroad-side. Besides this, we notice the adver-tisement of Mr. Reading as landscape gar-dener, showing that tasteful gardening has atleast hope for encouragement. As a guide to the fruits thriving at Salt LakeCity, we notice offers for Summer, Fall, andWinter apples, peaches, grapes, plums, quinces,cherries, figs, gooseberries, currants, raspberries,blackberries, and strawberries. Besides, there are numerous offers for plantsand flowers, showing that gardening is makingat least as fair headway in this far-away city asin older and more i^ature-favored places in theUnion. YiBURNUM plicatum.—We annex a reducedcut of the Yiburnum plicatum, or, as it is popu-larly called, the new Japan Snowball. It is now. well known, and esteemed for its value in orna-mental gardening, and can be had of almost allour leading nurseries. It is far superior to theold Snowball in its habit, in which indeed th^reis little comparison. Its large heads of purewhite flowers are very attractive in June andJuly. Memorial Trees.—On the recent visit of theMarchioness of Lome to Toronto, on the 5th ofSeptember, she planted a memorial tree at therequest of some citizens. The kind of tree se-lected is not stated. Grounds of the Lehigh Uxivehsity.—The grounds of this <:reat institution have re- 1879.] AND HORTICULTURIST. 293 cently been completed from plans made and ex-ecuted under the direction of Mr. Chas. H. Miller,the consulting landscape e^ardener of FairmountPark. The newspapers of that region speak inthe highest terms of the beauty of those grounds,as improved by Mr. Miller. Single Tuberoses.—There is a tendency inthe Tuberose to produce plants with single fl
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