Ornamental Flower Pots

Mr. Eberhardt has placed on our table specimens of flower pots made of metal. They are of pretty design and neatly painted. The saucer is attached to the pot by a simple contrivance, which does not interfere with drainage. For the parlor, as a receptacle of the common earthenware pot, they are very pretty; but for the ordinary purposes of growing plants we do not think they are well suited.

Ornamental Trees And Plants

At the same meeting, T. C. Maxwell, of Geneva, spoke in behalf of the pictur-esqueness and desirability of many of the new ornamental trees and shrubs. Abies excelsa pendula was described as a great acquisition. A Golden Juniper was a great curiosity. And among the dwarf evergreens, the Abies excelsa pigma was remarkable, growing only one foot high.

Ornamental Value Of Trees

At a local meeting, in New England, one speaker said he considered the value of his farm enhanced fully $1,000 in consequence of the attractiveness given to it by Jive Elm trees, planted along the roadside, by his grandfather, eighty-five years ago.

Osage Hedges

Nearly all the farms are surrounded with Osage hedges, and the roads for many miles are bordered on either side with some specimen hedges of enormous size - all of them beautiful in extreme, especially in midsummer, when the Scarlet Trumpet Creeper opens its gorgeously crimson-colored flowers and runs over the hedge in its wildest profusion. At Massey's Cross Roads, Md., on the farm of D. J. Blakiston is an Osage hedge of five miles; the annual cost of trimming and keeping in order being but 926. This gentleman has a pear orchard of eight hundred trees, planted seven years, the fruit from which last year sold for $750 net; but it was suffering badly from the frozen sap blight and fire blight. Other orchards in the neighborhood were suffering so much from the same cause as to discourage all further planting.

Osband's Summer

Messrs. Prince, Hooker, Barry and Wilder think it the best of summer pears; aromatic, juicy, and a remarkable acquisition. Picked early, it is a rich yellow and red. Tree upright and good grower. Carried to list for general cultivation.

Steven's Genesee Cracks, rots at core, variable, subject to blight.

Osband's Summer #1

A very good pear. It ripened with us about a fortnight ago. The fruit is round and small. It originated in Wayne county, N. Y.

Osband's Summer #2

This is not usually classed as a first-rate market pear - because of its delicate skin and flesh, and the tardiness of the tree in coming into full bearing. But gathered early and handled carefully, as all fruit ought to be, it reaches market in fine selling order and never fails to command a high price. The tree is a good grower and a sure and prolific bearer. It blooms very late, and thus always escapes spring frosts.

Oscar Strawberry

This is a new and very promising Strawberry, specimens of which were sent us by Mr. Hite, and subsequently, August 2d, by Mr. Linsley. It is a large, firm-fleshed, and highly flavored berry, and has a prolonged season. We desire to see more of it, however, before giving it a place.