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 Orders booked for Grafted Richmond, $15 per 100, $150 per 1000. 



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 Pernet-Ducher and Lambert. 



Splendid Assortment of Coleus, $2 per 100. 



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BOOK REVIEW. 



"The First County Park Sys- 

 tem," by Frederick W. Kelsey. — 

 "The First County Park System" is 

 an authentic and graphically written 

 history of the Essex County, New Jer- 

 sey, public parks, now one of the 

 most important park systems in the 

 country. The author, Mr. Frederick 

 W. Kelsey, was a member and vice- 

 president of the first board of five 

 commissioners selected to lay out the 

 parks. He formulated the plan which 

 was the basis of the subsequent legis- 

 lation to provide for the park system, 

 for which the first appropriation was 

 $2,500,000. He is probably more fa- 

 miliar with the inception and work- 

 ings of the enterprise than any other 

 person, and from his intimate knowl- 

 edge of events is recognized as being 

 especially well qualified to write this 

 history. To the forcibly written narra- 

 tive of events is added the interest of 

 personal touch and experience. 



The book covers a period of ten 

 years, from the first inception of the 

 enterprise to the practical completion 

 of some of the parks, and to date. It 

 tells how both public opinion and 

 legislation favored the project, and 

 how these favorable conditions con- 

 tinued until the blighting influence of 

 special interests became potential 

 factors in the undertaking. It gives 

 much information as to other park 

 organizations, from Boston to San 

 Francisco, and makes some concise 

 recommendations of practical applica- 

 tion to all park departments and oth- 

 er boards transacting public business. 



The facts are concisely and inter- 

 estingly presented, and the volume 

 contains most valuable information, 

 not only for creating and laying out 

 new park systems, but timely sugges- 

 tions for those already established. 



The book is beautifully illustrated 

 with ten full-page half-tone views of 

 the different parks, and a County map 

 in colors, showing at a glance the 

 parks and proposed parkways. 



This is a very handsome volume. 



The photograph herewith repro- 

 duced shows the plant exhibits in 

 Manatee county booth at the recent 

 State Fair and Mid-Winter Exposition 

 at Tampa, Florida, in which Reasoner 

 Bros, were the largest contributors 

 and received all the first and fourteen 

 minor prizes. The neat bamboo work 

 was made from bamboo taken from 

 some clumps of B. argentea striata, 

 which have been in the Reasoner nur- 



series for over twenty years. The fair 

 was a great success for the State and 

 was visited largely by home-seekers 

 and tourists, among them some of the 

 prominent northern florists, who 

 seemed surprised at the extent of the 

 show. The exhibits of fruits and 

 vegetables were extensive and very 

 educational, showing what is being 

 raised regularly in Florida. 



and is printed on heavy laid paper; 

 large 12mo; 300 pages; handsomely 

 bound in cloth. Price, $1.25. post- 

 paid. The J. S. Ogilvie Publishing 

 Company, 57 Rose Street. New York. 

 publishers, will send it by mail, posl 

 paid, to any address on receipt of 

 price, or it mav be ordered from HOR- 

 TICULTURE. 



A HANDY SOUVENIR. 

 Kroeschell Bros. Company. 35 Erie 

 street, Chicago, are sending out to all 

 who apply with a two-cent stamp that 

 convenient carnation measure which 

 was so well received by the carnation 

 enthusiasts last year. It is a simple 

 and yet exact gauge with which you 

 can tell the size of a flower. Send 

 your address with stamp and get one. 



