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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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to know that Hydrangea Hortensia keeps alive 

 the memory of the wife of a mechanic, rather 

 than that of a royal example of feminine 

 profligacy. T. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



"To All Wanting Homes." — The publisher 

 desires to say, that the advertisement in the last 

 number under this head, came to him from the 

 Advertising Agency of Edwin Alden, 174 Elm 

 Street, Cincinnati, and he never had any reason 

 to doubt that it was a perfectly reliable firm. 

 This statement is made in reply to some corres- 

 pondents who question very much whether they 

 will get the worth of^their money in the way 

 proposed. 



Fairmount Pakk. — Mr. C. H. Miller, Chief of 

 the Horticultural Bureau during the Centennial, 

 and under whose direction the difficult task of 

 combining the wants of exhibitors with good ar- 

 tistic taste was so successfully accomplished, has 

 been appointed consul ting Landscape Gardener to 

 the Fairmount Park Commission. 



The Royal Oak. — The oak in which King 

 Charles H took refuge from his pursuers after 

 the defeat at Worcester, by Cromwell, is stated 

 by a correspondent of the Gardener'' s Chronicle to 

 be of the stalked variety, Quercus pedunculata. 

 The tree is still living, and is about 11 feet in cir- 

 cumference. 



Nurseries of Hargis & Sommer. — We call at- 

 tention to an advertisement of this firm in our 

 present number. We believe this firm to be one 

 of the most successful in the West. Mr. Hargis 

 has been now for about five months sick, and 

 Mr. Sommer not being a nurseryman but in 

 other business in the town, make good reasons 

 for wanting to sell. 



S. S. Jackson. — The Cincinnati Commercial teWs 

 us tliat — "The golden wedding of S. S. Jackson 

 and wife, on Thursday, November 9th, at the 

 family residence, in Delhi Township, was the 

 occasion of a meeting of many of their friends 

 to congratulate them and to participate in the 

 enjoyment of a happy afternoon, amidst the nu- 

 merous flowers which, fresh from the greenhouse, 

 ornamented in great variety the dwelling." Mr. 

 Jackson is a Horticulturist cfwhomweare all 

 proud. If he could see another fifty years in the 

 same way, there is not one of us but would 

 rejoice. 



Wild Flowers of America. — Illustrations by 

 I. Sprague; text by Prof. Goodale, Boston. Pub- 

 lished by H. 0. Houghton & Co. Our botanical 

 friends at Cambridge are to be congratulated on 

 the spirit which prompted them to a work like 

 this ; and in undertaking the publication, the 

 firm of the Houghtons deserves eveiy encourage- 

 ment from the press and the public. 



It is the design to illustrate and describe all 

 the more attractive wild plants of America, in 

 quarterly parts, of four plates each, at $5 per 

 part. The form is quarto, which gives the op- 

 portunity to have the figures life size. 



The present part has for subjects, Aquilegia 

 canadensis, Geranium maculatum. Aster undu- 

 latus, and on the fourth plate two Gerardias, G. 

 flava and G. tenuifolia. 



The text embraces all the popular history of 

 the plants, including the scientific descriptions 

 in popular language. Considering the admirable 

 manner in which the whole work of the artist, 

 the author, and the publisher is executed, the 

 price is very low. 



Vick's Floral Guide for the present month 

 has a chapter illustrative of the terms used in 

 botany to describe the leaves and parts of flow- 

 ers. 



Chicago Botanic Garden. — Prof. Babcock, the 

 director, has issued a catalogue of all the seeds 

 they have on hand to exchange for others. It is 

 a very large list. 



Ayer & Son's Manual. — This well known firm 

 of advertising agents, has removed into the beau- 

 tiful new building of the Philadelphia Times, and 

 have issued a large pamphlet with instructions 

 to their patrons, and Avhich gives many useful 

 hints to those who may probably become so. 



C. C. Bragdon. — The weekly papers have 

 made most of our readers acquainted with the 

 death of this gentleman, w'ell known of late years 

 as one of the editors of the Rural Neiv Yorker. 

 Though his public labors were more of an agri- 

 icultural than a horticultural character, his in- 

 fluence in horticultural matters was considerable. 

 From the first foundation of the Gardener's 

 Monthly he took a warm interest in its success, 

 and to the last was one of its best friends. 



Dr. John Skillen Houghton. — Among the 

 deaths of the month we regret to note that of 

 Dr. J. S. Houghton, who died of an apoplectic 

 stroke, on the 11th of December in his 60th year. 



