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do a little in the same way for those who beau- 

 tify grouiuls as well as build houses? Nothing 

 b more an indicator of a num's prosperity than 

 his exhibition of his love of art and taste. 

 People do not want to live where other people 

 are merely, but near prosperous people. Beauti- 

 ful, well-kept gardens and grounds show that 

 people are all right in this respect. 



Hox. Marsh.uj. p. Wilder. — By a Boston 

 paper we note that this good friend of every 

 American horticulturist, for whose health we 

 have all been so anxious, presided at the annual 

 meeting of the Xew England Genealogical So- 

 ciety on the 3rd of January, and there made 

 one of his usual eloquent addresses. This indi- 

 cates that he is much more fully restored to 

 health than his friends hoped for a little while 

 ago. 



Mr. Parker Earle. — We see it stated in the 

 papers that this gentleman is eneaged in straw- 

 berry planting in Southern Mississippi, in addi- 

 tion to his orcharding at Cobden, 111. MissiS' 

 sippi is to be congratulated on having so intelli- 

 gent and experienced a gentleman as Mr. Earle 

 taking an active interest in her industries. 



Report of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 cultl'RE for 1875.— This strikes us as one of the 

 best issues of the Department. It is one of 

 great value, and if Mr. Watts had never done 

 anything since his term of office than issue this 

 volume, it would be w^orth all his Department 

 has cost. The " Forest aspects " of the United 

 States is particularly exhaustive, and proves 

 what we have always contended, that the De- 

 partment is quite competent to take care of 

 this subject, without a " Department of Forest- 

 ry " being independently created. 



The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural 

 Affairs for 1877. Albany : Luther Tucker & 

 Son ; price 30 cents, — For some years past " an- 

 nuals " by newspapers have not been a success; 

 but Tucker's is now in its twenty-third year, and 

 prospers. It success is no wonder, for it is a 

 marvel of interest for the price. The chapter 

 on ventilation, alone, is worth more than the 

 cost. It is the most complete and easily under- 

 standible pajjer on the subject that we ever read. 

 The Country Gentleman is a good paper, and this 

 "tender" to it does it credit. 



Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden. — This 

 is primarily, of course, an assistant to the firm 

 of "J. Vick, Rochester, N. Y.," but it is, in addi- 



tion to this, an extremely useful and beauti- 

 ful volume, very nuich more so, indeed, than 

 numy "regular" books on flowers issued by 

 regular publishing houses. 



The American Naturallst.-Now in its eleventh 

 year, has always done much for science, and 

 in the hands of the Houghtons, of Boston, is as 

 actively useful as ever. The January number is 

 now before us. 



The Canada Farmer. — One of the very best 

 members of the agricultural press, has 

 been merged with the Toronto Globe. It has 

 taken all its editors with it, and this is a guaran- 

 tee that agriculture in Canada will not lose by 

 the act. 



The Raisers of the best Roses. — Mr. H. B, 

 EUwanger contributes to the Journal of Horti- 

 culture a list, with the names of raisers and dates 

 of the introduction of .some of the most popu- 

 lar. All but three English are French growers. 

 No American seems distinguished in Roses. 

 The list is as follows: 



