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mes, like this little book, are capable of doing 

 much better work. The critical reader might 

 wish that the names of the plants had been more 

 correctly given by the author in many cases, and 

 that the proof-reader had been more closely 

 looked after in others. But these defects will 

 not in the least detract from the book's practical 

 value to those for whom it is intended, and we 

 heartily commend it. 



The Bulletin No. 1 of the Illinois Museum 

 OF Natural History among other interesting 

 matter has a paper on the Botanical features of 

 "Trees in Winter," by Dr. Brendel; "Parasatic 

 Fungi," by Prof. Burrill; and a list of Illinois Or- 

 thoptera, by Dr. Cyrus Tkomas. 



Catalogue of A. M. C. Jongkindt Coninck, 

 Dedemsvaart, Netherlands. — Mr. C, who has 

 taken so excellent a part in introducing the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly in the countries in the north of 

 Europe, sends us his Catalogue of hardy her- 

 baceous plants and other things, which we find 

 very full. 



Mr. W. T. Harding. — We are pleased to be 

 able to say that this gentleman, who is so well- 

 known to our readers as an agreeable and highly 

 intelligent correspondent, and whom we know 

 as one of the best of the many practical gar- 

 deners in this country, has been elected Super- 

 intendent of the new Cemetery at Upper San- 

 dusky, which the citizens were so fortunate as 

 to engage him to lay out last year. 



The Gardener's Monthly. — The publisher 

 asks us to make a note, thanking the many 

 friends who have passed good words to him 

 with their subscriptions, and he hands us the 

 following as a sample of many. It is from J. C. A. 

 of Henderson, Kentucky: "Enclosed is renewal 

 for 1877. Your magazine is indispensable to me, 

 and supplies valuable information which I could 

 obtain from no other source. It frequently 

 occurs that a single number contains Ain<s worth 

 more to me than a year's subscription." 



The Editor appreciates these kind notices as 

 well as the publisher. He thinks he is doing a 

 useful as well as an agreeable work in editing 

 such a magazine. If every subscriber were to 

 send a new one to the publisher, it would of 

 course be of no particular interest to the Editor, 

 except to feel that all were working with him in 

 the extension of horticultural knowledge. 



Waterer's Rhododendrons. — We were as- 

 tounded to read the following in Mr. Waterer's 



Catalogue, just issued : " Since my return I have 

 noticed that the Rhododendrons exhibited by 

 me at Philadelphia have been the subject of 

 several articles in the American Gardening pub- 

 lications, the object of the writers being to throw 

 doubt on the hardiness and fitness for the Ameri- 

 can climate of the plants grown at this nursery." 

 We venture to say that Mr. Waterer can 

 point to no "American Gardening publications or 

 any leading agricultural paper, if indeed, any 

 paper at all, in which the writers exhibited any 

 such "object." 



American Gardening publications have made 

 known that Mr. Waterer's Rhododendrons, ex- 

 hibited at the Centennial, were hybrids of Rhod. 

 maximum, R. Catawbiense, R. ponticura and 

 R. arboreum, that the two last were not hardy 

 in the Northern States, while the two former 

 were; and that the varieties which had a pre- 

 ponderence of these two characters, and of which 

 Mr. Waterer had many, were not hardy. There 

 has never been anything said about the "hardi- 

 ness and fitness of the plants grown in this nur- 

 sery," but only of some of the varieties. And 

 this, which was the thing said, is true. 



Mr. Waterer was received on this side of the 

 Atlantic with generous honor. A large house 

 was built for his Rhododendrons, while no such 

 privilege was accorded to American growers, 

 who had collections equal in value to his own, but 

 which were left to broil in the open, and terribly 

 hot sun, even for America. No one objected, 

 but all rejoiced, feeling that the excellent 

 show the Waterer Rhododendrons made, were 

 really increasing a taste, and helping themselves. 

 Under these circumstances the effort of Mr. 

 Waterer to make the English public believe that 

 he is badly persecuted by American jealousy, is 

 unworthy of the proverbial fairness of "John 

 Bull." 



We should hardly have thought Mr. Waterer 

 capable of such a contemptible trade trick, had 

 not the writer of this heard him boasting to a 

 little circle in his tent that he had assisted some 

 Americans in getting Rhododendrons into this 

 country free of duty, when the United States 

 Government expects to get a duty of twenty per 

 cent, on imported ornamental trees and shrubs. 

 If Mr. Waterer is not so finely moulded as to 

 see nothing discreditable in transactions of this 

 kind that may help his trade, we do not expect 

 him to be very particular in his references to the 

 statements of "American Gardening publica- 

 tions " if he is likely to be the gainer by it. 



