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THE GARDENEIVS MONTHLY 



IJuly, 



The o.ssMvs and discussion as reported took n 

 wid(> rantje, and the subjects are, in fact, as well as 

 rmme, truly liorticultural. Prof. Thurl)er worthily 

 fills the Presidential chair. 



Nkw Professoks. — J. L. Budd luis been select- 

 ed ivs professor of horticulture in the place va- 

 cated by Prof. Macafee, in Iowa Agricultural 

 College. Prof. J. T. Rothrock, well known as 

 the botanist of the Wheeler e.\i)edition, has been 

 selected for the chair of botany in the Pennsyl- 

 vania University. Prof. Rothrock is doing his 

 best to make botany popular among the masses 

 of the people, by giving free lectures on bot- 

 any in the Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, 

 which are highly appreciated. Dr. J. Gibbons 

 Hunt, eminent as a botanist, especially in con- 

 nection with microscopic work, has been elected 

 to the newly founded chair of histology and mi- 

 croscopic technology in the Philadelphia Acade- 

 my of Natural Sciences. In the newly formed 

 State Board of Agriculture f;.r Pennsylvania, 

 Mr. Thomas Meehan has been elected professor 

 of botany, and Mr. Josiah Hoopes professor of 

 Horticulture. Mr. Hoopes has beeji one of the 

 most vigorous Presidents of the State Pomologi- 

 cal Society, which practically takes under its 

 protection all the more solid branches of Horti- 

 culture, and is well known in connection with 

 valuable horticultural services, and we are pleased 

 to record this tribute to his good work. 



History of the United St.\tes. By Josiah 

 W. Leeds. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. 

 — Friend Leeds is well known to our readers, as 

 a contributor to the pages of the magazine. 

 Like Mr. Parkman and other of our friends to 

 whom Horticulture is a pleasant pastime, he 

 loves literary work; and is a close student in 

 all intelligent pursuits. 



In regard to histories, it makes little differ- 

 ence how impartial an author may be by na- 

 ture, it is almost impossible for him to write 

 except from a particular standpoint, and hence 

 the truths of history can only be evolved when 

 writers of ditVerent dispositions take to writing 

 of the same thing. Almost all histories show 

 the progress which nations make as the result 

 of the wars they have gone through. Josiah 

 Leeds, belonging to the Society of Friends, and 

 a "man of peace," rather loves to show what 

 has resulted from art and industry as applied to 

 peaceful pursuits; and, perhaps, what has been 

 retarded by war. This is not a line conscious, 

 perhaps, to his own mind, but it is not difficult 



to trace through these pages the; influence of 

 the jieaco principle. 



Well, Horticulture is especially a child of 

 Peace, and we may welcome all that helps to de- 

 velope and strengthen its relations ; and we hope 

 Friend Leeds' book will have a wide sale. We 

 usually leave prices to the advertisei"s, but in 

 view of our obligations to the author's excellent 

 communications to our pages, may be pardoned 

 for saying that this volume costs $1.75. 



A Dahlia Catalogue. — Many of our florists 

 devote themselves to specialties— here is a very 

 full catalogue wholly devoted to Dahlias, from 

 Samuel G. Stone, of Charlestown, Mass. 



A Hardy, Herbaceous Catalogue. — Messrs. 

 Woolson & Co. will devote themselves wholly to 

 hardy, herbaceous plants. This catalogue ia one 

 of the few which is minute in its accuracy. Mr. 

 G. C. Woolson was formerly associate editor of 

 the American Agriculturist, and is a botanist of 

 high character. 



The London Garden. — It has been said in 

 some quarters that gardening is not as flourish- 

 ing in England as it was a quarter of a century 

 ago, but by the magnificent success of the Lon- 

 don Garden, now in its tenth year, there can be 

 no falling off in the lovers of "the garden," 

 whatever there may be of gardening. We have 

 before us a bound volume from the publisher, 

 for which we are indebted to Mr. W. Falconer, of 

 the Cambridge Botanical Garden, to whom we 

 have already been under obligations for some of 

 the best contributions to oiir magazine. 



Durand's Strawberry Culture. — Mr. Du- 

 rand is one of the most successful of living 

 strawberry cultivators, and in this little tract he 

 gives the full details of his successful practice. 

 The pamphlet has no price or place of publica- 

 tion attached to it, so we suppose it is intended 

 for free distribution among Mr. Durand's cus- 

 tomers. 



SCBAFS AND QUERIES. 



Tumble Weed. — Mr. Sereno Wat.son, the dis- 

 tinguished botanist of Clarence King's expedi- 

 tion, kindly furnishes the following note: — 



"As to the ' tumble weed,' your correspondent, 

 Mr. Wier, describes the habit of the thing very 

 well ; but it is the common Amarantus albus, L." 



