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Tmk Ciiuistmas Kosfc— " Suh" says: If 

 " R»':u1it" will look in '* Brei-k's Hook of Flow- 

 ers,'' or Mrs. Loudon's "'Companion to the 

 Flower GanliMi," In- will fnul the '" Ilellcborus 

 ni'^t'r'' or *' Clu-istni:u'< Itosc" spoken of. This 

 is j)robal)ly the llower lie has seen mentioned in 

 <lill'ereiil papers. This plant is eultivatefl in 

 some parts of New I^njjland with snecess. 

 Chambens' Cyclopedia has an illwsfratif)n of it 

 under the article •' Hellebore." 



Fkencii Xotks. — A correspondent kindly 

 says : — '* Knowinj; the desire of the editor that 

 the (JAiti)ENEu's Monthly should be strictly 

 accurate, even to the 'dotting of an i, and the 

 crossinir of a t,' I make no apology for oHering 



the following corrections: "IMx' prop<'r ortho- 

 graphy ttf some of the phut-s meiUioiied in the 

 French notes is Chanips-Klysees, Hois de IJftu- 

 logne, I'arc <le Monseaiix. And allow mo to 

 say that I^ouis XVI and Marie Antoinette, were 

 beheaded in the "Phvce de la Concorde," and 

 not on the spot of the '* Chapelle Expiatone.'*^ 

 The latter is the spot where they wt^re buried, 

 and where tiieir bodies laid for twtn(y-one 

 years, until removed by Louis XV I II. in iKlf), 

 to the royal vault of St. Denis." 



TiiK First IIoutichltuh ai- .M a(;a/,ink.— 

 We have never seen a copy of the Magazine, 

 referred to by a correspondent in the following 

 note : "Have you heard of the first Horticultural 

 Magazine published in this county about l.S:U, 

 by Mr. Dickshut, of Haltiniore?" 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



PllOCEElJiXG.s OF THE AMERICAN POMOLO- 



uiCAL Society. — We received the volume for 

 1877 just as we were going to press last month, 

 and had room for only a brief note of Mr. Flagg, 

 the late Secretary of the Society. On lookinir 

 through it carefully, we are more than ever sur- 

 prised at its value. Most of the material in this 

 numb.ir is fresh, it not having been made up of 

 matter that has previously been published in 

 most p9.pers, as has been the case in some of the 

 former issues. Through Mr. Flagg's sickness, 

 most of the labor of preparing this unusually fine 

 volume has fallen on the volunteer shoulders of 

 Mr. P. Barry, to whom so much of the good 

 work has previously fallen, and Mr. K. Manning 

 and President Wilder have had the revision of 

 the proof sheets. They may all be well proud of 

 their work, and the public at large owes them a 

 debt of gratitude for tlieir labor. 



GeRMANTOWN IIORTICULTUIIAL SOCIETY. — 



J. Jay Smith.— Philadelpbians and (heir papers 

 fometimes verify the adage that prophets are 

 not without honor save in their own country, and 

 it is to contradict this adage that notice is here 

 taken of t'.ie action of the(iermantown Horticul- 

 tural Sccii f y, at the April meeliiig. Mr. Charles 

 Miller, in ottering a resolution, said : "We have a 

 gentleman connected with this Society who will 

 feel honored by our ajipreciatiou of him, not 



only as our first President and our earnest co- 

 worker, but also as a widely and well-known 

 Horticulturist and Patron of (hardening. But as 

 he requires no eulogy from me, 1 offer the fol- 

 lowing: Resolved, That Mr. Jno. Jay Smith 

 l)e hereby elected an Honorary Alember of the 

 Germantown Horticultural Society." The reso- 

 lution, being seconded by Mr. Alexander Xew- 

 ett and others, was unanimously adoptp<l. 



Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pennsal- 



YANIA HOTITICULTUKAL SOCIETA'.— On the 21 St 



of Dec, 1877, this Society celebrated its 50th birth- 

 day ,as already stated in our columns. This is the 

 report of the proceedings on the occasion, and 

 contains in full the address of Mr. J. E. Mitch- 

 ell, giving a history of the work of he Society 

 duiiug that time. 



New Yokk Houricn/rnjAT. Society. — W. 

 J. Davidson, Recording Secretary. The Spiing 

 exhibit is June 19, 20, 2lst. The Fall, Sept. 25, 

 2(), 27th. The premiums are very liber-al, the 

 list varied, and competition free to all. The 

 regular meeting, the first Tuesday in the month, 

 are at the Society's rooms, 55 west 33rd Street, 

 X'ew York. 



In oflering its monthly Premiums, it makes them 

 in duplicate. Nurserymen and Florists are not 

 allowed to compete with ''amateurs," by which 

 we understand those who keep gardeners, as well 

 as those who do their own gardening, to which 

 last the term is generally restricted in Europe. 



