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THE HARI^EXER'S MOXTIII.V 



\_May. 



Doriu.K A.MAKVi.i.is.— AftiT rcailiiiLr \'ir'jil's 

 aciount of Amaryllis, it in not surprisiiiLj some 

 >ili(nil(l tiud her a L'0(iiu'ttish damsel. Still H. 

 M. Worcester, Norfolk, Vir-riuia, desires to 

 •niake her acquaintance, and if the gentleman 

 who sent us a specimen of her double-faced do- 

 ings lately, will send his acdress to him he 

 would take it as a favor. 



NoKTii Ameuican Botany. — Bibliographical 

 Index by Serene "Watson. Part the first — Poly- 

 petaliv. — Very few persons who love flowers 

 have any adequate idea of how much they owe to 

 the working botanist, whose lal)ors systematize 

 knowledge, so that any one can readily find out 

 all that is known of what has gone before. Hor- 

 ticulturists have continually to look to the 

 Botanists for advice and assistance. Without the 

 Botanists our art and pursuits would be shorn of 

 half their charms. This work of Mr. Watson's 

 is just one of those pieces of hard labor that is 

 extremely valuable to everybody, and yet with- 

 out any chance of that glory which springs from 

 what are known as original investigations or bril- 

 liant speculations. It is simply a work of refer- 

 ence. It gives the book, with page and in order 

 of publication, so that any one can turn to the 

 original authors for what he wants to know. 

 For instance, about the yellow Locust, or 

 Robinia, the first author is Linnajus Gen. PI. 1, 

 p. 101. Then Du lloi " Obs." Bot. 28. The 

 next authority is our own, Walter " 186," and 

 then follow some twenty-five others, including 

 Loudon, Curtis, Torrey, Gray, Chapman, and 

 other familiar names. The monopetalous plants 

 will follow as soon as Mr. Watson gets it ready. 

 Mr. Watson, on application to his address, 

 Cambridge, Mn^s., will furnish it for S2 and 

 postage, which, as it contains 475 pages, one can 

 imagine to be not one-half its cost. We hope, 

 however, Mr. Watson will receive large orders 

 for it, for he deserves all the encouragement we 

 can give him to keep on with this very hard but 

 very useful work. As a full catalogue of 

 the plants of the United States, it has great 

 value ; as heretofore few knew where to look for 

 them, scattered through scores of books and 

 serials. 



Canadian Horticultuuist. — This is a new 

 monthly magazine, published at St. Catharines, 

 under the auspicies of the energetic Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association of Ontario, and devoted mainly 

 to fruit growing interests. 



Cultural Catalogue of the Greenbrook 

 and Paterson Nurseries, Paterson, N. J. We 



had liioiigbt tliat superior as are American nur- 

 sery eatalogues, as a g«MU'ral tiling, to those of 

 Europe, they could not possibly be brought to 

 a greater di'gree of useliilncss, l)ut In^re is one 

 whiili t^oes beyond any wliiili we have simmi in 

 this, that it gives a historical sketch of the plants 

 where they have any history, as well as cultu- 

 ral details. Such ellorts must add immensely 

 to the intelligence of American (lower lovc^rs, 

 and it comes within our province to comnxMid 

 all such ertbrts. 



Willard Cuttin'O Flaoo. — Horticulture 

 has sullered few more severe losses for many 

 years past than in thi^ death of this gentleman, 

 which occurred at liis house, at Moro, Illinois, on 

 the oOth of March, in th(^ 4',tth j'ear of his age. 

 He atteiuled the meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society, a.s its Secretary, at its la.st 

 meeting, at Baltimore, and had an attack of the 

 tyjihoid fever soon after his return, and it wsvs 

 from the ett'ects of this attack that he died. His 

 love for agriculture and horticulture grew out of 

 his scholarly attainments, grafted on a thorough 

 love of nature, and together made him a rare 

 type of all that is most admirable in a Horticul- 

 turist. Thus his love for the art was for its own 

 sake, and not for the mere bread and butter or 

 the social power it would bring. 



Yet he was not without honor, as such single- 

 heartedness rarely is. He had been already an 

 honored Senator in his own State Legislature, 

 and had been prominently named as a represen- 

 tative of his State in the United States Senate ; 

 and though not perhaps known to him, there 

 were warm friends who had resolved that he 

 should sometime have a chance for the Presi- 

 dency of the United States. It was the writer's 

 good fortune to know him intimately as well 

 as personally as a mere lover of Horticulture, 

 and he can heartily say, that in his long experi- 

 ence with Horticulturists, he has rarely met 

 one whose example in every walk of life was 

 so worthy of following as that of Willard 

 C. Flagg. His sympathies were not, however, 

 confined to Horticulturists or Agriculturists, but 

 were for all. All have lost a friend. 



Science in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. — We note with great pleasure that Gen- 

 eral Le Due has appointed Prof. Riley a.s Ento- 

 mologist to the Department. With such men as 

 Riley, Dr. Vasey in the Botanical, and Mr. 

 Saunders in the Horticultural, the most enthu- 

 siastic " Why don't you do it ?" can ask no more. 



American Pomological Society. — Pro- 

 ceedings for 1877. We have no hesitation in 

 pronouncing this, by great odds, the most useful 

 volume ever issued. The reports and essays 

 are wonderfully full and complete, and give a 

 field view of American Pomology never before 

 afforded. It must have been a heary task for 

 Secretary Flagg to organize and work the machin- 

 ery for so admirably executed a task. And to think 

 that this should be his last ! President Wilder 

 closes the volume with a proper Memoriam to his 

 worthy associate. 



