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reniovi'd to 295 Lexington street, Ihh present 

 establislinuMit. lie has been identified with all 

 tlie movenuMits in Baltimore to promote Ilorti- 

 cnltine, and nninerons pul)lic inslitnlions liavi- 

 had the biMielit of his hi-IpinLT hand. He was 

 one of the foniulers of tlie first Maryland Horti- 

 cultural Si)eiety 18:iU; assisted in reviving it 

 in 1851, and was active in the organization of 

 the present one in 1874. He took great interest 

 in the early success of the Maryland Institute, 

 and for many years was in its Board of Managers, 

 a number of its exhibitions having been arranged 

 by him with his characteristic ability to produce 

 pronounced effects from the materials at com- 

 mand. 



He was charged with a similar Avork as super- 

 intendent in the decoration arrangement of the 

 household department of three successive agri- 

 cultural societies in this State. 



Mr. Feast has from time to time contributed 

 to various publications, or read before scientific 

 societies, papers on botanical or horticultural 

 topics. For a number of years he contributed to 

 the American Farmer, a calender of monthly 

 operations in the flower garden and green house. 

 In L^GS Mr. Feast received carte blanche from 

 Gen. Capron,then United States Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, to purchase in Europe trees, 

 plants, cereals, &c., that would likely be ac- 

 quisilions in this country. In the performance 

 of the duty entrusted to him he visited England. 

 Belgium, Prussia, Germany and France, and 

 brought home a very valuable collection for the 

 Government, as well as many rare and curious 

 addiiions to his own stock. 



In 18G9, having been elected to represent his 

 ward, the 13th, in the First Branch of the City 

 Council of Baltimore, he Avas made Chairman 

 of the Committee on Parks, in which caijacity 

 his technical knowledge and long experience 

 were duly availed of. 



HoRTicULTUEE IX BALTIMORE. — Captain 

 Chas. II. Snow writes : " In an article in the Sep- 

 tember number of the Gardener's Monthly 

 I am credited with an article on Horticulture in 

 Maryland. The article in the American Farmer 

 was from the pen of the editor, Mr. "Wm. B. 

 Sands, the very efficient Secretary of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Maryland. I read an article 

 before the Society on the advance of llorieulture 

 in the last fift}* years, and Mr. Sand's article was 

 written to show what pait Baltimore floricultu- 

 rists had taken in it. 



"I see you have altered my spelling of 'Epiden- 



dron.' I know that it is spelt Epidendrum, and 

 that spelling has become choice. It comes from 

 the Greek, epi, upon anddendron a tree, and takes 

 the sanu^ termination as Philodcndron, Leuea- 

 dendron and liiiodndcndron. I write this to 

 show you that 1 know what I was about wh(;n I 

 spelled it ' Kpidendron.' It is no use: to hit a 

 palpable error go on forever." 



[Classically, our correspondent is right; but 

 botanical authors seem justified under certain 

 botanical canons in using Epidendrum.-ED.G.M.] 



Ferns in their Homes and Ours. — Thi» 

 is the title of a work announced by Mr. John 

 Robinson, Professor of B(jtany to the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. The Ferns are. to 

 be printed in colors, and the price to be SI .50, 



Clifton Park Gardens, Baltimore.— 

 Under a lease with the trustees of John Hop- 

 kin's University, the fruit and green-houses of 

 Clifton ^Park Gardens are to be worked by the. 

 gardener, Mr. Fowler, for his own use and bene- 

 tit. Mr. Fowler is one of the most intelligent, 

 gardeners in America, and his numerous friends 

 will wish him every success in his new ent(;r- 

 prise. 



Dr. H. a. Savasey. — No doubt among the list 

 of five or six thousand deatlis from yellow fever^ 

 will be found the names of many of our horti- 

 cultural friends. "N^'e have watched the lists so 

 far as their fragmentary character will allow, but 

 so far have seen only Dr. Swasey's name among 

 others. His death is a very severe loss to Ameri- 

 can horticulture, wliich he has served so long by 

 his able writings. 



John Nicholas Haage. — This excellent l)o- 

 tanist and founder of the celebrated seed firm of 

 Ilaage & Schmidt, of Errfurt, recently made a 

 botanical excursion to Switzerland, where hit 

 fell from the rocks at Murren and was dashed t<» 

 pieces. Mr. Haage, when a young man, was a 

 student in the Royal Botanic Garden, Regent's 

 Park, at London, whi;n the writer of this first 

 made his acquaintance, and admired him for hi.t 

 zealous enthusiasm hi the cause of botany and. 

 horticulture; and there Ls perhaps no better 

 evidence of his strength of character than in the, 

 building up of the well-known and infiuentia! 

 firm of which he was the senior ])artn<!r. 



PROFES.SOR Asa Gray.— C. W. Qui"? "• thft 

 London Garden, says: "'We are pleased to 

 learn that at the last meeting of the French 

 Academy of Science, held on July 29th, ProL " 

 Asa Grav, the well-known American botanist. 



