1880. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



95 



of the most interesting papers that have been 

 contributed to horticulture for some time past. 

 Mr. EUwanger has looked up all the American 

 varieties of roses, and has given a brief sketch 

 of their history. These number fifty-three. 

 The list might doubtless be enlarged, and it 

 would be doing good service if those who know 

 of others would send some account of them to 

 Mr. EUwanger. Sherwood's Musk Cluster was 

 a famous rose in its day among Philadelphia 

 tlorists, and we fancy is yet to be found in some 

 collections. 



Worcester County, Mass. Horticultu- 

 ral Society Transactions for 1879.— Mr. 

 E. W. Lincoln, Secretary. It is always a pleas- 

 ure to receive these annual proceedings, and we 

 can envy a society which has so intelligent a 

 gentleman and enthusiastic horticulturist for sec- 

 retary, whose report is one of the leading at- 

 tractions of the volume. "We learn that this 

 society was incorporated on the 3rd of March, 

 1842, and that Anthony Chase, the last of the 

 incorporators passed away last year. He was 

 particularly distinguished for his love of testing 

 new fruits. Mr. L. shows well how botany and 

 horticulture is year by year forming a closer 

 union, and how in the future they must go on 

 hand in hand together if we are to derive from 

 horticulture all the pleasure it is capable of af- 

 fording. In this connection Professor Good- 

 ale gave a course of four lectures before the 

 society last year, in which the relations of 

 botany to horticulture were ably set forth. Ab- 

 stracts of these lectures form part of this vol- 



ume. In this connection we may note that 

 botanical addresses on the objects exhibited, 

 are now becoming some of the most popular 

 features with some of our progressive horticul- 

 tural societies. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES 



Floricultural Progress. — E., Philadel- 

 phia, wonders with some reason where progress 

 will be in twenty years from now. He refers to 

 a visit he paid recently to Mr. Dreer's new 

 Coleuses, and compares the number of beauti- 

 ful forms with the few of former years, and asks 

 " what next?" 



Priority of Discovery. — Querist. "We 

 have seen the paragraph you refer to, but have 

 no disposition to join in the controversy. "We 

 may say however, that we believe entirely too 

 much is often made of the credit notion. A 

 man discovers a new fact, but he is lazy, mod- 

 est, indifferent, or whatever you may choose to 

 call it, and the valuable discovery practically 

 dies with him ; but a hundred years afterwards 

 some one else finds it, and works hard to make 

 it known and useful to the world. All at once 

 some one digging in among the mould of the 

 past, finds an old letter in which there is a 

 chance expression indicating that this hundred- 

 year-old lazy bones knew all about it. As a 

 matter of fact it is well enough to note it ; but 

 yet we think of the two, the more modern one 

 should have the whole credit for it. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society. 

 — The annual meeting was held at Bethlehem, 

 Pa., according to announcement, and was a very 

 successful one, A much larger number of mem- 

 bers than usual were present. Much of the un- 

 usual success was due to Secretary Engle, who 

 proves to be one of the cases where the right 

 man falls into the right place. 



More than usual interest was taken in the 

 peach, by an introductory address by John Rut- 

 ter, Esq., of "West Chester, who has been in the 

 past one of the most successful of Pennsylvania 

 peach growers. It was clear from his remarks 

 that cheap land is not always the prime item of 

 success in peach growing. There were discussed 

 all the troubles about marketing, commission 

 men, getting ready before ripe, glutting the mar- 

 kets, railroad transportation, and loads of other 



