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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[June, 



go round into and collect wild flowers, — no 

 cricket or base ball club? Why, then he may 

 get this little book and mark its counsels well. 



Nebraska State Board of Agriculture 

 FOR 1879. — Among the numerous chapters of 

 especial importance to horticulturists is one on 

 Plum Culture, by Mr. D. W. Kauffman, who by 

 trying Windoe's plan of coal-tar smoking three 

 times a week for six weeks, had 30 bushels of 

 plums from 45 trees. 



Transactions of 

 RAL Society, from 

 received with thanks. 



THE Iowa Horticultu- 

 J. L. Budd, Ames, Iowa, 



St. Clare, and one at Osborne House were given,^ 

 and the result seemed in favor of the St. Clare 

 specimen, the pleasure it seemed to give them 

 will not be forgotten ; "for," said Col. Harcourt, 

 " we planted that tree at the same time Prince 

 Albert planted his, and we were always watch- 

 ing each other's tree to see whose throve the 

 best." 



Col. Vernon and Lady Catharine Harcourt — 

 both gone so recently — will be remembered by 

 many. Though with the blood of numerous re- 

 presentatives of Earldoms and Dukedoms run- 

 ning through their veins they were naturally 

 proud of the privileges of rank, they seemed to 

 hold their power and immense possessions in 

 trust for the general good, and instead of being 

 jealous of the entry of any one of what in Eng- 

 land would be considered the lower classes into 

 their circle, they aided all they could in the gen- 

 eral advancement, and cordially welcomed 

 worth and intelligence wherever it was found — 

 a sentiment they shared equally with their early 

 friends and many-year associates, Queen Vic- 

 toria and Prince Albert. 



M. SoucHET. — This French horticulturist has 

 died recently. He is well known as the raiser 

 of many Gladiolus and other florists' flowers, and 

 to fruit-growers through having first sent to this 

 country the raspberries Hornet and Souchetii. 



Death of E. J. Evans.— The York Press 

 says: "It is with many sincere regrets that 

 we announce the death of our esteemed and 

 much-lamented fellow-townsman, Edward J. 

 Evans, Esq., who departed this life on the 

 evening of Monday, the 19th ult., after a long 

 illness, aged 42 years. Mr. Evans was the 

 eldest son of John Evans, Esq,, a prominent 

 member of the York bar, who died a few 

 years ago, and was one of our most exemplary 

 citizens, possessing alike the respect and confi- 

 dence of the very best members of this com- 

 munity. For many years he was at the head of 

 the large and extensive nursery business con- 

 ducted under the firm name of E. J. Evans & 

 Co.-, was an industrious, energetic, educated, 

 courteous, reliable and honest business man, and 

 a polished and respected member of society, 

 whose early death is much regretted by all those 

 who know and appreciate his many manly vir- 

 tues. 

 To his mourning family and friends, we tender 



Col. Vernon Harcourt. — So recently as 

 our last number we had to note the generous ac- 

 tion of this gentleman toward his aged gardener. 

 It is now sad to have to record his death, at 

 Buxted Park, in his eightieth year. It is re- 

 markable how strange is the mixture of life and 

 death ! On the eighth of May came a brief 

 word of his death, and two days after came to 

 hand a letter from his own hands — which had 

 come by an overdue steamer — and which was, 

 perhaps, the last letter he ever wrote. In this 

 letter he was planning for the planting of an 

 arboretum wholly of American trees and 

 shrubs on the estate of Buxted Park. 



The intelligent love for gardening which he 

 and Lady Catharine Harcourt always displayed, 

 and the encouragement they gave to horticul- 

 tural societies and horticultural progress, will 

 make their loss felt, we are sure, in England. 

 In the love for rose culture, there were few 

 greater enthusiasts. Several leading rose grow- 

 ers in England and France had standing orders 

 to a certain amount per annum for all that was 

 new or good in roses. The love was a sort of 

 inheritance. His mother was Lady Leveson 

 Gower, whose name, in connection with one of 

 the most beautiful varieties, is a sort of " house- 

 hold word" with rosarians. The pleasure which 

 they took in tree-growth was almost childlike, 

 and seemed to give them just the same real en- 

 joyment as children take, and makes us all wish 

 we were like children again. When it was the 

 privilege of the writer of this to be so kindly re- 

 ceived by them at Buxted Park, and he was de- 

 tailing to Lady Catharine the measurement of 

 the original Robinia at Paris, some one was 

 sent to measure the fine specimen in the Park 

 to note the difference; and when the figures of lour most heartfelt sympathy for this, to them> 

 the measurements of a tree of Pinus insignis at \ irreparable loss." 



