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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[August, 



with a small capital could do well are plentiful, 

 and I write this to you as an inquiry where such 

 places are to be found, knowing that you, as 

 editor, have a good opportunity to hear of such 

 places. After being connected with several 

 large florists for several years, I feel competent 

 to start out for myself; but, as I have only a 

 small capital at my command, I cannot afford to 

 travel to find a suitable locality, which I consider 

 is the first importance ; so I thought that you 

 might be willing to give me what information 

 you can. Hoping that I am not too bold in ask- 

 ing such a favor, I remain, respectfully, ." 



[We have suppressed the correspondent's name 

 and address, and will simply say that he writes 

 from one of the largest cities in the United 

 States, and, from the little we know of it, believe 

 that, for such a person as we have described, he 

 would want no better opportunity anywhere 

 than just where he is. In that very place are 

 " florists by the score, and "jobbers," " practical 

 gardeners," "landscape gardeners" innumerable ; 

 but the men we describe are scarce there to the 

 best of our knowledge and belief. The city from 

 which he writes contains hundreds of thousands 

 of inhabitants, but a friend assures us that 

 there are not three landscape gardeners in the 

 whole city that an intelligent gentleman would 

 seek for companionship or advice if he wished 

 to have assistance in the improvement of his 

 grounds. We suspect such to be the case, for on 

 looking at the list of subscribers to a horticul- 

 tural paper from that city, we note how surpri- 

 singly few of the class already there subscribe to 

 such works, and it shows their indifference to 

 progress. In short, as to where to locate, our ad- 

 vice would be to choose some place where there 

 are already a score or two of those dirty, igno- 

 rant "florists " and "jobbers," and where by the 



contrast your own worth and intelligence could 

 be readily seen. Where a community is too poor, 

 or the numbers too few it would not be wise to 

 make a start. It takes too long to educate such 

 people. But the want for a better class is in 

 those locations where there has already been 

 i taste enough to make ignoramuses succeed, and 

 I where the progressive people are yearning for 

 something better.— Ed. G. M.] 



Notes and Queries —Mr. A. Pichard, Talla- 

 hassee, Florida, writes : I read in the Gar- 

 deners' Monthly, which I received a few days 

 ago, two articles with errors I think you will be 

 willing to rectify, 1st. Page 183. Communica- 

 tion by Jaques. I don't know Mr. Jaques, but he 

 should know that Algeria does not belong to the 

 Turks, as he said in his article on Locusts. 

 Before 1829, the Dey of Algeirs was nearly inde- 

 pendent of the Porte, and in 1829 and 1830 

 I France, to avenge an insult to her ambassador 

 j by the Dey, bombarded Algers and put this pi- 

 ' rate sovereign out of his throne, and that is why 

 the system of catching the locusts by trenches is 

 employed. I saw from 1848 to 1851 the Arabs 

 1 (and not the Turks), trying by shouts and loud 

 ! noises round their barley fields to drive away the 

 : locusts, but olten they were not successful. 



2d. Page 184. In the article on Silk Worms. 

 He thinks ridiculous what he read in the book 

 called "Lang's Cyprus," that the women of Cy- 

 prus put the silk worms' eggs round their waists 

 to hatch. Nothing is so true as that assertion ; 

 and it is customary not only in Cyprus, but in 

 Switzerland, Piedmont, Italy and France. I have 

 seen it done by nearly every woman engaged 

 in silk culture every year. If Mr. Jaques de- 

 sires I will give the reasons why, but this will be 

 too long here. 



Horticultural Societies. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



KANSAS STATE HORT. SOCIETY. 



REV. L. J. TEMPLIN. 



This society held its Tenth Semi-annual Meet- 

 ing in Hutchinson, Kansas, during the first three 



days of June. This was the first visit of this so- 

 ciety to the Arkansas valley ; and as the greater 

 part of the members reside in the eastern part 

 of the State, it was a new experience for them to 

 find themselves so far out on the "Great Ameri- 

 can Desert." The news had gone out that our 



