1880. 



AND HORTICULTIRIST. 



877 



Thirteenth Annual Report of Ohio State 

 Horticultural Society.— From Geo. W. Camp- 

 bell. Besides the usual valuable matter, it has a 

 portrait and biography of the late M. B. Bate- 

 bam. 



Mr. Samuel L. Boardman.— This gentleman, 

 well known for ao many years as editor of the 

 Maine Farmer, and more recently of the Ameri- 

 can Cultivator, will now edit the Home Farm, of 

 Augusta, Maine. 



B. F. Johnstone. — This esteemed gentleman 

 well known as the editor of the Michigan Farmer 

 was found dead in his bed by the side of his wife 

 on the 25th of October, in his sixtieth year 

 Through the Farmer, he has been a weekly visi. 

 tor to the office of the Gardener's Monthly for 

 over twenty years, and always a welcome one* 

 He was born in England, making Albany, N. Y.' 

 his early home, and removed to Detroit, in 1850. 



The London Journal of Horticulture. — 

 Since its establishment, this able magazine has 

 gone through several changes of form, and al- 

 ways with improvement. It has again advanced, 

 and again improved, not only in appearance, but 

 in interest. It is a first-class magazine. 



The Southern Enterprise. — J. S. Newman, 

 editor and publisher, Atlanta, Ga., has been 

 changed from a folio to an octavo form. It is 

 an excellent agricultural magazine and deserves 

 every success. 



The Charace.* of America. — By Dr. Timothy 

 F. Allen. Published in parts by S. E. Cassino, 

 Boston, Mass. The Characeee. comprise plants 

 which are often seen in aquariums, and must 

 have attracted the attention of many who have 



observed the weeds which exist in water on the 

 beds of rivers and ponds. There are many 

 classes of these weeds, but few more curious 

 than those which cluster around the genus Chora. 

 Some of them are so colorless and transparent 

 that the fluids can be seen circulating under 

 microscopes of comparatively low power, and 

 hence they have been favorites with those desir- 

 ous of knowing something of the wonderful 

 workings of the inner life of plants. This work 

 of Dr. Allen's gives colored illustrations and 

 descriptions of these curious plants, which will 

 tend to make the public better acquainted with 

 them, and it will be as well a boon to the botan- 

 ist, for our manuals of botany in general use tell 

 us little about them. The manner of treatment 

 is much as in "Eaton's Ferns," and as the size is 

 the same, it will be an excellent companion to 

 that useful and beautiful work. Parts 1 and 2 

 are now before us— all, we suppose, that has 

 been so fjir issued ; but we hope it will have a 

 patronage that will warrant its completion. The 

 work commences without any preface, introduc- 

 tion or advertisement, and aflfords no clue to 

 how far it is to go. or where it will probably end. 

 There are three plates and three chapters in first 

 part, and two plates and three chapters— one 

 without a plate in the third, the reason for the 

 omission, aa there are "explanations of plate" 

 given, not being very apparent. 



Dairy Farming.— By J. P. Shelden. New 

 York, Cassel, Petter & Galpin, Part 16. This 

 number pays particular attention to American 

 Dairying, giving as a frontispiece a map of the 

 United States with those parts marked in colors 

 that are most favorable to dairy work. 



Horticultural Societies. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



BY CHAS. CRUCKNELL, ST. IX)UI8, MO. 



The Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society 

 held its first annual exhibition in the large hall 

 of the Merchants' Exchange, this city, on Sep- 

 tember 7th, 8th and 9th. The display of fruit 

 was large and fine, and came from two hundred 

 exhibitors representing nineteen States, with a 

 grand total of something orer 8,000 plates. The 



apple collection is said to have been the finest 

 ever shown in this country. A novel feature of 

 the fair was " Pomona's Pillar," a half-size fac- 

 simil" of the obelisk recently brought to New 

 York : its pointed crest towering up forty-five feet 

 from the floor, almost touching the frescoed 

 ceiling, and covered from base to apex on all 

 sides with apples of the Ben Davis variety. 

 Something over thirty barrels of apples were 

 used in building it. Down the southern fiice of 

 the pillar in bas-relief read the letters M. V. H. 

 S.; the work wa.-^ well done and proved a big 



