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given 80 long as the building should be used for 

 school purposes. The new public school has of 

 course rendered the little old school unnecessary. 

 The school building stood too near the road to 

 preserve. The filling in of the valley and widen- 

 ing required for city purposes, made its preser- 

 vation impossible. Still we have no doubt if 

 those who love the memory of Wilson had indi- 

 cated any desire for its preservation, it could 

 have been easily moved back. It is a misfortune 

 that the world only comes to a knowledge of its 

 true benefactors so long after they are gone. If 

 anything remains of them then it is treasured ; 

 but too often all material traces are lost before 

 the time of recognition comes. 



[While on the subject we may note that few 

 men did more for intelligent horticulture in 

 America than did Bernard McMahon in his day. 

 His house was a rendezvous for Pursh, Lyon, 

 Nuttall, and many whose names stand boldly 

 out in history. That also is now in the line of a 

 city street, and will no doubt soon have to go. — 

 Ed. G. M.] 



Introduction of the Potato in Salt Lake 

 City. — In the Contributor, a monthly magazine 

 published at Salt Lake City, there is an extremely 

 interesting account of the first settlement of 

 Salt Lake City under Brigham Young, by Wil- 

 ford Woodruff, one of the few of the original 

 party now living. The date is fixed as July 24th, 

 1847, it being the day that Brigham Young with 

 the main body came in. A small party had gone 

 in advance, and in Mr. Woodrufi"'s own words : 

 " When we arrived on the ground, the brethren 

 had commenced ploughing. I had brought a 

 bushel of potatoes with me, and I resolved that 

 I would neither eat nor drink until I had planted 

 them. I got them into the ground by one o'clock, 

 and these, with the potatoes the other brethren 

 had planted, became the foundation for the 

 future potato crops of Utah." Further on Mr. 

 Woodruff says : " When we arrived in this valley 

 we found it a barren desert, and a very desert it 

 was. There was no mark of the white man. 

 We found a few naked Indians, who would eat a 

 pint of roasted crickets for their dinner. But a 

 great change has come over this desert." 



And, indeed, the difference in thirty years is 

 one of the most surprising in the history of the 

 human race. There are different opinions as to 

 the advantage to the human race of the religious 

 system which this little band planted in this 

 desert; but there can be but one opinion as to 



the right of the survivors to take pride in the 

 magical change their eyes have seen. 



Origin of the Noisette Rose. — An American 

 correspondent of the Belgian Horticultural Re- 

 view, Mr. Jonathan Evans, writes to the editor an 

 account of the origin of the Noisette Rose, which 

 we may translate from the French as follows : 

 "The Noisette Rose is a daughter of America. 

 She was born one day in the garden of a brave 

 citizen of Charleston, South Carolina, Mr. John 

 Champney. It was obtained by fertilizing a 

 Musk Rose, Rosa Moschata, by pollen from the 

 China or Bengal Rose. Botanists called the new 

 creation Rosa Moschata hybrida, and Rosa 

 champneyana indifferently. But after awhile 

 the name was superseded by that of Rosa 

 Noisettiana in this way : At Charleston there 

 lived a gardener named Philip Noisette, who was 

 of French origin. This man fertilized one of 

 Champney's hybrids, Champney's Pink Cluster, 

 and getting from it another variety sent it in 

 1814 to Louis Freres, of Paris. The Rose became 

 rapidly famous, and the name of Noisette re- 

 placed the first name of Champney, for the new 

 race. It is just as it was when Americus Ves- 

 pucius was given the honors due to Christopher 

 Columbus in the naming of the great continent. 

 The flowers of the Noisette are highly fragrant ; 

 they are numerous, double, and charm by the 

 variety and delicacy of their colors. The fol- 

 lowing varieties, esteemed in America, are 

 worthy the attention of Europeans : Beauty of 

 Greenmount (1854), Isabella Gray (1854), Dr. 

 Kane (1856), America (1859), Woodland Mar- 

 garet (1859), Cinderella (1859), Russulda (1860). 

 The Noisette Rose has one delect, the flower 

 fades rapidly; but then what would we have if 

 we had a choice ? lam tempted to repeat the 

 pretty verses of Th. Gautier, the French poet, 

 which give pleasure even to a Yankee like me : 



"Th ; world is formed strangely I The weak is the stroug ! 



Like shades in a dream, 'tis the vision allures, — 

 'Tis sorrow, not pleasure, that stays with us long; 



The Rose lives an hour, but the Cypress endures." 



Botany for High Schools and Colleges ; by 

 Charles E. Bessey, Professor of Botany in the 

 Agricultural College of Iowa. New York: Pub- 

 lished by Henry Holt & Co. 



The progress of Botany during the past quarter 

 of a century has been wonderful. In the early 

 part of the present century the science had a 

 fascination through the labors of Linnaeus and 

 his co-adjutors, and the romances of such writers 

 as the first Darwin, — but very little was really 



