1880. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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In our last issue we expressed the intention of 



reverting again to the decease of our friend ; 

 but the immense influence whicli Mr. Buist has 

 had in the great progress of American Horticul- 

 ture demands no ordinary tribute ; at least more j 

 than a hasty magazine paragraph will give the I 

 opportunity to do, and we have therefore thought I 

 best to defer yet a little while what we desire to 

 say of him. 



A Garden in New Brunswick. — Tt is the sea- 

 son of roses at Fredericton, and this year the 

 crop appears to be very fine. In this respect the 

 garden of Mr. Alfred Ray is probably unequalled. 

 Indeed, his rose garden is a garden of itself It 

 contains two thousand rose trees, and on Thurs- 

 day last there were thousands of roses in bloom, 

 of the finest kinds, presenting a most remark- 

 able sight, and one which could not be sur- 

 passed in any climate. Mr. Ray has the grounds 

 formerly owned by the late Judge Wilmot. The 

 Judge kept them in beautiful condition, but 

 Mr. Ray has enlarged and otherwise improved 

 them. He has cut down a good deal of the 

 shrubbery, and has devoted more space to 

 blooming flowers. His tropical garden, which is 

 protected by a fine grove of pines, is very hand- 

 some ; palms, tree ferns, and equatorial grasses 

 are tastefully dispersed through it ; tempting 

 looking orange trees laden with oranges are 

 placed in attractive positions, handsome aloes 

 abound, and altogether this portion of his 

 grounds is a scene of rare beauty. Fredericton 

 is to be congratulated on having a gentleman of 

 Mr. Ray's taste within her bounds. 



Mahlon Moon. — Among the deaths of the past 

 month we are sorry to note that of Mahlon 

 Moon, nurseryman of Morrisville, near Phila- 

 delphia. Mahlon Moon was a member of the 

 Society of Friends, and always had a warm love 

 for plants and flowers and general rural life. 

 The nursery business was an outgrowth of this 

 love, and his establishment became quite famous 

 for rare plants. Advanced in life, he had the 

 satisfaction of seeing his tastes worthily in- 

 herited by his son, and has not labored much in 

 business recently. He fell dead instantly while 

 taking a quiet walk on the piazza of his dwelling 

 house. 



D. Waldo Lincoln. — We notice by a brief line 

 in an exchange that among those recently de- 

 ceased is D. W. Lincoln, Esq., of Worcester. 

 Mass., well-known as an eminent patron of hor- 

 ticulture in times past. He was, we believe, the 



next after Mr. Caleb Cope to undertake the cul- 

 ture of the Victoria Lily in this country, J. Fiske 

 Allen, of Salem, being the third. 



M. B. Bateham. — As we are sending our mat- 

 ter to press we have news of the death of Mr. 

 Bateham, on the 5th of August, in his sixty- 

 seventh year. Although born in England he 

 was educated in America, and started in early 

 life as a seedsman, and with a great fondness for 

 literary pursuits. The earliest acquaintance of 

 the writer with Mr. Bateham was as editor of the 

 Ohio Cultivator, and he can bear testimony to 

 effective zeal with which he devoted his pen to 

 the service of agriculture and pomology during 

 the past thirty years. 



The American Pomological Society, the Ohio 

 Pomological and Ohio Horticultural Societies 

 had in him an original supporter, if not indeed 

 in many respects an originator. Though tall 

 and well-built, he never appeared to be in robust 

 health, and though he has died comparatively 

 young when we consider the age of many of his 

 associates, the immense amount of useful work 

 he has accomplished is surprising, and he will 

 be long gratefully remembered, especially in 

 Ohio, to the prosperity of which State much of 

 his unselfish work was directed. 



C. C. Langdon. — This gentleman, whose retire- 

 ment from the nursery business in favor of his 

 son, we have recently noted, has been nominated 

 by one of the political parties in Alabama as a 

 candidate for the Alabama House of Repre- 

 sentatives. 



The Paterson Nurseries. — The greenhouses 

 of the Greenbrook and Paterson Nurseries, at 

 Paterson, New Jersej', recently took fire, it is be- 

 lieved, by the act of an incendiarj', and damaged 

 to the extent of $15,000. 



Floral Art in England. — Only recently has 

 an agency for Meehan's Flowers and Ferns been 

 establiehed in London. The agent writes that 

 tlie first two copies purchased were bought for 

 Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. 



A New Work on Botany. — A new work on 

 plants as living things, by Prof. Bessey, of Iowa, 

 is announced as in course of publication. 



Dairy Farming. — By J. R. Sheldon, New York ; 

 Cassel, Petter & Galpin. Part 12, just issued, 

 gives the whole history of cheese-making in 

 England. Perhaps, as a matter of profit, English 

 makers cannot compete with American makers; 

 they have many ways of making choice brands 

 that it will profit our people to know all about. 



