1876.] 



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llTERATURE, ^IRAVELS & PERSONAL #OTES 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Acknowledgments. — The letters of apprecia- 

 tion of the Magazine, and the kind notices of our 

 newspaper contemporaries are so numerous, that 

 we have to return our thanks in one general 

 acknowledgment. While, however, conscious 

 that some of the success of the Magazine has 

 been owing to the efforts of the Editor and the 

 Publisher, we cannot forget how much is really due 

 to the numerous correspondents who have helped 

 us through so many years. The whole of this 

 mass of information has been the free will offer- 

 ing of friends of the Magazine. Occasionally we 

 have well studied and carefully elaborated papers 

 offered for sale, well worth all that is asked for 

 them, — but we have to confine ourselves, in view 

 of our limited space, to the short newsy class of 

 matter, which enables us to touch upon a vast 

 variety of topics that go to make up general 

 gardening. 



A Wedding in Iowa. — The "Editor of the 

 Gardener's Monthly " was made happy by the re- 

 ceipt of an invitation card to attend the marriage 

 ceremony between Miss Jennie Wright and Mr. 

 Alex. E. PattoD, of Ennis & Patton, of Lyons, 

 Iowa, on December 27th. It was pleasant to be 

 thus kindly remembered, and though it is twelve 

 hundred miles away, we advise our good friends 

 not to tempt us in that manner too often, or we 

 may be there one of these times. We represent so 

 many who esteem the firm of which Mr. Patton 

 is a member, that as "Editor," we feel that in a 

 Bort of representative capacity we can ofler a 

 host of congratulations at this new evidence of 

 happiness and prosperity. 



Where plants can be purchased. — We often 

 have inquiries as to where the plants noticed in 

 our columns are to be obtained. This is a mat- 

 ter that wholly concerns our advertising columns, 

 and out of place in this de^Dartment. As a gen- 

 eral rule, however, the leading firms who adver- 

 tise in our columns either have the plants or can 

 obtain them ; and a line to them will generally 

 get the needed articles. Sometimes the plants 

 are only as yet in England ; but most of these 



firms have European connections, and if an 

 order is given, shovild they not have them on 

 hand, they will get them if a little time be given. 

 For instance, we have some inquiries now where 

 things can be had referred to in our January No. 

 Turning to the advertising pages of that number, 

 we see that rare flowers and trees are dealt in by 

 Parsons, Ellwanger & Barry, Saunders, Meehan, 

 Miller & Hayes, E. M. Wood, H. A. Dreer, Sked, 

 Paddock & Co., John Saul, and Geo. Such. These 

 especially mention neiv plants. There are others 

 who do not specially mention them, and the list 

 may be increased by looking over past numbers. 

 In this way almost anything noticed in our col- 

 umns can be obtained. 



Latin names for garden varieties. — The Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle says, "As a general principle we 

 should prefer that Latin names should not be 

 given to artificial productions ; " this is the 

 ground we have taken. 



Pottsville, Pa. — A correspondent tells us that 

 on December 9th, the thermometer was 44° in 

 the shade at Pottsville. This is pretty mild for 

 a mountain climate, this city being 900 feet 

 higher than Philadelphia. Gardening is slowly 

 progressing in that great coal centre, though 

 just now suffering somewhat, as it is in all other 

 parts of the country. 



Low PRICE OF American nursery stock. — The 

 celebrated nurseries of Luccombe, Pince & Co., 

 of Exeter, England, have recently been sold at 

 public sale. The apple trees are regarded as 

 having been sold low, — at an average price of 75 

 shillings a hundred. People often have an idea 

 that trees are much higher in American nurseries 

 than in English ones, — but our nurserymen 

 would think themselves in "clover" if they 

 could get an average price of $20 per hundred at 

 a public sale. 



Responsibility of Seedsmen. — At a meet- 

 ing of the Seed Trade, held at the Astor 

 House, in the City of New York, on the 6th 

 day of January inst., at which were represent- 

 ed the principal houses of New York, Boston, 

 Philadelphia and Albany, the subject of the lia- 

 bility of Seedsmen for damage by failure of crops 



