1876.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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indeed a continuous student, and to the day of 

 his death was always in the van of progress. 

 Mrs. Hull was also an excellent botanist and 

 entomologist, and had a general love for all that 

 was intelligent. A day spent at their beautiful 

 home, along the Illinois river, some years ago, is so 

 pleasantly seated in the writer's memory, that it 

 forces itself into notice in this paragraph, lament- 

 ing their deaths. 



R. Buist's Catalogue. — With a remarkably 

 full list of plants, Mr. Buist makes the an- 

 nouncement that this will be the last he ys\\\ 

 issue. The next will be that covering the sale by 

 auction, in June, 1876, when the whole of this 

 famous establishment will be finally closed out. 



Botanical Bulletin. — Mr. John M. Coulter, a 

 well-known botanist, has commenced the publi- 

 cation of a small monthly serial under this name. 

 It is only $1 a year, and single numbers 10 cents. 

 Address Dr. John M. Coulter, Hanover, Indiana. 



The American Naturalist. — The Peabody In- 

 stitute, of Salem, Mass., has made over this pub- 

 lication to O. H. Houghton & Co., of Boston, by 

 whom it will be published as heretofore. Price, 

 $4 per annum. 



The American Agriculturist. — This well- 

 kno-mi agricultural monthly is now entering its 

 thirty-fifth year, and with all the evidences of its 

 old time prosperity. Prof. Thurber, the chief 

 editor, is so well known for his many intelligent 

 accomplishments, that this alone is sufficient to 

 account for the prosperity of the Agnculturist. 



The Scientific Monthly. — This is a new mag- 

 azme, devoted to the natural sciences, and pub- 

 lished and edited by E. N. Fitch, of Toledo, Ohio. 

 Price, $3 a year. It is a healthy sign that there 

 is room for intelligent magazines of this class. 

 We wish it every success. 



The Annual Register. — We have just re- 

 ceived an advance copy of the Annual Register of 

 Rural Affairs for 1876, published at Albany, N. 

 Y., by Luther Tucker & Son, and mailed to any 

 address for the nominal sum of 30 cents. It is 

 the oldest (and now the only) publication of the 

 kind, and contains 150 pages of practical matter, 

 interesting to every resident in the country, illus- 

 trated with no less than 164 beautiful engravings, 

 almost all original. Elaborate almanac pages 

 are prefixed, and a very useful feature is the 

 Farmer's Register, which gives the addresses of all 

 the reliable dealers in everything a farmer needs 

 to buy — live stock of all kinds, seeds, implements. 



nursery stock, kc. The cover is quite a work of 

 art, and altogether the little book is a gem in 

 its way. J. J. Thomas is the editor. We know 

 of no better almanac for the cultivator of the 

 soil to have ready to hand. 



Gaedening foe Pleasure. By Peter Hender- 

 son. Published by Orange Judd & Co., New 

 York. 



When man first looks to nature, it is for sup- 

 port — what he shall eat and what he must wear 

 are among his first thoughts. This is all in order. 

 It is the condition of animal nature. But the men- 

 tal soon calls him to an upward field. The mere 

 animal knows no difference between the flowers 

 of the field and the blades of grass. All alike are 

 food to him. Man alone sees the beauty and ad- 

 mires it ; and the extent of his culture in this line 

 is the full measure of the distinction between him 

 and the beast. 



Mr. Henderson has worked in a truly natural 

 way. He knows man must first have the mate- 

 rial, and he gave us "Gardening for Profit." 

 Having learned folks, how to make the money, 

 he now proceeds to show them how to spend it 

 in a rational way, and " Gardening for Pleasure " 

 comes regularly in its place. It is a good idea, 

 and the work is welcome. 



Mr. H. tells us all about preparing ground for 

 gardens — drainage, making walks and roads, of 

 manures and fertilizers for making things grow. 

 Then there are designs for gardens, and full 

 instructions for planting, propagating and pot- 

 ting. Window gardening has a share of atten- 

 tion, with notes on baskets, plant cases, green- 

 houses, conservatories. Graperies, fruits and 

 vegetables, and all adjuncts to a good garden, have 

 a fair share of attention. 



The work is just such an one as should follow 

 " Gardening for Profit." It is not a treatise on 

 the higher branches of gardening. There is little 

 in it in common with such good things as Scott's 

 Suburban Home Grounds, or Downing and Sar- 

 gent's Landscape Gardening; but it places a link 

 in between the high and the low, and it is a link 

 much wanted, and will, we think, be highly ap- 

 preciated by the gardening public. 



QUERIES. 



Gladiolus. — The Pronunciation . — A correspond- 

 ent writes : — "Vick accents the first syllable ; Web- 

 ster, the second; and those not favored with the 

 perusal of either, the third. Among those wha 



