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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[Apriiv 



Dr. John E. Ennis, Clinton, Iowa ; J. S. Stick- 

 ney, Wauwatosa, Wis. ; Edgar Sanders, Chicago, 

 111.; L. K. Scofield, Freeport, 111. ; A. R. Whitney, 

 Franklin Grove, 111.; D. Wilmot Scott, Galena, 

 111. ; Lewis Ellsworth, Naperville, 111., Committee 

 of arrangements. 



Horticultural Department of the Centen- 

 nial. — At the last meeting of the Advisory Com- 

 mittee on Horticulture, there were present : 

 John J. Smith, Chairman, W. L. Shaffer, Thomas 

 Meehan, J. G. Mitchell, Robert Buist, S. B. Par- 

 sons, Secretary. 



It was advised. That the signs expressing the 

 location of each out-door contributor be in the 

 form of a shield twelve inches wide and fifteen 

 inches high ; that they be uniform in shape, and 

 placed with the bottom of the shield not exceed- 

 ing two inches above the ground. 



Tliat there be issued a special catalogue of 

 horticultural articles exhibited. 



That the Horticultural Societies and individ- 

 uals, throughout the United States be requested 

 to offer medals for special exhibitions of plants 

 and cut flowers. 



That the judges on horticulture be composed 

 of men well known as experts ; and who are not 

 exhibitors. 



That the Centeiniial Commission be requested 

 to appoint a committee of men skilled in the 

 nomenclature of plants, to name plants which arc 

 new and unknown. 



That the plants of contriljutors be kept in 

 order by tlie commission at the request of the 

 contributors who so desire it. 



It was especially recommended to the Centen- 

 nial Commission to set apart a room for the use 

 of the Chief of the Bureau of Horticulture, and 

 the Advisory Committee, and for the reception 

 of Horticulturists from the different parts of 

 the world. 



That a special recommendation be sent to the 

 Horticultural periodicals of the world to have 

 their issues placed on the tables of the Horticul- 

 tural Rooms. 



We believe the recommendations have been 

 endorsed by the Cliief Commissioners. 



Admission to the Centennial. — It has been 

 decided to charge fifty cents for admission to the 

 Centennial, and each person must be provided 

 with an exact fifty cent note, so as to save time 

 in making change, or counting of fractional 

 parts. 



Hotel Rates at the Centennial. — To avoid all 

 misunderstanding as to the probability of in- 

 crease in the rates during the Centennial, the 

 " Continental," the leading hotel, charging $5 per 

 day for its best rooms, as other leading hotels in 

 the country do, has announced that under no 

 circumstances will this rate be advanced. The 

 $2 and $3 hotels have made similar announce- 

 ments. 



England and the Centennial. — A London 

 paper tells us : " In the lists of exhibitions an- 

 nounced for 1876, the International gathering at 

 Philadelphia is necessarily the most imj^ortant. 

 It should prove the most powerful and brilliant 

 demonstration of its class hitherto accomplished, 

 for it has the advantage of new ground and of 

 enormous and long-considered preparations. It 

 is well for international exhibitions in general 

 that our American cousins have taken the mat- 

 ter in hand, for they will break through Euro- 

 pean traditions, bring new ideas, on what at 

 least to us, is new soil, to an undertaking char- 

 acterized by new features, and will promote their 

 great work with an energy all their own, un- 

 trammelled by the conventionalities of courts 

 and coteries. The strong temptation the exhi- 

 liition holds out to the more adventurous spirits 

 of the old country will take many of the British 

 westward in the coming summer, although, so 

 far as we can judge up to the present time, there 

 is greater interest felt in the undertaking on the 

 Continent than in this country." 



Fruits at the Centennial. — A space five hun- 

 dred and twenty-five feet long, and one hundred 

 feet wide, will be devoted to a continuous exhibi- 

 tion of fruit, so that any one at any time may 

 send anything they have. The opening day will 

 be May the 10th, and it is exj^ected that tropical 

 fruit will then be at once on the tables. Certain 

 l>eriods will be set apart for distinctive exhibi- 

 tions. July 1st will be devoted to a special dis- 

 play of Southern fruits, and September 11th will 

 be given up to the American Pomological Soci- 

 ety. The Bureau of Agriculture, of which Mr^ 

 Burnett Landreth is Chairman, has made ar- 

 rangements for providing 10,000 dishes to ex- 

 hibitors, should that number be necessary. The 

 Bureau will also furnish table room, all free of 

 charge. Premiums will only be ofiei^d by 

 individuals or societies. Of fruits, so far, pre- 

 miums have only been arranged for apples, but 

 it is hoped others will come in. 



