1876.] 



AND HORTIGULTUEIST. 



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attention ; and we are quite sure that horticultu- 

 rists especially, who value this department of 

 gtudy, will welcome this serial conducted, as it is, 

 by one of their number, and one who is so widely 

 known and respected as Mr. Waring is. 



The Boston Cultivator. — In a recent issue we 

 find the following : 



" The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, an 

 excellent jovu-nal, in giving the condensation of 

 an article of ours, credits it thus indefinitely — 

 'A Boston paper gives the following,' etc. There 

 are several papers published in Boston ; hence it 

 might not be easy for the reader to determine 

 "which one was referred to." 



We did not know this was an original contri- 

 bution to the columns of our good neighbor, or 

 fihould certainly have given it credit. We sup- 

 posed it to be made up from some Boston daily. 

 The moral obligation to "credit" is confined to 



" exchange " ethics we believe, — though it is 

 our custom to credit for information, even if we 

 pay for it the full subscription price. 



Farmer's Home Journal. — Mr. W. Duncan, 

 well known in past times as a contributor to the 

 Garden, Gardener's Chronicle, and Gardener's 

 Monthly, — and who, for some time past, has been 

 editing the Farmer's Home Journal of Louisville, 

 is now part proprietor as well as editor of this 

 excellent weekly agricultural paper. 



Reveu de L'Horticulture Belge. — This new 

 Belgian venture, which we have before noticed, 

 appears to have been quite successful. The first 

 number of the second volume, now before us, 

 starts with a beautiful colored plate of some 

 new Chrysanthemums. Those of our readers who 

 understand French, and love flowers, will find it 

 a good thing to subscribe to. It is published at 

 Ghent, for one franc a number. 



WoRTICULTURAL ^OCIETIES. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



SOUTH-EASTERN KANSAS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



BY H. E. VAN DEMAN. 



Although this society was organized one year 

 ago it has not yet been reported to the readers of 

 the Monthly. 



We are not asleep in this corner of the vine- 

 yard, but in our weakness and ignorance are 

 Btriving to cultivate the field lying in this corner 

 of Kansas. Indeed we think that we have a very 

 fruitful field too. 



On the 26th and 27th of January, 1876, there 

 was a meeting of this Society, at Chanute, Neos- 

 ho Co. It was its first annual meeting. The 

 exercises consisted of reports of the oflScers and 

 standing committees ; reading and discussion of 

 essays; adoption of fruit list for the district, and 

 election of oflficers, together with other and 

 smaller matters. 



Any one who undertakes the organization of 

 such a society, except the people are first 

 thoroughly awake to its need, will find it an up- 

 hill business. Great credit ia due Mr. D. B. 



Skeeles, of Galesburg, and Capt. G. W. Ashby, 

 of Chenute, in particular for their untiring ener- 

 gy in carrying this nurseling Society through its 

 early life. These gentlemen have acted as Presi- 

 dent and Secretary with energy and patience. 



President Gale and Secretary Braskett of the 

 State Horticultural Society, have lent their aid 

 also, and now we hope to proceed to active life- 

 work. After an essay by Capt. Ashby upon 

 Flower Culture, there was some discussion 

 which resulted in making plain the fact that 

 tender flowers may be protected at once by plant- 

 ing hemp or castor beans, or both. To the set- 

 tler upon the prairie, this is a matter of necessity 

 if he or she would grow flowers where not a tree 

 or a bush stands to oppose the sweep of the 

 winds. What we need is a protection or wind- 

 break available the first year, and until some- 

 thing more substantial can be grown: One of 

 the best exercises of the meeting was a lecture 

 or black-board talk, by Prof. Knox, of Baker 

 University, on the Elementary Principles of Veg- 

 etable Growth. Plain, practical, easily under- 

 stood lessons, like this one, are the kind that 

 take root in the mind. 



Dr. Bailey, of Chanute, offered a resolution 

 declaring "That fruit culture in Kansas had 



