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should travel the same way. A great advantage 

 to the Society on this occasion is that the whole 

 will be fresh to the reader. In former years the 

 matter had mostly found publication before the 

 Tolume appeared. 



Mr. Flagg has had a great deal to do in getting 

 together the matter for the volume. The bulk 

 of oversight of the printing has fallen on Mr. P. 

 Barry, who thus earns an additional claim to the 

 consideration in which he is already held by 

 American horticulturists. The volume is free to 

 members, and four dollars sent to Mr. P. 

 James, Cambridge, Mass., renders one eligible to 

 membership. 



Indiana Horticultural Society. — Transac- 

 tions for 1875. From W. H. Ragan, Secretary. 



We do not know that we have ever been more 

 pleased with any "annual address" than that of 

 President Gilbert, as reported here. In speak- 

 ing of the objects of the Society, he refers to 

 its duty in furnishing the fruit growers of In- 

 diana with reliable lists of fruits, and in the 

 " broader field of inculcating a love of the beau- 

 ^ tiful in nature, landscape gardening, arboricul- 

 ture, and floriculture, not forgetting vegetable 

 gardening, and all that pertains to the kitchen 

 and dining-room." It is eminently practical in 

 going into the details of the horticulture of pub- 

 lic buildings and grounds, where above all in a 

 country like this we should expect to see good 

 gardening. It is strange reading. The Blind 

 Asylum at Indianapolis is " surrounded by de- 

 lightful grounds, fountains, beautiful shade-trees, 

 green lawns, beautiful flower-beds, and well-kept 

 walks, while the Normal School at Terre Haute 

 has no trees, no grass, no flowers — a bleak, bar- 

 ren place, with a tumble-down fence." The 

 same queer anomalies prevail through the 

 whole report. 



It is to be regretted that " delegates " to other 

 societies should do no more than hand in as 

 "their" reports, clippings from the local columns 

 of the daily papers where the meetings are held. 

 The reporters of these papers know nothing of 

 horticulture, and are very often young men, 

 ignorant of short-hand, and who can but just 

 manage to write down the first part of a sen- 

 tence, and omit the last part for want ot time 

 before getting at the next. Every speaker knows 

 the horrible work these gentlemen make. They 

 do the best they can, and we are all thankful, 

 but we expect delegates who undertake reporting 

 to do better, and not laxily take newspaper 



reporters' work and palm it off" as their own. 

 Here we have a delegate reporting that " Mr. 

 Meehan said a hop vine growing over a pear 

 tree would keep pears from cracking," in his re- 

 marks at Chicago. This was perfectly excusable 

 on the part of the young man who reported for 

 the Chicago Tribune, and it received at the time 

 the compliment of a good laugh ; but it is a very 

 absurd statement for one who heard Mr. 

 Meehan's remarks, to make in a report to the 

 Indiana Horticultural Society. 



Neunzehuter Jahres-Bericht des Garten- 

 haw-Vereins FliR Bremen. 1875. (Nineteenth 

 annual report of the Society of Horticulture of 

 Bremen, 1875.) Pamphlet form just received, 

 containing, besides the annual reports of the 

 officers, many useful articles on greenhouse and 

 hot-house plants. Illustrated. 



CoL. Wilder. — It must be gratifying to this dis- 

 tinguished gentleman to receive in his old days 

 so many testimonials of regard for his services to 

 his fellow-men — services which have already 

 extended far beyond an ordinary life time. But 

 a few weeks ago, the New England Historic and 

 Genealogical Society, of which Mr. Wilder is 

 President, had his portrait, painted by Marchant, 

 presented to it, which was acknowledged in the 

 following complimentary resolutions : 



Resolved, That our cordial thanks be presented 

 to Mr. Edward D. Marchant, of Philadelphia, for 

 the original portrait of Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, 

 recently executed by his hand, and generously 

 presented by him to be placed in the gallery of 

 this society. 



Resolved, That we cherish this gift both as a 

 memorial of our President, whose long years of 

 valuable service have placed us under lasting 

 obligations, and likewise as an exhibition of the 

 extraordinary power of the artist, whose genius 

 has transferred to the canvas, with marvellous 

 life-like expression, the features of one whom we 

 respect, venerate and love. 



Resolved, That these resolutions, with the note 

 announcing the gift, be placed upon the records 

 of the society, and that a copy of the resolutions 

 be forwarded to Mr. Marchant, at Philadelphia. 



Then a few days since the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society have presented to him a large 

 picture representing the grand opening of the 

 United States Agricultural Society in 1855. A 

 Boston paper says : 



" The scene represented by the artist is the 

 opening of the exhibition. The grand cavalcade 



