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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[September, 



a sprig of Lemon Verbena will ever again drink 

 it without.' " 



Visitors to Kew Gardens. — On August 2nd, 

 1875, 61,133 persons visited Kew gardens. It was 

 the highest number for any day in the year. 

 Gardening must be popular to attract such 

 crowds in England. 



Landscape Gardening. — Mr. F. R. Elliott is 

 engage<l on a hand-book, similar in character to 

 his recent hand-book for fruit growers. 



Exchanges of Seeds and Plants. — Amateurs 

 often have seeds and plants of their own raising 

 that they would like to exchange with others 

 similarly situated. Organizations for this pur- 

 pose materially assist the idea. A valued cor- 

 respondent, Mr. Theo. Shuster, of Brooklyn, tells 

 us that there is one in Ohio in very successful 

 operation. 



Colored Plates. — Mr. John Saul sends us a 

 colored plate of the Duchess of Edinburgh Rose, 

 of which we recently gave a wood-cut in our 

 pages, and Mr. A. Rolker & Sons, of New York, 

 one of Rose, Duchesse de Vallambrosa. This is 

 a Balmon color shading to a blush, and if the 

 flower comes out in this country just as repre- 

 sented here, is rather novel in tint. It appears to 

 be a Hybrid Perpetual. 



The Florist and Pomologist. — Edited by Mr. 

 Moore, and published at the office of the London 

 Journal of Horticulture, has a beautiful colored 

 plate of our Hale's Early Peach ; a variety 

 first brought to notice in our columns, and 



which seems to have given a .good account 

 of itself in Europe. There is also a similar kind 

 figured under the name of Early* Victoria. It 

 has also a colored plate of a buff rhododendron, 

 Prince Leopold. It is one of Vietch's hybrids. 

 The magazine always has excellent colored plates 

 of fruits and flowers, and is remarkably cheap 

 at 12 shillings a year. 



QUERIES. 



Corrections in the article on Curves. — 

 Mr. Olmsted writes : " In the article entitled 

 ' Curves,' in the August number of the Gardener's 

 Monthly, some errors have crept in which, if cor- 

 rected, would make my meaning more evident. 

 Page 228, 1st column, for 'suspended the former 

 style,' read 'superseded,' &c.; for 'hardly admira- 

 ble ' read ' hardly admissible ' ; for 'practical eye ' 

 read ' practiced eye.' On page 229, 1st column, 

 second paragraph, for 'when most convenient' 

 read ' tchere most convenient.' Same column, 

 last paragraph, for A B— 80, B C— 120, etc., read 

 A B=80, B C=120, &c. And in second column, 

 for a— 22.4— 16— 1.4 feet, read a=22.4 divided 

 by 16=1.4 feet. 



" In my quotation from Ruskin in the article 

 entitled ' Curves,' in the August number of the 

 Monthly, I am made to say 'there is no more 

 flatness in the natural world than there is in 

 vacancy.' What I meant to quote, and what 

 Ruskin wrote, is ' there is no more flatness in 

 the natural world than there is vacancy.' " 



ORTICULTURAL f|)OCIETIES. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY B. 



The exhibitions held on each Saturdaj' in Jan- 

 uary have been very interesting, as all the im- 

 promptu exhibitions are, owing partly to the 

 discussions which take place at the same time. 

 The subject of the first discussion, January 10th, 



was the Native Grape, the essayist being W. N 

 Barnett, of West Haven, Ct. The discussion 

 was continued the following Saturdaj', and was 

 long and animated. On the 22d of January 

 E. S. Rand, Jr. made some interesting remarks 

 on the orchids exhibited by him. January 29th 

 W. H. Halliday read a paper on the growing of 

 plants in Wardian cases, and that subject and 

 the forcing of lilacs was discussed by various 

 members of the Society. Tlie principal plants 



