Editorial Notes. ' 



Death of <T, Ktiojc. 



We regret to announce the death of Rev. J. Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., which 

 occurred in Pittsburg, 13th last November. It was only a short time before his death 

 when we met hira, and had several personal chats with him upon horticultural subjects. 

 He seemed an example of perfect health, and the news of his sudden death, by apo- 

 plexy, was startling to all friends and acf|uaintaTices. Perhaps no man has done more 

 for the culture of small fruits in America, than Mr Knox. Well known as the 

 Strawberry King, he fully demonstrated the possibility of attaining extraordinary 

 success in his own grounds, and introduced thousands of vines of strawberries and 

 small fruits in the home gardens of families everywhere. We had met him in Pitts- 

 burg, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, quite frequently the past two years, and since 

 he had given up the care of his grounds, and left them to his successors, R. Gumming 

 & Co., he felt freed from pecuniary cares and anxieties, and more at liberty to travel, 

 and peruse horticultural literature. He had upon his mind the idea of writing a 

 new volume on Small Fruit Culture, better than any now existing, and, undoubtedly, 

 if he had lived, it would have been attempted; but he often said in response to our 

 urgent request to have it published soon : "I can't be in a hurry; when Knox 

 writes, it must be the best.'''' He had done good in many other ways as a clergymau, 

 and leaves behind a name full of honor. 



Tlie Steitdlij I'eac/i. 



S. Miller, of Rluffton, Mo., describes a new peach in the Rural World of October 

 l'2th: " It is evidently a seedling of La Grange, which it much favors, yet is ten 

 days later, larger, and I really think better." 



The Vietina, E.rpositioit. 



The arrangements made and making seem to point to a success greater at Vienna 

 than at the previous Exposition in Paris. Probably no pleasanter journey, next 

 summer, can be taken by an American tourist than to Vienna, for, undoubtedly, 

 there will be a vast amount of material gathered from all parts of the world. 



Special attention has been paid to the horticultural department, and some think it 

 will be the most noteworthy horticultural exhibition ever known in Europe. There 

 are twenty-four groups of plants of all descriptions, arranged both botanically, and also 

 for practical or medicinal uses ; and in the division for greenhouse plants, there are 

 places for new plants by themselves, plants needing high culture, plants of ornamental 

 habit, plants of singular form, alpine plants, climbers, plants for room decorations, 

 window gardens, weeping trees, trees with colored leaves, plants for vases, etc., etc. 

 There is enough at once to bewilder, amuse, and instruct. 



