186 JiJditorial JVotes. 



to be mentioned in print. These statements are sufficient to show to the public the 

 rapid change in his reputation. The following extract is from Hearth and Home: 



" The statement of the Secretary, in his foot note, in the first place, is false, 

 and in the second place, it is a piece of impertinence for the Secretary to give his 

 opinion in an official report. In common with others of the press, we felt indignant 

 at this insult, smuggled into an official report, and consulted with other officers about 

 it. At the nest meeting proper action will be taken. 



" So far as the press of New York is concerned — meaning those, of course, giving 

 especial attention to agriculture and horticulture — no communication, "o^cea^" or 

 otherwise, from the present Secretary, is admitted. 



" It remains for the Society to decide if an individual, wlio has placed himself in 

 such an attitude towards the press, can any longer be useful as one of its officers." 



On the same topic, the Rural ISeiv Yorker of May 17th, holds that the course of 

 the Secretary is both false and injudicious, and, because so, insulting to the very class 

 of men upon whom the American Pomological Society, through its Secretary and 

 otherwise, has made large drafts for favors ; and who have always treated the Society 

 with the greatest hospitality and cordiality, and adds : 



" If it is the desire of the Secretary to alienate this class of men from, and close 

 the columns of their papers to the American Pomological Society, he has gone the 

 right way to work to do it, when he inserts such a libel upon them in the Society's 

 official report, and assumes the responsibility thereof as Secretary of the Society." 



The Western Rural also says as follows : "If the American Pomological Society 

 really want to recover their lost prestige, they must come down from their stilts, and 

 commence anew, and not set themselves up as the embodiment of all the horticultu- 

 ral knowledge in the United States. They must not suppose that kindred societies 

 and the horticultural journals will revolve around them as mere satellites, drawing 

 their light from the great central luminary. 



" If the Society feel inclined to have a Secretary from still nearer the setting sun, 

 than the one they now have, the Western Rural can cordially indorse Mr. Flagg 

 for that position. He is a gentleman of good scholastic and literary ability, and, as 

 Secretary of the Illinois Horticultural Society, his reports showed close application, 

 and an appreciation of the true interests of the Society and the horticulturists of the 

 West. 



As we conclude this subject, which is distasteful to us — to say the least — we have 

 only to add, that the conductors of our journals throw out, every week, articles writ- 

 ten from these very men of one year''s experieiice, referred to above, because we do 

 not believe their trash. We constantly seek for reliable truth and practical experi- 

 ence ; and each journal does more for the encouragement of correct ideas, and prac- 

 tical application of them, in horticulture, in a single year, than a turbulent Secretary 

 can do in a lifetime. 



A. Country Cottat/e. 



The illustration, sketched in our frontispiece this month, affords a design of a sim- 

 ple and inexpensive cottage, which may be used for any country family, or may be 

 adapted to serve the purposes of a gardener's cottage. The plan explains itself: No. 

 1 is the hall ; 2, kitchen ; 3, pantry ; 4, sitting room ; 5, closet ; 6, woodhouse, or 

 washroom ; 7, porch or lobby. The main rooms, Nos. 2 and 4, may be 15 feet square. 



In the 2d story, there are rooms over 2 and 4, of same size, or the floor over No. 

 4 may be divided into two apartments, and still be of fair width and length. The L 

 over the kitchen, being of lower roof, will afford space for one room of mJbderate 

 height and accommodations. 



The cost is from ^1,200 to $1,800, according to expensiveness of building in local- 

 ity where erected. In the average of country places $1,500 will be sufficient. 



The White Water T^llij. 



Flower lovers might grow this lily very easily if they will follow these directions of 

 a correspondent of The Garde/ier^s Monthly : 



