128 J^ditorial JVotices. 



the best ; second, if your land is heavy and wet, then we would select May and June ; 

 for ourselves we plant most of ours in the latter month. The many failures in the 

 planting of evergreens does not depend so much on the time in which it is done, as 

 the manner in which it is performed, for it is no unusual thing to see a tree three to 

 four feeet high, have its roots (that have been dried by the wind and scorched by the 

 sun), stuck into a hole not larger or deeper than a gentleman's dress hat, whereas it 

 ought to have a hole provided for its roots from three to four feet wide. There is 

 another practice among planters, that is, in planting everything too deep in the 

 ground. Old mother nature never gives herself up to such follies as we see perpe- 

 trated by men, who are deemed sensible in other matters; our advice, therefore, is, 

 to keep the roots. near the surface, or not deeper than they stood in the nursery rows 

 or their native wilds. — Avi. Farmer. 



Editorial Notices. 



llnnilsotiKi Cafnloyue. 



Washburn & Co. have issued a very handsome Catalogue this year. The engraved 

 title page, and the colored plate of iiowcrs, inside, are in excellent taste. The plate 

 is much the best issued, this year, from any eastern seed house. 



Hone Fertilizers. 



We may be pardoned for referring to this topic. We have used Lister's Bofie Meal 

 and other fertilizers for six years, and will 7ioi use any other. We not only believe 

 them to be the purest of any in the market, but the firm are of such acknowledged 

 reliability and honesty in transactions that they deserve wider publicity. To gardeners 

 and fruit growers, who have to use the various preparations of bone for their trees and 

 vines, we can recommend cheerfully the above firm. 



Ifiihlicntiotis Ititcelved. 



California, by Marshall P. Wilder — Mr. Wilder's Lecture republished by request. 



0. S. VVildey — Woodward & Co., Madison, Wis. — Catalogue Fruit and Ornamen- 

 tal Trees. 



Storrs, Harrison & Co., Painesville, 0. — Wholesale Trade List; Spring Catalogue 

 of New Plants. 



Dick RadclyflPe & Co., London, England — Spring Catalogue Seeds. 



D. C. Benton, Quincy, 111.— Wholesale Price List, 1873. 



J. W. Adams, Springfield, Mass. — Trade List Nursery Stock. 



L. D. Payne, Kasota, Minn. — Circular of Paper Berry Baskets. 



Miller & Hayes, Germantown, Pa. — Rose Catalogue; Catalogue of Plants, 1873. 



P. J. Berkmans, Augusta, Ga. — Catalogue of Plants, 1873. 



Robert Veitch,.New Haven, Ct. — Catalogue of Bedding Plants, 1873. 



Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y. — Select List New Rose Trees ; Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Plants ; Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits ; Wholesale Nursery Cata- 

 logue. 



Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. — Rose Catalogue. 



Transactions Nebraska State Horticultural Society, 1871. 



John Saul, Washington, D. C. — Catalogue of New Plants, 1873. 



Wra. F. Porter, Warren 0. — Catalogue of New and Rare Plants, 1873. 



H. Cannell's Illustrated Floral Guide, Woolwich, England. 



Jj. G. Henderson & Son, London, England — Catalogue Seeds. 



Nicholas Cole, Pella, Iowa — Seed Grower's Catalogue. 



Beach, Son & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.— The Flower Garden. 



D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit. Mich. — Catalogue of Seeds. 



Olin Bros., Newark, N. J. — Floricultural Gardens. 



J. Cochrane, Havana, Ills. — Catalogue of Plants. 



Washburn & Co., Boston, Mass. — Amateur Cultivator's Guide, 1873. 



