252 J^wral M)ies. 



I<'rui1 Crops. 



The prospects for fruit growers this year are very discouraging. Grapes are very 

 generally killed in Ohio; blackberries in the p]astern States. The strawberries here 

 were dried up by the drought, and prices hardly averaged ten to twelve cents per 

 quart. Pears were badly cut by late frosts. Mr. Bateham writes from Ohio: "Our 

 apples and pears will be a very short crop, as well as the smaller fruits generally. I 

 have never seen so poor prospects for fruit growers." 



IS.ssays. 



Among the Essays prepared and to be read at the September meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, are the following : 



Hon. W''. C. Flagg, Illinois, on Diseased Apple Trees, and their Cause. 



Wm. Saunders, Esq., District Columbia, on Theory and Practice of Pruning. 



Thomas Meehan, Esq., Pennsylvania, on Fungi on Fruit, and Fruit Diseases, as 

 Cause, Result, or Concomitants of one another. 



P. J. Berckmans, Esq., Greorgia, on Cause, Remedy, or Preventative of Pear 

 Blight. 



In addition to the above, the following named gentlemen have been invited, and 

 are expected to prepare short, condensed practical essays, or papers, as follows: 



Prof. Louis Agassiz, of Harvard University, Massachusetts, on the Geological Age 

 of Fruit-bearing Plants. 



Dr. John. Strcntzel, California, on the Cultivation of the Fig in the United States. 



Dr. E. S. Hull, Illinois, on Root Pruning, and how to grow the fairest fruit. 



Mark Miller, Esq., Iowa, on Fruit Growing, and Varieties, in Iowa and other 

 Western States. 



George W. Campbell, Esq., Ohio, on Grapes, Culture, Varieties, etc. 



C. M. Hovey, Esq., Massachusetts, on Pear Culture. 



P. Barry, Esq., New York, on How to Grow and Keep Pear Trees in vigor and 

 shape. 



Robert Manning, Esq., Massachusetts. Is there a permanent decline in the Apple 

 Tree and its Crop in New England ? 



P. T. Quinn, Esq., New Jersey, on the Exhaustion of Fruit Trees, and the reme- 

 dies therefor. 



Josiah Hoopes, Esq., Pennsylvania, on the Influence of the Stock on the Graft, or 

 of the Graft on the Stock. 



A. S. Fuller, Esq., New Jersey, on Culture and Varieties of Small Fruits. 



Wm. Parry, Esq., New Jersey, on the Cultivation and Varieties of the Apricot 

 and Plum. 



W. C. Barry, Esq., New York, on the Keeping and Ripening of the Apple, Pear 

 and Grape. 



F. R. Elliott, Ohio, on the Cherry. 



Floral Notes. 



IVituUnv l<'loivers. 



It is much to be regretted that window flowers are not so often seen as they once 

 were. It cannot be that the taste for beauty is declining. It is rather that the 

 arrangements of modern housekeeping make flowers in the way of convenience. Yet 

 why not make windows to suit ? The demands of modern society are all well in 

 their way, but surely they need not be so imperatively exclusive as to banish all 

 floral adornments from our tasteful houses. 



The introduction of heaters had some influence in driving away flowers from our 

 sitting rooms, but coal as gas light has been a worse enemy, yet these can easily be 

 kept in place. Bay windows now often have an inside enclosure of glass — making a 

 kind of cabinet, as it were, and in this the plants grow to perfection. But this 



