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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{February ^ 



peach trade, the dimensions of which so astonish 

 Europeans. His orchards were a wonderful suc- 

 cess. The trees with good care and manage- 

 ment continue to bear year after year, and many 

 of the trunks are of great size ; and he loved 

 nothing more in his pleasant friendly way than 

 to urge them on the editor of this magazine as 

 an illustration of the benefits of clean surface 

 culture, of which he was a warm advocate. He 

 will be greatly missed within a very large circle. 



Mr. Alfred Bridgeman. — This gentleman 

 is president of the Newburg Bay Horticultural 

 Society, which has prospered under his manage- 

 ment. 



A Generous Frenchwoman. — Madame 

 Henri Thuret has, at the price of two millions of 

 francs, or four hundred thousand dollars, lately 

 bought the garden of her deceased brother-in-law, 

 in Antibes, on the coast of the Mediterranean, 

 near Toulon, in France. It is one of the richest 

 and finest gardens in Europe. She made a present 

 of it to the French nation. It is now a national 

 -school of botany and horticulture, and a garden 

 for " experimentation and acclimatisation." 



This establishment is open for anybody who 

 • takes an interest in either botany or gardening 

 and what is more, anybody known as such, or pro- 

 perly recommended as such by known men, gets 

 -free lodging in the villa. Xo distinction is made 

 between natives and foreigners ; " there are no 

 nationalities in the republic of science and horti- 

 culture." 



Hon. Morton McMichael.— The Fairmount 

 Park Commission, one of tlie most intelligent 

 and honorable bodies connected witli the gov- 

 ernment of Philadelphia, has met a severe loss 



Jn the death of Morton McMichael, who was one 

 of the most active members of the board. He 

 Avas buried on the 9th of January with full hon- 

 ors from the fellow citizens ho had so faithfully 

 served during a long life. At a meeting subse- 

 quently his contemporaries told what they each 

 knew of his good works ; and in regard to the 

 Park Commission, the Hon. Eli K. Price said : 



"You know from his reports how deeply Mr. 

 McMichael was interested in the Park. He was 

 greatly distressed to find how narrow had been 

 its width along the Wissahickon, leaving the 

 upper hill-sides subject to be stripped of their 

 trees and the stream to be polluted by drainage. 

 Within a brief period, on his invitation, we 



"visited that scene. I now repeat his anxiety 



upon this subject, in the hope that it may sink 

 deeper in our minds,in association with a memory 

 made sacred by the good he has done, by our 

 love for him, and by his lamented death. He 

 would have preferred this being done to having 

 a monument in the Park. This is a small mat- 

 ter compared with the greater he had been 

 engaged in, but it was that of all public concerns 

 nearest his heart when he entered his chamber 

 to die." 



Outside of Philadelphia he will also be missed. 

 In a letter from Hon. M. P. Wilder, of Boston, 

 we have the following, which, though from a 

 private note, we hope he will pardon us for ex- 

 tracting : 



" Our orator laurate is gone I McMichael ; a 

 man that will ever be cherished in the memo- 

 ries of all who knew him with tender afi"ection 

 and profound respect. Xo name in the galaxy 

 of American eloquence shines more brillianth' 

 than his. It has been my good fortune to have 

 had him for a friend for more than thirty years. 

 Twice has he been my guest on public occasions 

 in this city within that period, and on both occa- 

 sions our Boston people were electrified with his 

 surpassing eloquence. As a journalist, orator, 

 and Christian gentleman, we shall look in vain 

 for his superior." 



An Address on Forestry. — By Dr. John 

 A. Warder. This was given before the Otoe 

 County, ^sTebraska Horticultural Society on the 

 twelfth of September, last year. It is full of 

 practical matter pertaining to Western tree 

 planting, and should be widely distributed. The 

 day is gone when the belief prevailed that trees 

 would not grow on the Western plains or prairies. 

 We now can see that no department of culture 

 is so likely to be permanently profitable as on 

 these lands that our elders thought would not 

 grow trees at all. 



The Parks and Gardens of Paris.— By 

 Wm. Robinson. London, McMillan & Co. 

 Second edition, from Porter & Coates, Philadel. 

 phia. 



Some years ago Mr. Robinson, the well known 

 editor of the London Garden, wrote a series of 

 letters from Paris to the London Times, in refer- 

 ence to the horticultural peculiarities of that 

 great continental city, and out of these letters 

 the idea of this book grew. The parks and gar. 

 dens of Paris have distinctive features which have 

 made them famous over the wide world. Xo 

 stranger visits them without wishing there w^ere 



