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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[February y 



Sons, publishei'S of the Conutri/ Gentleman. This 

 is the twenty-fifth yearly issue ; pi'ice tliirty 

 cents, and well worth all it costs. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



A Swindle. — A Vermont correspondent 

 writes: "A German, giving his name as Clias. 

 Beauleu, from Erfurt, Germany, has defrauded 

 several florists in Xew Hampshire and Vermont 

 by representing to have In-ought with him from 

 Germany new double yellow petunias, yellow 

 verbenas, and several other new varieties of 

 plants, and states that Perry & Donovan, of South 

 Framingham, Mass., are storing and caring for 

 them for him until they are sold. He does not 



care to sell very large amounts to any one party, 

 and when he can collect one-half cash, the bal- 

 ance to be collected on delivery, the plants of 

 course are never sent. Messrs. Perry & Dono- 

 van state that they have received several orders 

 from him to be sent to florists, and they liave 

 tried to have him arrested, but he has so far kept 

 clear from them. This rascal should be shown 

 up ; and I send the above statement to you that 

 you can publish what part of it you think 

 proper." 



[Anyone who pays in advance a total stran<>er 

 " half cash," or any cash, deserves to lose it all. 

 A list of "ninnies " of this kind would be in- 

 teresting for publication. We feel quite sure 

 not one of them would be found a reader of this 

 magazine, and this is the reason we think the 

 " showing up " of these aggravations of little 

 practical use in our columns. — Ed. G. M.] 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Germantown Horticulturai, Society. — 

 A special meeting of this Society will be held 

 on the evening of the 13th February, at 8 o'clock, 

 when the late President Mr. John Jay Smith, 

 Avill renew the premium heretofore offered for 

 raising mushrooms commercially, and will con- 

 clude the evening by reading one of Lever's most 

 amusing stories. 



St. Louis Floral and Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — It is hard to understand why "Floral" 

 should have to be added to Horticultural Society, 

 as the last involves the first, but we have a hand- 

 some schedule before us with a large list of ladies 

 and gentlemen who are members thereof; show- 

 ing horticulture to be a living thing about this 

 beautiful city. 



Indiana Hokticultural Society. — The 

 Indiana Horticultural Society held its 18th ses- 

 sion at Danville, commencing December 17th and 



held three days. It was by far the most inter- 

 esting meeting ever held. Representatives and 

 delegates from Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, and 

 Iowa, were in attendance, besides the home at- 

 tendance. The next meeting is to be held in 

 Dublin, Ind. 



American Pomological Society. — It is 

 well to remember that the biennial meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society is to be held 

 this year at Nashville, Tenn., and it is time 

 Southern horticulturists especially are working 

 up the fact. Some few Southern horticulturists 

 have scarcely ever failed to attend the meetings 

 of the society wherever they have been held, 

 but the great bulk of those who have sustained 

 the society have been Northern and Western 

 men. Two recent meetings have been held in 

 the South — Baltimore and Richmond It costs 

 heavily for the great bulk to go so far away 

 from home, and Nashville this year is still 

 farther away. But we are quite sure the South^ 

 ern people, in both pleasure and information^ 

 will make it attractive to a larse attendance. 



