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stability of hi.s disposition, even at this early age, 

 led him to sacrifice his prospects here, and he 

 suddenly took liis leave, and we liud him soon 

 after workinfr with a relative at Walnut Hills 

 near Cincinnatti, as a market gardener, ooing 

 liiniself with the garden products to Cincinnatti 

 market. How long he remained here we do not 

 know, but probably but a year or so, for in 184.3 

 \v6 find him at Cleveland, assisting in editing the 

 Cleveland Herald, a paper then struggling with 

 about 1000 copies into its present high position 

 amoni; tlie daily press. Our next special knowl- 

 edixe of him was in St. Louis as one of the editors 

 of the Democrat of that city, from whence a j'ear 

 or two afterwards he wandered to Washington 

 where his pencil Avas employed by the agricul- 

 tural department of the Patent office, and some 

 of the most beautiful representations of American 

 fruits that have ever appeared in government 

 publications were the work of his hands. But 

 his restless disposition drove him back to Cleve- 

 liind, generally with some employment on the 

 Herald wliich generously aided him in many an 

 emergency. To the great public he was well 

 known for many years as the Secretar}' of the 

 American Pomologieal Society, till his growing 

 social infirmities compelled a change. His use- 

 fulness lies buried from this time. He has injured 

 many by the weaknesses of his later life, but 

 even with tliis great weioht against him it may 

 be that the world owes him some balance for his 

 having lived in it. At least we will leave this 

 decision with his maker. We only wish to do 

 him what Justice may be fairly his. 



Mr. .John T. Lovett. — This gentleman form- 

 erly connected with the nurseries of Asher Hance 

 & Sons, of Red Bank, N. J., has taken an interest 

 in the firm of E. P. Roe, Cornwall on the 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



Instructive Catalogues. — It is wonderful 

 what an immense amount of intelligent infor- 

 mation is distributed in catalogues now, over 

 what was to be found in them a quarter of a cen- 

 tury ago. This has particularly struck us in 

 looking over the catalogue made by Mr. Grieves 

 Secretary of the Greenbrook and Paterson nur- 

 series of Xew Jersey. It is a complete dictionaiy 

 of gardening as far as the plants of common 

 cultivation are concerned. As a sample we take 

 the following about a well known and curious 

 plant : 



"Sarracenia, named in honor of Dr. Sarrasin, a 

 French physician. These are curious and inter- 



esting plants, known as the side saddle-flower. 

 They inhabit the bogs of this country. The 

 leaves of all kinds are singularly formed inta 

 pitchers, which are lined inside with hairs, whose 

 functions are but imperfectly understood. They 

 grow well in pots partly filled with rough peat 

 soil and the rest sphagnum moss, in a moder- 

 ately cool, moist atmosphere. Natives of North 

 America." 



Notes on the Aphid^ of the United 

 States, by Chas. V.Rilev and J. Monell — 

 Published by the Department of the Interior. In 

 this valuable contribution Prof. Riley makes 

 known for the first time that the eggs of some^of 

 the gall making peniphigin;e, the section ofaphi- 

 dian insects to which the pliylloxera is closely 

 related, are deposited in the Fall in crevices of 

 the bark, and not in the earth on the roots, and 

 this ma}^ lead to intelligent study of modes of 

 destruction. Of aphides and their close rela- 

 tion, the treatise is chiefly the work of Mr. 

 Joseph Monell, a name new to science. Mr. 

 Monell is a young man of St. Louis, generously 

 educated by Mr. Henry Shaw, whose numerous 

 good works, in connection with St. Louis, is now 

 almost world-wide, and who we are quite sure 

 could wish no better return for his good work 

 than the prospect of life long usefulness as ex- 

 hiliited by his young protege in so admirable a 

 scientific treatise as this. It will be news to 

 most of our readers that there are thirty-eight 

 different species of aphis, including near allies 

 described in this treatise. No doubt most per- 

 sons who have been troubled with these misera- 

 ble plant lice ever stop to consider that their 

 "brothers and sisters and cousins and aunts " in 

 species made a huge list amongst themselves. 

 It must have taken a great deal of patience and 

 judicial power over scattering facts to have worked 

 out the life histories of so many of these minute 

 insects ; and Mr. Monell will need no better in- 

 ducement to keep on with his very useful studies 

 than the praise he will certainly receive from 

 all, who interested in plant lice, profit bj' what 

 he has already done. 



I Nineteenth Report or the Park Com- 

 3IISSI0N, Baltimore, Md. — The parks are sup- 



j ported mainly by a tax on the passenger rail 

 road companies. This source of income yielded 

 .■$85,575.13 last j'-ear. The popularity of the 

 park is attested by the figures 286,041 vehicles 

 drove through Druid Hill Park, 23,995 came in 

 on horseback, 140,035 came in on passenger cars 



