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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



{March, 



and 392,471 walked in. We believe the passen- 

 ger cars pay one cent a head for every passenger 

 carried over the city roads. We see by this that 

 they receive $8,402 for carrying the passengers 

 at 6 cents per head to Druid Hill Park alone ; 

 so that if the street car companies of Baltimore 

 are under one organization they can well afford 

 to pay the tax ; and it is a matter of surprise 

 that other cities do not take some similar man- 

 ner of making those who reap the great profit, 

 bear a proportional part of the public burthens. 



Guides for Science Teaching — By Pro- 

 fessor Geo. L. Goodale. Published by the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, Xo. 2, "concern- 

 ing a few common plants," two small tracts. 

 We do not know whether these works are dis- 

 tributed freely by the society, but if not the two 

 cannot cost over a quarter of a dollar. It would 

 be difficult to give anything more valuable in 

 so small a compass. Every teacher including 

 parents, will find these "guides" just what is 

 needed to interest children in the science of 

 common things. 



Proceedings of the Montgomery Co., 0., 

 Horticultural Society for 1878.— From E. 

 E. Barney, Dayton, Ohio. A volume of eighty 

 pages, and will probably compare even with the 

 very popular transactions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society in the variety and richness 

 of its contents. Ohioans may well delight in 

 this model society. 



Report of the Pennsylvania Fruit 

 Growers' Society. — President Hoopes and 

 Secretary Engle have cause to be proud of the 

 production of a volume like tliis. It is probably 

 unique in beauty and value among any of the 

 kind published, and this too in spite of the fact 

 that this society has perhaps less income than 

 any similar society in the United States. The 

 fruit plates are exqusitely drawn and engraved. 

 One of the blemishes is in a paper contributed 

 by Mr. Chas. H. Miller, landscape gardener to 



Fairmount Park. lie contributed two papers 

 on landscape gardening, one illustrated by two 

 plans — one showing an unimproved farm garden, 

 the other how it might be beautified by landscape 

 gardening at a small cost. The text for the lat- 

 ter has been left out, and the plates put in with 

 the chapter having no connection with them ; the 

 paper will probably re-appear and the error cor- 

 rected next year. One dollar sent to the treas- 

 urer, Geo. B. Thomas, West Chester, Pa., con- 

 stitutes a person a member of the society for 

 one year ; but these proceedings, part of the 

 member's free privileges, are surely worth this 

 sum alone. 



Proceedings of the Worcester Co., 

 Mass., Horticultural Society, for 1878. — 

 From E. W. Lincoln, secretary. This always 

 comes welcomed to our tables because it is always 

 full of information and valuable suggestions ap- 

 propriate to all the country as well as to a small 

 county in Mass. In this for instance, we see 

 mooted an idea we have often urged on our readers, 

 that the present system of competition by 

 schedule, useful in the past is an absurdity, and 

 should be abandoned for the plan of competition 

 with itself. An article by Smith should not have 

 a premium because it is better than Brown's, but 

 because it is better than average specimens of its 

 own kind. In this society under the old ' 'schedule 

 system," the secretary says "two. or three ladies, 

 usually the same throughout the season, monopo- 

 lise our premiums for flowers arranged." Of 

 course judging on the intrinsic merits of articles 

 exhibited will require a higher order of judges 

 than is now sufficient to test the comparison 

 between two exhibitor's collections, but it must 

 come to this before these meetings become popu- 

 lar with exhibitors. 



The Royal Horticultural Society of 

 London. — This distinguished body has honored 

 Col. M. P. Wilder by electing him a correspond- 

 ent ; an honor we need not say very worthily be- 

 stowed. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



are sometimes gotten up, is "a caution " to those 

 who are strong for reform in artistic taste and 

 Taste at Horticultural Exhibitions.— beauty. Oftentimes the hall in which the ex. 

 The manner in which horticultural exhibitions hibition is held is filth}' and in various ways dis- 



