1879. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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EiiRENBERG. — This distinguished botanist, 

 whose decease occurred on the 28th of June, 

 1876, forms the subject of a memoir, with por- 

 trait, in the Popular Science Monthly, for March. 



Mr. James Taplin. — This gentlemen so 

 long known as superintendent to Mr. Geo. Such, 

 South Ambo}', X. J., has decided to cast his own 

 bread on the waters, and has taken the property 

 advertised in our last magazine. It is remarkable 

 by the way, that scarcely any nursery property 

 advertised for sale or to rent in the Gardener's 

 Monthly, during the twenty years of its exist- 

 ence, failed to find the man that was wanted, 

 and the publisher feels himself a happy medium 

 in consequence. 



Mr. Mansfield Milton. — Our estimable 

 correspondent has purchased an established flor- 

 ist's business, at Youngstown, Ohio, where he 

 will soon personally remove, and attend to it. 

 We are quite sure that the readers of the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, who have so often profited 

 by his intelligent pen, will wish him every 

 success. 



Honors to a Horticulturist. — The Gov- 

 ernment of Belgium, has voted 8,000 francs to 

 the fund for a memorial to the late Louis Yon 

 Houtte, the distinguished nurseryman. 



Kentucky Horticultural Society Pro- 

 ceedings. — From J. Decker, Secretary. This 

 eminently alive society has issued its volume of 

 Proceedings for 1879, which contains numerous 

 essays of special interest to Kentucky Horticul- 

 turists. Mr. Thos. S. Kennedy, of Louisville, is 

 President for the present year. 



Floavers and Ferns of the United 

 States. — Prof. A. E. Foote kindly says in his 

 Naturalists Leisure hour, and Monthly Bulletin : 



" Thomas Meehan's great work on the 'Native 

 Flowers and Ferns of the United States,' is 

 being pushed forward with more vigor than any 

 other botanical work of the present time. The 

 well known reputation of Prof. Meehan, who 

 has just been re-elected Vice-President of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 is a suflicient guarantee of the scientific accuracy 

 of the work. No lovers of ferns or flowers 

 should be without it." We copy in order to 

 say that the series finished, has proved so ac- 

 ceptable to the public, that another series has 

 been prepared, and will appear about mid- 

 summer. 



The Art of Propagation— By J. Jen- 

 kins. — Nurserymen are often at their wits end 

 for time to answer the numerous letters, and 

 questions put to them about propagating com- 

 mon nursery plants. Mr. Jenkins has put all 

 he would say in print, and any one can get it for 

 half a dollar. It is a good idea. 



Flora of the Miama Valley, Ohio— By 

 A. P. Morgan. — We are indebted to some un- 

 known friend for a copy of this little work^ 

 These local catalogues are of very great value 

 to the Editor, and are always thankfully re- 

 ceived. 



Forest Tree Culture on Kansas Prai- 

 ries — By Max G. Kern. — While eminent men 

 are endeavoring to prove that trees are not found 

 on the Western prairies because the chemical 

 constitution of the soil cannot possibly sustain 

 them •, and well meaning persons are showing 

 that trees never will be planted unless Govern- 

 ment, State, or National, creates lots of offices, 

 and pays swarms of office holders more than the 

 trees ever will be worth to raise them ; practi- 

 cal men and public spirited corporations are 

 quietly doing, and doing well the " impossible" 

 thing. On a ride across Kansas last Summer, 

 the writer of this was delighted with the numer- 

 ous shady groves and belts of trees that seemed 

 to have sprung up as if by magic, since his last 

 visit to the State in 1873. This tract by Mr. 

 Kern is not only to show the new settler what 

 has been done, but what may still be accom- 

 plished in regard to kinds not yet tried. Few 

 persons are better fitted to give such advice 

 than Mr. Kern. It will be sent gratuitously to 

 all applicants by Mr. Kern, North Topeka, 

 Kansas. 



How WE Saved the Old Farm — Loring 

 publisher, Boston, Mass. — A very pretty story 

 for boys; indeed even when advanced beyond 

 boyhood years, the reader will by no means be 

 sorry for reading it. Almost every thing sup- 

 posed to have been done in an emergency, could 

 have been actually done, and the influence of 

 such reading on young chai'acters is very good. 



The Season. — A Northern paper, in a kind 

 notice of the Gardener's Monthly, remarks 

 "that its hints are far too early for that North- 

 ern clime," — which is a good fault. To be too 

 early with our hints enables anybody to profit 

 by them when the warm weather comes. They 

 are "too early" here this year. The frost is still 

 in the way of tree digging this end of March. 



