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THE GARDENER'S MONTUL Y 



[April, 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The American Pomological Society.— 

 We have before us a note from Mr. Berckmans, 

 and other Southern friends of the American Po- 

 mological Society, expressing their opinions that 

 in view of the fact that two successive meetings 

 of the society have been held in the Southern 

 States, and for other reasons, they would be per- 

 fectly willing to see some Northern location sub- 

 stituted for the one named at the last meeting. 

 If there is to be a change why not have it in Bos- 

 ton ? It would be a graceful compliment to Presi- 

 dent Wilder, who has done so much to make the 

 society the very useful body it is conceded to be. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 

 Mr. James Cruickshanks. — We are pleased to 

 note that this society which Mr. Cruickshanks 

 did so much to honor, gratefully passed the fol- 

 lowing resolutions so well due to his memor}' : 

 Boston, February ?>rd 1879. 

 To the family of the late James Cruickshanks. 



At the meeting of the society held Saturday, 

 February 1st 1879, the following preamble and 

 resolutions were unanimously passed. 



Whereas, It has pleased the All-wise disposer 

 of events to remove from us by death our fellow 

 member James Cruickshanks, therefore, 



Resolved, That we thereby sustain a loss which 

 will be long and deeply felt. His great love of 

 horticultural pursuits, his long experience and 

 his sterling integrity gave weight and value to 

 his counsel. Constant and faithful in all his duties, 

 genial, social and sympathetic in his nature, his 

 presence was always a source of pleasure to us, 

 and we shall cherish his memory in full sympa- 

 thy with his family in their bereavement. 



Resolved, That these resolutions be entered 

 on our records, and that the secretary be directed 

 to send a copy to the family of the deceased. 



Mr. Manning the secretary of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, in transmitting the reso- 

 lutions to the family of the deceased thus gives 

 expressions to his feelings of regard : 



"I must avail myself of the opportunity to say 

 a word, though to those of his family who know 

 me it may be unnecessary, expressive of my 

 personal regard for Mr. Cruickshanks. 



"There was no member of the society whom I 

 greeted with more pleasure, none more trusted 

 by every one in the society, and we shall long 

 remember and miss his stalwart presence and 

 his hearty grasp of the hand." 



At our request Mr. George Cruickshanks 

 kindly furnishes the following brief notes of his 

 father's work. 



"My father was born in the town of Dunce, 

 Berwickshire, Scotland, September 1st, 1800, fol- 

 lowed the profession of his father, that of a gar- 

 dener ; he learned with his father while gardener 

 at Lethington castle, Scotland, where his father 

 died about 1830, after twenty-four years service. 

 He filled places in the east of Scotland as head 

 gardener, and that of superintendent of Light 

 Hill cemetery, Glasgow. In the Spring of 1842 

 he arrived in New York, engaged to go to Hart- 

 ford, Conn, with his wife and six children. I 

 saw him in the Fall of the same year. Moved 

 to the vicinity of Boston in the Spring of 1845. 

 After filling the situation of gardener, he ac- 

 cepted the position of superintendent of Wood- 

 lawn cemetery in 1850, Chelsea and Maiden, 

 near Boston, which position he filled for nearly 

 thirteen years ; when he resigned in 1863 to 

 begin the practice of landscape gardener and 

 horticultural engineer, at which he had all he 

 could attend to while he was able. He left an 

 aged widow, two sons and two daughters, and a 

 numerous circle of friends to mourn his loss. 



"Of the family there were three sons and three 

 daughters, of which I am the oldest of the four 

 left, a brother in Kenosha, Wis., a minister, one 

 sister married to an artist in Chelsea, and one 

 sister living at home and unmarried." 



We have given more than our usual space to 

 these notices, because few worked so hard and 

 really did so much as Mr. Cruickshanks to make 

 the working practical gardener respected by 

 those who employed him. 



