1879. 



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known beyond his own immediate circle of ac- 

 quaintance. It is a great pity that so many are 

 not of liis discerning taste in such matters ; if 

 they were the love of rural life would greatly 

 increase among us, much to the benefit, both 

 physical and mental, of those who, as he did, 

 have to lead a life of excitement and energetic 

 application to business in our crowded cities. 

 The recreation and relief from care which Cedar- 

 Mere and Cummington afforded him no doubt 

 prolonged his life and enabled him to sustain 

 his remarkable physical and mental vigor." 



Mr. .T. T. Lovett. — This gentleman , formerly 

 with Messrs. Asher Hance & Sons, has entered 

 business on his own account at Little Silver, 

 Monmouth Co., !N'ew York. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Collecting Orchids. — We are in receipt 

 of numerous letters from persons who want em- 

 ployment in collecting Orchids in Brazil, and in 

 South America, or who have brought collections 

 and wonder where to sell them. With our in- 

 creasing close relations with these countries, we 

 suppose there will soon be enough for all 

 demands. 



The Fuchsia Illustrations. — Mr. Grieves 

 says: "I regret to say that the Printer has 

 made me say the reverse of what I intended. 

 Instead of Cannel's Lucy Finnis being as your 

 figure (1), it is as figure (3), as figure 3, repre- 

 sents a fac simile from his cut. While figure 

 (2) represents the natural size of the (type) 

 cut figure (1), which is a fac simile of the former 

 cut in Gardener's Monthly." 



[It is but justice to say that the error did not 

 occur at the printing office. The figures were 

 placed on to accord with the MSS.— Ed. G. M.] 



Letter from Washington Territory. — 

 Mrs. Fanny E. Briggs, writes: "There is an 



error in my last letter in the Gardener's- 

 Monthly, which I should be very glad to see 

 corrected. It is on page 121. What I wrote- 

 was this : ' Who is it that sings of a clime, 



' Where simply to feel that we breath, that we live, 

 Is worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give.' 



I think I may have written the words ' that 

 we live ' above the remainder of the line to save 

 space, and that this was the cause of the mis- 

 take. If you will kindly correct this time, I 

 will be more cautious in future." 



[The error came about, as our correspondent 

 supposes, from her own interlineation. The 

 compositor was excusable this time, though he 

 is often guilty of innumerable sins. — Ed. G. M.] 



"A Department of 'Notes and Queries'^ 

 is good, why not also open a 'Department of 

 Exchanges' whereby I can exchange the seed 

 of yucca filamentosa for Dahlia bulbs with 

 some one having a surplus of the latter ? I 

 hear a regular newspaper is chiefly sustained in 

 England, on Exchanges. If the ' Barbarians' 

 cut our Park Hemlock for Easter greens the 

 gentleman had better duplicate his gift of 10,000 

 evergreens so as to have enough to spare." 



[In the first place we have no room in a- 

 small monthly magazine for such a department ;, 

 and secondly, we are not sure of the propriety 

 of compelling thousands of persons to read 

 what might perchance interest but a few score. 

 We have now a place for ''Queries ;" but we 

 may give this space on the principle that the 

 question with the answer may possibly interest 

 the majority of readers. Exchanges would only 

 be for individual benefit, and should properly 

 be found in the Advertising Department. The 

 individual who wishes to exchange Yucca fila- 

 mentosa seed for Dahlia roots, seems to us on 

 precisely the same footing as one who wishes 

 I to exchange a sugar maple for a dollar ; that is- 

 ' to say, he should advertise. — Ed. G. M.] 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



'President, Jesse W. Bell; Treasurer, W. 

 j Robinson ; Secretary, T. V. Munson ; Exec- 

 NoRTH Texas Pomological Society roRjutive Board, H. Tone, G. Alkire, Z. P. Stone- 

 1879-80.— Officers : President, H. Tone ; Vice- 1 man, C. C. Burns, J. W. Bell. 



