1885.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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sists in the numerous indices, tables, and lists of 

 cross references. Plants yielding herbage, plants 

 yielding culinary roots, cereals, pulse, esculent 

 fruits, avenue trees, dye-plants, hedge-plants, and 

 numerous others are all indexed by themselves. 

 Indices of common names, and botanical names, 

 and systematic indices of botanical names for 

 those who are so inclined. 



As a work of reference, few intelligent cultiva- 

 tors can afford to be without it, while we suppose 

 as a matter of course it will find a place in every 

 American public library. 



How TO Prop.\gate and Grow Fruit. — This 

 is a small and very useful pamphlet, issued by 

 Mr. Chas. A. Green, editor of the Fruit Grower. 



State Board of Horticulture of California, 

 Annual Report for 1883. From A. H. Webb, 

 San Francisco, Secretary. 



Although this body is incorporated as a Board 

 of Horticulture, we judge from the report that it 

 has nothing to do with horticulture in its accepted 

 sense, but aims at the development of commercial 

 fruit growing. This is rather a branch of agricul- 

 ture than of horticulture. Horticulture deals with 

 the garden — agriculture with the farm, and a fruit 

 farm is not a fruit garden. The fruit farm excludes 

 everything that we can properly understand by a 

 garden— /ior/ai — while horticulture takes the 

 garden in as its main idea, making fruit culture a 

 part only, though an important part of its opera- 

 tions. The confusion of terms does a great injury 

 to the cause of real horticulture. 



In its proper field — Pomology — this report will 

 be found of great value to fruit growers on the 

 Pacific slope. Insects and diseases receive par- 

 ticular attention. We are especially interested in 

 noting how our brethren are battling with the 

 codhn moth, and it will be worth noting in the 

 future how far the heroic efforts to stamp out the 

 enemy are rewarded by permanent success. Mr. 

 De Long here tells about their trials. They nearly 

 exhausted the fruit crop one season in the effort to 

 destroy the insect. In one night they killed 1579 

 moths. During the season they killed 11,926 

 moths. Bands were placed around trees, and 

 thousands of the larvae destroyed, of which no ac- 

 count was kept. Somehow, all this destruction 

 made little difference to the injury done to the 

 crop. In 4018 boxes of apples only 1500 baskets 

 were got out good. In the language of the 

 report " it is found almost impossible to cope 

 with the insect." In an apple house, after apples 

 had been pretty well selected, moths would 



continue to come out all the season. They were 

 killed by entering with a lamp each day, and the 

 number killed recorded. They commenced^to 

 kill on April 15; by May 15 they had 86 dead. 

 From this time there was an increase daily. For 

 instance. May 19, 32 ; May 25, 133 ; May 28, 194 ; 

 June 2, 275 ; June 4, 308 ; June 7, 517. From this 

 time out there is a decrease, though slowly, for on 

 June 15 there were 436, and on June 26, 425, and 

 on July 2, a sudden jump to 492, when the decrease 

 became very rapid ; July 8, fell below the hun- 

 dred, being but 57 ; August 3, only 7 are recorded, 

 and the last ones caught were on August 12, when 

 there were 3. 



The continued efforts at destruction must, how- 

 ever, tell in the long run. Lamps set in tins filled 

 with water seems a good plan for orchard work ; 

 attracted by the light they tumble in the water 

 and drown. 



The report is one of the most useful that has 

 come to our table for a long while. 



Palmer's Monthly. — This is a new venture 

 from Kansas City, and is to be "devoted to the in- 

 terests of nurserymen and planters, and kindred 

 affairs." It is of similar style and character to 

 Green's Fruit Grower, of Rochester, and should 

 have a good field in the West. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Reminiscence of A. J. Downing. — Mr. T. S. 

 Gold, West Cornwall, Conn., notes : " Your re- 

 marks upon the work of A. J. Downing in the inte- 

 rests of landscape gardening, in the February 

 number, called out by the recent death of his 

 brother, Charles Downing, call to mind an occur- 

 rence many years ago. I spent the winter of 1 841-2 

 in Waterbury, and was confined to my room for a 

 few days by illness. Dr. Leavenworth called one 

 day just after dinner, and would not remove his " 

 overcoat, as he designed to stay but a short time. 

 He took up ' Downing's Landscape Gardening,' 

 then just published, and did not lay it down till the 

 shades of evening rendered it too dark to read. 

 There was a charm about this book that no lover 

 of rural life could resist. You truly say, ' he had 

 the essential enthusiasm that was catching, to all 

 who came into contact with him.' " 



Honorable Names to Plants. — "J. H. S." 

 says : " In reading your remarks on Panax Vic- 

 toriae, and our English cousins naming new plants 

 in honor of their nobility or royalty, 1 thought in 

 this the English have a decided advantage over 



