1885.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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Missouri, settled in Tipton, and commenced busi- 

 ness as gardener, nurseryman, and florist, which 

 he followed with great pride to the day of his 

 death. Mr. Geo. Rosenham was well known 

 throughout Missouri as an upright, honorable 

 man. His death was regarded as a public loss to 

 Tipton, for the whole community seemed to have 

 turned out at the funeral to do honor to his 

 remains." 



Valuable Works for Sale. — The wife of one 

 of our distinguished pomologists, whose income 

 has been seriously impaired since her husband's 

 death, wishes to dispose of a complete set of the 

 Proceedings of the American Pomological Society, 

 for $50. As it is almost impossible to secure a 

 complete set now, this is a rare chance. They 

 are handsomely bound. She has also 14 volumes 

 of the Gardeners' Monthly, from 1869 to 1883, 

 also handsomely bound, which she will sell at the 

 cost of the work, with the binding thrown in — JI28. 

 We will forward to the lady the name of any one 

 disposed to purchase. 



Eucalyptographia Baron Von Mueller is 



making progress with his grand work illustrating 

 all the Eucalyptus or gum trees of Australia. The 

 tenth decade is now before us. This now makes 

 100 species that have been worked up. This 

 completes the main work, though some twenty 

 more will probably have to be added to make the 

 history of Australian gum trees complete. 



Fruit Culture. — By W. C. Strong. Published 

 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 



Mr. Strong's work on Roses, and other literary 

 ventures, have been very well received by the 

 community, and this argues well for this new 

 candidate for public favor. It is a large duo- 

 decimo of 202 pages, and the aim which is very 

 well reached is to give plain practical directions to 

 new beginners in amateur gardening, in advance 

 of what they may require when they get more 

 experience. 



Microscopical Bulletin. — Published monthly 

 by J. W. Queen & Co., Philadelphia. 



One of the most remarkable experiences in 

 literature is that of scientific magazines. A love of 

 science permeates the whole community, but very 

 few scientific serials do more than pay the printer, 

 and the majority die young. The cause is not 

 difficult to understand by those used to serial 

 work. There is a huge want, but people do not 

 get what they want. The reader desires to keep 

 up with all that is really new in science, but the 



editors are either too lazy to work to get these 

 news, or so filled with hero-worship, that nothing 

 to them is new unless it comes to them under the 

 shadow of a great name. One can get a better 

 knowledge of what is really new in science from 

 the daily or weekly newspapers, than from some 

 of the most pretentious of scientific magazines. 



In microscopy there is a wide field. The mi- 

 croscope introduces us to a world fully as densely 

 populated as the unaided eye can see. It is full 

 of wonders hard to be realized by those who have 

 never had a glimpse thereof. We know of no 

 microscopical magazine that properly places 

 before the community a tithe of what a live 

 magazine could do. 



This little affair is little more than an adver- 

 tising circular, though full of excellent items that 

 render it fully worth the trifling price charged for 

 it. We have made the comments above in the 

 hope of inducing the excellent house it represents 

 to go further into the matter than it can possibly 

 do here, and give us a magazine that would be 

 worthy of the subject, and which they could well 

 do if so disposed. 



SCRAPS AND QUERIES. 



Correction of Note on Persimmon. — W. R. 

 Gerard writes: "After sending my note on the 

 word Persimmon (p. 152, Gardeners' Monthly), 

 I asked the Editor to change one of the sentences. 

 Not having a copy of the MS. before me 

 when I wrote, I made myself tautological. I in- 

 tended that the words, "The signification of" 

 should be omitted, and that the sentence should 

 read, "The first syllable . . . is not so clear 

 in meaning," etc. 



Direction of Letters. — It may be well to 

 remind our readers that, in writing, Penn. and Tenn. 

 look very much ahke ; and as there are a number 

 of post offices of the same name in Tennessee and 

 Pennsylvania, letters often go astray. Post offices 

 and signatures are also so often written so hastily 

 that nobody can guess at them. It wastes no end 

 of time trying to make out bad writing. 



This is particularly the case with letters in French 

 or German that come to us from Europe. Even 

 natives of these countries that we have to call in 

 to help us in these difficult straits, are frequently 

 unable to make them out. We have a letter from 

 Italy, supposed to be in French, which has been 

 on our table a month, and nobody can make it out. 



