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derson has always claimed he had no peer for 

 rapidity and neatness. In the operation of pot- 

 ting he daily did the work of two average men, 

 and was paid accordingly. 



It will be remembered that some years ago 

 when Mr. Henderson asserted in the columns of 

 the Monthly that James Markey potted 7,500 

 plants in ten hours, several of our readers ques- 

 tioned the fact. Long since then INIr. Markey 

 had fiir surpassed even that extraordinary record, 

 and had repeatedly potted 10,000 in one day of 

 ten hours; and on one special occasion, in April 

 of this year, potted 11,500 rooted cuttings of ver- 

 benas in 2]- inch pots ; a feat probably never 

 equalled or even approached. Besides being an 

 extraordinary workman, few men of his years 

 were possessed of such varied and comprehen- 

 sive knowledge of greenhouse work. Mr. Mar- 

 key waa a native of county Meath, Ireland, but 

 came to this country at an early age, and, ex- 

 cept two years which he served in the war of the 

 Rebellion, had been from first to last in the em- 

 ployment of Mr. Henderson. He was modest 

 and unassuming to a fault ; a generous-hearted, 

 open-handed fellow, and enjoyed the respect of 

 his employer and fellow-workmen to an extent 

 that few men ever attain. 



A. S. Fuller. — This well-known entomologist 

 and writer on gardening has taken to the study 

 of mineralogy. At least, he was at last accounts 

 directing some silver mining operations in New 

 Mexico. 



M. J. Donnelly. — This well known Rochester 

 nurseryman we find claimed by the Montreal 

 Post as being formerly " one of them," before 

 Jonathan absorbed him. He does not, however, 

 forget his old friends, as he went back there last 

 September and astonished them with an exhibit 

 of one hundred varieties of apples, and forty of 

 pears. 



The Botanical Index. — The publication of 

 this valuable quarterly has been temporarily 

 suspended, the editor, Mr. Cage, having had to 

 engage in the meantime in some pursuits which 

 would interfere with his work on it. There are 

 numerous admirers of this unpretending effort 

 who will be glad to welcome its reappearance. 



The Flowers and Ferns of the United 

 States. — When this work was commenced it was 

 regarded as but an experiment, and it was issued 

 as an experiment by Messrs. Prang, who promised 

 to issue one series of 196 chapters only. So far 



as popular support went, it was a great .success ; 

 but they found, as being in the business of litho- 

 graphic printing, it was not wise for them to go 

 into a publishing business. Over 5,000 subscri- 

 bers were found for the work, a number perhaps 

 unparalelled for a mere scientific work. 



Mr. Charles Robson, who purchased the work, 

 concluded also to try the series, plan, before 

 issuing it as a regular thing. In this way a 

 second successful series was issued. It became 

 evident that the American public would perma- 

 nently sustain a work of this character, and ar- 

 rangements were in progress to commence a 

 regular monthly issue on this first of January. 



The drawings were all pi'epared, and the edi- 

 tor has over fifty chapters ready, so as to be sure 

 to always have enough ahead to guard against 

 sickness or accidents interfering with the regular 

 appearance of the work, when Mr. Robson died 

 suddenly, of cholera, in September, leaving no 

 arrangements whatever for the continuation of 

 his business. 



Up to this time the administrator has not been 

 able to make a satisfactory sale of the right to 

 '• Flowers and Ferns," and thei'e is therefore no 

 one as yet to continue the publication of the 

 work, as was intended. As soon as this matter 

 shall be settled and another publisher found, the 

 author hopes to continue in a permanent form 

 a work which he is pleased to know has given 

 pleasure to so many thousands of men and wo- 

 men all over the world. 



Proceedings of the Georgia State Horti- 

 cultural Society. — President P. J. Berckmans. 

 We note that the Nickajack apple is losing favor 

 in Georgia. In i-egard to peaches, the Alex.an- 

 der seems the favorite among the societies. 

 Numbers of new-fangled things, with high re- 

 commendations, were voted worthless, or nearly 

 so; and the famous old Crawford's early, and 

 Crawford's late, still found to be at the top of 

 the favorable list. . The society seems to confine 

 itself entirely to fruit culture, and to be doing 

 excellent work in that line. 



American Newspaper Annual, for 1881, by 

 N. W. Ayer & Son, Newspaper Agents, Phila- 

 delphia. There is nothing more necessary to a 

 successful business than judicious advertising. 

 Fortunes are made and fortunes are lost by ad- 

 vertising. To advertise, and to know just how to 

 advertise, is the mainspring of success. If a pa- 

 per has a hundred thousand readers, and you 

 have that to sell which a hundred thousand 



