1882. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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esting addition to our Stove-flowering plants. 

 The flowers are also efi'ective for bouquets. 



" It was awarded a certificate of merit by the 

 Royal Bi)tanic Society, July Gth. and a first-class 

 certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 October 11th, ISSl." 



It ought to be a good thing for summer-flow- 

 ering in American garden borders. 



The Cost of Nursery Products.— Mr. Barry, 

 in his address to the Nurserymen's Convention 

 at Rochester, believes that the reason so many 

 nurserymen fail, is from a want of perception of 

 the actual cost of raising trees, taken from an 

 average of years. He says : 



"The parks, cemeteries, pleasure grounds, 

 public and private, everywhere give evidence of 

 the nurseryman's skill, industry and enterprise 

 Much more I m'ght say in this line for the nur- 

 serymen. How will it be in the future? Will 

 they do as well? I hope they will. They 

 should do even better, and they will do better, 

 provided the profits of their business will place 

 in their hands the necessary means. I have 

 some fears for the future— perhaps they are not 

 well-grounded. F(jr several years past the profits 

 have been small, if any — indeed, it has been for 

 many hard work to keep their heads above 

 wateV, in spite of hard work and rigid economy. 

 The cost of labor and all the materials used by 

 the nurseries have advanced within fifteen and 

 twenty years from twenty to fifty per cent. ; 

 while prices of trees and plants have declined in 

 about the same ratio. This has produced a 

 great change. I think that much stock has 

 been sold below cost. In computing the cost of 

 trees, a great many things must be taken into 

 account besides the actual expense of growing 

 the tree in the field, and I think it safe to say 

 that most crops of trees cost at least double 

 what they are supposed to do. It is necessary 

 to look at the result of several years and several 

 crops, the failures must be reckoned in as well 

 .as the successes. I think this is a matter of 

 vital importance to the trade, and I trust it will 

 receive due consideration." 



The American Nurseryman.— In his Roches- 

 ter address, Mr. R. Barry well remarked : " I 

 have a pretty good knowledge of the nursery 

 business in this country, for nearly half a cen- 

 tury, and I can say that the nurserymen, on the 

 w-hole, have conducted their business with a 

 degree of enterprise, liberality and skill that en- 

 title them to the admiration and gratitude of the 

 American people. They have filled our land 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the finest 

 fruits. They have scattered broadcast and 

 brought within easy reach of all our people, or- 

 namental shrubs and plants of every descrip- 

 tion." 



Residence of W. B. Dinsmore. — Mr. Bourge- 



vin's account in another column will be found 

 delicious reading for those who love gardening. 

 It appeared originally in the Kingston Freeman, 

 but Mr. V. rightly judged it would be acceptable 

 here, and we are obliged by his thoughtfulness 

 in sending it to us. 



The Naturalists' Leisure Hour and Monthly 

 Bulletin. — By Prof. A. E Foote. One of the re- 

 sults of the United States Centennial Exhibition 

 held in Philadelphia, was the establishment of 

 this now celebrated naturalists' agency. Speci- 

 mens of natural history, in every department, 

 are collected for the use of students ; but per- 

 haps its greatest utility is in the means which 

 it afibrds scientific men of procuring old and 

 very often essential works, which are no longer 

 issued by their publishers, or, as it is technically 

 called, works out of print. The July number is 

 wholly given up to a catalogue of surgical and 

 medical works. A rough estimate of the books 

 offered gives us 2,260, and we fancy no such 

 complete list of old or scarce medical works 

 has ever been offered before. An enterprise 

 like this deserves universal support. The 

 monthly is sold at seventy-five cents a year, but 

 we suppose specimen copies can always be 

 had by writing for them to Prof. A. E. Foote, 

 Naturalists' Agency, Philadelphia. 



Thomas Moore. — Every intelligent person 

 knows of the Gardener's Chronicle so long edited 

 by Dr. Lindley. Dr. L. was such a distinguished 

 botanist and so thoroughly versed in the theory 

 of horticulture, that it was barely thought possi- 

 ble that his place could be fully supplied. But 

 the editorship fell to the joint work of Dr. Max- 

 well T. Masters, and Thomas Moore and the 

 Chronicle became another illustration of the fact 

 that the world does not stand still when even the 

 greatest leave il. Under the joint editorship of 

 the gentleman named, the Gardener's Chronicle 

 was never more valuable than it is to-day. But 

 j Mr. Moore has now passed his threescore, hav- 

 ing been born at Stoke-next-Guilford in England 

 on the 29th of May, 1821 ; needs some cutting off" 

 of labor, and so retires from this charge. He is 

 still in the position occupied by the celebrated 

 Miller, director of the Apothecaries Garden at 

 Chelsea. Though the author of " Handbook of 

 British Ferns," and other works, much that he 

 has done is like the editing of the Gardener's 

 Chronicle, work which does not tell before the 

 world, though often greatly more useful than 



