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no note of his exact age; but he would proba 

 bly have been able, from his remarkable vigor, 

 to have given many' more years of useful- 

 ness to those around him, but for an attack of 

 the typhoid fever, which this season has carried 

 away so many of our eminent men. His death 

 occurred on the 2d of October. 



American Journal of Forestry. — A monthly 

 journal of forestry. Edited by Dr. Franklin B. 

 Hough. The October— the first number— has 

 just appeared. As we noted when the " Ameri- 

 can" Gardeners Chronicle, the "American" Journa/ 

 of HorticuUure, and the "American" many other 

 magazines appeared, it would seem better to 

 have a wholly American name to an American 

 magazine, than to copy an English name and 

 merely add "American" to it. It is bad enough 

 when quoting an English contemporary to have 

 to use so long a name as " Journal of Forestry " 

 to give credit to, but "American Journal of For 

 estry" is certainly far too long for a quotable 

 name. However, this is a matter of taste, and 

 few will want to quarrel with a name when the 



work itself worthily represents an excellent 

 cause. The leading chapters in the number be- 

 fore us are on " Forestry in Michigan," " Larch 

 Wood," " Forestry of the future," " Forest Fires," 

 and a good report of the forest congress at Cin- 

 cinnati. Besides these chapters, there is a col- 

 umn for " Miscellany," which furnishes oppor- 

 tunity for editorial comment on passing events 

 relating to forestry. 



The new venture will have the support and 

 best wishes of all interested in the progress of 

 American forestry. It may not be out of place 

 here to note that in the review of Dr. Hough's 

 Elements of Forestry, a remark was made as to the 

 inaccuracy of one of the cuts used. The cut is 

 inaccurate, but not in some of the points referred 

 to. The writer of the review would have pointed 

 out more particularly in this number the error 

 he fell into, but some cuts, showing the exact 

 character of one and two-year-old wood in a 

 piece of oak, could not be completed in time for 

 such notice, and the correction must be deferred 

 for the present. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Pennsylyania Horticultural Society.— 

 This time-honored institution resumed its an- 

 nual exhibitions this season, they having been, 

 as our readers know, suspended by the burning 

 of the hall. It was, unfortunately, caught in 

 the formidable equinoctial storm, and hence the 

 attendance of visitors was much below the num- 

 bers of former occasions. 



There were excellent exhibits of cut flowers, 

 fruits and pot flowers, vegetables being compara- 

 tively scarce. Hot-house grapes from Mr. Hus- 

 ter, gardener to Mrs. Heyl, reminded the visitor 

 of the old times when Philadelphia outdid the 

 whole Union in this interesting branch of gar- 

 dening. As, however, the weights of the bunches 

 were not attached, we must be content for the 

 reader to take his own meaning from the term 

 " very fine." The same remark must apply to 

 the pears and peaches of Edwin Satterthwaite, 

 "very fine" being all that we have the op- 



portunity to say about them. The peaches 

 were indeed more numerous in varieties, and 

 seemingly of better quality than usual from 

 growers near Philadelphia, and as far as 

 could be gathered from those who have some 

 idea of Mr Satterthwaite's business success 

 in peach growing, it proves the success of 

 Mr. Eutter's position, that there is more profit 

 in growing peaches in comparatively dear land, 

 near one's market, than to grow them in cheap 

 lands where railroads take all you get for trans- 

 portation charges. Some interesting compari- 

 sons might also be made in the productiveness 

 of varieties. Here, before the visitor, were some 

 noble specimens of the Susquehanna peach, and 

 some fine but not near as large specimens of the 

 Crawford's Late. Judges, no doubt, would award 

 the premium to the Susquehanna, and the pub- 

 lic would applaud the decision ; but it would be 

 a question with the fruit grower whether, with 

 all its size, the Crawford's Late would not beat 

 it by the far greater quantity' it would produce. 

 We hope to see the day when some such infor- 



