1882.1 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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land. This waa in July, 1840, and was the foun- 

 dation of the celebrated Mount Hope nurseries. 

 As in the case of so many men who seem not 

 to have a moment to spare, Mr. Barry has been 

 often called on to serve his fellow citizens in 

 public capacities. He has served many years in 

 the City Council of Rochester, and as a member 

 of the Board of Supervisors of Monroe County. 

 Besides all this, and the time necessary to the 

 oversight of his great business, he busies him- 

 self in many enterprises tending to the pros- 

 perity of Rochester. At the time of the visit of 

 the writer of this sketch to Rochester, with his 

 brother nurserymen in June last, he was acting 

 as President of the Rochester City and Brighton 

 Railroad Company, President of the Flour City 

 National Bank, President of the Mechanics' 

 Savings' Bank, President of the Rochester Gas 

 Company, President of the Powers' Hotel Com- 

 pany, and possibly interested in as many more. 

 In his domestic relations Mr. Barry has been 

 happy. Marrying in 1847 the wife who has 

 shared with him the hardships, the successes, 

 and the honor of his career, they both have 

 lived to see, in their descendants, children who 

 are doing honor to their name. Let us hope that 

 they may yet both be spared for many years to 

 continue honoring humanity by their useful lives. 



Index to the Gardener's Monthly. — The 

 Gardener's Monthly never permits the adver- 

 tisements to crowd on its reading matter. No 

 matter how large may be its advertising list, the 

 reader always gets the full thirty-two pages. 



With the increasing prosperity of the maga- 

 zine, a few years ago, the publisher felt encour- 

 aged to give some good picture as a frontispiece 

 to the bound volume. Though not in the origin- 

 al programme, this has been maintained. 



Continued encouragement from an increasing 

 subscription list induced him, last year, to a new 

 departure, namely, the giving of the index en- 

 tirely in addition to the thirty- two pages of 

 reading matter. Previously this had been in- 

 cluded in the thirty-two pages. This he again 

 feels warranted in doing this season. 



Outside of its agencies, the Gardener's Month- 

 ly has to dependvery greatly on the good will 

 of its friends to make it known to those who do 

 not subscribe. Zealous lovers of horticulture are 

 often too scattered to be effectively reached 

 by advertisements in the ordinary newspapers 

 of the day. But this misfortune has ita very 

 great advantages ; for while the publisher makes 



use of his readers in getting the magazine known, 

 he can return the compliment by making a 

 cheap magazine for the reader, and cheap rates 

 for the advertiser. In these respects the pub- 

 lisher really believes he offers, at the subscrip- 

 tion price, the cheapest magazine of its class in 

 the world. 



Busts of our Early Botanists— A Case for 

 the Public Gratitude. — Among the heirlooms 

 of the family of the celebrated McMahon, of 

 Philadelphia, are busts of William Bartrara, 

 Muhlenberg the famous botanist of Lancaster, 

 Linnaeus, and McMahon, carved for McMahon's 

 library by Philadelphia's famous artist Rush. 

 Though everything else has passed from the 

 family, these treasures have been hoarded to 

 the last. The granddaughter, who owns them, 

 now finds herself necessitated to take charge of 

 her own four orphaned grandchildren, the eldett 

 not seventeen, though her own income is less 

 than a thousand dollars a year. She now pro- 

 poses to dispose of these busts, aud devote the 

 proceeds to the education of these children. 



It is scarcelj'^ necessary to say anything of the 

 services of the eminent men whom these busts 

 represent. McMahon was to American botany 

 what Gordon and other English nurserymen 

 were to the botany of that country— the intelli- 

 gent care-taker of the seeds and roots of the 

 botanical collectors of his time, and raised for 

 them the plants necessary to perfect their studies. 

 Nuttall commemorated his services and his 

 friendship in the genus Mahonia. His grand 

 work, " McMahon's American Gardening," the 

 first complete American treatise on horticulture, 

 is still a standard work, though nearly a century 

 has passed since its inception. 



The American Philosophical Society, the His- 

 torical Society, or the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, would make excellent depositories for 

 these treasures, if any public spirited citizens 

 desire to purchase and present them. Still, 

 should no means be found to secure them for 

 the city, whose reputation these worthies did so 

 much to honor, there is nothing to prevent the 

 learned institutions of other cities possessing 

 them. 



The lady, while anxious to get all she can for 

 the purpose desired, leaves it to us to fix the 

 amount to be asked for them, and we suppose 

 $500 will be considered reasonable for the four. 



Should no one feel at liberty to subscribe the 

 whole amount, we should be glad to have the 



