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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[December, 



names and stated sums for which others would 

 co-operate. 



Charles Downing. — We learn, with great 

 regret, that Mr. Downing met with a serious 

 accident through being run down by a street 

 car in New York. The wheels crushed against 

 him, and he was taken into a store insensible. 

 A rib was broken. Though in his eighty-first 

 year, and suffering intensely, his physicians, at 

 this writing (Nov. 12th). speak encouragingly 0| 

 his prospects for recovery. 



Stephen Hoyt Sons.— Last April this excellent 

 firm of New Canaan, Conn., had their home- 

 stead burned; recently the torch of the incen- 

 diary again laid low their magnificent barns, 

 burning up eleven horses and twenty six cows, 

 and all their extensive preparations for fall and 

 spring trade. Besides this loss of trade, they will 

 be out of pocket at least $10,000 in cash, over 

 and above their insurance. As they are not 

 known to have an enemy in the world, the work 

 is believed to be one of sheer depravity, and 

 they have the sympathy of their neighbors and 

 friends everywhere. 



Lawsuit on Fruit Trees. — A case is on trial 

 in the United States Court, in Michigan, between 

 a citizen of Davisburg and a Geneva firm. We 

 are not fully informed as to the trouble, but it 

 appears the owner of the farm claims that 700 

 of the trees are not the kind he ordered and 

 paid for. What he said about the trees we are 

 not informed, but the Geneva firm had him 

 arrested for libel, and on the preliminary exami- 

 nation the justice considered the evidence suffi- 

 cient to hold him over for trial in the United 

 States Court. 



Ellwanger on the Rose.— Mr. Shirley Hib- 

 berd, in his Gardener's Magazine, has a kindly 

 appreciation of Mr. H. B. EUwanger's excellent 

 little work on the rose. He says: "Mr. 

 Ellwanger has hit the happy medium between a 

 big book and a little one, for his neat volume of 

 only 292 pages contains an immense amount of 

 information — all, indeed, that an amateur rosar- 

 ian requires for a full enjoyment of his roses. 

 His book must be regarded as a very necessary 

 addition to the rosarian's library, and we ex 

 pect to see it widely distributed on this side 

 among the ever-augmenting brotherhood of 

 men who love and cultivate the rose." 



Dr. Asa Gray. — The numerous friends of this 

 ■distinguished botanist will be sorry to learn that 



he fell recently and broke his shoulder bone. It 

 is some satisfaction to be able to add, as we can 

 do from a pleasant note before us, that it will 

 not probably interfere seriously with active 

 work. 



Walter Coles. — This intelligent young gar- 

 dener, whose papers in the Gardener's Monthly 

 have so often given pleasure to our readers, has 

 decided to enter the commercial ranks, and has 

 settled himself at Claj-mont, Delaware. We 

 have no doubt his venture will be a success, as 

 there is plenty of room for first-class business 

 men. 



N. H. Ohmer. — Twenty-five years ago this 

 eminently successful horticulturist of Dayton, 

 Ohio, was engaged in city business, but broken 

 down in health he was induced to take a small 

 lot, 50 by 200 feet, so as to practice his innate 

 love of gardening. This was the beginning of 

 his great success, both in robustness of constitu- 

 tion, as well as in other ways. 



Henry Winthrop Sargent. — As we go to 

 press we regret to announce the decease of this 

 munificent patron of gardening. His beautiful 

 country seat, "Wodenethe,"' on the Hudson, was 

 long regarded as the finest specimen of land- 

 scape gardening in America, and besides its 

 landscape beauty, contained one of the best 

 collections of hardy trees and shrubs. He was 

 an early friend of the great landscape gardener, 

 A. J. Downing, from whom he derived his 

 earliest lessons, and he edited one of the editions 

 of Mr. Downing's work on this fine art; and 

 published a guide to the finest country-seats in 

 Great Britain, besides contributing numerous 

 interesting articles on the same subject to the 

 Gardener's Monthly. He was the son of Sarg- 

 ent, a celebrated painter of Boston, a graduate 

 of Harvard, a lawyer, and finally a banker. 

 He was a cousin to Prof. C. S. Sargent, the well 

 known botanist and arboriculturist. He spent 

 the winters in Boston, but had not yet removed, 

 and he died on the spot, and amid the scenes 

 he loved so well, in his 72d year. 



Edward Meehan.— Died at St. Clare, near 

 Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, on the 26th of 

 Octctber, Mr. Edward Meehan, father of the 

 Editor of the Gardener's Monthly, in his 86lh 

 year. He was born in 1798, at Carrick-on-Suir, 

 in Ireland, his father dying a few months after 

 he was born. He was taken to raise by an uncle, 

 a gardener, named Heffernan : while as he grew 



