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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[March, 



and garden." A low evergreen hedge divided the 

 garden, on one side of which were solely fruit trees; 

 and vegetables, low fruits and flowers on the other 

 side. It was contended that the fruit part was not 

 a garden, but an orchard. The judge decided that 

 if this were to be admitted, the lady would have 

 died intestate so far as the orchard was concerned, 

 but the fact that she made a will showed she had 

 no intention of dying intestate. It was not to be 

 supposed that she had forgotten that she owned 

 an " orchard " when she made the will, and the 

 presumption was that she intended the orchard to 

 go as the garden. He declined to discuss the dif-. 

 ference between the words orchard and garden, 

 and with the testator's intention clear in his mind, 

 ruled in favor of the defendant, the cottage holder. 

 Justice Parsons' head is level, as Americans might 

 say. 



Practical ^■Esthetics. — It is said that the 

 great poet of the sunflower saw little else that was 

 beautifuj in our country. Our gardening is not 

 beautiful, nor was there any beauty in Niagara 

 Falls, but the American Agriculturist ssiys he saw 

 beauty in a swindle out of $i,6oo, which the "son 

 of Tony Drexel" treated him to in New York. 



Charles Crucknell. — We notice in our last 

 an advertisement of Mr. Crucknell, who is well 

 known to our readers as one of the most intelli- 

 gent of the many contributors to the magazine. 

 Before his removal to Missouri he was engaged in 

 Pennsylvania. If the Missourians have no chance 

 to retain his services, we are quite sure those Penn- 

 sylvanians who were sorry to have him leave them, 

 would be very glad to see him back again. 



Dr. C. C. Parry. — The demand for the beauti- 

 ful new species of rose, Rosa minutifolia, has been 

 so great in Europe that Dr. C. C. Parry has been 

 induced to make another botanical excursion into 

 Lower California, chiefly with the view of supply- 

 ing the wants of nurserymen everywhere for it. He 

 was to leave the end of January. It is fortunate 

 that horticulture is the means of inducing this in- 

 trepid botanist to brave again the dangers of this 

 inhospitable region, as no doubt other new things 

 will still turn up. 



John Ellis. — Mr. Ellis died recently in Cal- 

 ifornia, as we see by a note in the Rural Press. 

 He must have been beyond sixty years of age. He 

 was one of the most intelligent horticulturists in 

 the Union, though with some peculiarities, which 

 those who knew him intimately charged probably 

 with justice, as well as from the attractions of his 

 many good points, to occasional mental aberra- 



tions. As an able horticultural writer he was well 

 known a quarter of a century ago, as " Fox 

 Meadow." In California, his work in laying out 

 the grounds of the Capitol, and the State Univer- 

 sity receives high praise. 



Mr. John W. Slater. — Among recent deaths 

 is that of this well-known florist of Alexandria, 

 Virginia, in his seventy-second year. He was one 

 of the many model men of whom horticirlture in 

 America has such good reason to be proud. Start- 

 ing in life with no capital but great intelligence, a 

 high sense of probity, and good common sense and 

 industry, he hved to become comparatively wealthy, 

 and to exercise a wide-spread influence in shaping 

 the course of things around him. Judging by the 

 Star of his city, few men have dropped out in Alex- 

 andria more sincerely regretted. 



A Sound Mind in a Sound Body. — Dr. 

 M'Carthy, of Dayton, Ohio, remarks that of all 

 occupations there is none which requires so close 

 a union of mental activity with physical energy as 

 the various pursuits of gardening, which therefore 

 make a human being as near perfect as he was 

 designed to be. He remarks that: 



" There is no other occupation better adapted to 

 effect this than that of the horticulturist, whose ever 

 varying duties call into frequent action the numer- 

 ous powerful muscles that erect the spine, expand 

 the chest, propel the body, sustain its burthens and 

 perform its heavy work, as well as the smaller ones 

 that move the hands and work the fingers in the 

 innumerable skillful digitations so necessary and 

 effective in training, fostering and directing his 

 delicate plantlets. The voluntary muscles, useful 

 and indispensable as they are, are hke well-grown 

 indolent persons, who will do nothing of their own 

 accord ; they need constant supervision and direc- 

 tion. They are, however, obedient, docile and 

 efficient — work well under a master, making the 

 best of servants." 



The Hill Cumorah. — A very pretty hill is 

 Cumorah, between Palmyra and Canandaigua, 

 New York. Besides its beauty, it has interest 

 : from being the place where Joseph Smith reported 

 he found the plates from which he wrote the Book 

 of Mormon. 



Gardening for Young and Old, by Joseph 

 Harris : New York, Orange Judd Company. In 

 the preface, Mr. Harris says he would particularly 

 urge young people to turn their attention to seed 

 growing, not that he wishes to see horticulture di- 

 verted to a mere money-making business, aside 

 from its refining and nobler influences, but would 



