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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



they are continually increasing and seem fairly 

 well supported here. This is another new one, 

 with the promise of a long life. Besides interesting 



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other chapters in it of interest to the tield natural- 

 ist generally. Miss Edna M. Porter, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., is treasurer of the club, to whom no doubt 



original observations on birds and plants, there are ■ inquiries as to subscriptions may be sent 



EORTICULTUBAL SOCIETIES. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The American Nurserymen's Association. — 

 Our readers must not forget that the annual meet- 

 ing of this admirable association will be held this 

 season at St. Louis, on the 20th of June. The 

 meetings of the body have been annually growing 

 in interest, and they prove to be very welcome to 

 the communities in which they are held. Some- 

 how the great body of American people have got 

 to know of the profession only through dealers, or 

 town florists, and they seem surprised to find so 

 large a body of highly educated gentlemen among 

 the profession. The leading newspapers vie with 

 each other in giving full reports of the proceedings, 

 and the general influence of the body is much 

 greater than even the founder of the society antici- 

 pated. This season the meeting will be under the 

 presidency of Lieutenant-Governor Norman J. 

 Colman, of the St. Louis nurseries, and this means 

 an unusually successful meeting. It is worth a 

 trip to St. Louis by a horticulturist, to see the mag- 

 nificent Missouri botanic gardens, and we have 

 no doubt the warm-hearted proprietor, Henry Shaw, 

 Esq., will do all h'e can to give the members of the 

 society a welcome. We should not be surprised 

 if Col. Colman should succeed in getting friends 

 to go on at very little cost to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. His energy is fully equal to these pleasant 

 undertakings. One thing is certain, he will leave 

 no stone unturned to make those who stay at home 

 from this meeting eat their fingers with envy of 

 those who have the good fortune to get away. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The 

 fifty-fourth annual exhibition will be held in Hor- 

 ticultural Hall, Broad street, on Wednesday, 

 Thursday and Friday, 12th, 13th and 14th of Sep- 

 tember, in conjunction with the American Pomo- 



logical Society, which will be the guest of the 

 Pennsylvania Society. Circulars giving all the 

 detaUs, may be obtained, on the part of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, of A. W. Harrison, Secretary, 

 Horticultural Hall, and on the part of the Ameri- 

 can Society, of Prof. Beal, Lansing, Mich. Mr. 

 J. E. Mitchell, 310 York avenue, Philadelphia, as 

 Chairman of the Committee on Reception, will give 

 all the information desired on hotels and trans- 

 portation.* Thomas A. Andrews, Superintendent 

 of Horticultural Hall, will take charge of any arti- 

 cles for exhibition addressed to his care. It is ex- 

 pected that there will be a full meeting of dele- 

 gates from all parts of the country, and it is be- 

 lieved that this will be the largest and most useful 

 meeting ever held in this country. The proceed- 

 ings will end with a banquet on Friday evening 

 at six o'clock. 



Points of a Good Rose. — During a discussion 

 on roses before the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, Mr. Moore advised the judging of roses 

 at exhibitions by points, and the entering of the 

 points on the prize cards, so that all who read 

 might learn. He considered hardiness, vigor of 

 growth, beauty of form and color, fragrance and 

 constancy of bloom, as indispensable requisites for 

 a hybrid perpetual rose for general cultivation in 

 the garden. It is hard to find all these qualities in 

 any one variety, but the nearer any one comes to 

 them the better the general cultivator will be satis- 

 fied with it. 



Tree-planting and Fountain Society of 

 Brooklyn. — According to a circular before us this 

 is an association for the promotion of planting and 

 protection of trees; the erection of drinking fount- 

 ains, and otherwise to suggest and carry out meas- 

 ures to render the city of Brooklyn more attractive. 

 The society has rooms where trees, ornamental 



