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niums were also used with good effect, and here 

 and there a large palm to add beauty to the scene. 

 We then departed for the metropolis, and arriv- 

 ing there, we visited Central Park with much 

 pleasure, as it had been just twelve years since our 

 last visit. But here we were disappointed ; it be- 



ments arc all filled, that nothing else can be de- 

 vised beyond the commonplace; but gentlemen, 

 the philanthropist who comes forward to found 

 and endow a school of Horticulture and Forestry 

 in the Northwest will provide for the greatest need 

 of the times and for all future time in that golden 



ing far behind its record in former years in our j empire, and will place his figure in bold relief 

 opinion. It seems as though it had been on the 1 against the Western sky, to be gazed upon with 



down-grade instead of advancing ; consequently 

 our stay was short. We then betook ourselves to 

 Greenwood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, and were 

 highly elated with this beautiful resting place of 

 the dead. The roads, walks, and everything in 



veneration and affection, and grow brighter and 

 grander in the view' ; and when in the far future 

 mere military heroes shall be forgotten or looked 

 upon as curiosities of a barbarous, or semi-barbar- 

 ous past, every forest in the West, every improved 



such good order, that it certainly reflects great i fruit or flower, every improvement of the face of 

 credit upon its management. ! nature in city or country, from the advancement 



We must here bid you farewell, trusting to be j of the culture of plants, every happy home, will be 

 able to continue our journey to the eastward with | associated with his name. The whole question, 

 you in another issue, with your kind permission. ; whether hundreds of square miles of the North- 

 west shall remain, or relapse into a desert, or be 

 -•*•- j j^a,(jg jQ blossom into a land of homes; the question 

 EDITORIAL NOTES. | whether other hundreds of square miles shall wait 

 — for generations to grow comfortable or by the short 



To Intelligent Correspondents. — All com- j cuts of knowledge prove horticulture and forestry 

 munications relatitig to advertisements, sub scrip- \ a relief to those who are there now, or are soon to 

 tions, or other business, must be addressed to thf follow, can be solved by such an institution, liber- 

 Publisher, 814 Chestiiut Street, Philadelphia. ^ ally endowed, as no other means can do it. And 



All referritti^ to the reading matter of the maga-^\N'he.n horticulture and forestry shall become es- 

 zine must be mailed to the editor, Germantoivn, Pa. \t2ihY\^\\ed over the West by such an institution, 



No express packages for the editor received un-\ not\v\ng Q\se C3.n so train young men and young 

 less prepaid ; and marked " Paid through to 6^^^- women in these learned professions, to continue 

 mantown. Pa." j the work to the end of time. Our State colleges 



A School of Horticulture at the West.— of Agriculture are doing all they can for these 

 Concluding his address at the Horticultural ban- , sciences, but their means are too limited, and their 

 quet in Philadelphia, Mr. Oliver Gibb, Jr., of Min- ; liberty is too circumscribed, by lack of patience 

 nesota, said: "One word more, Mr. President, i and appreciation of the average politician who goes 

 and now 1 want the attention of the millionaires, to the legislature. I am sorry to say they are not 

 as I see several of them present. As we have , all the pets of the legislature, as it is said is the 

 looked admiringly and may be with a little envy ' one in Michigan. We want a school that can 

 to-day upon the smiling face in marble of the sturdy work with scope and means and freedom on long 

 old merchant, in Girard College, have not some of headed and level headed plans for the public good 

 you on this occasion, or have you not at some and yet be out of reach of popular clamor. We 

 other time, had the thought come into your mind : ' want a school established with a central head and 

 'Oh, what could I do with my wealth to create with experimental stations in the several natural 

 such a memorial as this institution ? What would 1 divisions of soil and climate, a school that will 

 do so much good, what would make me so hon- know no State lines, and nothing that is not or not 

 ored and so loved as this ? What other institution likely to be practical. Where is the happy million- 

 can I endow, that will give me a place among the aire or syndicate of millionaires, who will give it to 

 few names that are not to fade out of the memory us .■' " 



and records of man, and enable me, if perchance The Discovery of the Potato in Arizona. 

 I shall be permitted, when the great change comes, — This is the title of a very pleasant paper in the 

 whatever it is, to retain an interest in earthly Overland Monthly for May, by Mr. J. G. Lem- 

 scenes, to look over my work in this life and watch mon. Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon collected a quantity 

 and enjoy its beneficent results hereafter?' It of the tubers of the native Solanum Fendleri and 

 may seem to you that the places of great endow- Solanum Jamesii ; and these have been widely 



