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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[November, 



Mr. William Falconer. — Mr. Charles A. 

 Dana is reported to have secured Mr. Falconer, 

 as gardener at Glen Cove. We sympathize with 

 Camliridge Botanic Garden in its loss. 



Director of the Garden of Plants .\t 

 Paris. — The Directorship, vacant by the death of 

 Decaisne, has been filled by the appointment of 

 Dr. Ed. Bureau, Professor of Botany in the 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The Conservatory. — This is a new monthly 

 magazine, devoted to the interests of the florists of 

 New York, and elsewhere. There is much in it of 

 interest to the cultivator of flowers, as well as com- 

 mercial growers. W. McKlen Petingale, is the 

 Editor. 



TowNSEND Glover. — This well-known Ento- 

 mologist, died suddenly, in Washington, D. C, on 

 the 8th of September, in his 71st year. He was an 

 Englishman, but came to this country when a 

 young man. For many years he contributed 

 largely to the entomological literature of our coun- 

 try, and especially to the Patent Office reports on 

 Agriculture. 



Daniel Smith of Newburgh.- Among the losses 

 to horticulture of the past month, must be recorded 

 the death of Daniel Smith, of Newburgh, a zealous 

 amateur, and one of the prominent founders of the 

 Newburgh Bay Horticultural Society, of which he 

 continued its Treasurer from its first organization. 

 His death occurred on the 26th of September. He 

 was in his 73d year. 



Herman Muller. — This distinguished botanist 

 died on the 25th of August, at Prad, in Switzer- 



land, of pneumonia. Although but in middle age, 

 he did much to render botany popular, by his nu- 

 merous curious observations on the relation of 

 insects to flowers. 



The American Jolrnal of Foricstrv. — The 

 work is to be discontinued henceforth, through 

 want of patronage, the publisher says. Its hasty 

 discontinuance is to be regretted, as there is surely 

 interest enough in the subject to support a special 

 magazine. 



James Little of Montreal. — On the 2d of 

 October, American Forestry lost an able friend, in 

 James Little, who died at his residence near Mon- 

 treal, in his 80th year. Mr. L. was born at London- 

 derry, in Ireland, but came to Canada in his 19th 

 year, and by indomitable perseverance, intelli- 

 gence and industry, became one of the wealthy 

 and one of the most influential men in the Do- 

 minion. The protective policy, which has given 

 such an impetus to Canadian home industry — rail- 

 ways, lumbering, cloth mills, flouring mills, public 

 school education, banking, and numberless works 

 which are now making Canada prosperous — owes 

 much to his advocacy, personal services, and cash 

 capital. Always at work, never at rest when a 

 good object was before him, he continued to labor 

 for the public good, almost to the day of his death. 

 Such men as he build countries. Few who reap 

 know who sowed ; but his chief pleasure was in 

 feeling that he was helping to make the world 

 move, and this was all the reward he hoped for, or 

 cared to receive, in this world or the next. A 

 more unselfish man, perhaps, never lived. 



Horticultural Societies. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



port. This I have examined carefully, and de- 

 sire to say that it meets my entire approval, and I 

 tender my sincere thanks to the Hon. Mr. Lyon, 

 its chairman, and his associates, for the able and 

 judicious manner in which they have discharged 

 their duty. 



In former addresses I have spoken to you of the 



importance of the establishment of short, plain 



I have the pleasure to annpunce that during the and proper rules, to govern the nomenclature and 



present session the committee appointed at our last description of our fruits, and of our duty in regard 



meeting to prepare a Code of Rules in regard to I to it ; and I desire once more to enforce these 



the Nomenclature of Fruits, will present their re- opinions on a subject which I deem of imperative 



PRESIDENT WILDER'S ADDRESS. 



(Concluded froui liage •')20.; 



rules of pomology. 



