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OBITUARY. 

 Cyrus R. Keene. 

 Cyrus R. Keene, for many years en- 

 gaged In the nursery business in Co- 

 hasset, Mass.. (lied at his home in that 

 town on February 17. aged 88 years. 



Alexander Miller. 



Word has been received of the death 

 on January 26, at Glasgow, Scotland, 

 of Alexander .Miller, father of Peter 

 Miller of the Thos. J. Grey Company, 

 seedsmen of Boston. Mr. Miller, whose 

 age was seventy years, was ill but two 

 days. He visited this country four 

 years ago. He leaves, besides Peter, 

 two sons, who are at the front in the 

 war. and two daughters. 



Rev. W. T. Hutchins. 



All sweet pea lovers will be sorry to 

 learn of the passing away, three weeks 

 since, of this well known pioneer in the 

 work of popularizing the sweet pea in 

 America. Mr. Hutchins took up the 

 Eckford sweet pea introductions over 

 a quarter centur.v ago and tlieir ad- 

 vancement in this country was large- 

 ly due to his enthusiasm. He was lo- 

 cated in Indian Village. Mass., then, 

 and was a frequent exhiliitor at the 

 shows of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society in Boston. A very genial 

 and kindly gentleman he was and none 

 knew him but to love him. 

 John Allan. 



John Allan, for many years super- 

 intendent of "Oakland Farm" in Ports- 

 mouth. R. I., when it was the property 

 of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. died 

 at his home on Wesley street, New- 

 port, on February 15, after a long ill- 

 ness, in his eighty-fourth year. He 

 was born April 17, 1833, in Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, a son of William and Eliza- 

 heth (Richardson) Allan, his father 

 being for several years gardener and 

 steward on the estate of Sir William 

 Johnson at Donegal, Ireland. Mr. Al- 

 lan attended the pu^jlic schools of 

 Donegal and later worked with his 

 father. In 1853 he came with his par- 

 ents to the United States and was em- 

 ployed as a gardener in N'ew York. 

 Baltimore, Albany, and Highwood, N. 

 J. In 1886 he accepted the super- 

 intendency of "Oakland Farm," and 

 continued there for 19 years, retiring 

 in 1905 from active work, and had 

 since made his home in Newport. He 

 leaves one son. John T. Allan, and 

 several grandchildren. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Proceedings of the Eighteenth An- 

 nual Convention of the Ameriean As- 

 sociation of Park Superintendents, 

 held at New Orleans, La., October, 

 1916. This is a complete report, 92 

 pages, of a very earnest and instruc- 

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 ization. , 



The twenty-ninth annual report of 

 the Purdue University Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. Lafayette, Ind., cov- 

 ers the doings tor the year ending 

 June 30, 1916. and make a pamphlet of 

 100 pages. We cannot refrain from 

 noting that, as indicated by the report 

 of the Chief of the HorticulturaL De- 

 partment, orchard topics and truck 

 crops are the limits of "horticultural" 

 activity at Purdue. 



AouK I i.Ti:ii.\i. Sx.vTi.sTic.s is a new 

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 state by state, so that the possession 

 of Agricultural Statistics in handy 

 pocket form gives a valuable encyclo- 

 pedia. The price per copy is 25 cents. 

 Published by The Hale Publishing 

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 Mo. 



We have just received from that un- 

 tiring enthusiast. Rev. C. S. Harrison, 

 a copy of the new edition of his inter- 

 esting and instructive Peony Manual, 

 giving complete directions for the 

 propagation and cultivation of this 

 grand old favorite flower. Mr. Harri- 

 son is an apostle of the gospel of floral 

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 cents. The Manual on the Phlox is the 

 third of Mr. Harrison's useful publica- 

 tions. It tells the whole story of 

 growing and raising new varieties. 

 Price 25 cents. Any of the above may 

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