Editorial Notes. 



' A New Addition to Editorial Staff. 



Commencing with this number our friend, 

 Josiah Hoopes, takes his place as one of the 

 steady associate editorial correspondents of 

 The Horticulturist, who will talk to us 

 with gossip or practical notes, about flower 

 gardenins and ornamental planting. In 

 thus warmly welcoming him to a position of 

 such prominent and advanced opportunities 

 for good, or for popularity, we assure our 

 readers that they will find in his articles the 

 most valuable of facts, experiences and sug- 

 gestions, and we know no better authority 

 in this country than he, in all departments 

 of popular horticulture. His articles will 

 be of great value to every amateur, to every 

 nurseryman, to every florist and gardener. 



Death of Henry A. Ttreer. 



With great regret, we announce the death 

 of Henry A. Dreer, in Philadelphia. For 

 a long time prominent as one of the oldest 

 and most reliable seedsmen and dealers of 

 that city, he also was equally prominent in 

 his faithful support of horticultural societies 

 and enterprises of kindred character. He 

 was one of the most efficient supporters of 

 the Philadelphia Horticulti ral Society, and 

 acted as its treasurer for many years. Lib- 

 eral to all, agreeable, cordial in personal 

 manners, and thoroughly honest in business 

 transactions, he was one of those rare ex- 

 amples of true business integrity and kindly 

 or personal friendship which we are sadly 

 loth to lose. 



On Wednesday, December 24, a special 



meeting of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society was called, at Horticultural Hall, 

 and the following resolutions were intro- 

 duced by Mr. Thos. Meehan and passed : 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Henry 

 A. Dreer, who for thirty-five years has been 

 a member and for eleven years the treasurer 

 of the society, it has lost one of its most 

 honored and valued members, and horticul- 

 ture, the love of which he has done so much 

 to encourage, one of its most ardent repre- 

 sentatives, while his personal character as a 

 man has endeared him to all his associates. 



Resolved, That, as an humble tribute to 

 a memory which we cherish, we attend his 

 funeral in a body this afternoon, and that 

 the secretary be directed to forward a copy 

 of these resolutions to his family, 



Jiridge in I'rospect Vark, lirooklijn. 



In continuation of our series of illustrated 

 frontispieces of American parks, we issue 

 one this month depicting scene, now some- 

 what famous for its artistic beauty, in Pros- 

 pect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. A little stream 

 commencing at a small basin of water known 

 as the Pool, flows downward, over a series of 

 little rock-formed cascades, then over a stony 

 or pebbly bottom ; and ^ last empties into 

 the larger expanse of the lake Lull Water. 

 Over this stream, at one of its most pictur- 

 esque points, is thrown this bridge, which, 

 built in simple style, yet it is massive in 

 masonry and elegant in finish and even out- 

 line. There are three arches which support 

 the bridge ; the upper part is intended only 



