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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



we regret to say, not very full of in- 

 formation relating to fruit growing in 

 that State, and judging from some of 

 the communications published, its con- 

 stituents are not as well informed on 

 these matters as they might be. For 

 example, in the January number for 

 1883, now before us, page 10, the 

 writer speaks of the Delaware as " an 

 excellent white grape, hut not at qll 

 hardy.'" Now the Delaware is a red 

 grape, and perfectly hardy in our Canar 

 dian climate where the thermometer 

 falls below zero. Such blunders throw 

 an uncertainty over the whole com- 

 munication, and one doubts whether 

 the writer is correct in the names of 

 the other fruits he mentions. Again, 

 on the same page, the Cherry Currant 

 is spoken of as a new berry, developed 

 in the Mount Hope Nurseries. Now 

 the truth is that this currant was intro- 

 duced from France, and has been in 

 cultivation in America somewhere about 

 a quarter of a century. If this be a 

 new fruit in Maryland, surely horticul- 

 ture must be in a very backward con- 

 dition. Friend Whitman must pay a 

 little more attention to these matters 

 in his excellent journal, and not leave 

 horticulture so far in. the back ground. 



Hiram Sibley & Co.'s Seed Cata- 

 logue, for 1883, Rochester, N.Y., and 

 Chicago, 111., is copiously illustrated 

 with admirable engravings, and five 

 plates, each containing twelve colored 

 pictures of vegetables, plants or flowers. 

 It is full of information respecting the 

 culture of the different plants and their 

 several qualities. This firm are very 

 extensive growers of seeds, the most 

 extensive in America, and probably in 

 the world, and have a reputation for 

 great painstaking in the quality of 

 their seeds. 



The American Journal of For- 

 estry is a new venture under tlie 

 editorial care of Dr. F. B. Hough, 



chief of the forestry division of the 

 United States department of Agricul- 

 ture. It is devoted to the interests of 

 forest tree planting, the formation and 

 care of woodlands and ornamental 

 plantations, and the various economies 

 concerned therein, and published by 

 Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 at three dollars per annum. There is 

 much for us to learn upon these sub- 

 jects. We cannot blindly follow the 

 practices of the old world, our climate 

 and circumstances and the genius of the 

 peoj)le are so very different, that what 

 is wise there might be very unwise 

 here or even quite impracticable. It is 

 certain, however, that in some parts of 

 the country we have cleared up too 

 large a proportion of the land for the 

 best interests of the population, from 

 both a sanitary and an economical point 

 of view ; and in other parts we are 

 thoughtlessly cutting down our forests 

 in a manner very detrimental to the 

 future welfare and prosperity of the 

 country, and every effort to disseminate 

 information upon these subjects deserves 

 to be encouraged. 



The Gardener's Monthly, now in 

 its twenty-fifth volume, is still under 

 the able editorship of Mr. Thomas 

 Meehan, and is published by C. H. 

 Marot, 814 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 

 at $2.10 per annum, postage paid. It 

 is not needful that we say anything of 

 the reliable character of this magazine 

 to those who have been in the habit of 

 reading it, and to those who are not 

 acquainted with it we unhesitatingly 

 say that, if you are interested in horti- 

 cultural matters, the best thing you can 

 do is to subscribe for it and read it with 

 care. 



Report of the State Horticul- 

 tural Association of Pennsylvania, 

 for 1882. It is illustrated with engrav- 

 ings of Pennsylvanian seedling fruits, 

 as Pyle's Red Winter Apple, a chance 



