THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



287 



President of the Society, and contains 

 the latest information rehitiv^e to insects, 

 their life history, and when injurious 

 the best means of counteracting their 

 ravages. 



Descriptive Catalogue — Of orna- 

 mental trees, shrubs, vines, etc., grown 

 at the German town Nurseries, Phila- 

 delphia, Penn., Thomas Meehan, Pro- 

 prietor. Mr. Meehan is a very accu- 

 rate and well informed botanist, who 

 knows what he is doing, and cultivates 

 a very large variety of both American 

 and foreign ornamental trees, etc. 



The Biographical Magazine — rFor 

 November contains shoi't illustrated 

 sketches of Ali)honzo XII, King of 

 Spain ; Lieutenant Greely of the Greely 

 Polar Kxpedition ; Lord Coleridge, 

 Chief Justice of England ; Li Hung 

 Chang, Prime Minister of the Chinese 

 Empire ; Jules Ferry, Prime Minister 

 of France ; Prince Bismark ; Martin 

 Luther ; Harriet Beecher Stowe, and 

 other celebi'ities. 



Transactions — Of the Maine State 

 Pomological Society, 1882. Doctor 

 Hoskins, in an admirable pa})er on 

 liardy winter apples, states that he 

 knows of but one Canadian apple that is 

 truly ironclad, the Peach Apple of 

 Montreal ; and that the hardiest winter 

 apple, widely known in this country is 

 the Wealthy. The Mcintosh Red, he 

 says, will bear all that can be said in its 

 favour, for excellence of quality, beauty 

 and productiveness, and where it does \ 

 not spot will be a great acquisition ; it 

 is not iron-clad, yet more hardy than 

 the Famcuse. The Mann apple has 

 winter killed badly with him. 



The December number of the Ameri- 

 can Agriculturist contains about one 

 liundred engravings, which is twenty- 

 live per cent, more than that in any 

 other illustrated periodical in this or 

 any other country. These illustrations 

 are engraved expres.sly for the j)aper by 

 leading artists, covering a wide variety 



of rural subjects as well as farm inven- 

 tions and contrivances. These engrav- 

 ings alone in any swingle issue of the 

 paper are woi'th far more to every far- 

 mer and housekeeper than the subscrip- 

 tion price for fiv.^, yeai-s. Notwithstand- 

 ing the American Agriculturist is 

 fully worth four dollars a year, the sub- 

 scription price will continue at $1.50 

 during 1884. 



The Griffin Weekly News.— Pub- 

 lished at Griffin, Georgia, by Douglas 

 Glessner, price $1.00 a year. It gives 

 interesting intelligence on the subject of 

 fruit culture in Centre Georgia. The 

 W. W. Woodruff fruit farm started 

 there in 1872, now has on it 5,300 pear 

 trees; 17,000 Grape Vines; 2,500 

 Apple Trees ; 1,500 Plum Trees of the 

 Wild Goose variety ; and 10,000 Peach 

 Trees. Some of our Canadian fruit 

 growers have also commenced fruit 

 farming there, notably, Mr. W. Old 

 field, of the Province of Quebec, and 

 Messrs. Edwin S. Leavenworth and J. 

 McKelvie, of St. Catharines. If any 

 of our readers wish to keep up with the 

 progress of this new fruit region they 

 could not do better than subscribe for 

 this weekly. 



BusiiBEKG Catalogue. — Illustrated 

 and descriptive, from Bush &, Son, and 

 Meissner ; Bushberg, Missouri ; is not 

 merely a catalogue, but a very fuU 

 manual of the Grape, Grape culture 

 and Wine making. This manual com- 

 prises over sixty pages, treating of soil 

 and climate, of the species indigenous 

 to the United States, of grafting the 

 vine, trellising, pruning, diseases of the 

 grape vine, insects preying upon the 

 vine, gathering the gmpes, mashing, 

 pressing, etc. The descriptive cata- 

 logue is the most complete we have yet 

 seen, giving the name, synonyms, species 

 and when known, the parents ; follow- 

 ed by a full description, with character 

 the variety at present sustains among 

 grape growers. 



