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Better still, it will grow well and bloom 

 freely in the sitting-room, if placed near 

 the window and not kept too hot. It 

 is a nice little bulb for all our country 

 cousins. Put five or six bulbs in a 

 five -inch pot. A little freezing will not 

 hurt it when grown in a low tempera- 

 ture. There are two species on sale, F. 

 refracta alba and F. Leichtlinii, between 

 which there is only a trifling difference 

 in color, the latter having a little more 

 yellow in the throat. Both are fragrant, 

 but F. refracta alba is much the better 

 plant, and, with me, has bloomed earlier 

 than F. Leichtlinii. Flowering bulbs 

 may be obtained from the seed in a 

 single year, if sown early and carefully 

 grown ; that is to say, seed sown early 

 in the Spring will bloom the following 

 Winter, but not all of them. — Rural 

 New-Yorker. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



The Michigan Horticulturist for 

 May, is full of valuable papers. Pub- 

 lished by W. H. Burr Publishing Co., 

 Detroit, Mich., at $1.00 a year. 



The Forestry Report of the Kan- 

 sas State Horticultural Society for 

 1885, is full of useful information that 

 is worthy of the careful consideration 

 of our people and government. The 

 paper on the use and abuse of our forests 

 is full of eminently practicable sugges- 

 tions. It contains, also, a list of forest 

 trees, deciduous and evergreen, recom- 

 mended for that State. 



The Horticultural Art Journal 

 for May is embellished with four colored 

 lithographs. As a handsome work for 

 the library table it is without a peer 

 among American horticultural publica- 

 tions, and we trust that it is meeting 

 with the support it deserves. It is 

 perhaps very diflScult to catch the ex- 

 act shade of color of the purple filbert, 

 in this case the artist certainly can not 

 be accused of having made the foliage 

 more beautiful than in nature. 



Alden's Library Magazine. — This 

 popular Magazine^ which, beginning 

 with the month of May, was trans- 

 formed from an octavo monthly into a 

 handy, small quarto weekly, has taken 

 other steps in the line of progress. No. 

 4 of the weekly issue appears in new 

 and larger type, and also with the ad- 

 dition of a handsome cover. In its 

 new appearance it becomes one of the 

 most attractive magazines in the field, 

 while it is beyond rivalry in economy 

 of cost, $1.50 per year. From the 

 amount and quality of the matter it 

 presents it is commonly considered even 

 superior to the great four-dollar month- 

 lies. You can get a specimen copy free 

 upon application to the publisher, John 

 B. Alden, 393 Pearl St., New York. 



Canon Farrar's New Book. — A few 

 weeks ago, when Canon Farrar was 

 in this country, tens of thousands of 

 people paid as much as one dollar each 

 to hear a single lecture delivered by 

 him, and were well pleased with what 

 they got for their money. Several of 

 the most important of those lectures 

 and addresses, with other papers, are 

 now published by John B. Alden, of 

 New York, and can now be had in a 

 very handsome cloth-bound volume, for 

 the price of 40 cents. Some of the 

 lectures are also published separately 

 in his Elzevir Library, in which form 

 the lecture on Dante sells for 3 cents ; 

 on Temperance, 2 cents ; on Ideals of 

 Nations, 2 cents; Thoughts on America, 

 3 cents. The millions of intelligent 

 people who admire Canon Farrar, and 

 who were not able to hear him lecture, 

 will be delighted to find his brilliant, 

 scholarly, and eloquent thoughts placed' 

 in this handsome form within their 

 reach. The publisher's illustrated cata- 

 logue, 1 32 pages, is sent to any address 

 on receipt of 4 cents ; or condensed 

 catalogue free. John B. Alden, Pub- 

 lisher, 393 Pearl St,. N«w York. 



