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pleventh and twelfth in "Farm Review," and the thirteenth 

 to nineteenth have been issued by the State Board of Agri- 

 culture. The twentieth report is pubhshed by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, as the Board of Agriculture has been 

 disbanded. There have been no special reports. Address, Mor- 

 gantown. 



WISCONSIN 



Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers' Association. Tliia 

 association has issued twenty-seven annual reports and ten 

 semi-annual reports. The first report was issued in 1SS7. 



Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. An annual report 

 is published by the state. The first regular report was published 

 in 1871 under the title, "Transactions of the Wisconsin State 

 Horticultural Society." Beginning with the report for 1S89, 

 the publication bore the title, "Annual Report." Since 1910, 

 the report has been issued in two parts: Part I, containing 

 constitution, by-laws, business transactions and list of members 

 whicii are for distribution to members only. In 1868, a report 

 was published entitled, "Report for the years 1SG4-8, with a 

 short historical sketch since its organization." This society 

 also issues a monthly magazine entitled, "Wisconsin Horticul- 

 ture," the first issue of which appeared in September, 1910. 

 Between 1896 and 1903, a monthly periodical, entitled "The 

 Wisconsin Horticulturist," was issued. Nineteen numbered 

 bulletins have appeared between March, 1903, and April, 1910. 

 Address, Madison. 



WYOMING 



Wyoming State Board of Horticulture. Biennial reports are 

 issued. The first report was published in January, 1907, 

 under the title, "Biennial Report of the Wyoming State Board 

 of Horticulture." The publication is continued under the same 

 title. Special bulletins, alternating with the reports, are pub- 

 lished—tour have been issued thus far, — 1908, 1910, 1912, 1914. 

 Address, Laramie. 



Wyoming .State Horticultural .Society. Proceedings are issued 

 in publications of the above board, those be.iring the odd num- 

 bers in the biennial reports, and the others in the special bulle- 

 tins. 



North American horticultural periodicals. 



The periodicals of any subject are supposed to chroni- 

 cle all the fleeting events of the days and years, and to 

 preserve them for future generations, but it is the most 

 difficult thing to remember and record the journals 

 themselves. Horticultural journals probably have hved 

 and died in this country without having attracted the 

 attention of a single library or collector of books. It is 

 probably no exaggeration to say that more than 500 

 horticultural journals have been started in North 

 America. There are more than sixty in continuance at 

 the present moment. 



The "Massachusetts Agricultural Repository" wag 

 started in 1793, but it was as late as 1821 tliat a horti- 

 cultural department was added to it. This was an 

 organ of a society rather than a journal in the present 

 sense. American agricultural journalism is usually 

 dated from the establishing of the original "American 

 Farmer" in Baltimore in 1819. The first journal to 

 devote any important extent of its space to horticul- 

 tural matters was the original "New England Farmer," 

 which was established in Boston in 1822, and which was 

 one of the chief instruments in the organization of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Its first editor 

 was Thomas G. Fessenden, author of the "New Ameri- 

 can Gardener," a book which appeared in 1828, and 

 passed through at least six editions. 



A "Floral Alagazine" was started in Philadelphia in 

 1832 and continued sometime afterward. It contained 

 colored plates of ornamental plants. The entire work, 

 except the illustration, was done by the two David 

 Landreths and it was published by them. Tradition 

 says that it was not a paying venture and after several 

 years it was discontinued. The volume of 1832 com- 

 prises eighty pages, with descriptions and colored illus- 

 trations of thirty-one stove and other om.amcntal 

 plants. The full title is "The Floral Magazine and 

 Botanical Repository. Published by D. & C. Landrcth, 

 Nursery and seedsmen, Philadelphia." The bound 

 volume is 8^4 x 11 inches. The "Horticultural Register 

 and Gardener's Magazine," established in Boston in 

 1835, and edited by Fessenden and Joseph Breck, and 

 "Hovey's Magazine," were among the first distinct 

 horticultural periodicals. The former, although a mag- 



azine of more than ordinary merit, did not persist 

 long. The latter was founded by C. M. Hovey and 

 P. B. Hovey, Jr., and was called the "American Gar- 

 dener's Magazine and Register of Useful Discoveries 

 and Improvements in Hoiticultural and Rural Affaii-s," 

 a journal which, in the third volume, became the 

 "Magazine of Horticulture," and which enjoyed an 

 uninterrupted existence until 1808, thus covering a 

 third of a century of one of the most critical and inter- 

 esting periods in American horticulture. 



The next important journalistic venture was the 

 "Horticulturist," begun in July, 184(5, and continued 

 under many changes and vicissitudes for some thirty 

 years, and was finally represented, in hue of descent, 

 by "American Gardening," which ceased to exist in 

 November, 1904. The "Horticulturist" had been pub- 

 lished in Albany, Rochester, Philadelphia and New 

 York. The first seven volumes were edited by A. J. 

 Downing; the eighth and ninth by Patrick Barry; 

 the tenth by Barry and J. J. Smith; the eleventh to 

 fourteenth by J. J. Smith; fifteenth and sixteenth by 

 Peter B. Mead; seventeenth and eighteenth by Mead 

 and G. E. Woodward. Later it was continued by Henry 

 T. WilUams, in New York, until the close of 1875, when 

 the "Horticulturist" was united with the "Gardeners' 

 Monthly," of Philadelphia. This latter magazine 

 started January 1, 1859, as a quarto, but became an 

 octavo with its second volume. It continued until the 

 close of 1887, when, upon the death of its publisher, 

 Charles Marat, it passed into the hands of "American 

 Garden," New York. It had a long and useful career 

 under the editorial management of one of the most 

 accomplished and conscientious of American horti- 

 culturists, Thomas Meehan, whom all the succeeding 

 generation had learned to love. 



The "American Garden"as such, before it absorbed the 

 "Gardeners' Monthly," traced an independent descent 

 from two other journals. The senior of these was "The 

 Ladies' Floral Cabinet," the first number of which was 

 issued January 1, 1872, by H. T. Williams, who was also 

 editor and pubhsher of the "Horticulturist," at 5 Beek- 

 man Street, New York. Mr. Williams' idea was that 

 the cultivation of flowers properly belonged to women, 

 that they were by nature eminently fitted for it, and 

 that a journal adapted to their wants would greatly 

 aid them in their work, and prove a financial success to 

 the publisher. For some time "The Floral Cabinet" 

 was well sustained and well edited, but after about 

 three years Mr. Williams became wholly absorbed in 

 religious publications and his interest was gradually 

 withdrawn from floriculture. In January, 1880, the 

 "Cabinet" and all the personal effects of Mr. Williams 

 passed into the hands of Adams & Bishop, who con- 

 tinued the pubUcation with varied success, and who 

 intended to close up the business as soon as they could 

 do so to the best advantage. In June, 1882, the paper 

 and good will were sold to Ralph H. Waggoner, who 

 gave it new life; he secured the services of C. L. Allen 

 as an advisory editor, the active work falling upon 

 Miss S. A, Fraser. The last number under Waggoner's 

 management was issued January 1, 1887, when it was 

 aksorbed by the ".American Garden." The other 

 independent journal absorbed by "American Garden" 

 was known as the "Flower Garden," and the first num- 

 ber was published October 1, 1872; it was edited by 

 C. L. Allen, and published quarterly by C. L. Allen 

 & Co., 76 Fulton Street, Brookljm, N^ Y. It existed 

 one year and was then sold to Beach, Son & Co., seed 

 and bulb merchants, who removed its publication office 

 to Barclay Street, New York, and changed its name to 

 "The American Garden," the late Mrs. C. V. Beach 

 becoming its editor. Beach & Son continued the publi- 

 cation as a quarterly till the year ISSO, when B. K. 

 Bliss & Sons secured possession of both the paper and 

 the seed business. It was at this epoch that F. M. 

 Hexamer became editor. Two years later (1882) the 



