230 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ MARCH 
of Professor L. H. Bailey, of the Cornell University. There has never been 
a really good and adequate presentation of American horticulture, and this 
book proposes to make good the want. It is to cover horticulture in its widest 
sense, pomology, floriculture, vegetable gardening, greenhouse matters, 
ornamental gardening, the botany of cultivated plants, and the like. The 
work will consist of signed articles by specialists, profusely illustrated by 
engravings made expressly for it. The articles will be arranged alphabetically, 
and it is expected that the number of entries will be about six thousand, 
comprised in three large volumes dated 1900. The earnest cooperation of 
every student of horticultural pursuits and every lover of rural life is solicited, 
in order that the work may be worthy of the opening of the twentieth century. 
THE VERMONT Botanical Club was organized two years ago, and now has 
sixty active members. It meets twice yearly, in summer for a field meeting, 
in winter for the reading of papers. The second annual meeting was held in 
Burlington, February 5 and 6, at which twenty papers were read. A paper 
of special interest was that by Mr. C. G. Pringle, which was a sketch of his 
botanical explorations in the state, chiefly between 1873 and 1880. The 
paper is published in full in the BurZington Daily Free Press of February 9, 
and is really a valuable autobiographical sketch which many botanists would 
be glad to possess. The results of Mr. Pringle’s early collections among the 
mountains of Vermont are well known, and their lasting evidence is found in 
numerous herbaria. It is a great pleasure, however, to read this more vivid 
account of his most notable discoveries, and to catch the flavor of his rare 
experiences on Willoughby mountain and in Smuggler’s notch, and in the 
other boreal regions whose rare plants he so successfully brought to light. 
This pes of collectors modestly remarks that he “was only the first avail- 
able man” for such work, but the recipients of his plants will contend that 
he was specially fitted to it. 
The club is actively prosecuting a botanical survey of the state, and 
intends to publish a. revised “Flora of Vermont” within two years. The 
officers for the ensuing year are: Ezra Brainerd, President of Middlebury 
College, President; Cyrus G. Pringle, Charlotte, Vice President; and L. R. 
Jones, University of Vermont, Secretary. 
‘THE REPORT of the Director of The Missouri Botanical Garden for 1896 
contains much interesting information in reference to present equipment 
and future plans. Many causes have combined to compel the trustees to 
aes siete, so ee: those things: which neem necessary to botanist, con- 
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3 herbarium i is s estimated to contain ‘dont 258,629 specimens; of which ogee 4 : 
a » herbarium, and 61,246 to the Bernhardi herbarium 
_« The library c 3,257 books and pamphlets, and d 165,969 index: cards. ¢ 
__ A very full statement is made of the p rcourse 
