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in a widening circle in the deep humus, which dried before it. 
A few hours later the fall of the blazing pine would have seta 
conflagration on its way that would have burned a hundred 
square miles of magnificent forest before we could have had the 
least hope of checking it. 
D. T. MacDouecat. 
THE JUNE MEETING OF THE HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 
The June meeting and flower show of the Horticultural So- 
ciety took place on June 11 and 12, at the Botanical Garden, 
when a very creditable display of flowers was made. Mr. 
ticultural Prospects,’ in which he showed how the afore-time 
distinctions between agriculture and horticulture were gradually 
being removed as the one adopted and absorbed the methods of 
the other. The speaker drew attention to the fact that horti- 
culture had until very recently progressed by experience alone 
but that now there was a concentration of scientific effort toward 
the bettering of practice and methods. At no time had the pros- 
pect been brighter. In other branches of investigation great re- 
sults had accrued from the occasional efforts of investigators, 
but now in each state of the union were skilled men devoting 
their time incessantly to the-cause of horticulture, and there 
could be but one result of all this. 
A feature of the exhibition was in the offer of the American 
Rose Society's silver medal for the best collection of garden 
roses. The award went to T. Bell, gardener to F. R. Newbold, 
Poughkeepsie, who had 24 vases of finely grown flowers. Mrs. 
J. B. Trevor (H. Nichols, gardener), Yonkers, N. Y., was the 
winner for H. P. Roses in the collection and also for the best one 
variety, having Mad. G. Luizet in this case. The strawberries 
from this exhibitor were not only the finest in the show, but were 
of exceptional quality, especially Marshall and Nick Ohmer. 
W. Scott, gardener for Joseph Eastman, Tarrytown, was first for 
a collection of five varieties, and also had prizes for single dishes. 
