*;^.* Thk American Garden stands for simplicity, ^ood taste and correctness in names of varieties. In- general botanical nomen- 

 clature it follows Bentham and Hooker and Nicholson^ s Dictionary of Gardening. In the names of fruits, it adopts the catalogue of 

 the American Pomological Society, and in vegetables the Horticulturists' revision in Annals of Horticulture. In florists' plants, it follows 

 the determinations of the Nomenclature committee of the Society of American Florists. It opposes trinomial nomenclature, and therefore 

 places a comma or the abbreviation var. between the specific and varietal names. It uses capital initials for all specific and varietal 

 Latin names which arc derived from pi oper nouns. 



Professor C. P. Gillette, entomologist, has left the 

 Iowa Agricultural College for a similar position in the 

 Colorado College. 



Jean Francois Henry Sisley, the well known 

 French horticulturist, died at Lyons, the 12th of Jan- 

 uary, in his 87th year, 



1'kofessor C. M, Weei.i leaves the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity in April to become Professor of Entomology and 

 Zoology in Dartmouth College. 



Fruit Prospects are thus far good all over the country. 

 The winter in Minnesota has been very mild, and the 

 prospects are good for all fruits. 



E. G. LoDEMAN has been made assistant horticulturist 

 at Cornell University, vice W. M. Munson, who be- 

 comes professor of horticulture in Maine. 



Benjamin C. Townsend, once president of the New 

 York Horticultural Society, died at his home at Bay 

 Ridge, on Long Island, January 13, in his 73d year. 



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Mountain Fleece. — I have tried the mountain fleece 

 {Polygouiiin o.xyacanthu}!! var.) in the Pine Grove Ceme- 

 tery and it has given perfect satisfaction, and has at- 

 tracted much attention. — Wm. Stone, Sup' I., Lyuu^ 



Mass. 



W. A. Taylor, of Douglas, Michigan, a graduate of 

 the Michigan Agricultural College a few years since, 

 becomes assistant pomologist of the Department of Ag- 

 riculture at Washington. Mr. Taylor is a practical 

 fruit grower. 



The Horticultural Society of Southern Illinois was or- 

 ganized last December, for the southern forty-one coun- 

 ties of the State. The first annual meeting was held 

 last month, (February) at Centralia. The following 

 are the officers: President, E. A. Riehl, Alton; ist 

 vice-president, R. T. Fry, Olney ; 2d vice-president. 



Thomas Buckle, Villa Ridge ; 3d vice-president. Dr. 

 Daniel Berry, Carmi ; secretary, E. G. Mendenhall, 

 Kinmundy; assistant secretary, W. S. Perrine, Cen- 

 tralia ; treasurer, T. E. Goodrich, Cobden. 



Parks for Children. — The Brooklyn Society for 

 Parks and Play-Grounds for Children has secured the 

 passage of a law by which similar organizations may be 

 authorized and given certain powers in any part of the 

 State, and it is undertaking a commendable missionary 

 work in extending its influence. The intent is to extend 

 such organizations generally throughout the State, with 

 a view to give impulse to and encourage every move- 

 ment among the people in behalf of ample and properly 

 equipped play-grounds and parks for simple recreation 

 and rest. 



New York Orchid Show — The fifth annual orchid 

 show will be held at the Madison Square Garden (New 

 York City) this year. Siebrecht &. Wadley, the promo- 

 ters of these now famous shows and who are also the 

 largest exhibitors at them, found that the otherwise very 

 favorable and suitable Eden Musee is now much too 

 small to hold the exhibition. They have therefore 

 rented the amphitheatre of Madison Square Garden, in 

 itself a mammoth greenhouse or winter garden, and ad- 

 mirably adapted for a grand floral exhibition. The ex- 

 hibition this season will include, besides orchids, any 

 and all choice specimens of other plants, especially 

 all new plants, and the management therefore requests 

 every one to bring or send plants. 



C Fruit Packages. — The city council of Chicago has 

 passed the following ordinance : "No persons, firms, 

 company or corporation shall offer for sale or cause to 

 be sold or offered for sale at retail, within the city of 

 Chicago, any berries or other fruit in baskets, boxes, or 

 other packages except when put up in packages contain- 

 ing a barrel, bushel or some aliquot part of a bushel, 

 according to the table of dry measure. And every 

 such package shall contain the quantity it purports 

 to contain; provided, however, that this section will not 

 apply to dried or preserved fruits or the sale of fruits 

 when retailed b)' the piece. 



