Thk American Garden stands for simplicity ^ good taste and correctness in names of i>arieties. In general botanical nomen- 

 clature it follows Benthajn a7id Hooker and Nicholson'' s Dictionary of Gardening. Lithe names of fruits, it adopts the catalogue oj 

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

 the detertninations 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 are derizied frofn proper nouns. 



Fruit Prospects are good in all parts of the country. 



Citrus culture is given particular attention in the 

 March issue of Farmer afid Dealer. 



We have a promise of good peach and general fruit 

 crops in all this region this year. — Parker Earle, Miss. 



A Big Orchid. — Siebrecht & Wadley send us a 

 flower of Plialccnopsis amabilis var. Dayana which meas- 

 ures a trifle over four inches across. This is the largest 

 one we have seen. 



Pansy Sale. — M. B. Faxon made an exhibition of 

 pansies at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Hall 

 from March 31st to April 3rd. The collection was sold 

 at auction April 4th. 



LiNDENiA, the famous orchid journal of Belgium, is 

 now published in an American edition which can be ob- 

 tained through the agency of The American Garden at 

 $6 per year. This is one of the most magnificent jour- 

 nals published. Each issue contains a number of large 

 colored plates. The journal is monthly and is edited by 

 J. and Lucien Linden, Em. Rodigas and R. A. Rolfe. 



Mrs. Isobel Henderson Floyd, daughter of the late 

 Peter Henderson, has written a bright novel of Bermuda 

 life which she calls " Stolen America." The motive of 

 the book is to show our need of coast defenses, by por- 

 traying the strength of the English fortifications upon 

 Bermuda. These islands should have been an American 

 strategetic point, rather than an English, and they are, 

 therefore, "stolen." But aside from the motive, the 

 story is an entertaining one. 



The Michigan Horticultural Society has decided 

 to ask that fifteen per cent, of the amount to be appro- 

 priated by Michigan for the Columbian Exposition 

 should be devoted to the display of the horticultural 

 interest. It was held that the best results could be 

 obtained by transplanting orchards and setting out fruit- 



age over as large an acreage as Michigan could secure 

 from the fair commissioners ; that it would be necessary 

 to make a complete show of early and late fruit interests, 

 to be done by preservation in cold storage if impossible 

 otherwise, and also that a complete exhibition of the 

 methods of culture and of fruit food products would be 

 necessary. The Society also declared in favor of the 

 bill before the legislature prohibiting the spraying of 

 fruit trees with Paris green or other poisons while the 

 trees are in blossom. 



Size of Packages. — Michigan peach growers are 

 greatly exercised over the the recent Chicago ordinance 

 that no packages shall be allowed except those represent- 

 ing aliquot parts of a bushel (see page 172, March issue). 

 This forbids the use of the fifth bushel Michigan peach 

 basket. The Saugatuck and Ganges Pomological Soci- 

 ety opposes the ordinance, and it has adopted the fol- 

 lowing expression of its opinion : " This society depre- 

 cates the action of the common council of Chicago in re- 

 gard to size of baskets, for the reason that we have an 

 immense amount of fifth baskets on hand, and that our 

 factories have their machinery in shape to manufacture 

 that size ; and that we desire the city to allow ns to ship as 

 we have done, and that the baskets be sold for what they 

 are on their merits." The society favors the fifth bushel 

 basket. The South Haven and Casco Pomological So- 

 ciety, however, twenty miles north of Saugatuck, takes 

 a different view of the matter, and it has unanimously 

 voted "that we are in full accord with the Chicago or- 

 dinance in favor of full packages and honest packing." 



Horticulture in the Saginaw Valley. — The Bay 

 County, Michigan, Horticultural Society was organized 

 the 16th of last January, and it already has a strong 

 and enthusiastic membership. From the 5th to the 

 iith of next November it will hold a flower show in 

 which chrysanthemuns will be the leading feature. 

 ' ' Arrangements have been made to give the exhibition on 

 a larger scale than has ever been attempted in the west. 

 The society has the necessary funds to offer special in- 

 ducements to exhibitors from a distance coming here and 



