Thk American Garden stands for simplicity , good taste and correctness m tiames of varieties. In general botanical nomen- 

 clature itfollouus Benthani 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 \3.r. between the specific and varietal names. It uses capital initials for all specific and varietal 

 Latin names which are derived from proper nouns. 



The Bowker Fertilizer Co. has prepared two special 

 cranberry fertilizers — one for old bogs, and one for new. 



Professor Webster, of the United States Entomo- 

 logical Division, for some time stationed at Purdue Uni- 

 versity, goes to the Ohio Experiment Station. He is still 

 connected with the government work. 



Professor A. B, Cardley, of the University of Ver- 

 mont, has accepted a position with the Division of En- 

 tomology of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and will spend the summer in Louisiana. 



F. W. Taylor, of the nursery firm of Taylor Bros., 

 Omaha, has been elected professor of horticulture in the 

 University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He has already 

 assumed charge of the work, but will not move to Lin- 

 coln permanently until fall. 



W. N. Irwin, of South Salem, Ohio, was appointed 

 April 1, i8gi, a clerk in the Pomological Division of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture to take the place of 

 W. R. King, who has resigned to establish a tropical 

 nursery at Patuca, in Honduras. 



Fruit Prospects in Central Indiana. — There has 

 never been a more flattering prospect for fruit of all 

 kinds for many years than we had this spring, but the 

 frosts of the 4th to 6th of May destroyed most of the 

 grapes, where exposed, and a large percent, of the early 

 strawberries. Orchard fruits were not injured so badly ; 

 they were too far along. — Professor Troop, PitJ-diit 

 University . 



A mild sort of peach yellows law has just passed the 

 Delaware Legislature. It is said to be an improvement 

 on the first law, but does not include Newcastle county, 

 or the Two Hundreds (townships) in Kent, which are 

 most seriously affected . It was a compromise. — E. F. S., 

 Dover. 



Burnham Industrial Farm. — One of the most novel, 

 and apparently beneficent institutions to which our atten- 

 tion has lately been directed, is the Burnham Industrial 

 Farm at Canaan-Four-Corners, N. Y., near the Hudson 

 river. "The farm is to train unruly boys. It teaches 

 simple trade and furnishes a common school education. 

 It is run by a band of unpaid consecrated men who are 

 in training for institutional lives. It receives boys from 

 8 to 16 years of age." 



It is the purpose of the institution to snatch wayward 

 boys "upon whom the ordinary restraints of social life 

 have lost their effect," and to discipline them and direct 

 their attention to farm work and country life. 



Fruit Prospects in Southern Indiana. — In the last 

 week I have carefully examined the fruit crop and find 

 the promise usually good. I wrote you some three years 

 ago extolling the Keiffer pear. I cannot do so to-day ; 

 it is proving almost a failure with us, by the too early 

 opening of the fruit buds and their loss by cold weather. 

 Can this be remedied ? If so, the Keiffer is the most 

 profitable pear to grow. The Bartlett is the best pear 

 we have ; closely following comes the Anjou. Howell 

 is always safe to plant ; so is the Sheldon. I visited a 

 pear orchard set out by myself twenty-eight years ago ; 

 above all towers the Bartlett and the White Doyenne, 

 and that grand old dwarf, Angouleme. — A. C. Bates,. 

 Rockville, Ind. 



The Frost in Delaware — Yellows Law. — This cold 

 snap (May 7) has frightened everybody. Monday night 

 ice formed one-sixteenth inch thick, but peaches do not 

 seem to be affected ; but tips of vines and young sassa- 

 fras bushes are black and drooping in places. Snow and 

 hail yesterday. 



New York Botanic Garden. — The movement for the 

 establishment of a botanic garden at the metropolis 

 seems to be making substantial progress. A meeting 

 was held May 12, when plans were discussed and com- 

 mittees organized. Cornelius Vanderbilt, as chairman, 

 appointed the following well-known men as members of 



