The American Garden stands for simplicity, good 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 oj 

 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 are derived from proper nouns. 



sition. Potted plants will be well taken care of in a build- 

 ing specially designed for their welfare. Hardy trees 

 will be placed in the open ground. Please let me know 

 what you can send. We particularly wish to keep up a 

 display of fruit all through the Exposition. Mark on 

 shipments, Southern Inter-State Exposition Grounds. 

 Address, W. F. Massey, Raleigh, N. C. 



Tne newly appointed and confirmed chief of horticul- 

 ture for the World's Fair, John M. Samuels, is 43 years 

 of age and a native of Kentucky. He has been and still 

 is very actively engaged in the nursery business and in 

 extensive fruit growing operations in the south. In the 

 course of his business he has visited nearly every state 

 in the Union, and has also inspected the horticultural 

 centers of Europe. His experience and broad culture, 

 combined with activity and energy, promise good results 

 for the division of horticulture, and there is general sat- 

 isfaction at his appointment after the long contention 

 against the efforts of the wine interests to make horticul- 

 ture a tail to their kite. 



Readers of The American Garden are requested to 

 bag a few tomatoes, selecting those of small size — an inch 

 or so in diameter. Then let them mark other tomatoes 

 of the same size for comparison. If, as has occurred at 

 the experiment grounds of the Rural New- Yorker, the 

 bagged specimens ripen fully and evenly a week or more 

 before those not bagged, it is evident that bagging the 

 earliest set fruits will prove a profitable thing for those 

 who aim to be among the first in the market. For sev- 

 eral years past, the earliest tomatoes have brought such 

 high prices as to render culture under glass remunerative. 

 Oddly enough, bagging intensifies the color, and causes 

 the flesh about the stem to ripen as early and perfectly 

 as any other part. 



New Grape, Early Ohio. — C. S. Curtis, Co., Port- 

 land, N. Y. sent a basket of this grape under date of 

 Sept. 3. They write : "We have been picking since 

 August 24. Last year we picked the vines nearly clean 

 August 17 and 18, and for the four years we have tested 

 it, it has proven to be one to two weeks earlier than 



Do not overlook ihe announcement of the great com- 

 bination of the two foremost horticultural journals 

 in America, POPULAR Gardening and The American Gar- 

 den, on adveitisutg page 4, just preceding the frontispiece. 



■ . ■ The subscription price of this magazine from January 

 I will be $1 a year, reduced on account of the combination 

 with Popular Gardening, without any reduction in the value 

 or beauty of the magazine. We hope this will induce every 

 present reader to send us at least five new subscriptions for 

 1892. 



■ . • Next month we shall ask ran to vote on a name for the 

 combination journal. The three names now being discussed 

 are: i. The American Garden. 2. Vopiilar Gardening. 

 ^. Gardening. 



James Cole, recently with Standish & Co., Ascot, has 

 been engaged as manager to the famous begonia growers 

 and nurserymen, Messrs. John Laing & Sons, Forest 

 Hill, near London, England. Mr. Cole was formerly 

 with Geo. Such, at South Amboy, N. J. 



John Thorpe, the chief of floriculture of the World's 

 Fair, is well known among American florists. He is of 

 English birth, 49 years of age, and has had a thorough 

 practical training. In America since 1874, he has at- 

 tained here a deservedly high rank for ability and broad 

 culture in all plant matters. 



"Modern Greenhouse Heating" is the title of an 

 attractive and valuable brochure from the Herendeen 

 Mansfacturing Co., Geneva, N. Y. It is one of the most 

 impartial discussions of greenhouse heating which we 

 have seen. If one does not care to read a manufacturer's 

 view of the subject, he can find in it the best papers writ- 

 ten by well-known florists, among whom we notice the 

 names of J. D, Raynolds, J. N. May, W. H. Elliott, and 

 others. 



Southern Inter-State Exposition. — Having been 

 appointed chief of the horticultural division for the 

 great exposition to be held at Raleigh October ist to 

 December ist, i8gi, I take the liberty to urge all pro- 

 gressive horticulturists to make an exhibit at the Expo- 



