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periodical collapse, during which the obvious corollary, 

 so far as quantitative analysis develops in the elongated 

 ellipsoid of the cranium in its tumid state, all tends to a 

 paroxysm fatal to pure English." "Where" said he, 

 with fixed fire in his eye, "can you find two who will 

 agree to the exact pronunciation of dahlia, fuchsia, 

 clematis, and hosts of similar barbarous Latin desig- 

 nations ?" "When," he said, " I stood on the littoral 

 diabase of the ampitheatre in the archipelago where I 

 could identify by the aid of petroleum in the fenestral 

 alcoves of the castellated structures, in the period of my 

 adolescence, as I did diurnally nocturally, tertianally, 

 quotidianally, and continually ; there was no Latin 

 lingo to confuse the mind." The legumes and the fol- 

 licles masticated by the heterogenous population of his 

 natal home need no Latin to properly engulph them. 

 He firmly believed there would be no oidium among 

 the French vignerons, only for Latin ot Greek names. 

 This was the primary and irremediable trouble, which 

 needed no opthalmoscope to discover. There was no 

 fatiguing necromantic phantom, obstructing this sensory 

 operation. It seems to me, Mr. Editor, there is im- 

 mobility in the facts he presents. Let us have good 

 English, I say, and down with the hard unpronounce- 

 able pedantic Latin names. — Julius Rhowbotham. 



P. S. — Please do not omit the // in the first syllable, as, 

 though I am of English descent, our family was origin- 

 ally Greek. 



A Woman's Floral Colony. — One of the garden 

 spots of California is on the sheltered slope of San 

 Mateo county, twenty-five or thii^ty miles south of San 

 Francisco. This is the region west of the Bay that cor- 

 responds most nearly with the sheltered hill-slopes and 

 valleys east of the Bay around Niles and the Mission 

 San Jose. Here, near Palo Alto, an association of about 

 a hundred women, all ex-teachers, have bought ninety 

 acres of land on University Heights. Each member 

 holds a title-deed to her piece of land, but agrees to cul- 

 tivate seeds, bulbs, and cut flowers. Two of the first 

 ladies to organize the movement are Mrs. C. A. Ed- 

 munds and Mrs. N. J. Ashton, of Oakland. They can 

 secure three hundred acres of land adjoining the tract 

 they now own, and work has been commenced on a 

 number of cottages. There will be forty or more of the 

 colonists living on the tract within a year. Senator 

 Leland Stanford and his wife have been very much in- 

 terested in the floral colony, and a great many others 

 are watching its progress. — Charles H. Shinn. 



Nurserymen's Convention. — Our friends propose, 

 at this session of their Association, to have on hand good 

 speakers who will read papers on subjects of interest to 

 the trade. Professors Roberts, Bailey, Budd, Fernow 

 and Galloway, Hon. H. E. Van Deman, of the Division 

 of Pomology, Department of Agriculture, A. S. Fuller 

 and other well known practical workers, will be in atten- 

 dance. 



A New Celery Pest. — The tarnished plant bug 

 must be added to the list of insect enemies of celery. 

 A recent letter from an extensive gardener and fruit- 



grower in Kansas informs me that unless he can find 



some effective remedy 

 for this pest he will 

 have to give up grow- 

 ing celery. The bugs 

 appear on the plants by 

 the thousands, and by 

 sucking the sap from 

 the leaves ruin them. 



This insect is a very 

 common and widely dis- 

 tributed species. The 

 adult, represented 

 greatly magnified in the 

 accompanying figure, is 



about one-fifth of an . ^ 



, , ,, ■ , A Celery Pest. 



inch long, yellowish- 

 brown or greenish-yellow in color, with five whitish lines 

 just back of the head. It is one of the true bugs, ob- 

 taining its food through a beak with which it punctures 

 a great variety of plants. It is often especially destruct- 

 ive to pear and apple blossoms, strawberries, potatoes, 

 cabbage, and numerous other fruits and vegetables. 



When practicable, one of the surest ways of destroy- 

 ing these tarnished plant bugs is to shake them oft the 

 infested plants early in the morning, while they are yet 

 sluggish from the cold, into a vessel containing a film of 

 kerosene. This is a sure cure for those that are caught. 

 Pyrethrum, or buhach, provided always it is fresh and 

 unadulterated, is probably as good a topical application 

 as can be made. Kerosene emulsion is also generally 

 recommended, but my Kansas correspondent says it 



Horticultural Registration: The California Idea. 

 At a recent meeting of the State Floral Society of Cali- 

 fornia, three persons were appointed to meet three 

 others from the State Horticultural Society, and this 

 committee sent out invitations to about a hundred 

 prominent botanists, fruit-growers, florists, and ama- 

 teur writers in different parts of the state. A meeting 

 was held April 17th, and a permanent organization 

 effected. Among those who were interested, and were 

 either present or sent letters of approval, were General 

 John Bidwell, Dr. Herman H. Behr, T. S. Brandegee, 

 Luther Burbank, Leonard Coates, Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, 

 Elwood Cooper, Timothy Hopkins, L. M. Holt, A, L. 

 Bancroft, Arpad Haraszthy, A. T. Hatch, Prof. E. W. 

 Hilgard, Abbot Kinney, F. A. Miller, Mayor E. B. 

 Pond, E. E, Smith, B. M. Belong, George Rice of the 

 Bureau of Horticulture, John Rock, G. ^P. Rixford, 

 John N, Sievers, Dr. Harkness, and many others 

 prominent in various departments of horticulture. 



A full and free discussion of the practicality of for- 

 mulating a "plan for plant registration," occupied the 

 entire afternoon. The value of such a work was ad- 

 mitted by all present, but the entire force of the meet 

 ing w^as directed to the problem : "How far it ie best 

 to go ?" Theoretically, it was said, registration should 

 be "of all species and varieties of plant life, and 

 should secure to the originators of new varieties of 



