*.;{.* The American Garden stands for simplicity , good taste, and correctness in names of varie- 

 ties. In general botanical nomenclature, it follows Bentham and Hooker and Nicholson' s Dictionary 

 of Gardeni}ig. In the names of fruits, it adopts the catalogue of the American Pomological Society, 

 and in vegetables the Station 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. 



Hon, Edwin Wii.lits, Assistant Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, has been placed in charge of the government 

 exhibit at the World's Fair. This is the best appoint- 

 ment that could have been made, and assures a broad 

 and comprehensive management of what must be the 

 most important showing at the Columbian Exposition, 



Henry L. Vilmorin, of the old and well-known seed 

 firm of Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie., of Paris, has been 

 making a hasty trip through the east, visiting customers 

 and examining our horticultural industries. His firm is 

 a large exporter to and importer from the United States. 



T. T. Lyon, president of the Michigan Horticultural 

 Society, and one of the best pomologists in the land, has 

 been appointed a permanent special agent of the 

 National Division of Pomology. He will attend the 

 various meetings of state and other horticultural 

 societies, pomological fairs and exhibitions, and will 

 gather and disseminate all the information possible by 

 participating in the discussions and by examining and col- 

 lecting specimens. He will probably have some special 

 work in the line of reciprocity and co-operation with the 

 national, state and local horticultural societies. This 

 will greatly popularize the work of the division. 



Fruit in Oregon. — The horticulturist's prospects are 

 bright. All over the state the fruit crop is larger than 

 for several years past. With one or two exceptions, the 

 entire state is blessed with a full crop of the best fruit. 

 Good prices prevail for green, canned and evaporated 

 fruit. The leading canning and evaporating establish- 

 ment in our state — the Salem Canning Company — has 

 the following schedule of prices per cwt. for present 

 material: Peas, $1.35 ; beans, $1.20 ; tomatoes, 90 cts. ; 

 plums, peaches, $1 ; green gage, Jefferson and Colum- 

 bia, 75 cts. For evaporating, they will pay $1.50 for the 

 Italians, and pay freight when not shipped more than 

 100 miles. — Professor E. R. Lake, Oregon. 



The B. A. Elliott Company, of Pittsburg, issues a 

 unique and tasty pamphlet and catalogue of "Fall 

 Garden Work," in which particular attention is called to 

 the interesting Japanese irises, and to the importance of 



planting hardy plants in the fall. They advise to plant 

 everything possible in the fall, as a whole year is saved ; 

 not only the spring flowering bulbs, such as hyacinths, 

 tulips, narcissi, etc., as they cannot be obtained at any 

 other season, but many other things. If you are going 

 to raise lilies, plant them by all means in the fall ; L. 

 candiduin should go in just as soon as they can be 

 obtained — the latter part of August or the first of Sep- 

 tember. Many of the failures in lily growing come 

 from late spring planting. 



The Outlook for Apples in Michigan. — Again will 

 Michigan apples command the high prices of last year, 

 and probably even greater ; for our state has the best 

 crop of winter fruit there is anywhere in the Union, 

 albeit the same is not more than half the yield of aver- 

 age years. But western New York has a very shprt 

 crop of inferior fruit and elsewhere there is little or 

 none, except that in Maine, which has of recent years 

 progressed rapidly as an apple-growing region, the fruit 

 is reported to be in fair supply. 



Our latest crop report says that there will be forty- 

 eight per cent, of an average crop in the southern coun- 

 ties, sixty-four in the central and fifty-eight in the north- 

 ern. This is a loss in condition within a month of forty- 

 four per cent, in southern counties, thirty-eight in the 

 central and twenty-four in the northern. Many corres- 

 pondents report that the apples have nearly all fallen 

 from the trees, and that in their localities the crop will 

 be a total failure. 



So far as we are informed, the most fruit will be found 

 in a belt beginning with eastern Allegan county and 

 extending eastward across the state, including a tract 

 twenty-five to forty miles in width. — Allegan (^Mich.) 

 Gazette. 



Preliminary measures have been taken towards 

 organizing a general horticultural society in Chicago. 

 It is desired to establish it upon a basis similar to that 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which is the 

 best horticultural society in the New World. The fol- 

 lowing persons are the original movers in the undertak- 

 ing, and they issued the call for the first meeting, which 

 was held August 21 : John L. Beveridge, F. P. Cran- 



