"\* 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 Gardening. In the names of fruits, it adopts the catalogue of the American Pomological Society, 

 and in vegetables the Station Horticulturists' revision in Anita Is of Horticulture. In florists' pla?ils, 

 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 wliich 

 are derived from proper nouns. 



The American Garden for December, closing the 

 eleventh volume, will be an unusually attractive number. 



Accompanying it will be an Illustrated Supplement on 

 Window Gardening, which will contain many valuable 

 and interesting contributions upon this subject, in an 

 attractive form. Every one of our readers who grows a 

 single plant in the chill winter will find matter of essen- 

 tial value in this supplement. The various departments 

 of the magazine will also contain articles of great inter- 

 est and illustrations of more than usual beauty. A com- 

 prehensive index will also accompany the December 

 issue. 



With the high aim of producing a magazine yet more 

 worthy of the great field of Horticulture, we shall use 

 all our resources to make The American Garden for 

 1891 far superior to anything of the kind ever offered to 

 the people of this country. An idea of the many spec- 

 ially attractive features prepared for our readers can be 

 had from the prospectus to be found in the Publisher's 

 Desk. 



Parker & Wood, Boston, are introducing a novel and 

 meritorious folding wire plant-stand for house plants. 



Professor Frank Gui.lev, late director of the Texas 

 Experiment Station, has assumed the directorship of the 

 Arizona Station. 



The Western Garden and Poultry Journal is a 

 new monthly published at Des Moines, Iowa, with Chas. 

 N. Page as editor. 



S1EBRECHT& Wadley, New Rochelle, near New York, 

 have one of the finest displays of tuberous begonias 

 ever made. It is a remarkable collection. 



Professor H. E. Stockbridge has accepted the pres- 

 idency of the North Dakota agricultural college. He 

 leaves the directorship of the Indiana Station. 



Professor T. L. Brunk, late of the Texas Agricul- 

 tural College and Experiment Station, becomes profes- 

 sor of horticulture in the Maryland institution. 



A. B. Cordley leaves an assistantship in the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College to become entomologist to the 

 Vermont Station and professor in the University. 



Dr. George L. Goodale, professor of botany in 

 Harvard University, sailed eastward Sept. 24th, for a 

 trip around the world. He goes with a fine equipment 

 for photographing and studying the floras of the many 

 regions he will visit. 



The signal service will be transferred from the War 

 Department to the Department of Agriculture. This 

 transfer removes the weather observers from the army 

 and makes them civil citizens. In one way and another 

 the agricultural interests are coming to be recognized 

 as paramount. 



The officers of the Botanical Club of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science for the next 

 year, are as follows ; Wm. M. Canby, Wilmington, Del- 

 aware, president ; Professor L. M. Underwood, Syra- 

 cuse University, vice president ; B. T. Galloway, Wash- 

 ington, secretary. 



California and Oregon appear to be the only states 

 which have a good crop of fruit this year. Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Michigan and some other central states have 

 very small crops, but in all the eastern states the crops 

 of orchard fruits are very small, and mostly very poor. 

 Grapes and cranberries are yielding well the country 

 over. Those who sprayed for the black rot are rejoic- 

 ing at the result. 



Chicago Horticulture. — The Chicago Society, of 

 which we spoke in the last issue (p. 620), has been in- 

 corporated as the Cook County Horticultural and Agri- 

 cultural Society. The officers are as follows : John N. 

 Young, president ; Andrew Dunning, vice president ; 

 Robert Clark, secretary and treasurer. The directors 

 are F. R. Crandon, Evanston ; Andrew Dunning, Dun- 

 ning Station ; John Ure, Argyle Park ; Robert Clark, J. 

 A. Mason and Rufus Hall, Chicago. It is proposed to 

 hold a flower show this fall. 



