GARDEN AND FOREST 



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Professor C. S. SaR( 



NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1892. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



The Golden-leaved C 



ninoi 



lirornia. (With figure.) 121 



Mrs. J. If. Rabbins. 122 



irope.— IX. 5- G. fact: 723 



• • • T.H. ffoskins, M.D. 125 



"lens E.P.Puwtll. i« 



IK If. Tallin. 126 



•■• %tf. Gerard. 126 



. 128 



hid Monis:-Orclii.i»..l North liaston. Massa....... 



Orchids in Flower in New York City .' . " 5 



"coSu^^ CkanlerUn. *j 



The Danger of Delay in Acquiring Land for Public Ui 



Proceedings of 'the American Academy of Arts and Science, 

 and containing the descriptions of many new species of 

 plants and the elaboration of various groups and genera ■ 

 and of the first part of the Bibliographical Index io North 

 American Botany, a most useful work of much research and 

 learning, in which are cited the authorities for all American 

 plants, with a chronological arrangement of their synonymy. 

 Mr. Watson edited the unpublished work on North American 

 Mosses of Lesquereux and James, and more recently, with 

 Professor Coulter, a new edition of Gray's Manual of the 

 Botany of the United States. He was a valued contributor 

 to the columns of this journal, and the earlier volumes con- 

 tain his descriptions of many new and interesting plants. 

 On the death of Professor Gray, four years ago, Mr. Watson 

 was made curator of the Gray Herbarium and Library, and 

 the last years of his life have been spent in administering 

 these great collections, which make Harvard one of the 

 important centres of botanical research. 



Mr. Watson was a silent man, retiring and self-con- 

 tained, always genial and kind, of marvelous capacity for 

 sustained labor, and untiring in helping others. This is 

 not the occasion to discuss his position among the botan- 

 ists of the period ; and just now our thoughts are full of 

 the man, the old and trusted friend and associate, whose 

 death takes from us the example and inspiration of a modest 

 and well-spent life of noble endeavor and useful labor. 



Apples for the North-west. 



ff. IV. 



Sereno Watson. 



SERENO WATSON, the Curator of the Herbarium of 

 Harvard College, a man of high character and sound 

 learning, and since the death of Asa Gray the foremost sys- 

 tematic botanist in America, died at his home in Cambrido- e 

 on the 9th instant after a long and painful illness. He was 

 born on the ist of December, 1826, at East Windsor Hill, 

 Connecticut, one of the youngest of a large family, and 

 graduated in 1847 from Yale College; then, having taught 

 school for several years in different states, he studied medi- 

 cine at the University of New York, and later, with an older 

 brother, established as a physician at Quincy, Illinois. He 

 practiced his profession for two years, and then aban- 

 doned it to become Secretary of the Planters' Insurance 

 Company of Greenboro', Alabama, a position which he 

 occupied from 1S56 to 186 r. It was at this time that Mr. 

 Watson began seriously to study plants, although it was 

 not until seven years later, after a term in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, that he became a professional bota- 

 nist. He was in California in 1868, and sought and 

 obtained the position of botanist to the United States 

 Geological Expedition, which, under the leadership of 

 Clarence King, explored the territory in western America 

 adjacent to the fortieth parallel of latitude. He was en- 

 gaged in field-work principally in centra] Nevada and Utah 

 during the seasons of 1868 and 1869, and published in 1871, 

 with the aid of Professor Eaton, the results of his investi- 

 gations of the flora of the Great Basin, his report forming 

 the fifth volume of King's Report of the Geological Explora- 

 tion of the Fortieth Parallel. Watson was now invited by 

 Professor Gray to become his assistant at Cambridge, and 

 the remainder of his life has been devoted to the study of 

 the flora of North America and to the care and improve- 

 ment of the Gray Herbarium and Library. 



His publications since his connection with Harvard Col- 

 lege have been important ; they consist of The Botany of 

 California, in connection with Professor Wm. H. Brewer 

 and several specialists ; of eighteen numbers of Contribu- 

 tions io North American Botany, chiefly published in the 



