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John IVf . Samuels. 
We are glad to present to our readers 
herewith an excellent portrait of Mr. John 
M. Samuels, Chief of the Bureau of Horti- 
culture of the World’s Columbian Exposi- 
tion, whose appointment we announced last 
month and which has since been confirmed. 
Mr. Samuels was born in eastern Ken- 
tucky in 1848 and is consequently now forty- 
three years of age. In 1852 his father re- 
moved to western Kentucky, where he en- 
gaged in the nursery business which he still 
conducts, and there he received his educa- 
tion and assisted his father in his business 
until he reached his majority. In 1869, 
when twenty-one years old, 
concerning the requirements of the Floral 
display at the Exposition: 
An effort may be made to change the lo- 
cation of the Horticultural Building at the 
World's Columbian Exposition to a place 
where the building, or at least the central 
portion, may remain as a permanent con- 
J servatory after the close of the great expo- 
sition. The large island in the lagoon has 
been suggested as an excellent permanent 
site, and the building could be placed there 
without necessarily destroying all the trees. 
The main part of the building could be erect- 
ed as a permanency and the wings and an- 
1 nexes so built that they could be readily re- 
py. In addition to these there will be 
brought from their habitats specimens of 
tree ferns, palms, crotons and similar dec- 
rative plants of larger size than any ever 
seen here before — giants, such as have never 
before been in cultivation, and such as no 
existing conservatory would be large enough 
to house. All these will be gathered togeth- 
er in the groat horticnltural building at the 
Fair, and it is of vast importance to horti- 
culture that such a magnificent collection 
should be made permanent. 
We trust that the powers that be will 
weigh the matter carefully, and if the site 
already assigned the horticultural building 
Is not eligible for a perina- 
he established the Louisiana 
Nurseries at Shreveport. 
La., which are still in oper- 
ation. He remained there 
till 1874 when he returned 
to Kentucky and secured a 
half interest in the Missis- 
sippi Valley Nurseries, with 
his father, at Clinton, which 
interest he still retains. He 
also invested in land in the 
states of Mississippi, Ten- 
nessee and Florida, upon 
which he has established 
orchards of fruits suited to 
the locality. He cultivated 
small fruits also, and at one 
time had a total of 160 acres 
of strawberries. He has 
been engaged in horticultu- 
ral pursuits all his life, main- 
ly in the growing of fruits 
and nursery stock — both de- 
ciduous and citrus fruits, 
and dealing in same, and in 
the course of this work has 
visited every state and terri- 
tory of the Union with but 
two exceptions. He has also 
visited the principal horti- 
cultural centres of Europe, 
and has had opportunity of 
becoming familiar with the 
details of nearly every 
branch of horticulture both 
at home and abroad. 
He was a large exhibitor 
at the New Orleans World’s 
Exposition, and was award- 
ed thirty-five premiums and 
five gold and silver medals. 
Under his leadership we may hope to see 
the horticultural department at the fair 
made what it ought to be, a representative 
exhibit of horticulture as it exists to-day, 
with every detail given the prominence due 
it to make it a perfect picture of the whole. 
For the facts in this brief sketch of Mr. 
Samuels, we are indebted to that live and 
able journal. The American Florist. 
Floriculture at the Fair. 
Mr. John Thorpe, the newly appointed 
Chief of the Floricultural branch of the De- 
partment of Horticulture. writes as follows, 
John : M. Samuels. 
moved after the close of the fair, without 
in any way injuring the architectural effect 
of the main part. 
It is believed that if the Horticultural 
Building is to be made a permanency many 
contributions of immense specimen plants 
can be secured that would otherwise be 
withheld, as the owners while willing to 
send such specimens to form part of a per- 
manent national collection, would be loath 
to run the risk of their total loss simply for 
a few month's display. And to such an ex- 
hibition would be contributed many large 
specimens that have outgrown the limits of 
conservatories which they at present occu- 
nent conservatory, that such 
change be at once made as 
to permit the execution of 
the plan above outlined. 
Book Review. 
Celery Growing and Marketing 
a Success. By Homer L. Stewart. 
Every farmer’s boy ten years old 
knows that the big profits in farm- 
ing now-a-days are made in raising 
food for human beiugs rather than 
food for the brute creation. The 
growing of an acre of stuff like Cel- 
ery brings many times the dollars 
that growing of corn or oats brings. 
Mr. H. L. Stewart, of Tecumseh, 
Michigan, has a national fame as a 
Celery grower. He has made a for- 
tune for himself. He gets special 
orders from the famous Delmonico 
restaurant in New York City and 
the leading hotels all over the coun- 
try that buy the best of every* hing 
to eat, regardless of cost. In this 
handsomely bound and finely illus- 
trated book, Mr. Stewart has point- 
ed out to others how he saved $41, 
000.00 net cash growing celery on a 
small farm. Anybody that wants 
to know how to grow this big pay- 
ing crop and make the most money 
out of it should enclose $2.00 to Mr. 
Stewart for a copy of the book, and 
state that he saw the notice of it 
in this paper. 
California Fruits and How to 
Grow Them. By Edward J. Wick- 
son, A. M. A manuel of methods 
which have yielded greatest success: 
with lists of varieties best adapted 
to the different districts of the state. 
This is a book of nearly 600 octavo 
pages illustrated with a large num- 
ber of excellent engravings accom- 
panied with the plainest and most 
comprehensible of text. The au- 
thor seems to have spared no pains 
nor research to make the book com. 
plete and it is well written and entirely practical. The 
fruit growers of California are to be congratulated up- 
on the advent of such a valuable aid to them as this 
appears to be. It embodies also the experience and 
methods of hundreds of successful growers and consti- 
tutes a trustworthy guide for the inexperienced. Pub- 
lished by Dewey & Co., San Francisco, Cal. Price,$3.00. 
Catalogues Received. 
J. T. Lovett Co., Little Silver, N. J. Lovett’s Illus- 
trated Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and 
Plant' for the Autumn of 1891. A handsome catalogue 
of 64 pages with numerous illustrations and two color- 
ed plates, containing full descriptions of interesting 
and valuable novelties, in addition to all the good old 
standard varieties of Orchard and Small Fruits, Orna- 
mental Trees. Shrubs and Plants, Nut Trees, Herba- 
ceous Plants, Etc., with prices for all. Sent free upon 
application. 
