TEE GARDENER’S MONTHLY. 
217 
1S75. 
that will he highly prized la Europe, where it is\(Oxious or beneficial, on the agriculture or horti- 
culture of the State. Mr. C. V. Riley has filled 
th\office since it was established, and the result 
just now being introduced, 
How different is the scenery near Canyon City, 
where, fresh and green, the young Arkansas 
breaks through that great gap in the mountains. 
No woods are here, such as we have seen in the 
Clear Creek range ; dark clumps of bushy trees 
dot the rocky slopes ; southwestern forms which 
here find their northeastern limit. 
The nut-pine is one of them, the small, round, 
knobby cones of which include large edible seeds, 
well known in the markets of New Mexican 
towns by the name of pinones. Dr. Wislizenus, 
of our city, brought the first specimens of this 
tree from Santa Fe, which I described under the 
name of Pinusedulis. In New Mexico, as well 
as Southern Colorado, the wood is considered the 
very best fire-wood. 
The other tree or bush, as the case may be, 
generally growing with the nut pine, is a kind 
of juniper or cedar —Juniper us occidentahs — 
which I only mention as the last of the thirteen 
Colorado conifers, because said to be an entirely 
useless tree. It does not split, but splinters ; and 
in an open fire cracks and flies, but is excellent 
in a stove. It is used for fences, but splits so 
poorly that it is not otherwise used. 
I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the 
attention with which you have listened to, per¬ 
haps, too dry details ; but let me hope that what 
I have said may add to the interest and pleasure 
with which one or the other of you may hereafter 
visit the forests of the Rocky Mountains. 
EDITORIAL NOTES, 
and Forest.— This is the title of a 
new monthly magazine of Natural History, 
issued by theSgotomac Naturalist’s Club, and 
edited Mr. CharleKR. Dodge. It is much of the 
character of the excett^nt little Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botauical ClulO^ly that it takes in 
every branch of natural mH^ry* Such jpdF 
known scientific names as Dr. Coilb^Dr^^L^oott, 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, Dr. Geo. Yas^*^d Prof. 
Chickering appear as contribuyjrtnTo the p; 
number. >s _, ** 
Report of the SyAtfs Entomologist of the 
State of Mis^otJiti.—As our readers mostly 
know Mis|9*rtf has a State Entomologist, em- 
ployed^iJ^ small salary, to find out all that can be 
known of the insects that may have an influence 
of hlf labors is not only a great benefit to Mis¬ 
souri ^but the whole world feels under an obliga¬ 
tion to\bat State, for what it is doing in this 
line for knowledge. 
The present report has an exhaustive article 
on the PotaW Beetle, containing all that is abso¬ 
lutely known about it both in its natural history, 
and the means \r its destruction. Similar re¬ 
spects are paid tcnthe Chinch bug, so destructive 
to Western wheat fluids. 
Transactions o^jtie Kansas ^tate Hor¬ 
ticultural Society ^or 1874. From Geo. E. 
Brackett, Secretary, La%ence.—ft gives an ab¬ 
stract of the laws that haVe been made by the 
legislature on various arboBicpitural and horti¬ 
cultural topics, and the body W the work made 
up of reports from various p$ftA and discussions 
at the meetings; many of tj^S ess%s are of a high 
order of intelligence, and would flp credit to a 
more pretentious work. /The Repost is not only 
full of interesting mattjf to Kansas individually, 
but shows what Horticulture has donM>r it. 
Transactions oWtiie Illinois States Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. From O. B. GMusha, 
Secretary, Normal, Illinois.—This is a %rge 
volume of 200 |f>ages, beautifully bound, ^nd 
profusely illustj&ted by cuts of injurious iusec^L 
of which fulM 5 descriptive accounts are givenl 
When the g^at value of these Reports are taken V 
into consideration, it is surprising that all the 1 
leading horticulturists and agriculturists of the 
State ar^not members, yet only about one hun¬ 
dred aj^ on the roll. In a prosperous StateJfike 
Illinopthis ought at least be multiplied^Jaften. 
tAnsactions of the ^^a^iiusetts 
Horticultural SociEj^fSf3. From E. W. 
Rfeswell, Corres^idfng Secretary, Boston, 
Massachusett^^t the present time, growing 
in age, tpdionored Society shows all the vigor 
and^tivity of healthy youth. It is not long 
jgince that the publication was commenced, but 
it is quite as useful as the exhibitionss. It is no 
honor to an exhibitor to take premiums unless 
the horticultural world knows of it, nor does the 
world care to know Mr. this or that took a pre¬ 
mium, unless it knows what he took the pre- 
, and all the particulars go with it. 
_usetts Society gives the former fully 
n its Annual ft>pq£t, and in these transactions 
gives abstracts of discussions on topics brought 
out by the exhibitions and>xbjbition incidents. 
