THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
Among the really handsome catalogues of the season is that 
of Greening Brothers, Monroe, Mich. It is a carefully and tastily 
prepared book of eighty-six pages, illustrated With half tone 
engraVings, lithographs and electrotypes. It is a credit to the 
well known proprietors of the River Raisin Valley Nurseries. 
W. E. Gould, Villa Ridge, Ill., is the author of a pamphlet on 
grape culture which discusses the culture, picking, packing and 
shipping of grapes, and describes varieties. It is written, with 
special reference to Southern Illinois. 
• W. S. Little & Co, Rochester, N. Y., have issued a handsome 
catalogue of sixty-four pages, profusely illustrated with half-tone 
engravings. The long lists of varieties in the large fruit and 
ornamental departments of the Commercial Nurserses are excel¬ 
lently arranged. 
Vick’s illustrated catalogue for the autumn of 1894 otters the 
same atti’actions which have made this house famous, as well as 
many new ones. 
The first number of the new monthly magazine 2’he Landscape 
Architect was issued last month by the Vista Publishing Co., of 
this city. It proposes to deal with landscape art, constructive 
building, interior decoration, horticulture, botany, forestry and 
good roads. It is a handsome publication and by reason of the 
wide range of subjects covered it should prove interesting. The 
first issue is embellished with excellent half-tone engravings. 
The new edition of Johnson’s Gardener’s Dictionary, 
thoroughly revised and considerably enlarged by C. H. Wright, 
F. R. M. S. and D. Dewar, curator of the Glasgow Botanic Gar¬ 
den, is attracting the attention of florists, horticulturists and 
nurserymen. Upon its first appearance, in 184G, this book was 
recognized as the leading work upon the subject. In the present 
edition the whole of the matter has been carefully revised. The 
limitation of genera according to Bentham and Hooker’s “ Genera 
Plantarum ” has in most cases been followed. Synonyms are 
quoted in the body of the work instead of in a separate list as 
before. Reference is made to standard botanical and horticultural 
works where reliable figures of the plants mentioned can be found. 
It is a work of nearly 1,100 pages and is indispensable to those who 
have to do with horticulture in its advanced forms. This diction¬ 
ary gives in the most convenient form the genus, habit, method of 
culture, natural location and date of discovery of all plants. 
There are accurate descriptions of insects injurious to plants, 
with illustrations; also descriptions of tools and ^appliances used 
by the horticulturist. Nine pages are devoted to a description 
of orchids in general and methods of cultivation, while under 
special headings the genera are described in detail. This is one 
of the most interesting features of the work. The propagation of 
fruit and ornamental trees as therein described will make the 
work of special interest to the nurseryman. There are many 
other features which commend it. The price of the dictionary is 
$4.00. New York : Macmillan & Co. Rochester: Scrantom 
Wetmore & Co. 
Nurserymen as well as florists and horticulturists are fortun¬ 
ate in being able to avail themselves of the study of so competent 
an investigator and compiler as Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell 
University. In his “ Annals of Horticulture ” for 1893, just issued, 
he has presented a large amount of information of particular 
interest to the nursery trade. This most recent issue of this 
indispensable year book is conspicuous for its full history of horti¬ 
culture at the Chicago World’s'Fair. The author spent most of 
the summer at Chicago for the express purpose of collecting facts 
for this volume. This is the only complete history of horticulture 
at the Columbian Exposition. Review of the World’s Fair horti¬ 
cultural exhibits, with names of all plants and exhibitors; the 
only correct catalogue of World’s Columbian plants. The volume 
also contains a full discussion of the yields and prices of fruits, 
vegetables and all other horticultural crops in North America 
during the year. There is a history of the orange trade, and 
accounts of the efforts to introduce American fruits into European 
markets. There is also a full set of statistics of the- horticultural 
imports and exports of the year. Floriculture interests ai-e well 
represented. There is a full account, with awards, of the World’s 
Fair Chrysanthemum Show, a list of the Chrysanthemum registry 
of the year, and other matters pertaining to ornamental garden¬ 
ing. The list of new varieties of flowers, fruits, vegetables and 
trees, introduced in 1893, is an important feature of volume. 
This series of Annals, which began in 1889, has now reached the 
fifth volume. Most of the back volumes can still be had. Cloth, 
12 mo. Price, post paid, $1.00. New York: Orange Judd Co., 
52 Lafayette Place. 
In part fourteen of the “Book of the Pair” is completed the 
interesting chapter on the fisheries of the world, the copious illus¬ 
trations of which convey a vivid ideaof the peculiarities described. 
Full page engravings show the fine architectural details of the 
handsome fisheries building. Chapter eighteen introduces the 
reader to a wealth of luxury in the department of transportation. 
Surely views could not better portray the extraordinary results 
achieved by the managers of American railways in their efforts to 
make travel comfortable and a pleasure. Interiors of the finest 
parlor, drawing-room, palace sleeping, dining, observation, smok¬ 
ing and library coaches are depicted, together with primitive and 
modern styles of locomotives and unique methods of transporta¬ 
tion under peculiar circumstances. Chicago : The Bancroft Co. 
THEY HAVE BEEN BENEFITED. 
The following live firms advertised in the last issue of The 
National Nurseuyman. We are constantly in receipt of volun¬ 
tary letters from many of them stating that their busineos has 
been materially increased by these advertisements, and several 
are very enthusiastic. It is a representative list. Will you join it? 
W. & T. Smith Co, 
Ellwang’er & Barry. 
Albaugh Nursery Co. 
Hoopes Bros. & Thomas. 
Smiths & Poweli Co. 
Franklin Davis Nursery Co. 
Jewell Nursery Co. 
Stark Brothers Co. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons. 
Rakestraw & Pyle. 
Jacks )u & Perkins. 
Harlan P. Kelsey. 
C. H. Joosten. 
H. M. Simpson & Co. 
Bai-bier Bros. & Son. 
W. T. Hood & Co. 
John Charlton. 
A. C. Griesa & Bro. 
Andre L. Causse. 
J. A. Gage. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
Berkhan & Otgen. 
Thos. Kennedy & Sons. 
E. M. Buechley. 
N. A. Whitney. 
F. M. Hartman. 
Orleans Nursery Co. 
L. G. Thompson. 
J. Frank Norris. 
Farmers Nursery Co. 
P. D. Berry. 
C. Boggs. 
H. S. Hurd. 
Gelhaar, Fleming & Fuller Co. 
Wales M. Nye & Bro. 
Leuault Huet, 
Storrs & Harrisefn Co. 
Hoover & Gaines Co. 
Brown Brothers Co. 
Hart Pioneer Nursery Co. 
Phoenix Nursery Co. 
H. C. Graves & Soin. 
George Peters & Co. 
Albertson & Hobbs. 
E. Mo dy & Sons. 
William Parry. 
Z. K. Jewett & Co. 
Samuel C. Muon. 
John Palmer & Sons. 
Stecher Lithographing Co. 
W. M. Peters & Sous. 
Younger & Co 
C. F. McNair & Co. 
Peters & Skinner. 
T. C. Wils n. 
Jay Wood. 
C. S. Curtice Co. 
A. Blanc. 
Levavasseur & Sons. 
W. A. Wa’son & Co. 
Allon L. Wood, 
R. H. Blair & ' o. 
Gilbert Costich. 
Myer & Son. 
F. AV. Watsen A Co. 
.Tosiah A. Roberta. 
Rogers Nursery Co. 
Geyer Bros. 
Chas. Bindley. 
Scrantom, Wetmore & Co. 
Stephenson & Thomas. 
A great deal of fall planting will be done on the 
western slope this autumn. In Delta county, Colo., the 
fall planted trees will aggregate 200,000. 
Professor L. H, Bailey has recently been investigat¬ 
ing questions of peach yellows, fertilizing vineyards and 
spraying grapes. 
A, Hart Norris died in Stafford, N. Y , September 
I St, aged 80 years. He was a well-known nurseryman 
in Western New York in 1842. 
