THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
^rom Darious points. 
The Stecher Lithographic Company was awarded a 
medal at the World’s Fair, for its exhibit of supplies for 
nurserymen, florists, seedsmen and horticulturists. 
Nothing was more startling to the average visitor at 
the forestr}^ building in Chicago than to find that 
Nebraska led in number of varieties of trees ; 154 dis¬ 
tinct and separate kinds were'shown. 
There are growing in the parks of Rochester 88 var¬ 
ieties of trees, 72 varieties of shrubs and ten varieties of 
vines. Highland park is used as a sort of nursery in 
which to propagate imported trees and shrubs. 
On the college grounds at Ames we have a number 
of species and varieties of the bush honeysuckles, but 
the Lonicera Ruprectiana makes the largest bush of all 
and is loaded with the largest and handsomest berries. 
It is hardy and beautiful in all parts of the West. It 
should be propagated, but what shall we call it? Nursery¬ 
men will never write ^'•Lonicera Ruprectiana" on their 
labels and if they do the planters will not be able to 
read it.— lozva State Register. 
An appropriation of $25,000 by the Boston City 
Council will be needed to protect standing trees and to 
pay for the planting of the saplings, and this sum the 
people are urged to insist upon having. Says the city 
forester; “ Formerly the city furnished money enough 
so that I could act in the matter, and we gave out as 
many as 1,500 trees in a year, and all but two per cent, 
of them were planted successfully. Now I can do but 
little to save the trees, however much I may wish to 
do so.” 
The nurseries here in the Pacific Northwest have 
made much improvement in the past few years in the 
manner of digging their trees. Stub roots, or trees with 
roots chopped off carelessly near the trunks are now sel¬ 
dom seen. Nearly all the trees raised here are grown 
on whole roots. The seed having been planted in the 
open fields in fall or winter, the next fall these seedlings 
are then budded. Those who are planting largely of the 
prune trees should require they be budded or grafted on 
peach roots, especially for the western parts of Washing¬ 
ton and Oregon. The peach root is the best feeder, 
does not send up sprouts and has been proved to be 
sufficiently long-lived.— Northivest Horticulturist, (Ta¬ 
coma.) 
The October Century says of Frederick Law Olmsted 
and his art gardening; “Every American knows how 
beautiful are the Chicago World’s Fair grounds, how 
wholly the chance to make them Reautiful has sprung 
from Mr. Olmsted’s preliminary treatment, and how 
singularly novel, how boldly imaginative, as well as 
practical and skillful, this treatment has been. Everyone 
who honors a great and conscientious, a public-spirited 
and widely-useful artist must be glad that Mr. Olmsted 
had this conspicuous opportunity to win his fellow-coun¬ 
trymen’s praise ; and everyone who loves the art he 
practices must rejoice that, in thus distinguishing him¬ 
self, he has lifted landscape-gardening to a higher place 
than it ever held before in the interest and respect of 
our public. But in doing this he has merely carried on 
a great educational work which began with the creation 
of Central Park.” 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
The World’s Columbian Exposition is closed. Its beauties 
and its wonders will soon become only a memory with the millions 
who gazed upon them during the gay summer that has passed. 
Instinctively all ai’e turning to some means of preserving, as far 
as possible, the scenes of an undertaking heretofore unsurpassed. 
In no department of the entire exhibit was greater progress shown 
than in that of art, and nothing could he more appi-opriate than 
that the best endeavor of the most skillful artists of the world 
should be put forth in the direction of preservation for future 
generations of what was laid before the world at Jackson Park, 
Chicago, during six months of the year 1893. It has been reserved 
for the Bancroft Company, publishers, of Chicago and San Fran¬ 
cisco, for thirty-seven years the leading house on the Pacific 
coast, to lead all others in this work. This company has planned 
and' put in operation the production of a description of the Fair 
which it is impossible to excel. Under the simple title, “ The 
Book of the Fair,” there is included all that modern thought, ex¬ 
perience and taste can produce. It is a work of 1,000 imperial 
folio pages, 12 x 16 inches, printed on the finest enameled paper. 
There will he no less than 2,000 superb pictures of all sizes, up to 
a full page. The work challenges all competition in its attain¬ 
ment of the highest standai’dof excellence. The literary material 
is unexceptional and tke typogra,phy is perfect. The subjects are 
treated in the most generous spirit and in the most entertaining 
manner. Detailed description of the work would fill a volume as 
large as the book itself. To the entertainment and instruction of 
the people of all ages and places “ The Book of the Fair” is as the 
Fair to civilization, a summary of the best efforts of mankind. 
The exhibition was but for a summer ; the hook is for all time. 
The work is issued in twenty-five parts, and the early numbers 
are now coming from the press. Chicago ; The Bancroft Com¬ 
pany, Auditorium Building. 
The Rural Californian for October is a profusely illustrated 
edition, presenting in a most attractive and instructive manner 
an account of the great work that has been done in irrigation in 
California, producing gardens out of deserts. The frontispiece pre¬ 
sents pictures of the leading men who have been connected with 
the irrigation questions of the day. No review of the subject ever 
published has been so complete and accurate. The publication 
was in connection with the International Irrigation Congress, held 
in Los Angeles last month. There are 2,000,000 acres of choice 
government land in Southern California which is absolutely of no 
value without irrigating systems. 
A publication of great value is Bulletin No. 4 of the division 
of vegetable pathology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, detail¬ 
ing experiments with fertilizers for the prevention and cure of 
peach yellows, by Erwin F. Smith, special agent. 
The monthly reports of the statistician of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, Henry A. Robinson, are of great value for compari¬ 
sons, aud the marking of progress in the various agricultui’al in¬ 
dustries of this and other countries. 
Catalogues Received.— F. James, Ussy, France ; Stone & 
Wellington, Toronto, Ont. ; Walter C. Slocock, Woking, Surrey, 
Eng. ; P. Lambert, Trier, Germany; Edouard Parre, Ledeberg- 
Gand, Belgium ; James Mott, Orlando Nurseries, Orlando, Fla. ; 
William Watson, Rosedale Nurseries, Brenham, Tex. 
