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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
THE GAULT RASPBERRY. 
Tlie frontispiece of this issue represents the Gault raspberry which is 
olfcrecl hy Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O. Many good qualities 
are claimed for it It is uncominoiily prolilic, thus making it valuable 
as a market ])erry. The berries are large, of good color and quality, 
and very linn. It is late in ripening, prolonging the season even beyond 
the Gregg. These characters tit it for market purposes, especially for 
long shipment, and for evaporating. 
Florists report an increase of 25 to 30 per cent, in the 
Easter trade over that of last year. 
The American Dahlia Society has been organized in 
Philadelphia, with Robert Kift as president; L. R. Pea¬ 
cock, secretary; Frank C. Burton, treasurer, and A. Blanc, 
chairman of executive committee. 
If the Central Park Floral Co., of Los Angeles, Cal.^ 
gets one third of the $400 freight charges on their venture 
of supplying Chicago with Easter flowers, they will do 
well, says the Chicago correspondent of the Florist's Ex¬ 
change. Of the 17,000 callasshipped possibly 20 per cent, 
arrived in fair order, the balance being worthless. Of the 
five or ten thousand yellow Marguerites, 75 per cent, came 
good, but they did not seem to take. There were also 
420 fan palms which were of no use ; 36 large and 850 
small date palms, some of which sold, and they would 
probably have all sold if in time for Palm Sunday. The 
pepper tree and eucalyptus branches were not wanted. 
As there were enough homegrown callas for the demand, 
California ones stood a poor show. 
can’t AFPOTtD TO BE WITHOUT IT. 
G. T. Kinsey, Paxton, Ii-u. —“ Enclosed please find $1, ray subscrip¬ 
tion to The National Nuhsehyman. No true nurseryman can afford 
to be without it. You have kindly sent me several copies. I cannot 
afford to read it any longer without paying for it. I wish you every 
success.” 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
Handsome catalogues are issued by John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex., 
the Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn., and the Framingham 
Nursery Co., South Framingham, Mass. 
The twenty-sixth annual report of the Fruit Growers Association of 
Ontario, covering the proceedings and investigations of 1894, prepared 
by the secretary, L Woolverton and published by order of the Legis¬ 
lative Assembly, contains mucli valuable information regarding horti¬ 
culture in Canada. 
A revi.sed edition of ‘‘Gray’s School and Field Botany” has just been 
i.ssued l)y the American Book company Tlie work consists of the 
“Le.ssonsin Botany ” and the “Field. Forest and Garden Botany,” in 
one volume, forming a comprehensive botany for beginners and ad¬ 
vanced elas.ses, suitable in agricultural colleges and schools and as a 
hand book either for classes or individuals. In fact, its admirable 
arrangement leaves nothing to be desired in the form of a botany for 
general study. It is both a grammar and dictionary of botany and com- 
pri.ses the common herbs, .shrubs and trees of the southern as well as 
the northern and middle states, including the commoidy cultivated 
as well as the native species in fields, gardens, pleasure grounds or 
hoiLse culture, and even the conservatory plants ordinarily met with. 
The second part, “kield. Forest and Garden Botany,” has been revised 
and extended by Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell University who says 
that three motives have dominated the course of the revision : To pi‘e* 
serve, as far as possible, the method of the original, making it still Asa 
Gray’s botany ; to make it a companion to “ Gray’s Manual ;” to make 
it primarily a school book. Professor Bailey was for two years assistant 
to Professor Gray and he was therefore peculiarly fitted to revise this 
book. His work in this connection is characterized by that careful 
attention to detail for which he is noted and by the fruits of long and 
earnest study. The book will be found of great value. The typography 
and arrangement are excellent. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: 
Amekican Book Co. 
A year ago reference was made in this column to the Standard 
dictionary, the first volume of which was then issued by the publishers. 
The Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York. The second volume of this 
great work has now appeared and it fully substantiates what was said 
of the undertaking based upon an examination of the first volume. The 
thought which continually accompanies a study of the work is : What 
an immense amount of time, labor, intellectual ability and money was 
put forth in its production The publication of the Standard dictionary 
places before the reading world a work that, for many reasons, is deserv¬ 
ing of extended mention. In the first place it is the very latest publica¬ 
tion in a field in which there is already the Century, Webster’s, 
Worcester’s, the Imperial and Stormonth, besides smaller and more 
special works Being the latest it has had the advantage of the work 
represented by its predecessors. Then too ; a work upon the produc¬ 
tion of which its publishers have risked a million dollars certainly must 
have claims to serious attention. A careful examination of the dictionary 
and a comparison in detail with the Century and Webster’s, its two 
principal competitors, proves in the most convincing manner, that its 
merits amply justify its entrance into a field that to an uninformed ob¬ 
server might seem to be already filled. 
The Standard has a vocabulary of more than 300,000 words, by actual 
count, as against 225,000 in the Century 125,000 in the International 
(Webster’s), 105,000 in Worcester’s, and 50,000 in Stormonth’s. This in¬ 
crease, of 75,000 words over a dictionary published so recently as the 
first named of these, indicates much more than appears on the surface. 
It means while there are comparatively few unimportant terms treated, 
that all literature has been ransacked for its unrecorded important 
terms, and that all the trades and the arts have been laid under contri¬ 
bution (in electricity alone something like 4,000 new terms have been 
entered and described.) The book is a striking example of what may 
be done by judicious condensation and system. The idea of grouping 
related words and terms is not altogether new, but in no other book 
of the kind has the plan been carried so far, or so carefully systematized 
and with such excellent results in the way of clearness of presentation 
and breadth of scope as in the Standard. 
The spelling of every one of the 800,000 words has received the atten¬ 
tive consideration of the eminent philologist. Professor F. A. March, 
LL D. The matter of correct pronunciation was referred to an advisory 
committee of fifty persons, composed of repre.sentative scholars in all 
parts of the world This committee was selected to aid in their work, 
thus giving the editor in charge of the department the advantage of the 
widest pos.sible consensus of opinion. 
The dictionary is illustrated with over 5,000 pictures including full- 
page lithographs of the finest qualit}' by Prang & Co, Several hundred 
pages are devoted to an appendix giving in one vocabulary order all 
countries, .states, counties, and cities in the English-speaking world 
down to about 1,500 population outside of that, countries, states, 
provinces, rivers, etc , and cities down to about 10,000 population. In 
the same list are also included the noted names of fiction, all names of 
persons (not living) of any note, all Biblical names (for pronunciation), 
together with other miscellaneous information of great value. The 
only point on which the Standard seems open to criticism is the fineness 
of its type. But this, again, is compensated for by the admirable clear¬ 
ness of the printing 
It is doubtful if any other book has been received with such universal! 
praise by competent critics and the press of England and America. J. 
Norman Lockycr, editor of Nature, London, says: “It passes the 
wit of man to suggest anything which ought to have been done that has. 
not been done to make this dictionaiy a success.” Critics have not 
hesitated to say that it will be accepted as the standard. It is sold by 
subscription only and at reasonable rates, from $12 to $22, according to 
binding. New York, London, Toronto : Funk & Wagnalls Co. 
