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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
The Montana Fi'uit Grower, is a new horticultural monthly, published 
at Missoula, Montana. 
Bulletins 93 and 94 of the Cornell University Experiment Station are 
on “The Cigar-Case-Bearer,” and “Damping Off.” 
Recent publications of the United States Department of Agriculture 
include Bulletin 2 of “The World’s Markets for American Products” 
series, the German Empire ; Experiment Station Record, Vol. VI., No. 
9 ; Insect Life, Vol. VII, No. 4; Part IV. of Bibliography of the More 
Important Contributions to American Economic Entomology. 
The Southern Illinois Horticultural Visitor, a quarterly journal de¬ 
voted to the horticultural interests of Illinois in general and the southern 
portion in particular, has been started by E. G. Mendenhall of Kin- 
mundy. Ills. Mr. Mendenhall is prominent in the West in horticul¬ 
tural matters. The first number of his journal promises a periodical 
whose intiuence cannot fail to benefit the cause which it has under¬ 
taken to support and extend. 
The Month of Roses was celebrated by a special edition of American 
Gardening devoted to roses and rose growing. Prominent amateur and 
professional rosarians assisted in making this the finest and most attrac¬ 
tive number of the kind ever issued. A beautiful supplement, litho¬ 
graphed in eleven colors, illustrating one of the best and most popular 
of the new roses, was given away with each copy. This special rose 
number was also profusely illustrated by half-tone engravings. New 
York: American Gardening. 
The second biennial report of the Washington State Board of Horti¬ 
culture has been issued under the direction of the secretary C. H. 
Tonneson. The work contains valuable reports and statistical matter 
and much information relating to horticulture in the state of Washing¬ 
ton. Insects, pests and fungus and remedies are treated extensively. 
There are articles on nut culture, hop culture, celery culture and vari¬ 
ous other articles of special interest. Olympia Wash.; O. C. White, 
State Printer. 
In part eighteen of “The Book of the Fair,” chapter twenty-one, 
devoted to fine arts, so auspiciously opened in part seventeen, is con¬ 
tinued. Reproductions of canvases by Turner, Harrison, Millet, Meis- 
sonier, Daubigny, Carot, Rousseau and a long list of others, embellish 
the interesting descriptions. Engravings, etchings, pastel, pen and 
charcoal drawings, and beautiful reproductions of the wonderful works 
of architecture which were admired at the Exposition, are presented. 
This number, like its predecessors, is a work of art in itself. Chicago : 
The Bancroft Co. 
In the lead of the agricultural weeklies of the country is The Culti¬ 
vator AND Country Gentleman, devoted to farm crops and processes, 
horticulture and fruit growing, live stock and dairying. It has depart¬ 
ments treating of eutomology, greenhouse and grapery subjects and a 
summary of the news of the week Its market reports are unusually 
complete and much attention is paid to the prospects of the fruit and 
other crops. It is liberally illustrated and contains a large amount of 
reading matter. The subscription price is |^2.50 per year. Special in¬ 
ducements are offered in clubing rates. The recent issues of the weekly 
show constant improvement. Albany : Luther Tucker & Son. 
Remarkable improvement has been made recently in the production 
of American catalogues, but the palm is still accorded to a foreign con¬ 
cern. Probably the daintiest and at the same time most elaborate cata¬ 
logue issued by any firm this year is that of Boehmer & Co., Yokohama, 
Japan. It is certainly the most unique. It is a duodecimo of 38 pages, 
printed on rice paper, each leaf double and printed upon but one side, 
enclosed in a brilliantly illustrated cover and embellished with colored 
illustrations of appropriate design. Half a dozen full page photo¬ 
engravings, giving views of Boehmer & Co.’s packing houses and lily 
fields, add interest to the catalogue. The contents include an extensive 
list of the many popular varieties of lily bulbs, iris and other flower 
roots, fruit trees, Japanese fancy trees, Japanese orchids, palms, bam¬ 
boos, seeds and new fodder plants, handled by this firm. ‘ A telegraph 
code and the shipping lines are given. Tokyo, Japan ; T. Hasegawa. 
A revised edition of one of the most valuable books a nurseryman or 
horticulturist can procure, “The Horticulturist’s Rule-Book,” by 
Professor L. H. Bailey, has been issued by Macmillan & Co., neatly 
bound in flexible board cover. This is a compendium of useful infor¬ 
mation for nurserymen and fruit growers. Professor Bailey in his 
preface says : ‘ ‘ The book has been thoroughly renovated in all its 
departments and it has been much extended to meet the needs of the 
many inquiries which are born of the recent teaching and experiment¬ 
ing in rural affairs. A chapter has been added upon greenhouse work 
and treating and another upon the current literature of American horti¬ 
culture. In its completed form, therefore, it is hoped that the volume 
will serve to codify and epitomize the best part of the scattered and 
disconnected horticultural advice, and practices of the time.” It is a 
12mo. of 300 pages and contains twenty-two chapters devoted to an 
authoritative discussion of insecticides, fungicides, waxes and grafting, 
seed and planting tables, computation tables, methods of keeping fruits, 
collecting and preserving specimens for cabinets or exhibition, rules, 
literature, statistics, analyses and a glossary, besides many other sub¬ 
jects. The price of the book is seventy-five cents. New York and 
London : Macmillan & Co. 
An interesting and valuable work is “ A Manual for the Study of 
Insects,” by John Henry Comstock, professor of entomology in Cornell 
University, and Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of 
American Wood Engravers. It supplies a demand for a concise com¬ 
pilation of information concerning those species of insects that are of 
economic importance. The nurseryman and the horticulturist will find 
it invaluable in the study of this subject. The author in his preface 
says : ‘ ‘ For many years the most pressing demand of teachers and 
learners in entomology in this country has been for a hand-book by 
means of which the names and relative aflfinities of insects may be 
determined in some such way as plants are classified by the aid of the 
well-known manuals of botany. But as the science of entomology is 
still in its infancy, the preparation of such a hand-book has been impos¬ 
sible. Excellent treatises on particular groups of insects have been 
published, but no general work including analytical keys to all the 
orders and families has appeared. It is to meet this need that this work 
has been prepared.” John Henry Comstock is a naturalist of wide 
renown. He was born in Wisconsin 46 years ago, and was graduated 
at Cornell University in 1874, where from 1873 until 1877 he was 
instructor. In 1877 he was made assistant professor of entomology at 
Cornell. In 1879-81 he was United States entomologist at Washington. 
In 1882 he became professor of entomology and invertebrate zoology at 
Cornell. Among his published works are, “Notes on Entomology,” 
“Annual Reports of Entomologist,” “Report on Cotton Insects,” 
“ Second Annual Report of the Department of Entomology of Cornell 
University,” a monograph on “ Diaspin*,” and the article on “ Hymen- 
optera” in the “Standard Natural History.” The “Manual for the 
Study of Insects” consists of 711 pages and is illustrated by 797 figures 
in the text and six full-page plates, one of which is beautifully colored. 
Nearly all the figures have been engraved especially for this work, the 
price of which is $3.75. Ithaca, N. Y.: Comstock Publishing Co. 
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What You 
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