THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IRecent ipublications. 
Our Horticultural Visitor, published by E. G. Mendenhall, Kinmundy, 
Ill., is now a full-fledged monthly. 
American Gardening, devoted to gardening in all its branches, which 
has been issued semi-monthly, is now issued weekly. 
Professor S. A. Beach of the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station is the author of a comprehensive bulletin on currants. 
“Vegetables for the Home Garden ” is the title of a little book of 128 
pages, published by W. Atlee Burpee A Co., Philadelphia. It is illus¬ 
trated with 75 engravings and has an appendix giving planting tables. 
The name of the Grape Belt has been changed to Fruit. It is pub¬ 
lished by E. P. -Harris at Dunkirk, N. Y. The monthly wall devote 
especial attention to the culture of grapes as heretofore, but all fruit 
will receive due attention. 
Two valuable bulletins, “ The Pear Psylla and the New York Plum 
Scale,” and “ Wire Worms and the Bud Moth,” by Professor M. V. 
Slingerland, have been issued by the Cornell University Agricultural 
Experiment Station at Ithaca. N. Y. 
Part II. of the Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society for 1894 contains in its 445 pages a large amount of interesting 
and valuable material. Besides the transactions of the eleven business 
meetings there are reports of committees and officers which contain in¬ 
formation on a large variety of subjects connected with horticulture. 
Bulletin 109, of the Cornell station, treats of the geological history 
of the Chautauqua grapebelt. It is by It. S. Tarr, and will prove of 
special interest to the vineyardist of Chautauqua County, N. Y. It is 
of general interest in showing how geological research may be applied* 
to horticulture, thus indicating the advance in recent years in the 
practical application of science to the fruit industry. 
Of all the treatises on forest preservation none is more timely, more 
interesting or more valuable than the 90-page book by J. O. Barrett, 
secretary of the Minnesota Forestry association, under the title of “The 
Forest Tree Planter’s Manual.” It is a practical, comprehensive and 
systematic discussion of an important subject. The main features of 
the forestry question are treated in a manner which insure to interest 
all interested in trees. Minneapolis : Tiik Progressive Age. 
One of the most interesting of the many valuable bulletins issued by 
the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, under the di¬ 
rection of Professor L. H. Bailey, is Bulletin 110, “Extension Work in 
Horticulture.” The contents prove that the light is indeed not hidden 
beneath a bushel basket, as shown on the title page. Professor Bailey 
is a hard worker and he has devoted much time and care to the develop¬ 
ment of the possibilities afforded by the appropriation last year of 
$16,000 by the legislature for horticultural experiment work and edu¬ 
cation in sixteen counties of Western New York. The bulletin of 40 
pages presents in detail the work that has been done, and from the re¬ 
sults and the interest manifested it is safe to say that this work will 
uot be allowed to drop. 
On the table side by side at the Wadsworth House, Cambridge, 
Mass., the home of the clergy of Harvard, lie peaceably two of the 
great rival dictionaries, the Webster International and the Funk & 
Wagnails Standard. In the former is this inscription : 
“To the Harvard University, for the use of the staff of University 
preachers— 1 for the correction of their English.’ 
Phillip S. Moxon, 
“Feb. 28th, 1895. of the staff of 1894-5.” 
This caught the eye of Bishop Vincent, who presented a copy of the 
Standard with the following inscription : 
“To the Harvard University, for the use of the staff of University 
preachers, thinking that the very best is not too good for them. 
• John II. Vincent, 
“ April 8th, 1895. of the Staff of 1898-5.” 
We have taken occasion to call attention to the merits of that beauti¬ 
ful publication “The Book of the Fair.” as it was issued in parts from 
the publishers’ in Chicago. The work is now complete and it stands 
as imposing a monument to the perfection to which the art of printing 
has arrived as was the World’s Columbian Exposition to the arts and 
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sciences generally. The wide experience of the publishers in the 
highest class of typographical work had prepared them for this under¬ 
taking No efforts were spared, no money or time withheld which 
might tend to the achievement of the highest results. The concluding 
numbers of the work are fully up to the standard of their predecessors. 
The choicest literary, artistic and mechanical contributions prove ti c 
labor and expense bestowed and make it the acme of an illustrated 
description of the greatest achievement of modern times. In 25 parts ; 
paper covers, $25. Special prices on bindings. Chicago: The Ban¬ 
croft Co. 
The proceedings of the nineteenth annual meeting of the Georgia 
State Horticultural Society are of special interest. The society em¬ 
braces in its membership some of the most prominent nurserymen and 
horticulturists of the country. P. J. Berckmans of Atlanta, is the 
president; G. II. Miller of Home, is the secretary, and Louis A. Berck¬ 
mans is treasurer. All of these are nurserymen. Thomas Meehan and 
J. II. Hale are honorary members. Among the very interesting papers 
read and discussed at the meetings on July 31st and August 1st and 2d 
last, were those entitled “ Grape Pruning and Training,” by Hugh N. 
Starnes, horticulturist at Georgia Experiment Station ; “ The Pear In¬ 
dustry of South Georgia,” by B. W. Stone, and the addresses of Presi¬ 
dent Berckmans and Secretary Miller. 
It is rarely that the horticulturist will pick up a book of greater in¬ 
terest along a special line than the little volume entitled “ The Evolu 
lion of Horticulture in New England,” by Daniel Denison Slade. It is 
handsomely printed and bound in the modern style, which characterizes 
all the publications of the Putnams of Boston. The author has elected 
to treat the subject somewhat broadly, yet with a strict adhesion to 
the history of the section under discussion, and an easy transition from 
period to period, which first attracts the curiosity of the reader and 
then commands his attention to the end. Under the caption “ prelim¬ 
inaries” Mr. Slade outlines the gradual evolution of horticulture from 
the earliest record of man. Then referring to first steps in horticulture in 
New England he quotes from writings of the seventeenth century which 
recorded the fact that in the Massachusetts plantations were “turncps, 
pumpions. muskmillions, coucumbers and onyons ; ” that, in the woods. 
“ without eyther the art or the helpe of man there were strawberries in 
abundance, very large ones, some being two inches about: one may 
gather halfe a bushell in a forenoone. In other seasons there bee goose¬ 
berries, bilberries, resberries, treackleberries, hurtleberries and cur¬ 
rants.” In the ’40s of the seventeenth century Governors Endicott and 
Winthrop exchanged many courtesies. Both were interested in the 
planting of trees. To John Winthrop, Jr., on March 19, 1645, Governor 
Endicott wrote : " Let mee say trulie I account not myselfe to be the 
lesse engaged onto you concerning what you wrote, for any such small 
courtesie as a few trees. What trees you want at any tyme, send to 
mee for them, A I will supply youe as longe as I have a tree.” John 
Josselyn, Gent,, in his account of his departure from New England, 
October 11, 1639, thus alludes to Winthrop’s orchards: “The next 
day Mr. Luxon, our Master, having been ashore upon the Governors 
Island gave me half a score very fair Pipnins which he brought from 
thence, there being not one Apple tree, nor Pear planted yet in no part 
of the Country, but upon that Island.” Of indigenous productions Mr. 
Wood about the same time wrote: “The Cherrie trees yield great 
store of Cherries, which grow on clusters like grapes; they be much 
smaller than our English Cherrie; nothing neare so good if they be not 
very ripe : they so furre the mouth that the tongue will ( leave to the 
roofe and the throate wax horse with swallowing those red Bullies (as 
I may call them) being little better in taste. English ordering may 
bring them to be an English Cherrie. but as yet they are as wild as the 
Indians. The Plummes of the Countrey be better for Plummes than 
the Cherries be for Cherries: they be blacke and yellow about the 
bignesse of a Dawson, of a reasonable good taste. The white thorne 
affords hawes as bigge as an English Cherrie. which is esteemed above 
a Cherrie for his goodnesse and pleasantnesse to the taste.” Highly 
interesting are the quaint descriptions of the flora of the New England 
towns whose early names have been preserved to date. Later in the 
book the Bussey Institution, Arnold Arboretum and the Boston metro¬ 
politan system of parks in New* England are referred to. This work is 
probably the only record of horticulture in New England in a single 
volume. 16 mo. pp. v- 180. Price $1.40. New* York: G. P. Put¬ 
nam’s Sons. Rochester : Scran tom, Wetmore A Co. 
