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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IRecent publications. Endorsements. 
The report of the proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the 
American Associanion of Nurserymen has been issued in pamphlet 
form by the secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester. It contains a 
stenographic report of the remarks by Professor L. H. Bailey, which 
attracted so much attention at the Chicago convention. 
“The Journal of the Kew Guild” is of interest to many besides the 
association of Kew gardeners, for which it is published. The rules of 
the guild provide that the journal shall be published annually in May. 
This year’s number contains a memoir of Dr. Daniel Morris, the assist¬ 
ant director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, England; a report of 
the proceedings of the 1896 meeting; a report of the proceedings of 
the Mutual Improvement Society; the list of lectures ; an article on 
the Kew gardens by F. W. Burbidge ; another on Kew men and 
botanical work in the colonies ; the Kew staff; a list of Old Kewites 
and notes and correspondence. There are excellent pictures of Dr. 
Morris, W. Granger and others. London : Taylor & Francis. 
The thirty-eighth annual report of the Missouri State Horticultural 
Society, containing the proceedings of the meetings in June and Decem¬ 
ber, 1895, is a welcome addition to the horticultural library. The 
reports of this society are bound substantially in cloth, and this fact 
adds much to their value. It would be a marked improvement if other 
horticultural societies would follow the example of the Missouri society 
in this respect. The additional cost is more than offset by the con¬ 
venience of reference and the durability of the reports. The Missouri 
report is compiled as heretofore by the secretary, L. A. Goodman, 
Westport, Mo., who with J. C. Evans, president; N. F. Murray and 
Samuel Miller, vice-presidents, and A. Nelson, treasurer, form the 
official staff of the society. This volume of 430 pages contains a great 
amount of valuable matter, systematically and attractively arranged. 
Jefferson City, Mo.: Tribune Printing Co. 
The seventh annual report of the board of trustees of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden has been issued under the supervision of the well- 
known director, Professor William Trelease. It is in the usual handsome 
octavo form. The letter press, paper and illustrations are of the highest 
quality. The space for official matter has been reduced to the minimum 
and most of the volume is devoted to elaborate articles upon botanical 
themes. The subjects discussed are: “Juglandaceae of the United 
States,” by Professor William Trelease; “A Study of the Agaves of 
the United States,” by A. Isabel Mulford; “ The Ligulate Wolffias of 
the United States,” by Charles Henry Thompson. Henry Wade Rogers 
discusses the value of a study of botany. There is also a catalogue of 
the Prelinnean library presented to the garden by Dr. E. Lewis 
Sturtevant, 463 books, valued at $2,315. The gardens now contain 
301 named species of trees. 561 of shrubs and 1,129 of hardy perennial 
herbaceous flowering plants. The herbarium contains 250,000 speci¬ 
mens. St. Louis : Board of Trustees. 
Another addition to the Library of Horticulture and Gardening, pub¬ 
lished by Octave Doin, Paris, is a volume of 300 pages treating of the 
preparation of the soil and composts in horticulture, by George Truffaut, 
horticulturist and laureate of the National Horticultural Society, with 
a preface by P. P. Deherain, member of the Institute. In this little 
volume is comprised an amount of information which is surprising. 
The work is the result of the most painstaking study and research 
coupled with a scientific knowledge of the subject, which cannot fail 
to be appreciated by even a cursory glance at the contents. The first 
part of this work is devoted to a study of soils, to their formation, 
Mr. Truffaut considering the soil successively as a support for plants 
and as a source of nourishment. In the second part he reviews the 
different lands used in horticulture, silicious, clayey, calcareous, 
humous. He enumerates the plants to which these soils are adapted 
and indicates the fertilizers to be employed. The horticulturist often 
making for himself the soil which he uses, Mr. Truffaut describes the 
mixtures, land for the garden, the heath, the compost of leaves, the 
mosses and the sand. Chapter X is devoted to an example of analyti¬ 
cal culture. The book will be found to be intensely interesting because 
of the author’s style, as well as very instructive. Paris: Octave 
Doin. 
North Star Currant. —At the recent meeting of the Michigan 
State Horticultural Society Professor Taft, in answer to the question, 
“What is the best new variety of currants.” replied that he considered 
the North Star the best, and most promising. It is not troubled much 
by the borer, and has as strong a growth as the Fay and others. 
Loganberry. —L. F. Kinney, of the Rhode Island Experiment 
Station, says of the Loganberry: “ It is a thing worthy of note nowa¬ 
days, to find a new type of small fruit, that actually bears berries 
which have a value ; but the Loganberry appears to have this distinc¬ 
tion. The plants are robust, and exhibit a curious intermingling of 
the peculiarities of the raspberry and the dewberry. The fruit is 
neither, but is intermediate. It has the color, and in a mild form, the 
flavor of the raspberry, but the size and structure of the dewberry, and 
when cooked with sugar, makes an excellent sauce. I have observed 
the Loganberry only under good cultivation, the canes covered with 
earth in winter and supported on a wire trellis during the fruiting 
season. Under such conditions, it has proved prolific, the large berries 
ripening in advance of Cuthbert raspberries.” 
Crimson Rambler. —The Rural New Yorker has been making a 
thorough test of the Crimson Rambler rose. It says: “Our plants 
were received in the early spring of last year. They were planted in 
different soils and situations, so that we might test its hardiness, and 
its power of adapting itself to different conditions. One was planted 
within a foot of the lake and less than a foot above the water; another 
in a rather dry place near sunken paths on either side, and so on. All 
passed the winter without the slightest harm, and every one has made 
a fine growth this season. The roses average two inches in diameter. 
The buds are small and round. We would say that the average num¬ 
ber of roses of a single panicle is 30, and this the first season of bloom. 
The brightness of the color is not exaggerated in the colored pictures 
of the nurserymen and florists. It is a bright crimson. The number 
of petals is about 30. These young plants bear as many as 20 panicles 
of roses. 
Berberis repens. —One of our most strikingly peculiar Rocky 
mountain vines is Berberis repens or creeping barberry, says the Denver 
Field and Farm. It is an evergreen recumbent with leaves much like 
the holly. It often grows on very rough, rocky places, covering un¬ 
sightly spots with its attractiveness and we have found it growing up 
as far as timberline. Its chief beauty is when in bloom in the spring¬ 
time. The foliage is deep green and it bears flowers in great, rich 
golden racemes, having a fragrance which fills all the air. It is very 
hardy, and endures drouth well. It blooms in early May. The fruit 
is about the color of the Concord grape, with a deep bloom, and about 
half its size. It is sometimes called the Oregon grape. It bears in 
July, and the fruit is often used by the mountain people for jams and 
jellies. There is a growing demand for this plant in the East and 
agents have lately been gathering quite a quantity for some leading 
horticulturists. We cannot see why it should not be quite an acquisi¬ 
tion as a border plant. The flower is certainly very attractive, both in 
color and fragrance. The leaf is beautiful, and the fruit, though not 
of the best, might be greatly improved by cultivation. 
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