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Fire destroyed 1,000,000 plants and did other damage, amounting to 
$5,000, in the nurseries of James Smith & Sons, Darley Dale, Derby¬ 
shire, England, on May 2d. 
The Royal Horticultural Society has rejected a proposition to pur¬ 
chase for a new garden 48 acres in the county of Kent. The subject 
has been the principal topic in English horticultural society for a 
month. 
Agricultural research and education is assisted in the United States 
by Federal grants to the extent of £700,000, in Canada by £156,000, in 
France by £152,460, in Wiirtemberg by £65,000, and in England by 
£15,000. 
Sir George King, late director of the Royal Botanic Garden, at Cal' 
cutta, the first botanic Knight of India, on May 24tli, the anniversary 
of the birth of Linnaeus, received the medal given by the Linnean 
Society annually to a botanist or a zoologist alternately. 
On May 16th the bands under direction of the London County Council 
commenced their musical season in fifty-seven parks and open spaces, 
discoursing music for three hours every evening except Saturdays 
£10,000 has been devoted to the maintenance of these bands during the 
summer. 
At a general meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held on 
Tuesday, April 23, fifty-two new Fellows were elected, making three 
hundred and forty new fellows elected since the beginning of the 
present year—amongst them being the Duchess of Abercorn, Lady 
Henry Tate, Lady Helen Vincent, Lord Alverstone, the Bishop of 
Richmond, and the Right Hon. A. H. Smith-Barry. 
P. Rudolph Barr discussing the subject, “Naturalization of Bulbs 
Uuder Grass” at a recent daffodil conference In England explained 
why daffodils do so well in grass, and fail in the cultivated border. 
This was ascribed by the speaker to the more equable and cooler tern, 
perature, to the arrested evaporation, to the fact that the soil was not, 
so liable to be lifted by frost, to the retention of moisture for the bene¬ 
fit of the bulbs when these most required it, and further to the grass 
imbibing all the moisture in the summer when it was not wanted by 
the bulbs. Daffodils in grass, asserted the speaker, were advantageous 
in all gardens, but especially in those having broad slopes of strong, 
fairly moist soil. Here the bulbs grew vigorously, and multiplied with 
great rapidity. 
Discussing the status of the Royal Horticultural Society, the Gar¬ 
deners’ Magazine, London, Eng., says of the work of the last fifteen 
years: “To briefly summarize what has been accomplished in the 
pursuance of a strictly horticultural policy : (1) The debt of £1,152 
has been discharged ; (2) the annual income has been increased to 
£8,193 ; t3) the Journal, which had fallen into abeyance, has been re¬ 
vived ; (4) a sum of £10,237 has been invested, exclusive of the £2,122 
of the Davis and Parry Trusts ; and (5 ) the roll of Fellows has been 
increased to 4,700, of whom only 250 are life Fellows under the old 
regime. These figures if they have any value teach us that to main, 
tain the society in its prosperous condition it must continue its horti¬ 
cultural work under conditions that permit of its successful accomplish¬ 
ment.” 
IRecent iPublications. 
No. 9 of Vol. XII of the Experiment Station Record has been issued 
by the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture. 
The New York State Museum bulletins, department 1900, and March, 
1901, treat of insects of New York state. 
Professor L. H. Bailey will edit the new magazine, American 
Country Life, to be published by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 
and which will make its appearance early in the coming autumn. 
The Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1900, 
soon to be issued, has in addition to the report of the secretary and the 
appendix, thirty one articles, five more than last year. Every article, 
except those prepared in the Division of Publications, covers some 
important line of work carried on in the bureau, division or office from 
which it emanated. 
George Hansen, Berkeley, Cal., in advocacy of the children’s garden, 
has published a monograph entitled “What is a Kindergarten.” Mr. 
Hansen’s landscape s'udies were made in the parks of Berlin, Potsdam, 
Muskau, Cnssel, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Hanover, and those in York¬ 
shire and in the South of England, from London to Bristol. He has 
watched Nature’s way in the forests of Silesia, Thuringia, Harz, 
Ruegen, and in the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada of our Cali¬ 
fornia through eight seasons’ exploration. 
Volume III. of the “ Cyclopedia of American Horticulture,” edited 
by Prof. L. II. Bailey, assisted by many expert cultivators and bota¬ 
nists has been issued by the publishers, The Macmillan Company. We 
have referred to this as a monumental work, and each volume as it 
appears, bears out the assertion. The cyclopedia cannot fail to be of 
the greatest practical value to nurserymen from whom a vote of thanks 
to Prof. Bailey and his assistants is due. The volume just issued com¬ 
prises subjects from N to Q inclusive. Prof. Bailey himself has 
written the article on “Nursery” in which he says: “ The largest 
nursery center of North Ameiica, considering the number of persons 
engaged and the variety of stock grown, is Western New York. The 
headquarters of this industry is Rochester. Nearly one-ninth of all the 
nurseries enumerated in 1890 were in New York State, and these 
establishments employed a capital of over $12,000,000. Very extensive 
nursery enterprises are now established in many other parts of the 
country, and it. is probable that the center of the nursery business will 
move westward.” At the close of this article on “Nursery” Prof. 
Bailey alludes to the one periodical devoted to the nursery business as 
“ The Practical Nurseryman ” published at Rochester. Of course he 
means the Natio.- al Nurseryman and will correct the error in future 
editions. As showing the completeness of the cyclopedia, seventeen 
columns are devoted to nymphsea, the same number to opuntia, thirty 
columns to the peach, eighteen to the pear, etc. The horticultural 
capabilities of the Philippine Islands are discussed in an illustrated 
article by Dr. S. A. Knapp, of the United States Philippine Commis¬ 
sion. Horticultural photography is described by J. Horace McFarland; 
plant breeding by Herbert J. Webber, who is in charge of the plant 
breeding laboratory, Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology, 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The article on “Plum” 
is by F. A. Waugh, of course; an acknowledged authority. Prof. John 
Craig, of Cornell University, contributes the article on “Pomology.” 
Porto Rico as a field for horticulture is described by F. M. Pennock, 
horticulturist at San Juan, Porto Rico, and notes on the same subject 
from census reports are appended. Sketches of the Messrs. Prince 
who conducted the first large commercial nursery in America are con¬ 
tributed by L. B. Prince, Mesilla Park, N. M. Pruning is treated by 
Prof. Bailey, whose ability to discuss this subject is well known. The 
important article on “ Prunus ” is also by Prof. Bailey whose initials 
are likewise appended to the article on “Pyrus.” Alfred Rehder, 
assistant at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., contributes 
eighteen columns on “ Quercus” and Prof. Craig discusses “ Quinces”’ 
The pictorial character of the cyclopedia is notable. There are over 
two thousand illustrations, all made expressly for this work from accu¬ 
rate photographs or from specimens. The cyclopedia has the unique 
distinction of presenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged and 
perfectly accessible form, the best knowledge of the best specialists in 
America upon gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable culture, forestry 
and the like, as well as exact botanical information. It is all fresh, and 
not a rehash of old material. No precedent has been followed ; the 
work is upon its own original plan. In four quarto volumes. Volume 
IV. in press. Sold by subscription only. Cloth, $5 per volume. 
New 7 York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, London : Tiie Macmillan 
Company. Rochester: Scrantom, Wetmore & Company. 
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Robert C. Uecke, Harvard, III., May 10, 1901 “ Enclosed 
please find $1 for one year’s subscription to your paper. I depend 
upon the National Nurseryman for keeping in touch with the trade.” 
