THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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IRecent fl>ublications* 
Pearson’s Magazine for April contains an illustrated article on the 
New York subway; an interesting description of the liarmonograph, 
an instrument for making a great variety of curved lines on Ihe princi¬ 
ple of a pendulum; an illustrated description of Montana, in the story 
of the states, and the usual pithy review of current literature by Tudor 
Jenks. E. H. Rydall has an illustrated article on a mammoth pigeon 
ranch. 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture— The fourth volume 
has just been issued, completing the work. The only comprehensive 
work of the kind. More than four thousand articles by 300 specialists. 
Profusely illustrated with new engravings. Four quarto volumes, 
2,016 pages. Sold by subscription at $5.00 per volume, $20.00 for the 
set. Substantially bound. New York : Macmillan & Company, 
Fifth Ave. 
Fumigation Methods— A practical treatise for farmers, fruit grow¬ 
ers, nurserymen, gardeners, millers, grain dealers, florists, transporta¬ 
tion companies, college and experiment station workers, etc., has been 
issued by the Orange Judd Co., New York. The author is Professor 
Willis G. Johnson, formerly state entomologist of Maryland, now asso¬ 
ciate editor of the American Agriculturist weeklies. It is timely work 
and will be appreciated by the persons for whom it is intended as indi¬ 
cated in its sub-title. Cloth. Illustrated. 8vo. Pp. 313. $1.00. 
New York : Orange Judd Company. 
One of the most spiking catalogue covers of the season is that 
adopted by the California Rose Co., Los Angeles, Cal. It is a repre¬ 
sentation of a spray of the Climbing Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, pure 
white on a jet black background. Of this rose this company says: 
“ This is the grandest acquisition to the climbing rose family yet pro¬ 
duced, and is unquestionably the very best climbing white rose in 
existence. We produced and sold the first field-grown plants in the 
United States. It originated at Wilmington, Del., and the original 
plant in a four inch pot was sold for $500.” The catalogue is replete 
with half-tone engravings of roses in most attractive form. 
The World’s Work for April, besides the editorial interpretation of 
events and the reports of striking instances of industrial and commer¬ 
cial progress in its departments, contains more than fifteen important 
articles widely varied in subject, all well written in the interesting, 
concise fashion that characterizes this magazine. The question, “Who 
is Nixon ?” the man who has suddenly sprung into national import¬ 
ance, politically, in becoming leader of Tammany Hall, in New York, 
is answered by Franklin Matthews, one of the most searching of the 
writers about Tammany in many campaigns. Apropos of the Ship 
Subsidy Bill, Arthur Goodrich’s finely illustrated article on the Expan¬ 
sion of American Shipyards describes recent developments in our ship¬ 
building. The reasons for the new supremacy of Iowa in political 
circles at Washington are detailed concisely by Rollin Lynde Hart, 
and the work of the United States in Cuba since the Spanish-American 
war—particularly interesting at this time—is reviewed by Charles E. 
Phelps, clerk to the Senate Committee on Relations with Cuba. 
“Our Ferns in Their Haunts ” is the attractive title of an unusually 
attractive work by Willard Nelson Clute, Binghamton, N. Y., editor 
of the “ Fern Bulletin,” the only journal in the word devoted exclu. 
sively to ferns. It is the aim of the volume to supply the information 
demanded by the widespread interest in ferns from a popular point of 
view which has arisen in recent years. While confo'ming strictly to 
scientific canons, it makes the way as smooth as possible for the begin 
ner whose desire is first of all to know the names of the ferns. Few 
families of plants are so generally admired and so little known, says 
the author. As a matter of fact, he observes, ferns are probably easier 
to identify than flowering plants when one knows how, and the know¬ 
ing how may be acquired with less labor. Certainly his book has made 
the subject very attractive. 
In this book have been included descriptions and illustrations of 
every species known to grow in North America north of the gulf states 
and east of the Rocky mountains, this area forming a more or ltss nat¬ 
ural floral region. With few exceptions they have been treated in 
related groups and arranged as nearly as possible according to season, 
those first to fruit coming first in the book. By means of the illustrated 
key to the genera it is believed that no one will have difficulty in ascer 
taining the name of any specimen he may find. “The early botanists ” 
says Mr. Clute, “were mainly engaged in describing new species and 
have left for us the pleasanter task of discovering the curious and 
interesting facts about them. In this direction still lies a practically 
virgin field. Our knowledge of spores and sporelings is far from com¬ 
plete ; the prothallia of some species have never been seen; the 
phenomena of fern hybridization have scarcely been touched upon ; 
while the study of the natural variation in species will afford much 
profitable work.” 
In language delicate as the tracery of the fern leaf the author intro¬ 
duces us to the uncoiling fronds of “Nature’s lacework,” and shows 
that all the grace and beauty that may exist in mere leaves is here per¬ 
fected. There are nearly four thousand species of ferns in the world, 
but an examination of the rocks has shown that the present number is 
but a handful in comparison with those that flourished when the earth 
was younger. Ferns bear no flowers, although one species is by cour¬ 
tesy called the flowering fern, and “fern seed” is as elusive and 
uncertain a thing as it was in the time of the ancients. The spores 
and sporelings are described in an entertaining manner, and the terms 
by which the various parts of the fern are designated are explained. 
In a manner that makes us wonder that we did not know it before 
the author introduces us to the Osmunda family. “Among ferns as 
among flowering plants,” he says, “there are certain species that so 
persistently force themselves upon our attention as to make it almost 
impossible not to know them. The members of the Osmunda family 
belong to this class. From the time their stout woolly crosiers peep 
from the ground in spring until their pinnae are mingling with the fall¬ 
ing leaves of autumn, they are among the most conspicuous of our 
native species. In everything the family runs to extremes. Their 
rootstocks are the largest, their crosiers the woolliest, their fronds the 
tallest and their fruit the earliest. They are also as common as con¬ 
spicuous. Every farmer and wanderer countryward is familiar with 
their graceful forms, although he may have no other name for them 
than ‘ brakes.’ ” 
All kinds of ferns are described and illustrated. The illustrations are 
a very prominent part of the book ; they are in half-tones, wash draw¬ 
ings, etchings and delicately colored plates. A chapter on nomencla¬ 
ture precedes the illustrated key to the genera and there is a check-list, 
a glossary and indexes to the common and the scientific names. The 
book is handsomely and appropriately bound. Cloth. Pp. 332. Pro¬ 
fusely illustrated by William Walworth Stilson. $2 50. New York ; 
Frederick A. Stokes Company. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., present on another page their 
surplus list of stock. 
Plums, roses, clematis and other shrubs and vines are offered by the 
Whiting Nursery Co., Boston, Mass. 
The Butler & Jewell Co., Cromwell, Conn., offer dahlias, straw¬ 
berry plants, raspberry plants, blackberry plants and asparagus. 
Orders for fall of 1902 and spring 1903 may now be booked with 
Andre LeRoy Nurseries, Brault & Son, directors, Augers, France. 
What is regarded as the finest floral novelty of the age, the new 
hardy rose, Soleil d’Or, in orange-yellow, nasturtium-red, golden- 
yellow and bright-rose, is offered by Eilwanger & Barry, Rochester. 
Regarding the Spraymotor Company’s spraying apparatus, manufac¬ 
tured at London, Ont., R. M. Kellogg, Three Rivers, Mich., says in a 
letter to the company: “While attending the Western New York 
Horticultural meeting I examined your spraying apparatus in every 
detail, and while I own a first class pump I find yours so nearly ideal 
in every way that I cannot resist the temptation to order one of your 
No. 2 style, with all parts brass and brass rods. Please ship as soon as 
convenient. I frankly say I have never before seen so perfect an 
equipment for spraying.” The Spraymotor Company has published a 
valuable treatise on spraying, consisting of 80 pages, which they will 
mail free to anyone who writes for it. It gives the experiences of many 
who are using the Spraymotor and states the results obtained by its 
use. The claim is made that the Spraymotor is the only machine which 
will positively stop the ravages of San Jose scale. 
