THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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IRecent ipublications. 
Nurserymen who are contemplating the erection of fumigating 
houses will find valuable information in Prof. W. G. Johnson’s book on 
“Fumigation Methods”, published by the Orange Judd Co. 
Among recent publications by the Macmillan Company, New York, 
are ‘ The Government of Maine: Its History and Administration”, by 
Prof. William McDonald, of Brown University; “Sun Dials and Roses 
of Yesterday”, by Mrs. Alice Morse Earle; “English Pleasure Gardens”, 
by Miss Rose Standish Nichols; “New England and Its Neighbors”, 
by Clifton Johnson. 
The proceedings of the first annual meeting of the New York State 
Fruit Growers Association, held in Syracuse., January 8 9, have been 
issued in book form by the secretary, F. E. Dawley, Fayetteville, N. 
N. The book contains 266 pages and is a credit to this very vigorous 
young organization. There was a field for such an association and 
much good is sure to result from its formation. ‘The volume of articles 
and discussions on fruit matters to be issued each year is worth the 
membership fee, to say nothing of the advantages to be gained by an 
acquaintance with the members. 
The Christmas number of the Delineator is the thirtieth anniversary 
number. To do justice to this number, which for beauty and utility 
touches the highest mark, it would be necessary to print the entire list 
of contents It is sufficient to state that in it the best modern writers 
and artists are generously represented The book contains over 230 
pages, with 34 full-page illustrations, of which 20 are in two or more 
colors. The magnitude of this December number, for which 728 tons 
of paper and six tons of ink have been used, may be understood from 
the fact that 91 presses, running 14 hours a day, have been required to 
print it; the biuding alone of the edition of 915,000 copies representing 
over 20,000,000 sections which had to be gathered individully by human 
bands. 
The Macmi'lan Company has issued “Memories of a Hundred 
Years,” by Edward Everett Hale, author of “ The Man Without a 
Country,” etc. The work is in two volumes, crown 8 vo. There is 
perhaps no man writing to-day who has such a fund of recollections of 
public events and public men as Dr. Edward Everett Hale. In this 
handsomely illustrated volume he embraces practically the whole of 
the nineteenth century. One gets a graphic idea of the scope of his 
life’s work when one realizes that his book opens with John Adams and 
closes with President Roosevelt. The illustrations number many rare 
and curious portraits. woodcuts and facsimiles of interesting letters. 
A volume on John Greenleaf Whittier by Thomas Wentworth Hig- 
ginson, in the English Men of Letter series, is also ready. 
The two most striking articles of the well-varied contents of “ The 
World’s Work” for December are President Eliot’s—of Yale—article on 
“The Needs of American Public Education” and Frank W. Vander- 
lip’s conservative note of waining on the financial situation. The 
illustrated features of “The World’s Work ” this month include a hand¬ 
some seriesof reproductions of George Grey Barnard’s sculpture printed 
in a brown toned ink, accompaning an article about the sculptor and 
his work by Alexander Blair Tnaw. Portraits of John B. McDonald 
and Clement A. Griscom are accompanied by appreciative interpreta¬ 
tions of the work these men have done, by Raymond Stevens and 
Lawrence Perry. The financial article on “The Bonds of American 
Corporations,” “The March of Events” and “Among the World’s 
Workers ” are as complete and interesting as usual. 
“ How to Attract the Birds,” by Neltje Blanchan. The many thous¬ 
ands of nature lovers who have been delighted with the books, “ Bird 
Neighbors” and “ Nature’s Garden,” will be more than pleased to know 
that another book by Nell je Blanchan has Just been published. The 
author has a way of making real people out oi the birds. The titles of 
some of the chapters, such as “ How to Attract Bird Neighbors,” “ Bird 
Architecture,” “The Ruby-Throat’s Caterers,” “ Why Birds Change 
Their Clothes.” “ Why Birds Come and Go,” “ Home Life,” etc., will 
give an idea of the character of the book. One of the most attractive 
features of the volume is its illustrations. These are from beautiful 
and most unusual photographs of live birds in their natural haunts, 
taken by some of the most expert nature photographers. Of these 
illustrations there are 110, of which 20 are full page plates. Pp. 225 
81.35. New York: Doublebay, Page & Co. Rochester: Scran 
tom, Wetmobe & Co. 
“Country Life in America” for December is a large Christmas 
annual with a beautiful cover and a hundred superb illustrations, and 
colored supplements besides. The spirit of jollity of the season per¬ 
vades the bulky number of winter sports, unusual house parties, Christ¬ 
mas homes and many things of winter at her best. Rudyard Kipiing 
contributes the poem, “ Pan in Vermont,” deifying the man who, in 
winter, brings the seeds of phlox and hollyhocks into the snowbound 
country where Kipling once lived. Pre-eminent, however, is the pro¬ 
fusion of elaborate pictures and the articles that have to do with 
hockey, skeeingand tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice yachting on country 
lakes, fishing through the ice, and even the homely sports of skating, 
skate sailing and the pursuits that carry one into the deep woods. 
Altogether the elaborate make-up bespeaks the grand success of this 
new sort of magazine, the growing love of real sport in America, and 
the movement of the New World back to the garden and outdoor life 
of the Old. 
In the November issue of Meehan’s Monthly it is announced that that 
publication is to be discontinued. The editor says: “Those who came 
to know and anticipate the writings of Thomas Meehan, who was for 
the first eleven years the editor of this magazine, needed no assurance 
that he loved his work ; while the present editor—editor of one volume 
and associate with his father throughout the production of the others — 
yields the pen with the greatest reluctance and sorrow. It was not 
only his pleasure to continue the work laid down, but an inherited pur¬ 
pose, so to speak, to give to the world a journal that would be an 
educator and in its way a reliable power in horticulture. Until now it 
has been possible to continue the work to a certain extent much as in 
the past, owing to the number of chapters for colored plates prepared 
in advance. It was the author’s desire that the publication should go 
on, and though the present editor was prepared to take it up, the 
burden of other duties make it impossible that this should be, and he 
closes the book, as stated, with deepest regret. But this is not done 
without hope that the many friends he has gained as editor may never 
hesitate calling upon him for such horticultural help and information 
as his knowledge may be able to give.” 
“ Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist,” by W. E. Channing, has just been 
issued from the Merrymount press, Boston. Few books of a biograph¬ 
ical nature are so rich in quotation and pertinent in detail as this bio¬ 
graphy of Thoreau by his poet friend. Probably few readers of the 
original edition, in 1873. appreciated its value as a record of walks and 
conversations of Thoreau, Emerson and Channing, the author at that 
time choosing to obscure the personality of the interlocutors. Notwith¬ 
standing this defect and the unattractive dress given it by the publish¬ 
ers, Roberts Brothers, Boston, the first and only edition of 1,500 copies 
has long since been out of print. Since the recent death of Mr. Chan¬ 
ning, his literary executor, F. B. Sanborn, has expressed a desire that 
the steady call for the book should be met by a new and enlarged edit¬ 
ion, material for which was left by Mr. Channing. This publication 
has been undertaken in an artistic and permanent form by the well- 
known publisher, Charles E. Goodspeed, of Boston. The book con¬ 
tains new-matter, introduced by Mr Sanborn, notes and a complete 
index. The volume contains 420 pages of similar typographical ap¬ 
pearance to Sanborn’s “The Personality of Thoreau,” and Thoreau’s 
“ The Service,” which competent critics have declared to be as fine 
specimens of artistic typography as have appeared in recent years. 
The ordinary edition, with a new etched portrait of the author, $2.00. 
Postage extra. A limited edition of 275 copies, 250 of which will be on 
toned French hand-made paper, and will contain beside the portrait of Mr. 
Channing, which also appears in the cheaper edition, five full page 
etchings by Sidney L. Smith ; net $10.00. Postage extra. Of this 
limited edition, 25 copies will be on Japan paper, with the etchings in 
two states ; net $25.00. Postage extra. Boston : Charles E. Good- 
speed. 
LOW RATES TO WESTERN POINTS. 
The Wabash Railroad will make special one way rates and low round 
trip rates to Western and South-western points on the first and third 
Tuesday of each month until April 21st, 1903. Write R. F. Kelley, 
General Agent, 287 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y., for full information. 
