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all tended to reduce profits. Planting in this region is now 
proceeding on a much more conservative basis than formerly. 
During the past four or five years, however, a considerable 
increase in interest, resulting in the establishment of large 
peach areas, has occurred in the hilly regions of North Geor¬ 
gia. Here in the elevated and picturesque part of the state, 
large areas have been cleared and planted with peaches. 
These orchards are in the main just approaching maturity. 
It is probable that the unusual cold weather of the present 
winter will cut down returns seriously in the northern part, 
while the excessively wann weather of October and Novem¬ 
ber, 1911, will reduce crops in the southern ])ortion, so that 
on the whole, Georgia may not expect a large peach crop in 
1912. 
TENNESSEE NURSERYMEN IN SESSION 
Our Book XTablc 
Flowers of the Field, Rev. C. A. Johns. Published by the 
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London. 
Price, $1.87. 5" X 8". 611 pages. Illustrated. 
The thirty-third edition of this book, which was first 
published in 1853, has just appeared, being edited by Prof. 
G. S. Boulger. Besides giving about half as many small 
illustrations as there are pages in the book, the volume con¬ 
tains sixty-four colored plates. While intended as a hand¬ 
book of British flowers, the work describes, of course, many 
which are found in the United States, as well. The coloring 
is not always reproduced exactly as we see it in this country, 
but there would be little if any difficulty in recognizing 
friends from their representation by means of the colored 
plates. In connection with the latter, the English names are 
given first, with the Latin terms in parenthesis; but with 
the other illustrations, the opposite method is used. 
It is the attempt of the author to make the book attractive 
to those who are not thorough students of botany. An intro¬ 
duction of fifty pages is a valuable help in this direction. 
The book will certainly continue to have the popularity 
which its many editions indicates. 
Adorning the Beulah Land of the Hither Shore and 
How TO Become an Extinguished Minister, C. S. 
Harrison, York, Nebraska. 
This is a publication which will hold the reader’s attention 
from beginning to end, partly through the many well told 
incidents, partly through the interest in the personality of the 
writer. He depicts the pathos of aMife almost_wom out in 
service, then apparently forgotten by^the community^which 
has received the benefits. Hard indeed, frequently, is the lot 
of the minister who is without experience in any sort of 
remunerative work to which he can turn when forced, for one 
reason or another, to lay down the burdens of the ministr}’. 
Air. Harrison, when well on towards seventy, turned his 
attention to the plants he loves, and since that time has 
published works on the phlox, the peony, the iris, and several 
others, in addition to his regular research work with plants. 
QUARANTINE MATTERS IN CALIFORNIA 
At an extra session of the California State Legislature 
on December 24, a law was passed which is aimed to protect 
the state more effectually against certain insect pests. We 
learn through the California Fruit Grower that “It provides 
that all persons bringing into the State trees, shrubs, buds, or 
fruit pits must notify the State Commissioner of Horticul¬ 
ture, or county deputies, and hold the same until after inspec¬ 
tion. If the plants are found to be infested by fruit pests, 
they must be disinfected or destroyed.’’ 
The National Nurseryman, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sirs: 
We enclose you check for $1.00 in payment of The Nurseryman 
another year, we can’t do without it. 
Yours truly, 
Sedgwick, Mo. The Sedgwick Nursery. 
Within a few weeks The W. T. Smith Company and 
Theodore J. Smith, nurserymen of Geneva, New Affirk, have 
sold their interests in the New Englend Nurseries at Bedford, 
Massachusetts. 
W. Walker, of Honcoye Falls, N. Y., attended the Horti¬ 
culturists meeting at Rochester and called on his friends 
while in that city. 
