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personal and General. Our Book Cable. 
Stark Bros., Louisiana, Missouri, report an excellent week’s business 
for the opening of the shipping season early in March. 
A. D. Field, of Indianola, I., announces that he is closing out his 
nursery business, and that in the future he will not be interested in 
nursery catalogues. 
Horticultural implements in general and nursery implements in 
particular will be discussed next month. We hope to interest manu¬ 
facturers as well as nurserymen. 
E. H. Balco, formerly with T. H. Griesa of Lawrence, Kansas, 
has severed his connection with that firm for the purpose of engaging 
in business himself in the same vicinity. 
Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., present a well printed and 
beautifully illustrated catalogue of 144 pages. The half-tones are 
numerous and of excellent quality. The type of catalogue we like to 
see. 
Irvin Ingles, of the Home Nursery, LaFayette, Illinois, has taken 
a contract to plan and plant the new cemetery grounds at Kenann, 
Illinois. These grounds consist of a plot of ten acres in extent, and 
will be landscaped after the most approved system. 
We are in receipt of a very neat descriptive catalogue of the Arling¬ 
ton Nurseries, Arlington, Nebraska. This is in the form of a small 
booklet, nicely illustrated, and containing accurate descriptions of the 
various lines of fruit and ornamental shrubs offered for sale by this 
firm. We commend this type of catalogue. 
The business manager of the National Nurseryman, with Mrs. 
Yates, took a couple of weeks off in the sunny south last month. 
Jacksonville was the objective point but the southern penninsula 
was pretty well explored. He reports a good time and recommends 
a southern trip as an effective means of effacing the coming wrinkles 
and checking the encroaching gray hairs. 
The G. M. Bacon Pecan Company, Dewitt, Mitchell County, Georgia, 
have issued an attractive catalogue and price list in which is incor¬ 
porated a treatise on pecan growing. This little pamphlet gives the 
history of the business and describes its present status, and future 
outlook. The leading varieties of pecans are also described and figured. 
It is altogether a very useful publication and should be in the hands 
of all those who are interested in nut culture. 
Mr. Winfried Roelker of Roelker & Co., New York, completed 
an extensive tour among his New York State patrons a short time since. 
While on the trip, he visited the experiment station at Geneva, and the 
College of Agriculture at Ithaca. When at the latter place, his good 
services as a speaker were brought into requisition, and the address 
which he gave to the horticultural students of the College at the request 
of Professor Craig was most instructive and greatly appreciated. Mr. 
Roelker spoke in general terms but most interestingly on the work 
of the importer. 
MR. J. McHUTCHISON JOINS THE ARMY OF BENEDICTS. 
On March 15, at Waverly, Massachusetts, Mr. James McHutchison, 
of McHutchison & Company, importers of New York, and Miss Grace 
Elizabeth Edgar were united in marriage. The ceremony was per¬ 
formed in the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Edgar 
of Waverly, Mass., by Rev. Reginald Coe of All Saints Episcopal 
church, Belmont. 
The floral decorations were elaborate and elegant. Among out of 
town guests who attended the reception were Mr. and Mrs. T. B. 
Meehan, Philadelphia, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wittpen, New York. 
The honeymoon is being spent in Washington and the south. 
The groom is one of the best known of the New York importers. 
His genial personality has made him a favorite with the nurserymen 
of the country who will undoubtedly join the staff of the National 
Nurseryman in wishing Mr. and Mrs. McHutchison a full measure of 
happiness and prosperity. 
—Baker Bros., Fort Worth, Texas. Enclosed we hand you $1.00 
for subscription to the Nurseryman. We are very much pleased with 
the paper. 
Organic Evolution, by Maynard M. Metcalf, P. H. D., professor 
of biology in the Woman’s College of Baltimore, 204 pages, 
including index. Illustrated with line drawings and half-tones. Price 
$2.50. Published by the (MacMillan Co., New York. 
This book is the outgrowth of a course of lectures given by the author 
to his students in the Baltimore College. The volume contains a 
discussion of evolution from the standpoint of the zoologist as well 
as the botanist. The author does not lay clain to originality, either 
in the form of expression or deduction, but presents in simple under¬ 
standable language the current theories regarding the progress of plant 
and animal life. In Part I, the theory of organic evolution is discussed 
In Part 2, the phenomena explained by the theory, are treated with 
considerable fullness. An interesting chapter is that upon “Man in 
relation to evolution.” 
One is struck by the apparent simplicity of language and arrange¬ 
ment. This is in marked contrast with many of the books on evolution 
which have appeared in recent years. We commend this as a volume 
which should occupy a useful place among reference works on this 
interesting and intricate subject. The book is well printed and fully 
illustrated. 
Japanese Floral Calendar. By Ernest W. Clement. Published by 
the Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. 57 page boards. Pro¬ 
fusely illustrated. 
This is a dainty brochure intended to show the nature-loving charac¬ 
teristics of the Japanese people. They give particular expression to 
their feelings by taking a holiday simply for flower viewing. There 
are during each year a number of days for leading members of the floral 
type. The book contains an artistically arranged delineation of the 
following days: Pine, Plum, Peach (The Doll’s Festival), Cherry, Wis¬ 
taria, Iris, Morning Glory, Lotus, Manakuse, Maple, Chrysanthemum, 
and Camelia Day. 
Coming just now when the Japs are in the public eye owing to their 
thrilling struggle with the Russian Empire, a contrubition of the floral 
instincts of this interesting people will undoubtedly prove popular. 
]Goff & Mayne’s First Principles of Agriculture. By Emmet S . 
Goff, late Professor of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, and 
L. D. Mayne, Principal School of Agriculture, St. Anthony Park, Minn. 
Cloth 12mo., 256 pages. With illustrations and colored plates. Price 
80 cents. American Book Company, 100 Washington Square, New 
York City. 
Each year sees agriculture advance a distinct step in its development 
as a pedagogical study. One of the chiefest reasons why agriculture 
has not found a place in the schools is that it has been considered to 
be an unteachable subject. Then again, there are few teachers quali¬ 
fied to present it. Its unteachableness is largely due to the fact that 
it is a composite science made up of a number of the natural sciences 
It is not as accurately defined and clear cut as mathematics; it cannot 
be described in formulae like chemistry and physics, but distinct ad¬ 
vances are being made and the book mentioned above, will do much 
towards placing the study of agriculture upon a rational and workable 
basis. It is modeled very largely after the book entitled, “ Principles 
of Plant Culture” by Goff. Indeed, the major portion of the volume 
bears upon plants and their management. Some other valuable chap¬ 
ters have been included, for instance, that upon insectivorous animals. 
Here is a subject which ought to be studied thoroughly during the 
school experiences of every boy and girl. They would realize the value 
of many of the birds which are now so promptly destroyed and instead 
of making the lives of these farmers and co-workers miserable, would 
do something to encourage their propagation. The book is distinctly 
didactic but the experiments suggested in connection with the treat¬ 
ment of each subject remove that criticism to a large degree. 
—W. A. Yates, Brenham, Texas. Enclosed please find $1.00 for 
renewal to the National Nurseryman which is worth many times its 
cost to everyone interested in the growing and handling of nursery 
stock. With best wishes for the prosperity of the National Nursery¬ 
man and all its supporters. 
