Randolph Peters

Few men were better known in the nursery trade than Mr. Randolph Peters. He was a man of indomitable energy and perseverance, and amidst many discouragements brought a very small nursery business up to one of large size and extensive reputation, near Wilmington, Del. His death occurred on the 16th of September, in his 63rd year. We have no word of the nature of his illness.

Mr. Hitchings

By a note in the American Florist briefly stating the fact, we learn, with regret, of the death of this very useful man, whose name is almost a household word with those who have had to do with hot water heating. The simplification of the work of warming, by the introduction of his heaters, had much to do with the great popularity of hot water beating in our country, and his name deserves a record in the history of American gardening.

The American Florist

During the more than quarter of a century of the existence of our magazine, so many horticultural periodicals have been born only to meet early graves, that we heard of this one's entry on the stage of life with the lightest enthusiasm natural under the circumstances. But with Nos. 1 and 2 before us, we feel free to say that this has evidently come to stay. It is a bright, newsy sheet, and deserves the support of all who desire well to the florists' trade.

Red-Flowered Elder

A correspondent notes that a friend riding about Crystal Springs, Yates Co., N. Y, noticed Elder flowers quite pink. The red-berry Elder sometimes has flowers shaded with pink, and it may be some would come very dark. It would be worth while for some one living in the vicinity to select and cultivate the darkest cases.

The Sea Onion

This is the common name of a singular plant often found in old greenhouses and windows, and which the hardest treatment will not kill. The bulb is of a greenish tint, above ground, and shines like glass. The flowers are in a long greenish white spike, and peculiar for the long bracts under each family. It belongs to the " Star of Bethlehem " family, and is known botanically as Ornithogalum longebracteatum, or long-bracted, from the peculiarity above noted.

Loss By Gas

Charles Morat, a florist at Louisville, Kentucky, has had all his stock of greenhouse plants destroyed by leakage from the city gas pipes. There is no excuse for leaky pipes, and a city that permits such severe losses should be made to settle for damages, just as much as when a horse gets killed by a bad road.