American Weather In England

The mother country is getting a taste of it. 8o° one day and 350 a few days after, is getting near the thing. The next experience may be 90°, and then zero. We shall be ready to annex Great Britain as part of the United States when that time comes.

Yellow Cypress

One of the misfortunes of common names is their ready transference from one thing to another, till nomenclature becomes utterly confused. Thus Gardening Illustrated says the colonists on the Pacific call the great Arbor Vitae, Thuja gigantea, yellow cedar. But the Arbor Vitae there is white cedar; yellow cedar, or cypress, is the Nootka Sound cypress - Cupres-sus Nootkaensis.

Prof. C. S. Sargent

The Revue Horticole's editor, M. Carriere, is delighted with a visit recently paid him in Paris by Professor Sargent - and speaks in the highest praise of his forthcoming illustrated work Sylva boreali Americana.

Dr. Maxwell T. Masters - the eminent botanist and editor of the London Gardeners' Chronicle has been elected Vice President of the Linnean Society. He belongs to a race of botanists. Salisbury, after whom the Maiden Hair tree is named, is one of his ancestors.

Luther Burbank's Nurseries

These nurseries at Santa Rosa, California, are among the most enterprising in America. He is paying attention particularly to the introduction of the olive, having no less than 125,000 plants of one variety alone. This fact will give some idea of the wonderful success of this new branch of fruit growing - the olive, in California.

Haage & Schmidt

This well known German firm celebrated the twenty-fifth year of the founding of their firm, on August 1st.

The California Florist

We understand that arrangements are being made to bring out soon a magazine under this title. Mr. Emory G. Smith, will have a hand in it.

The Alphabet Of Bee Culture

By A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. Certainly, we think, the most complete manual ever issued.

Value Of Conventions

A writer in the American Florist makes a good point against those who see no use in going to conventions. They say they learn nothing, and go home feeling they cannot get twelve cents for a ten-cent bouquet any more after their return than before they went. Conventions broaden general intelligence, and if general intelligence does not help a man, we may as well shut up all our schools at once.

Premiums For Horticultural Products

Mr. P. J. Berkmans in his annual address, as President of the Georgia Horticultural Society, says the plan of no medals or premium money, has worked admirably so far.