. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. r for scientific his favorite topic Bromeliaceas, the Pine Applefamily, besides published works, he has anenormous amount of manuscript. The BotanicGarden, founded in 1840, is sustained by the citygovernment, and the citizens take great pride insupporting it. In the Aquarium the Victoriaregia is a great success. The Hallidays of Baltimore.—The elderHalliday was, in the height of his strength, oneof the foremost in giving Baltimore its greatreputation as a centre of floriculture. It must be a great pleasure in his old days to find hisson
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. r for scientific his favorite topic Bromeliaceas, the Pine Applefamily, besides published works, he has anenormous amount of manuscript. The BotanicGarden, founded in 1840, is sustained by the citygovernment, and the citizens take great pride insupporting it. In the Aquarium the Victoriaregia is a great success. The Hallidays of Baltimore.—The elderHalliday was, in the height of his strength, oneof the foremost in giving Baltimore its greatreputation as a centre of floriculture. It must be a great pleasure in his old days to find hisson working with such great energy in the pathhe himself so much loves. The business ofyoung Mr. Halliday is growing to be somethingenormous, and his name in connection withflowers already taking a world wide range. James Vick.—The portrait of this distinguishedman has become very familiar of late, but thefuture will be glad to look upon the features ofone to whom it will certainly feel indebted ;for the work of the good man tells with more. JAMES VICK. effect after he is gone than while living. As theGardeners Monthly is almost always boundand preserved by subscribers, we are glad of theopportunity to place the portrait in the galleryof the future. George A. Stone.—The severe loss Rochester,as the Flower City, suffered by the death Vick, somewhat overshadowed the stillgreat loss of George A. Stone, who died also ofpneumonia a week before. Mr. Stone was com-paratively young, but full of a business energy,which promised to equal that of others whohave made Rochester so Axmous. He was ahighly honorable man in all his dealings, and,though sometimes the terra tree agent is re-ceived with obloquy, agent for Mr. Stone wasseldom so regarded. So great was his businesssuccess that his sales last year exceeded$400,000. Flowers and Ferns of the United States.—As already noted, this work came to a standstillby the sudden death of its publisher last autumn. 222 THE GARDENERS MO
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