Advices from Georgia, the peach center of the South, say that there will be about a fourth crop of peaches in the middle sections of the state and even fewer in the southern parts. The Le Conte pear industry, which is very great in southern Georgia, will probably not reach over one-third its usual dimensions. For fifteen years the prospects have not been so poor.

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The remaining special exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year are as follows : Annual exhibition of plants and flowers, August 19th to 22d; annual exhibition of fruits and vegetables, September 17th and 18th ; exhibition of autumn fruits and vegetables, October 4th; Exhibition of winter fruits and vegetables, November 8th ; Chrysanthemum Show, November nth to 12th.

Charles Gibb, whose death we recorded in the May issue (page 311), was on his way home, when he was taken with la grippe at Aden, on the Red Sea. He contracted pneumonia, and died at Cairo, Egypt, on the afternoon of March 8th. The remains were interred two days later in the British Protestant cemetery. His death removes one of our best and most devoted horticulturists. He had been to the orient to investigate the fruits, with a view to introducing valuable kinds.

The State Floral Society of California recently gave a spring exhibition, which was in every way a great success. Many fine plants were shown. Some of the things conspicuously mentioned were Yucca Whipplei, Rainbow and La France roses, and Bride gladiolus. There were 55 exhibitors, and nearly every class of cultivated flowers and ornamentals was represented. Collections of wild flowers were also conspicuous. Addresses were given by Professor E. J. Wickson and Emory E. Smith.

J. H. Hale, of Connecticut, is special agent of the nth Census Bureau to investigate certain horticultural interests. General matters of fruit-growing are included in the general schedules. Mr. Hale's topics are five: the nursery business, semi-tropical fruits, seed-farms, truck farms, and the florists business. The greatest efforts will probably be given to semi-tropical fruits and nursery statistics. Truck-farming is to receive first attention, however, and investigation in this direction will probably be completed this fall. As a preliminary labor, a directory is being made of all horticulturists in the nation who cultivate one-fourth acre or more. Mr. Hale is one of our most energetic nurserymen and pomolo-gists, and the Census Bureau is to be congratulated that it has secured so good a man for work of such vast importance as this.

The third flower show of the Chicago Florist Club will be held next November. The following premiums are offered for chrysanthemums:

The Gray Memorial Botanical Chapter of the Agassiz Association was founded two and a half years ago, especially to aid those botanists who, remote from large libraries and herbaria, find their study often beset with difficulties which the more favored habitues of school and college do not encounter. The design of this association, as stated in the constitution, is "mutual assistance in the study of botany by means of correspondence and the exchange of specimens." Not the least of its benefits is the enthusiasm engendered, which isolated students do not always possess. Any lover of botany may become a member by making application to the president, stating briefly his progress in the study and means for pursuing it, and thereupon receiving the unanimous consent of the executive council, which includes the officers and two directors elected annually. The annual fee is fifty cents, but amendments are now pending to make it $1. Members are required to report quarterly, either recounting their progress during that time or describing some collecting trip the flora of some region visited by them or a plant studied. At present there are 45 members in 22 states and territories.

President, G. H. Hicks, Owosso, Michigan; secretary, E. L. Byington, Boulder, Colorado.

The summer meeting of the Ohio State Horticultural Society was held June nth and 12th, at the Experiment Station, Columbus. The following premiums for strawberries, etc., were awarded:

Any other variety, if worthy, $5, $3, $2, $1.

New variety never offered for sale, if worthy, $5, $3, $2, $1.

Display of roses, $5,13, $2, $1.

Display of other flowers, $5, $3, $2, $1.

Display of plants, $5, $3 $2, $1.