The Scientific Angler

By the late David Foster. Edited by W. C. Harris. New York:-Orange Judd Company, 1883.

Foster was the most celebrated of English fishers, and this work was originally the compilation of his sons. Mr. Harris has added copious notes for American readers, thus giving this excellent work a new value in this country.

Practical Hints On Rifle Practice With Military Arms

New York: Orange Judd Company. This is a small treatise of thirty-six pages, in cloth cover. Useful to those who desire to excel in the use of firearms.

Geo. Peters, Of Troy, Ohio

We have to record the death of George Peters, the senior member of the firm of George Peters & Sons, Troy, Ohio, which occurred on the 14th April last. Mr. Peters was a Pennsylvanian, going to Ohio many years ago, and founding a nursery there. He was a prominent member of the Nurserymen's Association, and will be missed by the members thereof. He was known as a very honorable man, fair and just in all his dealings. The business will be continued by his sons.

Charles Arnold

This famous horticulturist died at Paris, Ontario, on the 15th of April, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He was an untiring experimenter in the improvement of fruits and his hybrid grapes, raspberries and grains were excellent acquisitions. He was a native of England, but had been most of his life in Canada.

Erica Cavendishii

I wish to say a word for this old favorite. What handsomer greenhouse plants are there than our old friend as a specimen covered with its rich yellow flowers, and at this April season they can be made to form a very important feature in conservatory decoration, and add greatly to the general display. The same may be said of the Ventri-cosa section. They are all rich and beautiful.

Euonymus Japonicus

This is the name of the plant referred to in the following from Jonathan Primrose : " I would like to inquire through the columns of the Monthly the name of an evergreen shrub of which I send you a small branch by mail for examination. It is about four feet high and in habit resembling the camellia. Although over thirty years of age it has never blossomed, has been growing in a tub for a number of years, being placed outside throughout the summer and wintered in the cellar."

Double Abutilon

Nanz & Neuner send us a double white abutilon. The stamens, have in some instances, turned to petals, as in the hollyhock and althaea. This firm seems to have a run of luck in the matter of double flowers. Just what ornamental value this double abutilon will have we could not decide from the specimen before us.