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The Forests of the White Mountain Francis Parkman.            2   Landscape Gardening.—A Definition Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer.            2   Floriculture in the United States Peter Henderson.            2   How to Make a Lawn Professor W. J. Beal.            3   Letter from London W. Goldring.            4   A New Departure in Chrysanthemums A. H. Fewkes.            5   New Plants from Afghanistan Max Leichtlin.            6   Iris Tenuis, with figure Sereno Watson.            6   Hardy Shrubs for Forcing Wm. Falconer.            6   Plant Notes C. C. Pringle; Professor W. Trelease.            7   Wire Netting for Tree Guards A. A. Crozier.            7   Artificial Water, with Illustration 8   Some New Roses Edwin Lonsdale.            8   Two Ferns and Their Treatment F. Goldring.            9   Timely Hints about Bulbs John Thorpe.            9   Entomology:   Arsenical Poisons in the Orchard Professor A. S. Packard.            9   The Forest:   The White Pine in Europe Professor H. Mayr.            10   European Larch in Massachusetts 11   Thinning Pine Plantations B. E. Fernow.            11   Book Reviews:   Gray’s Elements of Botany Professor G. L. Goodale.            11   Kansas Forest Trees Professor G. L. Goodale.            12   Public Works:—The Falls of Minnehaha—A Park for Wilmington 12   Flower Markets:—New York—Philadelphia—Boston 12  

Asa Gray.

 

T HE whole civilized world is mourning the death of Asa Gray with a depth of feeling and appreciation perhaps never accorded before to a scholar and man of science.

To the editors of this Journal the loss at the very outset of their labors is serious indeed. They lose a wise and sympathetic adviser of great experience and mature judgment to whom they could always have turned with entire freedom and in perfect confidence; and they lose a contributor whose vast stores of knowledge and graceful pen might, it was reasonable to hope, have long enriched their columns.

The career of Asa Gray is interesting from many points of view. It is the story of the life of a man born in humble circumstances, without the advantages of early education, without inherited genius—for there is no trace in his yeoman ancestry of any germ of intellectual greatness—who succeeded in gaining through native intelligence, industry and force of