We must again congratulate this honorable Society on the excellence of its Transactions. As a general rule, the magazine and the newspaper have superseded society publication : and what is worth knowing is usually found therein. Much that appears in many volumes of Proceedings, is wholly stale by the time it appears, and of little use for reference in after times. It is different here, and what generally appears in its pages will be valuable for all time, and very welcome to the library shelves of every horticulturist. In this we notice that the Society has been so fortunate as to get a paper out of Jackson Dawson, of the Arnold Arboretum, on tree seed sowing. Mr. Dawson is one of those enthusiastic lovers of his profession who has no time for anything but work lor the love of it - no time for writing, and how the Society got this valuable paper out of him will ever be one of the mysteries of the age we live in. The experience of one who is, perhaps, the most successful arboriculturist in America, will have a lasting value.

The other essays in this part are of a very high order of excellence.