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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

We have found the opportunity to present another article on the pear, including a description of the "Swan's Orange," to which we invite the attention of our readers. Art. IV. by Mr. Kennedy, the second of his series, is worth the price of a volume. Our reviews are very interesting, and should receive particular attention.

Our thanks are due to J. W. Sibley and J. H. Watts, for specimens of Red Canada and Northern Spy apples: to H. M. Brent and Thomas Allen, for trees of some new kinds of apples and pears: to Ellwanger & Barry, for scions of Swan's Orange pear: to Bissell & Hooker, for the same, with several kinds of apples: to Paul Wingate of Hallowell, for scions of apples; and to Dr. M. A. Ward, for various seeds.

James Hogg, Seedsman, Broadway, will act as our Agent in New York.

Received

Manuscript communications from T. S. Humrickhouse, A. Fahnestock, J. Kennedy, J. Frothingham, H. Wendell, M. W. Philips, T. W. Brown.

Payments for the Magazine, from May 1 to June 1, 1847.

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AGENTS FOR THE MAGAZINE.-C. C. Little & Brown, Otis, Broaders & Co. and Jordan & Co. Boston. F. Putnam, Salem, G. H. Carleton & Co. Lowell. Geo. C. Daniels, Providence, R. I. J. F. Shores & Son, Portsmouth, N. H. Dr. E. W. Bull, Hartford, Conn. J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. D. Landreth & Munns, and R. Buist, Philadelphia. R. Sinclair, Jr. & Co. Baltimore. J. F. Callan, Washington, D. C. J. R. Cotting, Milledgeville. Ga. C. M. Dewey, Rochester, N. Y.

FINE SCARLET GERANIUMS.

HOVEY & Co.

Offer for sale the following very fine varieties of Scarlet Geraniums, some of which are exceedingly rare and beautiful. They have been selected from the most showy kinds in English collections, and all of them beautiful for turning out into the border, or planting in circles upon the lawn, where, from the brilliancy of their flowers, they form the showiest objects of the garden.

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TOM THUMB is a most remarkable variety, attaining only to the height of 6 or 8 inches, with small foliage, but with fine large clusters of brilliant scarlet flowers, which rise on strong stems, high above the leaves. Only a few plants of this variety are for sale.

Plants packed carefully, for safe transportation to all parts of the country.

W. H. WHITELEY,

22 WATER STREET, BOSTON.

Patent Boilers for heating Hothouses and Conservatories, &c., by Circulation of Hot Water in either Cast Iron or Copper Pipes. The Advertiser has been practically engaged in warming and heating by Hot Water, in England, and possesses a knowledge of the most approved mode of constructing the necessary Apparatus. He solicits the attention of Gentlemen and Practical Gardeners to inspect his Patent Boiler and Furnace, and gives reference to the following Gentlemen who have them in use.

Messrs. HOVEY & Co, Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. QUANT, Gardener to T. Perkins, Esq.
NAHUM STETSON, Esq., Bridgewater,
Mr. NEEDHAM, Gardener to P. H. Mather, Esq.,
Brighton.

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CONTENTS.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

General Subject.

ART. I. List of Tropical Plants which may be acclimated in the Southern States. By Dr. A. Mitchell in a Letter to Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn.

Gen. Dearborn,

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Horticulture.

ART. II. A Way to keep a Record of the Place of every
Tree in an Orchard,-with or without Labels. By M.
W. Philips, Edwards, Miss.,

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ART. III. On the Cultivation and Treatment of the Grape Vine in the Greenhouse or Conservatory, with a Diary of the Progress of the Vines, Temperature, &c. By the Editor, .

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ART. IV. Root-Grafting Apple Trees. By a Flushing Prop

agator,

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Floriculture.

ART. V. On the Propagation of Stove and Greenhouse Exotics in a Series of Letters. By James Kennedy, Gardener to S. T. Jones, Staten Island, New York,. . . . . 313 ART. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and Beautiful Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals; with Descriptions of those recently introduced to, or originated in, American Gardens,

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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ART. IV....Massachusetts Horticultural Society,

HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA for July,

Dutton and Wentworth's Print, Congress St.

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HORTICULTURE.

JULY, 1847.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. List of Tropical Plants which may be acclimated in the Southern States. By DR. A. MITCHELL: in a Letter to Hon. H. A. S. DEARBORN. Communicated by Gen. Dearborn.

DEAR SIR,-Yours of the 18th was duly received, and its contents, as usual, perused with pleasure. I will here remark, that, agreeably to your wishes, and in observance of the rules of punctuality, I had previously requested Dr. Henry Bacon, of St. Mary's, Geo., to give me a full history of the mode of culture of the Arrow Root in that region. And as this matter is connected exclusively with our present desires to show the success in the acclimation of tropical plants, in our country, it becomes necessary to show the difference in the mode of culture and soils, comparably with that of the West India Islands. As you well know that a competent knowledge of the physical causes which affect the growth and nutrition of plants points out the more obvious means of insuring success, when I receive from Dr. B. the communication on this subject, a full detail shall be immediately enclosed to you.

It is my opinion, that all plants, however opposite the zones in which they exist, can be transplanted and acclimated with success, if the natural order of those plants can be specified and detected as an inhabitant, indigenously growing in the respective and opposite latitudes, where there are existing proofs of such facts.

We will here subjoin a list of those plants that can be cultivated with success in Florida, and gradually introduced ; some of them, I am well aware, have been cultivated to a

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