GRAPE VINES FOR GRAPERIES. HOVEY & CO. OFFER FOR SALE 1000 GRAPE VINES IN POTS, Raised from eyes, from 2 feet to 4 feet high, and sufficiently strong for planting out the ensuing spring, suitable for Graperies, Greenhouses, &c., comprising the following varieties, true to name: some of them new, rare and valuable. Prices 75 cents each, or $6 per dozen, except those marked (*), which are $1 each. 30 other new varieties are under cultivation and will be offered for sale in the fall of 1847. Plants carefully packed for safe transportation to all parts of the country. THE TRUE FASTOLFF RASPBERRY. HOVEY & Co. INFORM their friends, and the Horticultural world, that they are now enabled to supply fine roots of this superb new raspberry, unequalled both for its size and richness of flavor. The original plants were received from Messrs. Youell & Co. who first introduced this variety to notice, and who have received two prizes from the London Society for its superior qualities. It was also fruited by Messrs. H. & Co., the past year, and proved fully equal to the reputation it had acquired in England. The plants are strong, healthy, and in the best condition, and will be sent to any part of the country on the following terms : Packages containing 25 plants, Packages containing 12 plants, No charge for packing. $5.00 3.00 25 Also a fine stock of the Franconia Raspberry, at $10 per hundred or $150 per dozen. The trade supplied on liberal terms. August 1st, 1846. SPLENDID NEW WORK ON FRUIT. THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, BY C. M. HOVEY, EDITOR OF THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. CONTAINING RICHLY COLORED ENGRAVINGS, ACCOMPANIED WITH THE WOOD AND FOLIAGE, OF ALL THE CHOICEST FRUITS CULTIVATED IN THE UNITED STATES. From Paintings from Nature, made expressly for this Work, CHROMOLITHED AND RETOUCHED UNDER HIS DIRECTION. THE LETTER PRESS TO CONTAIN A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE FRUITS, THE HABIT THE ORIGIN AND PERIOD OF INTRODUCTION, AND ALL OTHER The Work will appear in Royal Octavo Numbers, (uniform with Audubon's Birds of America,) and will contain four plates each, with Eight Pages of letter-press, on the finest paper, and in beautiful type; the Original Paintings executed by that distinguished artist, W. SHARP, chromolithed and retouched under his eye. The text will give all the Synonyms under which each variety is known, its origin, when to be ascertained, its period of introduction, with an accurate description of the Habit of the Tree, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit, the Period of Ripening, and all other particulars worthy of note. The whole, with a few exceptions in the early numbers, from Specimen Trees in the extensive collection of the Author, where their comparative merits, in the same soil and locality, can be correctly estimated. The Plates will not be numbered or paged, but left with a blank No., so that each Class of Fruit may be bound up by itself, arranged alphabetically, according to the season of ripening, or in any other way, when the Work is completed, or together as issued, at the option of Subscribers. Twelve Numbers will complete a Volume, which will be furnished with a Title-Page and Index. A list of Subscribers will accompany each Volume. The First Number was issued in APRIL, 1847, and the succeeding Numbers will appear on the First of every alternate month. No. I contained the following varieties of fruits : BEURRE D'AREMBERG PEAR, GLOUT MORCEAU PEAR, VAN MONS LEON LE CLERC PEAR, No. II will appear the 1st of JULY, and will contain the following :— WINTER NELis Pear, SIEULLE PEAR, NORTHERN SPY Apple. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In Royal Octavo, richly colored, at $1 per number, payable on delivery. A limited number of impressions in Imperial quarto, very highly finished, $2 per number. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY C. C. LITTLE AND J. BROWN, 112, WashingGTON STREIT; HOVEY & CO., 7, MERCHANTS Row. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: G. S. APPLETON, CHESTNUT Street. Advertising Sheet of the Mag. of Horticulture. 3 Van Houtte's Nursery at Ghent, Belgium. SPIREA PRUNIFOLIA FLORE PLENO, DOUBLE FLOWERING JAPAN SPIRÆA. (See Magazine of Horticulture, of June, 1847, p. 258, with a Woodcut.) Pretty strong bushy plants (13 feet high,) of this very splendid shrub, perfectly hardy, (having sustained at Ghent a cold of 0° Fahrenheit, equal to-15° Reaumur, without the least covering,) and in full blossom, will be 4 Advertising Sheet of the Mag. of Horticulture. sent out the first week of next April, by rotation, (plants three years old.) Early applications will secure the finest specimens. The stock of this magnificent Japan novelty, bought at Dr. SIEBOLD'S sale, is now in the possession of LOUIS VAN HOUTTE, Florist, at Ghent. Price, for pretty strong bushy plants, (all covered with flower-buds,) each, 17. 1s. (free to London.) ว M. LOUIS VAN HOUTTE has got the favor to send to Dr. LINDLEY branch of this shrub in full blossom; its flowers are quite similar to those of the double-white Bachelors' Buttons (Ranunculus.) FIRST LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE DOUBLE FLOWERING JAPAN SPIREA. 12. Crousse, Nancy. Léon Oursel, Le Havre. 35. Count Ch. Attems, Graetz (Styria.) 13. Aug. & Nap. Baumann, Boll- 36. Count Bobrinsky, St. Peters willer. 14. Gotteland, Chambery. 15. H. Demay, Arras. 16. Oudin ainé et fils, Lisieux. 17. M. Desgasches, Lyon. burgh. 37. Alex. de Potemkin, Nijnj-Nov gorod. 38. V. de Karemzine, Koursk. 39. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton. 18. Transon-Gombault, and Dau- 40. Knight & Perry, Chelsea. vesse, Orleans. 19. Souchet, Bagnolet. 20. Jacquin ainé, Paris. 21. Jos. Manetti, Monza. 22. Derussy, Macon. 23. Horticultural Society of Nan tes. 24. L. Jacob-Makoy, Liege. 41. Garraway, Mayes & Co., Bris tol. 42. Fuller, Worthing. 43. E. S. Burton, Esq., Daven try. 44. S. & J. Rinz, Frankfort.on Main. 45. Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass. Orders for the Spirea prunifolia flore-pleno can be sent also to Mr. FRED. WARNER, Seedsman, Cornhill, London, from whom a drawing of this shrub can be obtained on prepaid application; and also drawings of the Double-flowered Rhododendron, and of the Funkia grandiflora. |