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. may The Plates will not be numbered or paged, but left with a blank No., so that each Class of Fruit 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 truits : BEURRE D' AREMBERG PEAR, GLOUT MORCEAU PEAR, VAN MONS LEON LE CLERC PEAR, BALDWIN APPLE. No. II will appear in JULY, and will contain the following:- WINTER NELIS PEAR, SIEULLE PEAR, NORTHERN SPY APPLE. No. III will appear in AUGUST, and will contain the following: SWAN'S ORANGE PEAR, MAY BIGARREau Cherry, HOVEY'S SEEDLING STRAWBERRY, BOSTON PINE STRAWBERRY. 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, WASHINGTON STREET; HOVEY & CO., 7, MERCHANTS ROW. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: G. S. APPLETON, CHESTNUT Street. LONDON: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, FLEET STREET. AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. LYCEUM BUILDING, NO. 561 BROADWAY, NEAR PRINCE STREET, NEW YORK. A. P. HALSEY, Esq., Bank of New York. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. RECORDING SECRETARY. R. OGDEN DOREMUS, ESQ. WM. COVENTRY H. WADDELL, ANDREW H. GREEN, ESQ. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. D. P. GARDNER, Secretary. SHEPHERD KNapp, R. K. DELAFIELD, PREMIUM LIST FOR THE EXHIBITION ON THE 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1847. This Exhibition will remain open Two Days, (the 15th and 16th). L Strangers bringing choice plants, &c., to the city from a distance are notified that they will be taken care of by Mr. JAMES HOGG, 562 Broadway, who will also furnish circulars containing the regulations, &c., to post-paid applications. Persons intending to exhibit flowers, fruits, or vegetables are particularly requested to notify Mr. Hogg, by mail or otherwise, in order that arrangements may be made for the proper exhibition of their specimens. OF 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 |
