CONTENTS. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS General Subject. ART. I. On the Study and Pursuits of Botany. By A. MITCH- Horticulture. ART. II. Notes on Gardens and Nurseries, ART. III. Notice of Three New Varieties of Fruit. By ART. V. Pomological Notices: or Notices respecting New the Editor, Page. 433 436 443 447 448 Floriculture. ART. VI. 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, 452 Printed by Dutton & Wentworth, No. 37 Congress St. Boston. SPLENDID NEW WORK ON FRUIT. THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, 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 contained the following: VICOMPTE DE SPOELBERCH PEAR, WINTER NELIS Pear, SIEULLE PEAR, NORTHERN SPY Apple. No. III will appear in OCTOBER, and will contain the following:- SWEET MONTMORENCY CHERRY, 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 STREETS HOVEY & CO., 7, MERCHANTS Row. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: G. S. APPLETON, CHESTNUT STREET. LONDON: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, FLEET STREET. RARE AND CHOICE VARIETIES OF PEARS. HOVEY & CO. Respectfully invite the attention of amateur cultivators to their immense collection of Fruit Trees, of all kinds, more particularly pears, embracing every variety to be obtained either in Europe or in this country. Their collection is unequalled, both for extent and variety. Upwards of six hundred specimen trees have been planted out on the borders of the walks, extending a mile, a great many of which are already in bearing, affording a fine opportunity for the inspection of the fruit. They would particularly invite attention to the following kinds, of which they have a fine stock, with the exception of the very rare sorts, of which the number is limited : Swan's Orange, (or Onondaga).-The finest and largest autumn pear known. Fine thrifty trees, $2 each. Beurré Langelier.-A fine melting January pear. Fine trees, of all sizes, $1 to $5 each. Jersey Gratioli.—One of the richest October pears. $1 each. Vicompte de Spoelberch.-A new and fine winter pear. $1 each. Paradise d'Automne.-One of the finest pears. $1 each. Comtesse de Lunay.-A very beautiful and fine pear. $1 each. Grosse Calebasse.-Fruit said to weigh upwards of twenty ounces, and to be eight inches long. Fine trees, $2 each. Doyenne Boussock.-A very large and delicious October pear. $1 50 each. St. André. A new pear from Van Mons, very fine. $1 each. With many others equally new and rare, of which the following are enumerated : *-- APPLES. 200 varieties, including the Northern Spy, Orne, Broadwell, Early Joe, Marston's Red Winter, Gate, Beauty of Kent, Reinette Van Mons, Sturmur Pippin, Victuals and Drink, Lincoln, &c., &c., 33 to 50 cts. each. PLUMS. 80 kinds, including several new and very superior sorts, viz., Reine Claude de Bavay, Knight's Green Drying, Mulberry, Denniston's Superb, Orange, Fellemberg, Bradshaw, (very large,) Waterloo, Cross, Howe's Amber, St. Etienne, Rivers's Early No. 1, and No. 2, Howell's Early, Jefferson, Columbia, &c. CHERRIES. 60 varieties, comprising all the choicest kinds :-May Bigarreau, Sweet Montmorency, New Large Black Bigarrean, Lemercier, Donna Maria, De Spa, Reine Hortense, Black Bigarreau of Savoy, Bigarreau des Hildersheim, &c., &c. PEACHES. 70 varieties, including some very new kinds, viz.: Wheeler's Nonsuch, Cambridge Belle, Wheeler's Clingstone, White Ball, Ive's Orange Freestone, Hill's Madeira, Tippecanoe, &c., &c. GRAPES. In pots, 40 varieties, among which are the following fine kinds :Muscat Blanc Hatif.-A new Muscat grape, early and delicious. $1 each. Prince Albert.—A new black grape, with very large bunches and berries. $2 each. Wilmot's Black Hamburgh.-Bunches large, and berries measuring 44 inches in circumference, of very superior quality. $1 each. Wilmot's New Hamburgh.―(No. 16.) Large bunches, and berries like the old Hamburgh, but of superior flavor. $1 each. Macready's Early White.—One of the very earliest white grapes, sweet and delicious. $1 each. Portugal Muscat.-A new and splendid Muscat grape from Portugal. $1 each. With many other new ones, and all the old established sorts. -ALSO, 25,000 Seedling Pear Stocks, from ten to twenty inches high. 10,000 Seedling Quince Stocks, from ten to fifteen inches high. 5,000 Seedling Cherry Stocks, of thrifty growth. With a full assortment of ORNAMENTAL TREES, AND SHRUBS. 10,000 Arbor vitæ, for hedges. 2 to 3 ft. high. 10,000 Buckthorns, for hedges. 1 to 3 years old. Pear trees, of EXTRA SIZE, and in a bearing state, of many of the choicer sorts, may be had at extra prices. Catalogues may be had gratis, on application. Trees packed safely for transportation to any part of the United States. |