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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

A continuation of our article descriptive of select pears in the present number will, we hope, be interesting to our pomological friends, as also the descriptive account of Dr. Wendell's new cherry. The Floricultural Notices are full of interest to the cultivator of plants, and our Miscellaneous Intelligence embraces a fund of instructive matter in every department of horticulture. Some reports of horticultural exhibitions are necessarily postponed till

our next.

Our thanks are due to Dr. H. Wendell, Albany, J. Fowler, Amesbury, Mass., N. Stetson, Esq., Bridgewater, S. L. Goodale, Saco, J. F. Watts, Rochester, and S. D. Purdie, New Haven, for fine specimens of various fruits; also to Mr. James Wilson, Albany, for trees of the Sterling pear, and Schenectady Catherine, and other plums.

The third number of THE FRUITS OF AMERICA appeared this week, and the fourth number will appear in December.

Our correspondents are respectfully invited to send us any information which will enable us to complete our Retropective View of Horticulture for 1847.

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

Received-Manuscript communications from Dr. H. Wendell, W. R. Prince, S. W. Coit, Dr. M. A. Ward.

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HORTICULTURE.

DECEMBER, 1847.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties of Plums. By the EDITOR.

In our September number, (p. 394,) we commenced our series of articles describing all the best varieties of cherries. We now have the pleasure of giving the first article of another series, describing and figuring all the choicest kinds of plums now known, or which may be introduced or produced from seed. Much confusion exists in the nomenclature of this fruit, though to scarcely the extent of that of the cherry; but a great many varieties are cultivated under erroneous names. Our object will be, not only to make the finest sorts better known to cultivators, but to describe the best varieties under their true names, that they may be identified, and their synonymes readily detected.

Not many years since, with the exception of the Washington, Imperial Gage, and one or two other sorts, the principal plums in cultivation were of foreign origin. But now that the rapid augmentation of our native kinds has afforded a better opportunity to make a good selection, the principal varieties generally sought after are American seedlings. Thus the Jefferson, Columbia, Lawrence's Favorite, Hulings' Superb, Purple Favorite, McLaughlin, Thomas, &c., are considered as among the choicest varieties which can be selected. The Green Gage, from its superior excellence, has been, and deservedly, a great favorite; for no other variety, however so large and showy, could equal it in flavor and richness. Now, however, if not to be eclipsed by the Reine Claude de Bavay, of which so much has been said, it is at least fully equalled by a new native seedling, which we have already described, the Schenectady Catherine.

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