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Early Frame Cucumbers ; Long Purple Egg Plant ; Curled Silesia, and Oak Leaf Let- 

 tuce ; Nutmeg Musk Melon, and Yellow Cantelope ; Ice Cream and Mountain Sprout 

 Water Melon ; Wethersfield, Large Red and Yellow Danvers Onions ; Large Hollow 

 Crown Parsnip; May Pea; Sweet Mountain Pepper; Early Goodrich and Peach Blow 

 Potato (Early White Sprout, declining, and Prince Albert, poor,); Cashew Pumpkin; 

 Long Scarlet Short Top and Scarlet Turnip Radish ; Linmeus and Victoria Rhubarb ; 

 Yellow Bushed Scalloped and Hubbard Squash ; Nansemond Sweet Potato ; Fejee, 

 Keyes' Early Prolific, Large Round Smooth, Large Yellow, and Tilden Tomatoes ; Flat 

 Strap Leaved Turnip. 



TREES APPROVED. 



Ash, White and Mountain — good; Birch, American White; Catalpa; Chestnut, 

 American Elm ; Shellbark Hickory ; American Larch ; American Linden ; Ash-leaved 

 Maple ; Silver Maple ; Downing's Everbearing Mulberry ; White and Swamp Chestnut 

 Oaks ; Osage Orange ; Silver-leaved Poplar ; Cottonwood ; Lombardy Poplar ; Black 

 Walnut ; Weeping, White, and Golden Willows ; American and Siberian Arbor Vitae ; 

 Red Cedar; Balsam Fir; Swedish and Irish Juniper; Scotch and White Pines. 



Trees Criticised — Horse Chestnut, poor ; Blue Magnolia, tender ; Tulip tree, poor ; 

 Goat Willow, tender. 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



Acacia, Almond, Althea, Barberry, Calyeanthus, Slender branched Deutzia, Forsythia, 

 Common Purple and Persian Lilac. Snowball, Plum leaved Spiraea, Syringa, Rose 

 Weigelia, Savin, all good. Glaucous Magnolia, Box Dwarf and Mahonia, tender. 



CLIMBING AND TRAILING PLANTS. 



Approved. Double Azure Clematis, White Clematis, Chinese honeysuckle, Scarlet 

 Trumpet and White Tartarian Honeysuckles, Passion Flower and American Wistaria, 

 Dutch Monthly honeysuckle — feeble, White Evergreen honeysuckle — tender. 



ROSES. 



Approved. Luxemberg, George the Fourth, Madame Plantier, Harrisons Yellow, 

 Persian Yellow (best), Baltimore Belle (tender), Seven Sisters, Hermosa (splendid), Bar- 

 onne Provost, Dr. Arnold, Gen. Jacqueminot, Giant of Battles (splendid.) 



DAHLIAS. 

 Approved — Jessie, Richard Cobden, Duke of Wellington. 



XI. M. C. McLain. 



I have earefully examined the table of fruits, etc., sent me, and find it out of the 

 question for me to make out such a list as will clearly convey to you the information 

 sought. For approval, I have used this character in the margin (,). Not admitted and 

 rejected, blank ; but this does not convey, in all cases, juit what I should like to send 

 you, if time and space would admit of a more extended notice ; especially is this true 

 of such apples and pears as I have given the mark of approval to illustrate. The Rawles' 



