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Hurljate, selectinjr with his usual frood taste some 

 five acres on a talded eminence, overlooking tiiat 

 " tremeniioiis whirlpool, the Pot " There, in a 

 short time, a little paradise sprunir up under his 

 hands — a neat Grecian villa, hed«^ed with tlie Chi- 

 nese Arhor Vita?, the ornamental <rroiiiids adorned 

 with tiie Weeping Larch, Hemlock, Sjjruce and a 

 great variety of rare ornamental trees and shrubs. 



The Abies were his favorites ; in their culture he 

 excelled, and his success had its intlucnce in decor- 

 ating with this fine family of evergreens this part of 

 Long Island for many miles round. Mr. Shaw's gar- 

 den was always a kind of museum lioth arborieultu- 

 ral and pomological — and many clever lessons in 

 gardening have been silently taught by his success- 

 ful and tasteful example there. 



Mr. Shaw was a profound lover of the eountry, 

 and one of his especial injunctions to Ids family was 

 to inter him in a pleasant spot he had himself se- 

 lected in the village churchyard, hard by his re- 

 sidence. He did not like the thought, of lying, 

 even after death, in the family vault in town ; but 

 like the delicate minded Wilson, the ornitholo<rist, 

 he wished "to be buried where the birds wouhl 

 sinii, and the spring flowers bloom over his grave" 

 — which re([uest was scrupulously carried into 

 effect at 3 P. M., Oct. 31, 1847. Yours truly. A 

 Subscriber. New-York, Nov. 10, 1847. 



The " Ida " Green Gage. — Dear Sir : I have 

 just received the October lumnber of the Horticul- 

 turist, and the remarks on the " Ida Green Gage '' 

 Plum by Mr. Reagles caught my attention. It is 

 no seedling of this country ; it is nothing more than 

 the true Green Gage itself. The location on which 

 this Plum grows, is favorable to the development 

 of the fine qualities of this best of all plums. I 

 say best of all plums, as I question if any of the 

 plums equal it in richness. 



This plum, as I have learned, was imported 

 from France by Chancellor Livingston, and was 

 obtained from his place — this is the history of it, by 

 the late Judge Buel. 



I would advise young beginners in growing fruit, 

 to be a little more careful about christening every 

 good plum that they may happen to find, as a new 

 seedling ; and also to take the old Scotchman's 

 advice to his son, "Jock, if you would only hold 

 your tongue, folks might think you were a pretty 

 clever fellow." 



I have propagated and sold the above plum for 

 ten years past, as the true Green Gage or Reine 

 Claude, and in all my intercourse with A. P. 

 Heartt, Esq., the late proprietor of the garden on 

 Ida Hill, where the trees grow, (as there are a 

 number of them,) I never heard him even suggest 

 that it was a seedling. Yours respectfully, jas. 

 Wilson. Albany, Oct. 5, 1847. 



[When the fruit was sent to us, wc thought it 

 most probably a Green Gage, though we knew that 

 several persons in Troy, familiar with fruit, consi-. 

 dered it distinct. Still we remarked, in describ- 

 ing it, that it. was at all events, nothing ujore than 

 a s!i6-var!f<i/of the (j-reeUj Gage. Whut Mr. Wil- 

 son ^ay9, fonified|by the' opinions of otlieis familiar 

 yii\,\i the^ ^"^9 wtlji ' pi t)ij,e , tr^fj. tf^''<^f^ Jip. dqub,^ that 



this variety is only the old Green Gasc modified by 

 culture ill a very tavorable soil. — Ed.] 



U.vwi.e's Jannett Apple. — In the last number 

 of the Horticulturist. Mr. C. Springer, after re- 

 marking that the Gonneling deserves a place in 

 your work on fruits, leaves it to you to give it a 

 name, ho indirectly preferring the name o\' Rockre- 

 main to Janneting, as the latter name is applied 

 to several fruits. 



There are some two or three apples slightly re- 

 sembling each other, which are called Gcniiets. 

 There is, however, but one fruit generally known 

 to cultivators as the Jiawle's Jannett. It is perhaps 

 the best winter a))])le in the west — the Newton 

 Pippin not excepted. I am confident that I have 

 heard its name mentioned thousands of times, and 

 I never before heard that of Ruckremain offered ; 

 and to substitute that for Rawle's Jannett would bo 

 a little like turning upside down all the best orch- 

 ards of the west, especially those of Kentucky. 

 What great and good apple is there, whose name 

 has not been borrowed by two or three aspiring in- 

 feriors ? 



The desideratum of the day is to correct the 

 great confusion existing in pomology, and this cer- 

 tainly is not effected by chan<ring names, for you 

 will not and cannot bury an old name universally 

 received, by brinsing forth anew one. To western 

 readers, an author would only be likely to make 

 himself ridiculous, by attempting to change the 

 name of a fruit which with them has been an uni- 

 versal favorite under one nanu for so many years. 

 I would suggest that it retain the name under 

 which it was described by Mr. Bvram. Yours re- 

 spectfully. Geo. H. Yeamar. Mason County, 

 Kentucky, Sept. 12, 1S47. 



[It should be the iiim of every pomological wri- 

 ter, in describing and publishing for the first time a 

 fruit which is extensively known in certain parts of 

 the country, to adopt the title, if there are several, 

 by which it is most generally known, provided there 

 is no positive impropriety in so doing. jNIr. Spui.ng- 

 er was not, we presume, aware of the universali- 

 ty of the name "Ruwlc's Jannett " at the west, and 

 since it was first ilescribed and published by Mr. 

 Byram under that title, it should retain it. Fortu- 

 nately the " Rules of Pomoloiiy," now adopted by 

 the leading Horticultural Societies, will hereafter 

 settle and govern all these points. — Ed.] 



Horticulture at Buffalo. — We have had a 

 fine display at our horticultural fair this season. 

 Our tables have been laden with Pomona's richest 

 treasures. (Jrapcs, peaches, apples, pears, apri- 

 cots, plums, quinces, &c. have vied with each other 

 in the attractions of size, bloom and color. The 

 season has been one of friiitfulness, the blossoms set 

 well, and many trees which arc usually shy hearers 

 have proved productive. The curculio.lias .b^QU; 

 less destructive, its hahJts are., becoming belt ei^., 

 known, luid i>aluti>ry measuren adopted to rvndel:.lt^ 

 inelfeclual init^ deprediitions., Asa.wholc thg.pLuw 

 crop has been an ahuiidant Que. .The eiilerpfi^.© 

 that has been luunil'cst diuing the existence pf owr 

 sogiety, in procuring ;U1. now as well as thp oljl 

 c|i.ojc9_ yarietjf? of Ijruit, js now bcgiuninjjf..tQ be 



