FOREIGN NOTICES. 



475 



Thk Family Kitchen Gardener — containing 

 plain and accurate descriptions of all the differ- 

 ent species and varieties of culinary vegetables, 

 and the best mode of cultivating them, in the gar- 

 den or under glass, etc.; by Robert Buist, of 

 Philadelphia. New-York : published by J. C. 

 Riker. 12mo., 216 pages. 1847. 



This is a cheap duodecimo volume, the 

 purpose of which is very well explained by 

 the title page. 



It is a little work, with scarcely a super- 

 fluous word, but well stored instead with 

 plain, sensible directions on the cultivation 

 and care of the kitchen garden. The au- 

 thor writes as an intelligent writer should, 

 who knows by heart, and by long practice, 

 all that he wishes to impart to his readers ; 



and the book is, therefore, very naturally, 

 one that Ave can recommend with great 

 confidence as second in usefulness to none 

 of its kind yet published in this country. 

 Those who are not adepts in kitchen 

 gardening, and wish to add to their stock 

 of knowledge ; those who are beginners, 

 and wish to learn everything, and those 

 who are so little familiar as still to need a 

 prompter to tell the what, and when, and 

 how to plant, that their tables may have a 

 supply of all those good, nutritious, whole- 

 some vegetables that go to make up the 

 daily catalogue of a good dinner, will find 

 Buisfs Family Kitclmi Gardener as useful 

 and as indispensable as the almanac itself. 



FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Foreign Notices of New Fruits. — Mr. Tho- 

 mas Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, Herts., is, as ma- 

 ny of our readers are aware, an English nursery- 

 man, who devotes himself more intently to collect- 

 ing and propagating fine and rare fruits than, per- 

 haps, any other in Great Britain. The late Sup- 

 plement to his Catalogue of Fruits, which we have 

 before us, contains a number of interesting remarks 

 on new or rare varieties, which we extract for the 

 benefit of those of our readers who may not have 

 seen that pamphlet. 



We believe nearly all of those foreign varieties 

 named, are now in the country, or have been im- 

 ported this spring, by various amateurs and con^ 

 mercial growers in the United States ; though, per- 

 haps, very few of them will be offered for sale until 

 the next autumn. 



It will be seen that there are several of our 

 American fruits noticed ; among others, the Jeffer- 

 son Plum. We are glad to find this most delicious 

 variety maintains, in England, the high reputation 

 which we have always claimed for it. It will be 

 seen, by comparison, that many fruits ripen a month 

 or more later in the cool, humid climate of England 

 than in the middle states. 



Pears. — In a recent tour in Belgium I was ena- 

 bled, by a special introduction, to see the garden 

 of (I lament to say the late,) Major Espercn. This 

 gentleman devoted many years of his life to the 

 raising of new fruits from seed, more particularly 

 pears. He succeeded in giving to the gardening 



world some very valuable late pears. Most of these 

 are enumerated in my Catalogue ; but I am now 

 enabled to recommend them with the greatest con- 

 fidence, having seen the parent trees in full bearing 

 this present autumn. The first in my note-book is— 



Belle aprcs Noel; or Belle de Noel (Esperen). 

 This is a full sized pear, about the size of the Brown 

 Beurre ; melting and high flavored, ripening, ac- 

 cording to circumstances of soil and season, from 

 December to the end of January ; the tree very 

 hardy, and a good bearer, 5s.* 



Bergamotte d'Esperen. A pear of medium size, 

 inclining to the shape of the Bergamot pear ; melt- 

 ing, high flavored, and in perfection from March to 

 the end of April ; tree robust, hardy, and a good 

 bearer, 3s. 6d. 



Beurre Bretonneau (Esperen). A new sort, not 

 in my Catalogue ; fruit oval, full sized, melting and 

 high flavored ; colour green, spotted with brown ; 

 in perfection from January to March ; tree robust, 

 hardy, and a great bearer, 10s. Gd.f 



Bezi d'Esperen. Fruit full sized, slightly turbi- 

 nated, melting, and of good flavor ; in season from 

 December to the end of January ; tree of not very 

 vigorous growth, but a good bearer, 3s. 6d. 



Elise d'Heyst (Esperen) . Fruit of medium size, 

 melting and high flavored ; in season from March 

 to the cad of April, and even till the middle of May, 

 if kept in a cool fruit room. This pear requires a 

 warm and generous soil ; in cold soils it is often not 

 first rate, 3s. 6d. 



Fondante do Malines (Esperen). Fruit of medi- 



* Those at 5s. each [.Sterling;— about ?1 25 : Ed] will be 

 gtijipliecl as dwarfs or pyramidal trees on the pear stock, or 

 on ihe quince at that price; those at .3s. 6d. as dwarfs or py- 

 ramidal trees, on the pear stock only, at that price. .Strong py- 

 ramidal trees on the quince, oi' these sorts, are 5s. each. 



t Oh the pear stock only. 



