editor's table. 



TuE New Yokk IIorticultuhal Review, issued in New York, having been merged in tlio 

 Jlorticuhurisl, subscribers to the former will be supplied from this office for the remaining 

 period of the year for which they have paid. 



The Horticulturist is now so well known and established that the undersigned feels con- 

 fident his own subscribers will at least not be losers by the exchange, and lie cordially in- 

 vites them to become readers of a work that is esteemed wherever it is known. 



In taking leave of my friends, I plead only pressing business engagements, which oblige 

 me to give up a post that otherwise it would have been both my pride and jjleasure to have 

 continued. C. Reagles, Editor and Publisher, 



New York, March 15, 1S56. 



Notice. — The Subscribers to the New York Uorticidtural Review who wish to possess the 

 Horticulturist complete for 1S56, can do so by remitting one dollar. Tliose who do not desire 

 this will be supplied for the six months they have paid C. Reagles in advance. 



Spkixg. — Who would quarrel with winter when May was present, or grieve over the many 

 disasters that are passed, when the lilac and the appie-blossom were a)>out to pn-sent tlieir 

 accustomed beauties ? Adieu ! all ye dead foreign interloi)ers, who come among us to rival 

 our hemlock, fir.nt king of evergreens, and all the frightened array of false recruits whom 

 we had taken into our confidence, and who have deserted so soon ; we grieve not for you. 

 We would fain have cultivated and enjoyed some of the foreign world's wonders of beauty, 

 but manv have faded, and we must look about, and care for those that faithfully stick by us 

 amid the" wintry storms, and cheer us with their brightened faces when spring reappears. 



The full returns of plants injured or killed cannot be fully ascertained at the time we 

 write, but in our May issue we hope to record what has been the experience in various 

 points of the compass, and we now invite information from our fi-iends. 



The following lines from Mason's "English Garden," will strike some of the sufferers as 



just : — 



" Nor will her prudence, ■svlion intont to form 



One perfect -whole, on feeble aid depend, 



And give exotic wonders to our gaze. 



She knows, and therefore fears, the faithless train : 



Sagely she calls on those of hardy class 



Indigenous, who, patient of the change 



From heat to cold, which Albion hourly feels, 



Are brac'd with strength to brave it. These alone 



She plants, and prunes, nor grieves if nicer eye* 



rronouncc theui vulgar. These she calls her friends. 



That veteran troop, who will not for a blast 



Of nipping air, like cowards, quit the field. 

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Waru'd by his error, let the planter slight 



These shivering rarities." 

 This advice is now forced upon us. In general, to "slight," or plant but few of those 

 rarities of foreign origin which have not been thoroughly proved in your own latitude, is a 

 good rule. 



The Ohio Pomolooical Tkaxsactioxs, 1855 and 1856, have been issued in one neat pam- 

 phlet, of 64 pages. The discussions will be found interesting and valuable, tending as they 

 do to clear up unsettled opinions, and bringing the cultivator nearer to the facts. Ihe 

 topic of transporting trees on railroads was brought before the society, and the cone 

 arrived at by Mr. Bateman, who had corresponded with some officers of roads, was ' 



