editor's table. 



corrt'spon<l<Mit says he has great cnnfidpnco in the benefit to bo derivcl from cutting branclios 

 from i)lum-treos, when in full bloom, to make tlicm imxlnctive; the i)roeess lias no influence 

 on thecurcnlio. — Keeping bou(iuets is an important consiileration. Let twoehisters of fresh 

 gatlnM-eil llowers be introduceil into a sitting-rtwim ; plaee the one in the mouth of a narrow- 

 neeked jar of water, and arrange the other over a shallow dish of water, and it will be found 

 that the latter will be perfectly fresh, days after the former are faded. If a la7-ger dish, with 

 water in it, is placed below, and a bell glass set in the water, so tliat no external air can 

 enter, the llowers m.ay remain perfect, say camellias, &c., for whole v:eelcs, because they are 

 surrounded by air incessantly nioistencl by vapor from the plates. — If you want to bo 

 successful in transplanting, don't be afraid of working in dull weather. If you are sl»y of 

 a "Scotch mist," buy an India-rubber mackintosh. Nothing is so cruel to many sorts of 

 trees as to let their tender fibres ])arch up in a dry wind, or a bright sun. Such weather 

 may be fun to you, but 'tis death to them. — A Neapolitan ambassador, at the English court, 

 said, that during a residence of ten years in London, he liad eaten but one ripe fruit, and 

 that was a hakid apple .' — The mistletoe is sometimes found on trees in New Jersey, as well 

 as further south. The berries are transparent, and enliven the whole plant. — There is no 

 plant lately introduced, that will give more ])leasure to the many lovers of fine shrubbery 

 than the Wiegelia rosea ; the amabilis is probably little inferior. These, and the various 

 spireas, are our best treasures for early blooming — displacing the lilac and other old favorites. 

 — We have, in Philadelphia, two successful cultivators of pine-apples, Mr. Anspach and Mr. 

 Tucker. They produce as good pines, at least, as are ever seen in Coveut Garden market, 

 or on the tables of the nobles of England, from which country it is best to import plants ; 

 those coming from the islands are apt to be so infested with vermin as to be a nuisance. — The 

 most skilfully constructed bouquets are those with the brightest colored of the llowers in the 

 centre, gradually decreasing in intensity of color from that centre to the edges of the groups. 

 One prevailing color of different degrees of intenseness will prevent a patchy or spotty appear- 

 ance. If bright crimson roses form the centre, paler roses should be near on either side as 

 well as above, and the same will hold good of geraniums, &c. — Some of our correspondents 

 insist that the Rhododendron figured in the .January number, is Catawbiense. It may be so, 

 but we shall not pronounce upon it till we see the plant in bloom — principally because Mr. 

 Van Buren, who communicated the description and the colored drawings, and who has the 

 opportunity of inspecting it carefully, and who is familiar with the Catawbiense, believes it 

 is not that species. — Mr. Rivers has exhibited, in England, dwarf cherry-trees on tlie mahaleb 

 stock, only one foot high, that have each borne nearly a quart of fruit. Our own dwarfed 

 cherries exhibit a great inclination to grow beyond dwarfing management, probably for want 

 of root-pruning, which has not yet been attempted. Remember that the ashes of anthracite 

 coal is a good manure for cherries ; they do not require much enrichment of the soil. — The 

 apricot may be dwarfed by budding it on the sloe. — The interest felt by so many landholders 

 in this country in the cultivation of fruit, causes an amount of practical intelligence to be 

 devoted to the subject that has no parallel on the other side of the water. It woulil be 

 impossible to assemble the same number of practical scientific cultivatoi-s in any other 

 country, as will meet, for instance, at Rochester, the next autumn. These conventions are 

 rapidly clearing up vexed questions, and establishing truths. — However unfortunate the 

 late winter may have been to private gardens, the nurserymen must not complain ; there 

 are few who will cry, " Hold ! enough 1" and orders will flow in for recruits to supply the 

 place of the soldiers killed off. Roses, especially, will be in demand. — Tulip beds may be 

 kept in perfect bloom for three weeks, by shading them with any kind of sheeting fastened 

 to a wooden frame. Without this their bloom is short. — All sensible people believe, by this 

 time, in the jwwer and virtue of the individual home ; combinations for health, and air, and 

 trees, and sunshine, need not partake of one iota of the " community system," which, till 

 human nature is altered, and that never will be in our time, is found, in practice, utterly at 

 variance with the constitution of the human mind. Men do combine satisfactorily to pave, 

 light, and procure good water, without a quarrel ; then why not unite to have a handsome 

 and healthy country park, instead of so many compacted towns as we often see ? — A family 

 in Scotland has been poisoned by a rustic servant mistaking monkshood for horseradish ; 

 the cook, also, not knowing the difference, scraped the former, sent it to the table, and 

 poisoned the guests, three of whom died in an hour or two. The Gardener^s Chronicle says 

 this comes of people being barbarously instructed, and employs the occasion to enforce the 

 necessity of instruction in common things. — The Herbaria, belonging to the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, has been brought to the hammer ; they were the collections of the ofiicials 

 sent abroad, and were made in order that the oflScers might be able to ascertain the names 

 and value of the seeds which were sent home ; that purpose served, they became mere 



