editor's table. 



growers in the vicinity of New York, have readily contracted their entire crop for the season 

 at 25 cents to 37^ cents per quart. We have given a large space to this variety, not only 

 because it is new, but because we believe it to be worthy of extensive cultivation by the 

 public, both as amateurs and for the market. 



Portraits of the Fastolf and Eed Antwerp Raspberries, copied from Mr. Pardee's book, are 

 also given below : — 



The Fastolf. 



■Red Antwerp. 



Tlie mode of cultivating these valuable varieties has been given so lately in the Horticul- 

 turist (see page 14 of this volume), that it is unnecessary to repeat them here. 



Agricfltural. Foreign Seeds. — An interesting letter from the Patent Office to the Con- 

 gressional Committee on Agriculture, briefly reviewing what has been done in the way of 

 naturalizing foreign herbs and plants in the United States, has appeared. Everybody knows 

 that some years ago, on the representation of the Patent Office, instriictions were sent to our 

 repnisentatives abroad, and to the naval officers on foreign stations, to collect seeds and bulbs 

 and cuttings of foreign growth, and to send them home for trial here. The plan has been 

 in operation but a short while, and the appropriations made for it have been small, but the 

 results, as given in Mr. Brown's report, are already very gratifying. Most fanners are 

 acquainted with the "Mediterranean wheat," which ripens, in great abundance, earlier than 

 our connnon varieties ; a few years ago it was unknown here. From France we have obtained 

 two Chinese plants, which the enterprise of French agriculturists domiciliated some time 

 since on French soil — the " Chinese yam" — a very fair substitute for the potato, and the 

 " Chinese sugar-cane," one acre of which produces twenty-five tons of fodder, of the most 

 nutritious and excellent kind. Another good forage crop has been obtained from the " chufa," 

 a plant of Spanish origin ; and yet a tliinl from the Mohd dc Jlotigric, from France. Cuttings 

 of foreign plum-trees have been imported in large (luantities, and engrafted iipon the com- 

 mon plum with such success, that we may shortly expect to produce all our own dried prunes. 

 It is now proposed to import more largely than heretofore, in fact, to obtain from abroad 

 every phmt, herb or tree which has been cultivated successfully anywliere. For this, larger 

 appropriations than usual will be necessary. That Congress ought to grant them, ther 

 be no question. — Nat. Intelligencer. 



