editor's table. 



Thaxkb to Mr. Wra. Bright, for a collection of now and beautiful bedding-out plants. Mr. 

 Bright is establishing a commercial garden and nursery near the city of Philadoliihia (in 

 fact, in it), from which good results may be (>xpectud. AVo have none too many — indefl, 

 we doubt if there are half enough. Mr. Buist leads the van with his extraordinary variety, 

 and if it were not for him, we should not have many of the novelties which make the mem- 

 bers of our Horticultural Society a sort of pioneers in America. Others are active and intel- 

 ligent, and we are glad to see Mr. Bright about to be added to the list. From Joshua I'ierco, 

 of Washington, we have his " IVrjJctual Raspberry," which is under trial by a jury of his 

 countrymen, who will all rejoice if it equals his expectations. Mr. Snow's verbenas promise 

 already more than could liave been expected. EUwanger and Barry have kindly sent us 

 two six>cimens of the great California tree, Sequoia Gigantea, in fine order, together with 

 handsome plants of Cryptomeria Japonica, and the Cupressus funebris ; the latter, in the 

 form of young, unestablished plants, lias not withstood the two last hard winters, but may 

 yet be found hardy. The cr^iHomerias came out of their last trial better than usual,partly, 

 we doubt not, from their increased age. 



J. Jay Smith, Esq. — Dear Sir : As it is probable a number of your subscribers may pos- 

 sess the jllemoriah of Bartram and Marshall, published a few years since, the editor of that 

 work would like to jwint out, while he may, some of his unlucky mistakes. Believing the 

 Horticulturist to be an appropriate medium for the purpose, he begs permission thus to ask 

 the owners of the volume to make, with a pencil, the corrections hero indicated : — 



At page 64, " the Virginian Guelder Rose" is inadvertently supposed to be the " Spiraea 

 opulifolia, L." — when it was intended to write Viburnum opuhis, L. ! At pages 241, 244, 249, 

 258, and 411, a remarkable plant is mentioned by the names of " Ti])itiwitcliet," and " Tipiti- 

 icitchet sensitive," which the editor rashly conjectured might be " Schrankia uncinata, Willd.," 

 or sensitive Brier : whereas. Prof. T. C. Porter, of Franklin and Marshall College, has con- 

 clusively shown, in the Mercershurrj Review for March, 1850, that those names refer to the 

 Dionaea muscipula, Ellis, now commonly called Venus 's Fly-trap. At page 352, a "pretty 

 kind of Lychnis" was heedlessly supposed to be the " Arenaria stricta, Michaux." It is not 

 doubted, now, that the plant intended was the Phlox subitlata, L. At page 422, a little 

 " glorious evergreen" is mentioned ; and, by a lapsus pennce, suggested to be '^Ci/rilla racemi- 

 flora, L. ;" whereas, it was intended, at the time, to write the true name, viz : Ceratiola 

 ericoides, Michaux. 



If these corrections may gain admittance to the "Editor's Table," or find a convenient 

 place among the familiar " Gossip" of your valuable joui'nal, the privilege will be esteemed 

 a favor by your obliged friend and well-wisher, William Daklisgton. 



Westchester Pa., May 8, 1856. 



Hedges. — Before the ITorticidturist for June appears, the season for setting hedges will have 

 passed, and, consequently, enthusiasts will not be prevented from experimenting. Nor, 

 indeed, is it desired by the record of the experience of the past unusually severe winter, to 

 deter others from demonstrating the advantages of live-fence. 



Occasional additions of plants — made necessary by depredations of mice — (Aricola xanthog- 

 natus), and annual trimming, having failed to produce closeness at bottom, part of the 

 hedge (Madura aurantiacu) was cut off near the ground, and headed-in twice during the 

 season. The effect was satisfactory. My ardent desire to succeed, after years of trial, was 

 about to be realized. Alas, for ardor ! 



TTiree months' covering, three feet deep, of snow, and consequent revelling of mice under- 

 neath, has cured my enthusiasm. For yards together in extent, not a particle of bark was 

 left, six inches above, and three below the earth. 



My only alternative was to dig it out and bum it ; the former accomplished, the latter to do. 



A beautiful and perfect hedge of Honey Locust (Gleditschia triacanthos) , on the ground of 

 a friend, is badly injured, if not ruined, by the same animal. J. K. Esuleman. 



Downingtown, April 25, 1856. 



Rochester, N. Y., May 2. — Fruit-trees are looking finely. Mice have eaten up whole 

 orchards, nurseries, &c. We have but just three weeks in which to do our whole delivery 

 for the season. Now we are planting with 250 men, having delightful weather for the work, 

 and we are getting on finely. We have a good specimen of thePampas grass — all in good 

 and the Eugenia Ugni, but none for sale this spring. 



Very truly, yours, P. Bakry 



