" The following varieties have entirely escaped, viz: Belle do Choisy, Bolle MnfOiifl<|Ui' 

 Carnation, Karly Kicbmond, Montmorency, May Duke, English Monello, Hoiiie Hortense. 



" T1k> following varieties of plums have escaped, viz : Coe's fiolden l)n»p, Magnum Hunum 

 Yellow, Rod Magnum Bonum, Orange, Washingttm, Yellow <»age, and Hmith's Orleans. 



" The following varieties are mostly killed, viz : Bleekcr's Gage, Duane's I'uqjle, Jeflerson, 

 Lawrence's Favorite, Heine Clamh^ de Bavay, and Cherry. 



"Among roses, the Hybrid I'erpetuals have almost entirely escaped. 



" The above has been made out, after carefully examining very many fmit-trees in various 

 localities." 



G. C. Thoeburn's New Plants. — We noticed the spring Catalogue for 1856, issued by Mr. 

 G. C. Tliouburn, of Newark, N. J., lately, and had the pleasxiro of unpacking a box of his 

 varieties, the other day, which promise to add lustre of no common kind to our summer 

 greenhouse and bedding-out iilants. 



Among them we notice, with particular favor: — 



Fuchsias. — Empress Eugenie ; wide, reflexed sepals, of a rosy crimson, with a violet 

 shading ; corolla, fine white ; graceful habit, and beautiful foliage. 



Lady of the Lake ; fine, deep crimson tube and sepals, with hlush white corolla. 



Duke of Wellington ; crimson sepals, and lilac stained corolla. 

 . Duchess of Lancaster ; wliite tube and sepals ; lovely violet corolla ; very large and fine. 



Sir John Falstaff, Vesta, &c. &c. 



Geraniums. — Enchantress; large, white; top petals clouded with purple; lower petals 

 white ; showy. 



Beauty of Combe Park, Chepstead Beauty, Cerise Unique, Cottage Maid, King of Nepaul, 

 White Unique, &c. &c. 



JIdiotropes. — Beauty of the Boudoir ; the finest in cultivation ; violet blue, with light eye, 

 of the most exquisite perfume, fine foliage, and extra habit ; now first sent out. 



Gem, Grandiflora, &c. &c. 



Verbenas. — Brilliant de Base, Lord Raglan, Eblouii^sante, Flirt, Hector, Honeysuckle, 

 Admiration, Kurtz Defiance, &c. ; together with several rare evergreens, including the Fune- 

 bral Cypress, &c. &c. 



The Thorburns, both of New York and Newark, have done, and are doing, much for horti- 

 culture and floriculture, and orders sent to either house, will be promptly and carefully 

 executed. 



Mr. a. Fahnestock, the con-esponding partner of the Syracuse Nurseries, has sold out his 

 interest there, and removed to Toledo, Ohio, where he carries on the nursery business in 

 all its varieties, and, we doubt not, with the approbation of his friends. 



Ma>-ly and Mason's Trade List for 1856, and spring of 1857, from the Bufi'alo nurseries 

 and Oakland gardens, just issued, contains a large variety of ornamental trees, evergreens, 

 fruit-trees, esculent roots, &c. &c., togetlier with greenhouse and bedding-out plants. 



Useful Hints to Improvers. — Sir Uvedale Price has the following judicious remarks : " In 

 all that relates to cottages, hamlets, and villages, to the grouping of them, and their mixture 

 with trees and climbing plants, the best instructions may be gained from the works of the 

 Dutch and Flemish masters, which aflford a greater variety of useful hints to the generality 

 of improvers, and such as might more easily be carried into practice, than those grander 

 scenes which are exhibited in the higher schools of painting. All the splendid effects of 

 architecture, and of assemblages of magnificent buildings, whether in cities, or amidst 

 rural scenery, can only be displayed by princes, and men of princely revenues. But it is 

 in the power of men of moderate fortunes, by means of slight additions and alterations, to 

 produce a very essential change in the appearance of farm buildings, cottages, &c., and 

 ouping of them in villages ; and such effects, though less splendid than tho 



