editor's table. 



A Fkench CATALOG0E of D. Danvesse, Orleans, France, just laid on our table, contains a 

 great variety, but, as is too usual with these French articles, the prices are enormously high ; 

 it would seem to be a retail list of no use in America, and we advise the sender to save his 

 postage, and us any further paragraph. 



Not so with the Catalogue of Andr^ Leroy^s Nurseries, at Angers, France, the source 

 whence is derived such quantities of seedling trees that our periodicals are constantly dis- 

 coursing of. The sole agent in America is Mons. F. A. Brugiere, 138 Pearl Street, New 

 York, by writing to whom you may know how to buy trees in quantity at the price of beets 

 or carrots ! 



Answeks TO Correspondents. — (Calla.) Some manuscripts were lost out of our wagon 

 on its way to the printer's — a most unusual occurrence ; and, amidst much else that was 

 useful, all oxir elaborate answers to Calla's numerous questions, and several valued commu- 

 nications, have been deposited in the road. She will have to excuse us, for the questions 

 were lost with the answers, not more to her regret than our own. 



Indisposition, and absence in search of health, must serve, with r9gret, for many apparent 

 neglects of valued correspondents this month. 



"Wm. Stewart & Sons, of Quincy, Illinois, have forwarded us a very clever " condensed 

 catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, &c. &c." 



Strawberry Plants. — We are indebted to several valued correspondents for new straw- 

 berry plants for experimental culture, of which reports will be made in due time. Mr. Saul, 

 of "Washington, Mr. Thorburn, of Newark, Mr. Mish, of Harrisburg, Mr. Hooker, of Roches- 

 ter, will accept our thanks. The Hooker's Seedling notice, in small type, in our last number, 

 should be referred to by those planting strawberries. 



Stone Hill Potatoes. — Jlr. Bulkley's Stone Hills, which we promised to report upon, have 

 produced a wonderfully fine crop of large and excellent potatoes, never exceeded by any in 

 our experience. 



Mr. J. R. Gardner, in an early number. 



(A. B. C.) It is polite to inclose a stamp when you request an answer from a correspond- 

 ent on business exclusively your own. 



Translations from the German. — Some valuable translations from German periodicals, 

 shared the fate of Calla's questions and answers, very much to our disappointment. We 

 hope to hear from the translator again. 



" Stanley's Early" Apple. — Fine specimens of this apple, known in Ohio, where it origi- 

 nated, with another kind we do not know, have been sent us by Mr. James S. Lippincott, of 

 Haddon Lodge, near Haddonfield, N. J. The Stanley's Early may safely be added to any 

 catalogue as " excellent." Mr. L.'s comijlimentary letter is appreciated. 



ACBURN, N. Y. 



Mr. Jay Smith : Will you please confer a favor on numerous readers of your publication, 

 by giving, in your next number, a description of the manner of making cold frames, to be 

 used for the purpose of preserving cabbage, cauliflower, and other i)lants, through the winter ? 

 And also, whether you think that tomato and pepper plants could be preserved in the same 

 way — that is, in cold frames ? 



Truly, Wm. A. Bartlette. 



A few boards, nailed together, of any required length, and about five feet wide, will make 

 a convenient frame, the back being about eighteen inches high, and the front nine. Shut- 

 ters to cover them may be of half-inch boards, nailed together so as to be about three feet 



