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Souvenir de la Malinaison. Tea-sconted, Adain, Canari, Comte de Paris, Devoniensis, Gloiro 

 de Dijon, Madame de St. Josepli, Madame Melanle Willomorz, Moire, Narcisse, Souvenir d'uu 

 Ami, and Vicomtesse de Cazes, are all very beautiful. 



Nkw Rosk. — At the London Exhibition, Messrs. Standisli and Koble, Bagshot, sent twelve 

 blooms of a new hybrid perpetual rose, named Victor Trouillard, being of the rich deep shade 

 of color of the old Tuscany, but, like Geant des Batailles, from which it was raised, the color 

 soon fades. It is very dissimilar to existing varieties, particularly of the hybrid perpetual 

 class. 



New Grape. — One ripening with the same degree of heat as the B. Hamburg, and of mus- 

 cat flavor, is valuable. The following is from the report of the London Pomological Society : 

 " Mr. Snow again furnished a bunch of his new seedling Black Grape, raised from the Black 

 Hamburg fertilized by the White Muscat. The berries are of good size, varying in form 

 from round, like the Hamburg, to oval, like the Muscat. Tlie skin is black, and, though 

 not thick, is tough — a property which enables the fruit to hang and bear carriage well. The 

 flesh is melting, and remarkably rich in flavor, fully charged with the aroma of the Muscat, 

 and with an unusually high perfume. The number of seeds varies from one to two, and in 

 some cases they are wanting. Mr. Snow having expressed a wish that the Society should 

 name his new grape, Mr. Hogg proposed that it should be called Snow's Muscat Hamburg, 

 which was approved of. It ripens as early, and with the same degree of heat, as the Black 

 Hamburg." 



The FirvvEE Seeds the Mobe Jpice. — " Watch," says the London Farmers^ Magazine, " the 

 intelligent vine-grower diligently thinning his grapes. He looks for produce not in seeds 

 or grains (as the corn-grower does), but in pounds of juice. Now, he may obtain the same 

 total quantity of syrup in his globular fruit, either by having a great number of grapes 

 individually small, or a less number of grapes proportionately large. And, irrespective of 

 increased mai'ket value per pound for the finer fruit, he has a potent reason for choosing the 

 latter kind of yield, in spite of the additionally arduous labor it involves in repeated thin- 

 ning. The vital power of the vines, he tells you, is not so much taxed in secreting the 

 watery juice as in maturing the reproductive and life-impregnated seeds ; and, as a small 

 grape contains as many seeds as a large one, he husbands the energies and resources of the 

 vines by taking a crop richest in juice and scantiest in seeds, thus realizing the greatest 

 value of produce with the least possible exhaustion of the plants bearing it." 



Far-nieste. — It would be difficult to embody the idea of rural /ar-n/en^e more fully than 

 in an extract of a letter from a country gentleman, who unconsciously lets out the follow- 

 ing sentiment in a communication we have lately received i " The remains of my evergreens 

 are looking well, except where the borer is topping them. I have abandoned them to the laws 

 of nature and to an ever-watchful Providence." 



GuTTA Percha. — ^The Flore des Serres is justly indignant at the waste and destruction of 

 the gutta percha tree, and calls upon governments to protect posterity, whose knowledge of 

 the article must be, at the present rate of use, only a souvenir. The same elegant periodi- 

 cal asserts that the English government has appointed an agent to introduce the cinchona 

 or Peruvian bark tree into their oriental possessions, and that M. Hasskail has been sent 

 on a voyage to Bolivia, to obtain the seed. Baron Humboldt informed us, in an interview 

 we enjoyed with him at Potsdam, in 1850, that there was no kind of danger of the cinchona 



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