editor's table. 



and especially, among the latter, roses. Mr. Luther Briggs, proprietor. Mr. B., in a private 

 letter, thinks his climate, with the thermometer occasionally as low as 250 below zero, an 

 uncomfortable, if not an unfortiinate one, and asks for infoi-mation of what will grow in such 

 a region. In the last December number he will find valuable hints, in a letter from Canada, 

 as to fruit ; for flowers and shrubs, we shall endeavor to furnish further matter for his con- 

 sideration ; here we also have much to contend with, but, by careful experience, we are 

 becoming acquainted with what suits our also very cold latitiide ; it often happens, how- 

 ever, that what we had once considered "perfectly hardy," is "lost to our hopes," thoiigh 

 " to memory dear." 



Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, and Bedding-oiit 

 Plants, cultivated and for sale by W., T., and E. Smith, at the Geneva Nursery, Geneva, N. Y. 

 A very valuable collection, made with judgment and taste, and an interesting catalogue. 



ClXCONATI, 



Editor HoRTicnLTtJEisT : Your Western readers have been much gratified by the descrip- 

 tions given in your valuable journal of the splendid country-seats on the Hudson, and in the 

 vicinity of some of your Eastern cities. They would be still better pleased if you could 

 fiud leisure to make them a visit, in company with some of your friends, during the ensuing 

 spring, and see what they are doing out here for the cause of Jiorticulture and landscape- 

 gardening. They can promise you nothing to compete with their Eastern brethren in these 

 beautiful adornments of the earth, but they can assure you of a hearty welcome, and will 

 be happy to show you their first efforts in embellishing their grounds, and in the cultivation 

 of fruits and shrubbery — all of which are as yet but in their infancy in the West. 



But they have a climate and soil, and, in many parts, a surface admirably adapted to 

 show such cultivation to the best advantage, and to display the skill of the landscape- 

 gardener. Kentucky, with its many fine, park-like, grazing farms, is especially fitted for 

 such improvements. The wealth and the will are there, and all that is wanted is a few 

 tasteful examples, to make it one of the garden regions of the West. 



In the vicinity of this city a good beginning has been made, and it will be pursued with 

 much spirit and taste. The Horticultural Society and your journal have done much to 

 bring this about, and a visit from you, with an interchange of opinions, would do more. 



ResT)ectfully, B. 



[Inclination, and favorable remembrances of some of the fine scenes in Kentucky, would 

 lead us to such an excursion, and possibly time may be found, in May next, to respond to 

 this and other truly kind invitations for a view of the park-like scenery of the West. We 

 know that Kentucky possesses a good climate and great natural advantages ; that grass 

 grows under its noble trees ; and our Parkomania would be greatly excited by revisiting 

 scenes now almost obscured in the light of memories not lost, but dimmed by time.] 



TuE Valoxia Oak. — J. Jay Smith : In Leroy's sale catalogue, the " Valonia Oak" is given 

 as the common name of the Quercus jEgilops, and in the Hortus Kewensis edition, 1813, the 

 French name of that species is given from Voijage d'' Oliver as Chene valain, and the English 

 name, "the great prickly cupped Oak, or Velanida-tree." The description of the species 

 from the leaves and fruit is given in Hortus Kewensis from Wildenow, and may be used to 

 djetermine whether the acorn from the Trojan plain is the fruit of the Q. ^gilojis, which 

 seems probable, especially as the species is native of the Levant. 



Respectfully thy friend, Alax W. Corsox. 



I expect a tree of that species in the spring ; very possibly to add to the many introduced 

 that are too tender for our climate. I believe it is deciduous, and have more hope 

 ness than of any evergreen oak. A. W, 



