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the same species, we should hold distinct ; while others which he regards as dis- 

 tinct, we sliDuUl imagine to be of the same species. 



Iktnla populiruliu, for instunce, seems to us to be divided from ]>. alba by far 

 more marked characters than divides li. excelsa from Ji. hitea. Qncrn/s o/irce- 

 formis, Dr. Ciray considers to have been made out of an immature specimen of 

 Q. viacrocarpa. Wc liave an o])inion tliat Q. hirolor also has a stronf]^ leaning 

 that way also. To a practical man, the leaves of the oaks allbrd but little oppor- 

 tunity of readily distinguishing the species. Qucrcus tinctoria and Q. coccinea, 

 for instance, we have found to run into each other in every character, except that 

 the flesh of the acorn is, in the Black Oak, orange, and, in the Scarlet, white. 

 Tiie leaves of. the Black Oak do not, we believe, ever turn scarlet, but the other 

 kind has not always got them so. 



We have only to say that, though strictly a botanical work, we cannot do a 

 better service to the gardening world than to recommend every lover of trees or 

 plants to procure and study a copy. The price we paid for it was two dollars. 



Strawberries. — Tlie advertising sheet contains an important notice from Samuel Feast & 

 Sons, of Baltimore, of their purchase from the executors of the late Dr. Edmondson, of his 

 new strawberries, -n-hicli are now for the first time offered to the public. They have obtained 

 celebrity from the reports of the few who have seen and tasted them — the Marylandica, 

 especially. The Camellias also will attract attention from oui- numerous readers. 



Graperies. — Our correspondent, William Saunders, advertises to construct graperies on 

 terms which must command numerous customers. Four dollars and a half for each running 

 foot is so reasonable, when combined with Mr, S.'s experience, that -we ask the attention of 

 our readers to his propositions. 



(Grapes). An answer respecting the best grapes for a grapery, will be given next month. 



The Winter Coxtest. — The following lines will be understood and appreciated by many 

 of our readers. It is almost needless to say they are by Cowper: — 



" Grudge not, ye rich (since Luxury must have 

 Her dainties, and the World's more numerous lialf 

 Lives by contriving delicates for you) — 

 Grudge not the cost. Ye little know the cares, 

 The vigilance, the labor, and the skill. 

 That day and night are exercised, and hang 

 Upon the ticklish balance of suspense, 

 That ye may garnish your profuse regales 

 With summer fruits brought forth by wintry suns. . 

 Ten thousand dangers lie in wait to thwart 

 The process. Heat, and cold, and windj and steam, 

 Moisture and drought, mice, worm.s, and swarming flie.s, 

 Minute as dust, and numberless, oft work 

 Dire disappointment, that admits no cure. 

 And which no care can obviate. It were long. 

 Too long, to tell the expedients and the shifts 

 Which he that fights a season so severe 

 Devises, while ho guards his tender trust ; 

 And oft, at last, in vain." 



TWO LrrEKARY SALAD-BOWLS. 



' Salad for the solitary" — Lettuce alone ! 



' Salad for the social" — Lettuce be merry ! — Punch. 



