editor's table. 



the highest degree. Our botanical friend has lately received Dr. Bromfields Flora of ike 

 Isle of Wight, a very complete and interesting work, which frequently mentions the Flora 

 Cestrica of the recipient. Dr. Bromfield recently died, during his oriental tour, at Damascus. 



Peabody's Seedling Strawberry is now ready to be sent out. Mr. P. requests his sub- 

 scribers to inform him when they wish to receive the plants. Address Charles A. Peabody, 

 Columbus, Georgia. 



The Societe Regionale d'Acclimation of Nancy, have issued a curious pamphlet entitled 

 " line Precieuse Conquete a Faire," in which they earnestly recommend farmers to breed 

 horses for human food ! 



The Journal of the United States Agricultural Societij for 1856, contains matter of great 

 interest. — We trust it will be in the hands of all interested in the topics discussed, and can 

 only point to a few of the matters it contains, hoping therel)y to call attention to them. The 

 " Relations of Meteorology to Agriculture," and Lieut. Maury's remarks, are especially worthy 

 of perusal. Townsend Glover's paper on " Entomology as applied to Agriculture," will be 

 read with deep interest and profit. The " True Value of Chemical Analysis of Soils," by 

 Dr. John D. Easter, every farmer should study ; that on " Colza Oil," by Dr. Ware, demands 

 further experiment, as promising profit from the cultivation of this plant. The "President's 

 Addresses," and some of those of members and guests, may be read with profit. Altogether, 

 this volume exhibits a spirit of investigation and progress highly creditable to our country 

 and countrymen. The attendance exceeded, in numbers, any meeting of the kind. Louis- 

 ville, Kentucky, is to be the place of holding the next meeting, and we consider this a 

 judicious selection. 



Travellers. — The Garclener^s Chronicle regrets, with many others, that the missionary, 

 Livingstone, who has spent sixteen weary years in exploring Africa, should have been totally 

 ignorant of botany and gardening. He has made some sad mistakes in attempting to give 

 information, and thus thrown discredit on what may be true. This want of education is 

 deeply to be regretted in many travellers. For instance, pleasant as Bayard Taylor's books 

 of travel may be, he appears never to have had his attention turned to distinguishing one 

 tree from another, and we read of countries of the highest botanical interest with scarcely 

 an allusion to the vegetation that can be understood. Children's gardens, and a little 

 knowledge infused at school, should be attended to. 



Flore des Serres. — The three last numbers of this journal, unrivalled for the beauty of 

 its illustrations, contain figures of the following new plants superbly drawn and colored : 

 Lfelia purpurata ; Dircsea blassii ; Mandevillea suaveolens ; Dendrobium bigibbum ; Correa 

 cardinalis; Pentapterygium flavum ; Primula rosea ; Salvia Boliviana ; Bulbocodium verum; 

 Dianthus sinensis, varietates ; Wistaria frutescens, var. Magnifica — quite an acquisition ; 

 Barbacenia hybrides ; Colchicum variegatum ; Salvia splendens, var. Soucheti ; Thalictrum 

 aueminoides, var. flore pleno ; Fuchsia, var. Rosea ; Azalea Indica, var. Beaute d'Europe ; 

 Cypripedium purpuratum ; Hibiscus marmoratus ; Tropreolum azureum grandiflorum ; Pau- 

 sies, Imperatrice Eugenie and Leonidas ; Stenanthera pinifolia ; and lochora Warscewiczii. 

 We wish we could impart all of their beauty to these pages. 



Of the new Wistaria frutescens, var. Magnifica, the Flore says : " For more than a cen- 

 tury before the introduction of the Glycine of China, Europe possessed the American species, 

 now named Wistaria frutescens, of which the present is a hybrid variety, raised from seed 

 by M. Delaville, Sen., gardener near Clermont (Oise). The flowers are borne in graceful 

 clusters, of a pale lilac, with a yellow spot. It is said to exceed others in the abundance 



