editor's tabls. 



Best Grapes. — Muscat, of Alexau<lria ; Black Hamburg; Royal Muscadine or Fontain- 

 bleu ; McCready's Early White Pitniastou ; Cliasselas MusquC (this Orapo is apt to crack, 

 but, in every other respect, among the " best") ; Purple Chasselas ; Black Prince ; Black 

 St. Petei-s ; Pecans superb ; Grizzly Frontignan. 



For Ctiriosity. — De la Palestine. 



For Sliow and Bcatiti/. — Purple Damascus ; Reiuo de Nice; Flame-colored Tokay ; Wliite 

 Nice ; Syrian. 



To this list many would add Black Morocco, but, without fire-heat, it is a bad setter. 



If we eonld cultivate only one grape, it would be Black Uambur(j. If three — Black Ham- 

 burg, Muscat of Alexandria, Fontainbleu or Royal Muscadine. The Muscat of Alexandria, 

 only with fire-heat, and, without it, White Frontignan. 



Best Peaches for an Orchard-Uouse. — The four best Peaches for your orchard-house are the 

 following: Early York (serrated leaf) ; George IV. ; Grosse Mignoiine ; Late Red Rare Riiie. 

 The best eight will include the above, and the addition of the four following : Malta ; 

 Noblesse ; Teton de Venus ; and Heath Cling. If you object to a cling, omit the last, and 

 replace by a free-stone. 



(M. C. K. HcDsox, Ohio.) The " Egyptian Bean" sent is unknown to us, and we should 

 suppose it valuable. 



McMaJton^s Book on Gardening, we regret to learn, is out of print ; the eleventh edition 

 will be put to press immediately. 



W. F. Bassett, W. Groom, and half a dozen subscribers, answers crowded out. 



IxTERMixTCRE OF Seeds. — (B. C. C, Wyomiug.) Different varieties of melon, cabbage, 

 cauliflower, turnip, &c., readily mix when growing even several hundred feet apart. Peas 

 do not mix so readily, because the structure of the flower prevents any other pollen than 

 its own from coming easily in contact with the stigma ; species mix with more difficulty — 

 seldom, indeed, without artificial aid. Cucumbers, melons, squashes, &c., may therefore 

 be grown tolerably near together, without great danger of intermixture. Ruta Bagas, and 

 white turnips, cabbages, and cauliflowers, not. 



(SusAx). Verbenas, well taken care of, you will find the best plants for your vases. Mr. 

 G. C. Thorbum's new variety will make a showy exhibition all the season. Also Lobelias. 



Blue Rot ix Plums. — J. D. L., of Aiken, S. C, asks of pomologists to give some informa- 

 tion relative to the blue rot in plums, which worries his fruit more than the curculio. He 

 also wants to know if any reason can be assigned why some plum-trees, probably the General 

 Hand, which are eleven years planted, strong and thrifty, seldom bear, wliile other varieties 

 have plentiful crops ? 



(Asa Thomas.) The Manchineel tree (Ili/pomane mancinella) attains a large size on the 

 sea-coasts of the West Indies and our own continent, being common at Key West, where it 

 is found of the height of thirty or forty feet. It has the aspect of the pear-tree at a dis- 

 tance, while the fruit resembles, in appearance and scent, a small apple, which has deceived 

 your correspondent. Tlie abundance of the fruit is so great, that the ground appears to be 

 paved with them. They possess very little pulp, the interior being occupied by a deeply 

 grooved nut as large as a chestnut. No animals, excei)t goats, and, of birds, the maccaw, 

 choose to feed on them, and they become brown, dry, and spongy, and as useless as they 

 are deleterious. The juice of the tree is poisonous. Catesby was blind for some days in 

 consequence of getting it in his eyes. It is said sleeping under the tree is fatal ; oily sub- 

 stances are the best remedy for this poison. The poisonous Upas approaches nearer to the 

 anomalous manchineel than to any i)lant of the Autocar])e:e. The seeds, formerly so muc 

 employed for buttons in England, are the produce of the soapberry -tree, sapindus sap 



