EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Cuba. — A short look at Cuba has made an impression on us never to be effaced. The 

 notes and observations made on the tour having relation to topics little touched upon in 

 books, we shall prepare in time to commence their publication in the June number. Where 

 the novelty of vegetation, and, indeed, of everything else, is so striking, it requires some 

 time to recover from one's surprises, to be enabled to give sketches with any kind of gravity. 

 A perpetual spring, to the Northern man, is something to think upon the remainder of one's 

 life. 



Excuses. — Many matters that demand our attention, are necessarily deferred till next 

 month, when we hope to bring up all arrearages. 



The Weather. — Up to the time we write (April 21), the weather, throughout a large dis- 

 trict of our country, has continued unusually cold. Snow fell on the 17th, at Louisville, to 

 the depth of four inches. On the first of April, the Pride of China was in full flower at 

 New Orleans, and the forest-trees were in nearly full leaf on the 4th ; a cold wind from the 

 north set in, and, on the 5th, there was a heavy frost that injured the corn and perhaps 

 the sugar cane about New Orleans. At Natchez, on the 5th and 6th, the heaviest winter 

 clothing was a necessity ; this winter weather accompanied us up to Philadelphia by the 

 land route. On the 12th, the thermometer at Montgomery, Alabama, stood at 44° ; on the 

 14th, in the higher regions of Georgia, it was 420 ; on the 16th, at Augusta, fires were neces- 

 sary in every house, and wood was in great demand ; at four o'clock in the morning of the 

 17th, at Wilmington, N. C, passengers who stepped hastily from the cars, slipped down on 

 a very heavy frost, which covered everything like a mantle of snow. The fruit in' this large 

 region of country is materially injured, if not entirely destroyed. Pears, at Atlanta, as 

 large as ripe beans, were entirely frozen, and black. Further north than Washington, fruit 

 was not so forward, and escaped this visitation. We are yet to hear the result to the sugar- 

 cane; cotton, in most of the Southern States, was not generally up, and so far escaped. 

 The West and Southwest has sufl'ered, but the disaster, we trust, is not so great as we wit- 

 nessed in the " sunny South." 



On the 19th and 20th a severe northeast storm, accompanied by heavy snow as far south 

 as Pennsylvania, and consequently a depressed thermometer, swept over a large district of 

 country, and placed people in a state of despair ; the fruit buds hereaway were somewhat 

 injured, but generally they were not so much advanced as to leave us without hope that 

 many are safe. 



Books and Catalogues received. — A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants. 

 Charles L. Flint, A. M. New York : Putnam & Co. 



Descriptive Catalogue of a choice collection of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c. &c. 

 by D. Chauncey Brewer, Hampden Nursery, Springfield, Massachusetts. 

 B. Bateliam & Co.'s Catalogue Columbus Nursery, Ohio (EUwanger & Barry, and 



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