editor's table. 



Batoham, Propiietors), contains an essay on planting and managing trees, with a list of 

 their stock, and additional observations of interest. 



New York State Agricultural Society's List of Premiums and Regulations for the Seven- 

 teenth Anniial Fair, to be held at Buffalo, October 6, 7, 8, 9, 1857. Look out for prizes, 

 which are numerous and liberal. 



Mr. E. W. Bull sends us a fine picture of the Concord Grape, with testimonials such as 

 no one who reads them can resist, but must "plant immediately." The words, in largo 

 letters, " Inch in Diameter !" " No Mildew, Rot, or Drop Off!" has already induced an order 

 from ourselves for this variety, so much esteemed at the eastward, and already coming 

 northwards into favor. 



Extrait du Catalogue des Plantes cultivees chez Pelc, Rue de Lourcine, Paris, 1857. 



A List of Plants for sale by John Wilson at the Albany Nursery, N. Y. Very neatly got 

 up, and varied in contents. 



Reports of the Committee for 1856 of the Massachusetts Ilorticultural Society, and Schedule 

 of Prizes for 1857. Boston. To bo further reported on. 



N. Coe, Esq., of Oregon Territory, will accept our thanks for seeds and flowers from that 

 interesting region. We shall report on their beauty and value in due time. 



Arctic Adventure. Edited by Epes Sargent, Boston. Philips, Sampson & Co. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St., New York, advertise that they have the true Impkee 

 or Sorgo Seed, at one dollar a pound, and have placed a pound at our disposal for trial. 



Mr. R. Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, will accept our sincere thanks for valuable packages of 

 seeds, and a superb specimen of the silky dress of his Cashmere herd. 



The New Yam. — The following scrap is from the Cottage Gardener, and signed by a man 

 of multifarious accomplishments : — 



" The most perfect indifference" is shown by the new Yam to " the most rigorous seasons ;" 

 it is most perfectly hardy. The evidence is most conclusive to prove that the bigger the 

 " sets" or seed, the larger will the crop dig out. AH potting, and all fiddling with it, is 

 a perfect waste of time. Trench the ground as deep as for parsnips, and put in spanking 

 long Yams in the first week in March, and let them alone entirely for the rest of the 

 season. D- Beaton." 



A New Gardejj Implement. — Recently, at Edinburgh, we saw in operation an implement 

 which combines the advantages of the hoe on an extensive scale, a harrow, a grubber, or 

 and a plough, or, rather, a machine for earthing up potatoes, &c. — all this in one 

 worked by one person. Of its great utility we cannot possibly speak too highly 



Roses. — A knowing man writes to the Gardeners'' Chronicle about Roses : " Let them have 

 an eye to every point that tends to perfection — vigorous habit, constancy, free blooming, 

 and, above all, handsome and abundant foliage, not forgetting high perfume. These are 

 what we must look for, now-a-days, in every new Rose that is brought before the public, 

 and a variety that has not all these qualities more or less in advance of its compeers, has 

 no business to pass muster. Above all, however, let handsome foliage be aimed at ; for, as 

 an old cultivator of this lovely fiower, I can answer for it that a clean, luxuriant foliage is 

 the very making of a Rose. We amateurs do not want varieties from which a choice bloom 

 can only be plucked now and then. To any beginner in the cultivation of Roses, I would 

 say : "Never rest till you have procured Madame Laffay and William Jesse, and let him 

 add Coupe d'Hebe, Jules Margottin, William Griffiths, Baronne Hallcz, Duchess of Suther- 

 land, Blairi No. 2 (Hyb. China), Auguste Mie, Prince Leon, GGant des Batailles, Baronne 

 Prevost, Pius IX., and Mrs. Rivers (the best white)." 



