editor's table. 



[The April Horticulturist has been partly printed without the supervision of the press 

 by the Editor, who was passing a short time in Cuba. This will account for any apparent 

 omissions of the favors of correspondents, as well as excuse errors or deficiencies. As but 

 few of the tourists to Cuba who have written upon this interesting tropical region have had 

 an eye for its gardening beauties, we may hope for some descriptions which will interest 

 tlie readers of this work. Publisher. 



To Advertisers. — We were reluctantly compelled to exclude about a dozen pages of ad- 

 vertisements from the March number, for want of room. Advertisers should send early in 

 the month to secure a place. Publisher.] 



Great Sale of Greenhouse Plants. — By reference to the advertisements, it will be seen 

 that there will be one of the largest sales of plants in this city, in May next, that 

 has ever taken place here. The fine collection belonging to that enthusiastic lover of 

 horticulture, Caleb Cope, Esq., is to be then dispersed by auction. Embracing as it does 

 an immense variety of plants, we may specify the camellias, cactus tribes, and the orchids, 

 as superior in all respects. We call especial attention to the sale, and anticipate seeing a 

 large audience of amateurs from all parts of our gardening world. 



Elv ASTON Castle, the seat of the Earl of Harrington, near Derby, in England, has long 

 been one of the wonders of that country, but till lately was a sealed book, no one being 

 admitted but the family and immediate friends. Mr. Downing was obliged to be contented 

 with a peep from the neighboring steeple ! Mr. Buist, however, as an old friend of the 

 gardener, gained admission, and stayed all night, most of which he employed in roaming 

 about among its surpassing beauties. At our request he has thrown his recollections into 

 the form of a very good and graphic description, which shall appear in these columns 

 very soon. 



Roses. — A select list of roses : La Heine, Baronne Prevost, William Jesse, Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison, 'Coupe d'Hebe, Madame Masson, Madame Vidot, Prince Leon, Lord Raglan, 

 Paul Ricaut, Madame Domage, General Jacqueminot, General Castellane, Paul's Victoria, 

 Auguste Mie, Caroline de Sansal, Duchess of Sutherland, Gloire de Dijon, Cloth of Gold, 

 Doctor Herron, General Pelissier, General Simpson, Madame Knorr, Mathurin Regnier, 

 Pieonia, Pauline Sansezeur, Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, Toujours fieuri, Triompho 

 D'Avranches, Triomphe de I'Exposition, Imperatrice Eugenie. We give some of the above 

 more to accustom the reader to their names than anything else ; being quite new in France 

 and England, they must be rare in America as yet. 



The Rebecca Grape. — The entire stock of Mr. Brooksbank's Rebecca Grape was exhausted 

 some weeks ago. He informs us that he will have plants in the autumn. 



