editor's table. 



bfing a sw.inip plant, it may liavo partial shade. It looks Ik'sI trained up to a single stem, 

 so as to funn a small tree. Both this shrub and the Gordonia are allied to the Camellia. 



( r. T. \V.) I'ompoue was the name of a French head-dress ; hence the pompone chrysan- 

 tlu'iniini and camellia (" Poniponia") received their names from a fancied resemblance to 

 this head gear. 



J. Jay Smith, Esq. — Sir: I notice your remarks with regard to the advertising sheets of 

 the Horticulturist. Tlio advertisements liave always been of interest to mo as an amateur, 

 and are always read first, to see what is new ; and from the first, I have had the advertise- 

 ments bound in the volume, put together in the last part of the volume. I would suggest this, 

 as I do not know of its being practised, except by a few to whom I suggested it. 



Fletcuer Williams, Norwich, Wayne County, New York. 



Perdita, in the Winter\<i Tale, and the Clown, in AWs Well that Ends Well, allude to the 

 same name for Rue, the clown making a neat pun iipon it. The Rue is by no means a 

 homely shrub, having a profusion of fine dark yellow flowers, constantly renewed. It has 

 been employed for bordering flower beds, and as a garden hedge. 



Catalogues, &c., beceived. — New and Choice Bedding Plants, imported and cultivated by 

 Daniel Barker & Co., Florists, Forest Hill, Utica, N. Y., 1857. 



Foe the SpRixn of 1857.— Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Plants, 

 &c., for sale at the Columbus Nursery, one and a half miles south of the State House, on 

 High Street, Columbus, Ohio. By M. B. Bateham & Co. EUwanger & Barry, Rochester, 

 and M. B. Bateham, Columbus, Proprietors. 



Lewis Ellsworth & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 

 and Plants, for sale at Du Page County Nurseries, Napierville, Illinois. Much attention 

 seems bestowed here. 



Priced List of Plants for sale by W. C. Strong, Brighton, Mass. A large catalogue, and 

 an extensive list. 



Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D. 



Trees as Arches. — We gave last 

 month some cuts of trees so planted 

 and trimmed as to form . natural 

 arches. There is abundant room for 

 design in the structure of ordinary 

 timber arches. This used to be done 

 by whalebone. The subjoined cut 

 afi'ords an example of a simple ar- 

 rangement which raay occasionally 

 be introduced with a pleasing efi'ect ; 

 the old tree stump beyond combines 

 well with the pointed arch to com- 

 plete a rustic scene at the crossing of 

 a bridge, &c. 



