(A. B. B.) You will find Swift's Lawn Mower advertised in previous numbers. Address 

 the maker, Fishkill Landing, New York. 



Cherries. — There is no better guide to the trimming and pinching of cherry-trees than 

 Barry's Fruit Book, and, generally, we may say with a neighbor : " It is about the only book 

 that can be generally understood." 



The Golden Hamburg Grape, which it was expected would have been offered to the public 

 last fall, has not yet been "let oiit," but Messrs. Veitch, of England, advertise it as to be 

 ready on the 15th of this month (July), price twenty-one shillings each — "one over or 

 three to the trade, with special terms when twenty-five and upwards are ordered at the 

 same time." There is no doubt of its great value. It is a superb fruit, and the advertisers, 

 who are backed by the awards of numerous societies, say : — 



" In hardiness of constitution, freeness of setting its fruit, size of bunch and berry, and 

 fineness of flavor, it is equal, to the Black Hamburg, with the distinction of being, when 

 fully ripe, of a beautiful amber color, thus at once showing it to be a first-class fruit, alto- 

 gether distinct from all other light-colored grapes, and well adapted either for a greenhouse 

 or for forcing." 



Catalogues, etc., received. — Godfrey's Narrative of the Last Grinnell Arctic Exploring 

 Expedition. Philadelphia, 1857. Quite an amusing account. 



Circular of Sliepphard's Forwarding and Commission Horticultural Nursery and Seed 

 Agency, 159 Front Street, New York. A novel and important business. 



Carolina Sports, by Land and Water, including Incidents of Devil Fishing. By the Hon. 

 "Wm. Elliott, of Beaufort, S. C. Second edition. This is a most spirited account of sports 

 as new to the world generally as they are graphic and entertaining. Written by a scholar 

 and a gentleman, with every appliance at hand, we are free to say the sketches equal any- 

 thing ijenned by the celebrated English writer, " Nimrod." Why it is not more known at 

 the North is a mystery to us, though printed in New York at the Steam Power-Press of 

 Trehern and Williamson, 47 Ann Street. 



Report to the Governor of South Carolina on Algerian Cotton Culture. By the same author. 



The Elliott Letters of Agricola. By the same author. 



Address to the Imperial and Central Agricultural Society of France, read before them at 

 Paris, July 4, 1855. By the same. Commissioner of South Carolina to the Universal Ex- 

 hibition. Mr. Elliott read this in French, if we remember rightly, and was complimented 

 on its purity of diction, and his perfect pronunciation of the language. 



Premiums and Regulations for the Eighth Annual Fair of the Warren County (Ohio) 

 Agricultural Society, September, 1857. We note, with thanks, numerous premiums here 

 also, of volumes of the Horticulturist. 



Supplement aux Catalogues de Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie., Quai do la Messagerie, 30, h. 

 Paris, 



Prix-Courant de Louis Van Houtte, Horticulteur a Gand (Ghent) Belgique, 1857. 



Flour of Sulphur a Cure for the Mildew on the Grape. — It is wondrous strange that 

 the savans of Europe have just made this discovery, when it has been published in this 

 country over twenty years. I believe, first in the American Flower Garden Directory, in 

 1832, and known now by every American garden laborer, though our vines are occasionally 

 touched by the method of its application. Allow me to give you two. First. Our sulphur 

 water-tub is always filled, and ready on call. We take a ])iece of stone lime (about four 

 inches square) ; place it in a tub ; put over it four gallons of boiling water; cover it over 

 with a thick cloth ; allow it to boil a few minutes ; then stir the lime and sulphur 



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