editor's table. 



Geranium Auber Henderson. New, white. 



" Bishop Stow. New, scarlet. Both first-rate in their class. 

 Achimenes Amhrosie Verschafeltii. Nevr, Striped. 



Washington Citv, D. C, June 11, 1857. 



Mr. Editor: I send you this day, by express, fruit of " Vicomtesse Hericaut de Theury" 

 Strawberry, that you may see its character a second season. The descriptions then given 

 will hold good now. " Fair size, bright color, firm flesh, and exquisite flavor;" the latter 

 quality may be somewhat injured by late heavy rains. The weight of any given quantity 

 of the fruit will be found much greater than a like quantity of Hovey's Seedling. Its foliage 

 sustains no injury in the hottest weather, and the intense cold of last winter it passed 

 through much better than any of the native sorts grown side by side without protection. 

 In fact, I am better pleased than ever with the strawberry, and other good growers in this 

 vicinity think quite as highly of it. Respectfully yours, Johx Saul. 



[Received in good order. We have nothing to say against this berry, which has suc- 

 ceeded well in our own grounds, from plants sent by Mr. Saul. It is among the best. — Ed.] 



De Kalb Cherries. — In Georgia, the De Kalb Cherry has been remarkable for the regu- 

 larity with which it produces a crop. We remarked the circumstance of all the De Kalb 

 varieties looking very healthy at Mr. Peter's garden in Atlanta, where all the other cherries 

 were ruined by the uncommon frost of March last. Mr. Peters has taken the trouble to 

 forward specimens, which arrived in good order, accompanied by the following note : — 



Downing Hill Nursery, Atlanta, Ga., .June 10, 1S.57. 

 '' Dear Sir : We ship you this morning, per express, a small box of the De Kalb Cherry, 

 by which name it is known here. We regard it as a valuable cherry, not so much for the 

 superior quality of the fruit, but as a free and never-failing bearer. It has been known 

 here about twenty years, and has never failed to produce an abundant crop. The present 

 season, every De Kalb ClArry-tree on our place is loaded with fruit, and among our collec- 

 tions of cherries (which is quite extensive), not another tree has produced a single specimen, 

 all having been killed by the frost. 



Yours, very respectfully, Peters, IIarnden & Co., Atlanta, Ga.'' 



Grapes. — An editor fed upon forced sweet grapes, could scarcely be expected to grow sour. 

 Several parcels, and baskets, and boxes of delicious hothouse grapes, have the express-men 

 delivered at our door the past month ; sicch grapes as only can be grown in America, and, 

 we must say it, as are rarely grown, except at the North, where the cold is of so long con- 

 tinuance as to make in-door culture of fruit a necessity to the wealthy. We dare not par- 

 ticularize, but will go so far as to say, some of these pearly festoons are from graperies 

 described in the Horticulturist, and from friends who will receive this as it is meant — a 

 memento of grateful remembrances. The Hon. William Elliott, in his capital sketches, 

 called Carolina Sports, says a truth which may be apfilied to grape and orchard houses, 

 when he exclaims over the haunches of three saddles of venison, and a wild turkey of his 

 own shooting: "My young sporting friends, a word in your ear: the worst use you can 

 make of your game, is to eat it yourselves !" 



Sale of Orchids. — A fourth portion of Messrs. Loddiges' orchids, and also the collection of 

 a " well known amateur," have been brought to the hammer, in London. Of the prices 

 they realized, the following are a few of the more important : Aeridcs SchriJderi brought 



