Robert Buist's Catalogue of Select Fruits, Philadelphia. A great and valuable list. 



Cat^ogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c., cultivated at the Fruitland Nurseries, 

 Augusta, Ga., by Dr. Redmond. An excellent selection. 



A Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Deciduous and Evergreen Trees 

 and Shrubs, Roses, &c., cultivated and for sale at Forest Nursery, near Elkton, Todd County, 

 Ky., by J. S. Downer & Son. If we are to judge by this catalogue, Kentucky possesses 

 almost everything we have on the Atlantic coast. 



Supplement to the Descriptive Catalogue of Andre Leroy's Nurseries, Angers, France, 1857. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c., for sale by Edwin Allen, at the 

 New Brunswick Nurseries, N. J., for 1857-8. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Select Fruit-Trees, &c. &c., for sale by Thomas & Herendeen (late 

 J. J. Thomas), Macedon, Wayne County, N. Y. 



Etablissement de Horticulture de Pele, Rue de Lourciue, Paris. Choix de Plantes nouvelle 

 ou rare, 1857. 



Cahnbar of f prations, 



NOVEMBER. 

 THE VINEYARD. 



BY R. BUCHANAN, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



The crop is gathered, and the vintage over, usually by the middle of October. Some 

 cultivators hoe their vineyards in autumn, after the vintage, in preference to the spring, 

 but the latter season is preferred by the majority for ploughing or hoeing. Late in Novem- 

 ber, when the leaves are all oflF, and the wood fully matured, the vines may be pruned, if 

 cuttings are wanted for fall planting — a favorite season for setting out cuttings with many 

 nurserymen. 



Treatment of the Wine. — The fermentation will be over in about two weeks after the 

 juice is put in the casks ; then fill them up full, and drive the bungs in moderately tight. 

 In two months (sometimes earlier), the wine will be clear, and pleasant to drink ; but it 

 should never be bottled until after the second fermentation, which takes place in May. In 

 January, the wine is drawn off, and put into another cask, and the lees sent to the distil- 

 lers with the pomace, to make brandy, or thrown on the manure pile. Some persons put 

 the wine back into the same cask in which it was fermented, under the belief that it keeps 

 better than in another. 



BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS. 



Vegetabi,e Garden. — There is every reason to suppose that the potato disease which has 

 been prevalent in many sections of the country, has been induced by the continued wet 

 state of the soil during the early summer months. Dry weather completely checked its 

 progress, and on dry, elevated soils it was scarcely seen. On drained lands, the disease was 

 also comparatively unknown. Were anything wanting to establish the value of draining 

 as the foundation of all improvement in cultivation, it has been furnished us this season. 

 It is certainly the most economical. Draining tiles are comparatively cheap; an inch and a 

 half or two-inch pipe is of ample capacity, except for mains. Depth is of great importance. 

 Even in tenacious soils, the drains should be three and a half or four feet deep. At this 

 depth, their influence extends over a greater space ; consequently, fewer drains are neces- 

 sary than when they are placed nearer the surface. Tliose who have not had experience 

 in this matter, have but a faint idea of the increased value it confers on the soil. Per- 

 haps the best argument in favor of draining, is the fact that those who have experimented 

 on a small scale are profiting by experience, and extending their operations. Agricultural 

 chemists have much to answer for in their almost total neglect of enforcing the improve 

 ment of the mechanical condition of the soil ; they have dwelt too exclusively upon 

 chemical constituents ; indeed, tlie physical condition of the soil is seldom connected 



