editor's table, 



work, and has never been published in this country ; it might be, however, to some book- 

 sellers' advantage. 



Horticultural Advertiser ; Seneca Lake, Highland Nurseries. E. C. Frost, Havana : New 

 York. This is an advertising sheet of Mr. Frost's Nurseries, and looks like a newspaper. 

 This may be a good mode, but we cannot believe the plan equal in value to an insertion in 

 the pages of the Horticulturist, which reaches thousands of those most likely to want Mr. 

 Frost's goods. We have heard the expression, " every man his own washerwoman," but 

 " every man his own advertiser," is at least novel. 



(T. T. S.) The exhausting action of fruit is illustrated by the well known fact, that 

 when plants cultivated for the sake of their flowers only, are permitted to ripen their fruit, 

 the power of flowering in a succeeding season is diminished. This is seen in rhododendrons 

 and azaleas. When the rhododendron goes out of flower, it forms clusters of seed vessels, 

 which swell during the summer, and by the autumn become ripe ; and they arrive at their 

 size by feeding upon the organizable matter formed in branches, during summer, by the 

 leaves. This organizable matter, if not consumed by the seed-vessels, is stored up, and 

 applied to the formation of flowers ; if it is consumed in the creation of fruit, it is abstracted 

 from whatever means the plant may have of generating flowers. It is therefore obvious, 

 that to prevent the formation of fruit, is to promote the future production of flowers, and, 

 acting upon this principle, all good gardeners break oflf the young rhododendron fruit as 

 soon as the flowers have fallen. The same rule applies to all other cases. 



(A Subscriber, Andover, Mass.) Your tender roses may be safely wintered in a small 

 pit dug below the frost, and aired as often as the weather will permit. If you have a cellar 

 door exposed to the east, south, or the southeast, and the cellar is tight, place glass inside 

 and below the door, so that it (the door) will open and shut above it. By this means, you 

 may give light during the day, and keep out the cold at night. In such a ready-made pit, 

 you may have, at a trifling cost, quite a winter greenhouse of lemon-trees, oleanders, camel- 

 lias, «&c., and some of your roses, if carefully potted, will give you bloom in the cool weather. 

 Be careful to give air whenever it is of suitable temperature out of doors. 



Blackberries. — A box of fine blackberries received on the 16th of September, from Mr. 

 Lawton, speak loudly in favor of this now established luxury of all good gardens. They 

 were superb. Several other articles came too late for notice this month. 



f orticultttral <^0ci£ti£S» 



Annual Horticultural Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Society, in September, at Jayne's 

 Hall. — Multum in parvo may well be applied to such a sight. In the great Chinese Museum, 

 our exhibition was almost a national one ; the Committee, however, very ingeniously made 

 tlie most of their space, and crowded it with many fine fruits, plants, and vegetables. The 

 specimen plants were exceeiiingly well grown, though several of them had entirely too many 

 stakes, wires, and other artistical trainings. Do away with such stiff taste ; revise those prize 

 lists, and in place of twenty plants, call for ten, and where twelve is required, adopt six, if 

 you wish to diffuse competition, and to liave even superior plants and more bloom. As it 

 now is, the prizes are necessarily confined to a few large private or public growers : open the 

 way for fifty competitors instead of five. 



Of grapes, nearly a ton was exhibited, and though there was not a nine-pound bunch of 

 Hamburgs, this year, yet, we believe, some weighed over seven pounds ; the competition 

 very evenly contested. Muscats and Frontignacs were certainly in profuse abundance 

 large berried, and heavy. But why do competitors not carry their fruit more carefully 



