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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CINCrNNATI HORT, SOC. 



of new plants in the garden of the Society, 

 its proceedings, &c. 6cc. ; on the whole, we 

 look upon this Journal as one of the most 

 interesting horticultural works of the day, 

 and shall keep our readers informed of the 

 novelties that appear in its pages. It is not 

 stated how often it is to appear. The price, 

 to those who are not Fellows of the Society, 

 is about $1.50 per number here, including 

 the importation duty ; and the work maybe 

 ordered through Messrs Wiley and Putnam, 

 New-York. 



Centurie des plus Belles Roses, choisies dans 

 toutes les tribus du genre Rosier- peintes apres 

 nature par Mme. Annica Bricogne; accom- 

 pagne d'un texte descriptif de toutes les varietis 

 connues, Sfc. Par M. Victor Paquet. (4to. 

 Paris, H. Cousin, Rue Jacob.) 

 A BEAUTIFUL French work now being pub- 

 lished in Paris in numbers. Each number 

 contains two portraits of the rarest and 

 choicest varieties of this universal favorite, 

 given of the size of nature, and exquisitely 

 coloured. The Bourbon, Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 (or Hybrides Remontantes) and Tea Roses, 

 occupy of course the most conspicuous 

 place. 



Although the Rose is the flower par ex- 

 cellence from all antiquity, yet it may be 

 said with perfect truth, it is only within the 

 last few years that its incomparable beauty 

 and value have become known to the world, 

 since it is only very lately that these new 

 hybrid productions, which are purely the 

 triumphant results of scientific gardening, 

 the offspring of hybridization, have been 

 produced. The Rose was once but a fugi- 

 tive beauty, opening its petals only to the 

 first breath of summer, then fading quickly 

 and remaining a neglected and forgotten 

 bush for the rest of the year. Now, thanks 

 especially to the charming Bourbons and 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, we can gather Roses of 

 large size, superb forms and delicious odors, 



from the open garden from April till No- 

 vember. 



The portraits of the finest new varieties 

 in the work before us, are very striking and 

 satisfactory ones. Princess Adelaide and 

 Prince Esterhazy, two magnificent Tea 

 Roses, are particularly beautiful. 



Transactions of the Cincinnati Horticultu- 

 TAL Society, /or 1843, '44 and '45; with the 

 Charter, Constitution, By-laws, List of Members, 

 4-c. (8vo. Pamphlet, 68 p. Cincinnati. 1846.) 



This is a spirited and active young Soci- 

 ety, and, as we hear from all sides, is doing 

 a great deal for the advancement of horti- 

 culture in the Western States. Indeed Cin- 

 cinnati, if we mistake not, is destined to 

 become a rival to Boston, at no very distant 

 day, in the zeal and energy of her cultiva. 

 tors. 



It ought to be the ambition of this Socie- 

 ty to found, at the earliest possible moment, 

 an experimental garden or orchard. There 

 is even more need of it there, than here. 

 The confusion in the nomenclature of fruits, 

 especially throughout all the west, is, as 

 we have found to our own great perplexity, 

 truly endless. Many amateurs, finding a 

 a good variety of fruit in their garden 

 which they do not know, bring it forward 

 as a seedling, when it is a sort which is old 

 and well known at the east. And many 

 persons, who have received from nurserj'men 

 here, kinds of fruit under celebrated names, 

 which are not correct, do not hesitate to de- 

 nounce them as worthless there, when they 

 have never had the genuine variety in their 

 possession at all. A garden with specimen 

 trees of all the leading sorts of fruit, backed 

 by the authority of a Society like this, would 

 soon correct an evil which, we can plainly 

 foresee, will otherwise last half a century 

 more, to the annoyance of all those who 

 desire to arrive at some standard in pomo- 

 logy. 



