EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Strawijeruiks. — In the discussion of Strawberries at tlie Cliicago poniological meeting, 

 Dr. "Wakdku is reported to liavo said tliat the variety we figured as J/cJroy's Superior was 

 L<yiuiirorth's Prolijlc. We are sorry the Doctor sht)uld liave taken the trouble to promul- 

 gate such an error among our western friends. We know that our drawing is a correct 

 portrait of medium sized specimens of McAvoifn Superior ; and several of the best informed 

 gentlemen at Cincinnati, including Mr. McAtoy himself, lias so pronounced it. This 

 variety is sufliciently distinct from the Prolijic not to be confounded by any person of 

 ordinary intelligence in such matters. We will hero take occision to assure our readers 

 that we shall never take the troul)le to prepare a colored drawing of any fruit until we are 

 perfectly satisfied in regard to its nomenclature, as well as its quality. 



The Delaware Grape. — Mr. Thomas J. Myers, of Dundee, Yates county, N. Y., writes 

 us that there is a Grape in Steuben count}', where it has been cultivated for twenty years, 

 that answers our description of the Delaware in every respect. lie says the vine was 

 owned b}' a queer ohl I^utchman, who never would give either a root or cutting of it even 

 to his nearest neighbors; but that at length he has succeeded in getting cuttings, and will 

 I)ropagate it. It ai)pears that the owner of this vine obtained it from a Mr. Maxfield, 

 living between Philadelphia and Trenton ; and that he brought it from Lisbon, and called 

 it the " Lisbon wine Grape." Mr. ^Iyers says it is perfectly hardy on the highest, coldest, 

 barren hills of Steuben, and bears abundantly. 



The Peach Tree Borer. — P. R. Freeoff, Esq., of Auburn, has handed us a branch of 

 the Peach tree, containing the grub of the Borer. It is seldom this insect is found in the 

 branches, the principal jioint of its attack being just at the surface of the ground. 



Osage Oraxge Hedges. — M. L. Sn.i.ivAXT, Esq., the great land proprietor of Columbus, 

 Ohio, has engaged, says the Ohio Cultivator^ twenty bushels of Osage Orange seed, to 

 hedge his Illinois lands. Success to the enterprise ! 



We regret to learn that the plates of a new and valuable work on Farm Implements^ 1 y 

 Jonx J. Thomas, were destroyed in the great fire at the Haepers'. 



We have some half a dozen ])agcs in type, crowded out. This will account for the non- 

 appearance in this number of several interesting articles from correspondents, &c. 



IIorticultcre IX Oregon. — We have during the jjast month received some very flattering 

 letters from Oregon, and what is more interesting to the publisher, some very long lists of 

 subscribers. About thirty copies are taken at one post oflice, (Oregon City.) We give a 

 few extracts from these letters : 



''The Horticulturist is doing a philanthropic work for Oregon, by stimulating a few men to set 

 the example of fruit culture before their fellow citizen?, which is truly ius[)iring. I have no 

 doubt that more attention is being paid to the growing of fruit in Oregon than in any other new 

 territory in the Union. Messrs. Ladd and Lewellixg have truly become beneAictors, by intro- 

 ducing at an early day, at great expense, and under most dis-heartening circumstances, so large a 

 variety of the choicest orchard fruits from tlie States. They have lost many varieties in conse- 

 quence of a want of sufficient care in putting up the young trees at the nurseries for sh 

 through a tropical climate. Other whole boxes have been purloined on the Isthmus by treaeher 



