EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Nkw Fiu'its and Flowkrs. — I was glad to sec the Ptriotiires upon what have been r<'preseiit< d 

 as two of tho hitost ami most remarkable horticultural and floricultural ncfiuit^ilions, and (nroiic 

 of whieh I have been informed from $20,000 to $30,000 were paid last spring! This was the 

 Au'ju.^la Ro?e, of which I had the good fortune to obtain a budded plant about eighteen inches 

 in length, (iu place of being on its own roots, as I ordered it,) at ^'.'5. There was one ])oint of llie 

 ^irst importance to people residing in the latitude of Boston, in which they were misled ; this 

 was, its being represented in the papers accompanying the circular, as a "hardy out -door runner." 

 One communication, however, alone spoke decidedly on this point; but as this one came from a 

 source that was thought worthy of credit, many were probably induced by it to purchase it that 

 would otherwise have waited and been satisfied of its being any thing but a " hardy vut-door 

 runner," as has since been stated in the Jlorticulturist. 



Tiie other plant is Mr. Bull's new Grape, about which there appears to be some slight differ- 

 euce of opinion, as I learn from your last nimibcr. When you publisli a drawing of any new fruit 

 it should be distinctly stated whether the cut is intended to give the /air average size, or to be a 

 remarkably large specimen. If nothing is said to the contrary, it is presumed, if the public are 

 treated fairly, that the cut represents a specimen of an average, under good cultivation ; and 

 some of your correspondents say that the drawing of this Grape is fully one-third larger than 

 any they have seen ; and some deny its being equal as a tiible Grape to the Isabella, which does 

 not agree with the statements that have been set forth in its favor — besides its maturing its fruit 

 four weeks earlier than the Isabella. The Diana Grape, some four or five years since, was sold, 

 if not as high as the above, nearly so, and w^as represented as altogether superior in quality and 

 early maturity to the Isabella ; but liitle, however, has within a year or two been heard of it, 

 and judging from specimens exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society in 1852, whieh was about the I7th of September, purchasers paid dear for their whistles. 

 A few plants of Catawba, that I have allowed to take their own course in cultivated ground, ap- 

 pear to ripen their fruit about as well as the Diana, under the same course of treatment. By the 

 recommendation of your esteemed predecessor, I planted a vine of the Purple Fontainblrau ; 

 but the fruit is rather small, and resembles in flavor somewhat a Cataicba not fully ripened, and 

 I think will not prove here equal to what he expected. 



One other plant I see so much lauded by some one in your last number, is the once famous 

 Greville Rose, which was firet brought into notice in the United States under the management of 

 a gentleman who has not yet forgotten the most successful way of getting up an excitement when 

 he wishes to make sale of a great number of any new plant at $5 each ; but this fell so far below 

 the expectations of all who fully believed the statements put forth at the time, that most of the 

 purchasers in this vicinity pronounced it a humbug ; which, judging from the fact of its being so 

 very seldom planted, would seem to be correct. 



Now I do not wish to convey the idea that the Grape, or the Augusta Rose, are humbugs ; but 

 having failed in almost every instance where I have paid an extravagant price, I think I shall 

 wait till I can have ocular demonstration of the superiority of this fruit. 



A new Willow is mentioned in Mr. Downing's communication as being superior to all other 

 varieties of Osiers, imported by Dr. Grant. Can Mr. Downing give the name of it? Is it for 

 sale? and if so, by whom? If so, he will oblige at least C. W. P. — Newton, Mass, 



Preservation of QL^NCES. — My Quinces were gathered carefully, about the 1st of October, ond 

 spi'ead upon sheets in an unoccupied room, where those left for family use remained until freezing 

 cold weather. They were then carefully taken up in a tin pan, and placed in a cool, dry cellar. 

 A portion of these were made up on the 8th of March, being in a tolerable state of preservation ; 

 that is, three-fourths of them sound. Fruit carried a distance and sold in market, could 

 course be thus kept. C. E. GoorRicn. — Utica, N. Y. 



