DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Dnmrstic IJntirrs. 



Mr. Glover's Modkl Fruits.— Our neigh- 

 bor, Mr. Glover, Fishkill Landing, N. Y., 

 who is both an artist of talent, and a zealous 

 amateur of liorticulture, has turned his attcn- 

 tion, for some three or four years past, to the 

 production of fac-similes of fruits and insects. 

 After a long course of experiments, he has suc- 

 ceeded in making a composition for modelling 

 fruits, which possesses much more of the truth- 

 fulness of nature, than the usual wax imita- 

 tions, together with that durability in which 

 the wax models are wholly wanting. 



Mr. Glover has for some time past been en- 

 deavoring to give a practically useful turn to 

 his efforts in this department, by taking casts 

 of all the principal varieties of standard fruits 

 cultivated in this country, with a view to the 

 formation of Pomological Cabinets for Horti- 

 cultural Societies. As the specimens are cast 

 in moulds made from the very fruits themselves 

 and colored after nature, the most perfect ac- 

 curacy is, of course, obtained. A society in 

 possession of one of these Pomological Cabi- 

 nets, would have always at hand an authentic 

 specimen or model of the leading sorts to refer 

 to, when the fruit itself is not in season — thus 

 settling a host of disputes among the members 

 who trust to memory. 



The advantages of this will be apparent to 

 every pomologist, and the beauty and appro- 

 priateness of the collection would commend it 

 to members of the Society not directly inter, 

 csted in its utility. 



Mr. Glover's collection, though now very 

 large, is daily increasing by casts from new va- 

 rieties, and begins to attract considerable at- 

 tention. The N. y. State Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, and the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, have ordered the Pomological Cabinets 

 from him, and we have no doubt Mr. Glover 

 will find calls made upon him from other quar- 

 ters, both public and private. Nurserymen 

 having new varieties of merit, not known to 

 their customers, will find a model by Mr. 

 Glover, a great help to verbal description. 



Augusta Rose. — Some of our readers 

 member an account of a new yellow 



climbing rose, a seedling, described under this 

 name in vol. 4, p. 147. This rose, as we un- 

 derstand, has not yet been sent out, but the 

 whole stock of it is in the possession of Messrs. 

 Thorp, Smith, Hanchett& Co., of Syracuse. 

 N. Y. 



We have just received bj' express from these 

 nurserymen, a small box containing a branch 

 of the Augusta Rose in good order, and are 

 glad to bear testimony (as far as a single clus- 

 ter of cut flowers will allow us,) to the beauty 

 of this new variety. The flowers arc a fine 

 yellow, deeper than Cloth of Gold, and deli- 

 ciously fragrant. We learn from those who 

 have seen this new American seedling growing, 

 that it is a fine vigorous climber, with an ever- 

 blooming habit — and have no doubt that it will 

 prove a great aquisition. Messrs. T., S., H. 

 &Co., write us, that "mere cuttings struck 

 in March and April — some of them not more 

 than six inches high, are now in full bloom. 

 Every new shoot blooms freely." 



Princess Alice Maud Strawberry. — As 

 one of the objects of the Horticulturist, is the 

 dissemination of correct information in respect 

 to the varieties and character of fruits. I pro- 

 pose to give what I have reason to believe is 

 the true history, at least in part, of the Prin- 

 cess Alice Maud Strawberry. In an article 

 •■' on Strawberries and their culture," in the 

 last number of the Horticulturist, by Dr. Hull, 

 of Newburgh, it is stated that " a plant which 

 has gained great reputation in our neigborhood, 

 under the name of Alice Maud, has proved, 

 under Mr. Downinc's examination, to be iden- 

 tical with Willey." It is there classed as a pis- 

 tillate variety. This, of itself, is sufficient 

 proof that it is not the true variety, for the 

 Princess Alice Maud is a perfect staminate 

 plant, with a very large and beautiful flower. 

 It is of English origin; and in the same num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist, under the head of 

 '•■ Foreign and Miscellaneous Notices," is an 

 extract from the Florist, p. 337, where this 

 variety, among others, is " recommended as 

 the best, by Mr. Whitney." This cli 

 is fully sustained in this part of the count 



