EDITOR'S TABLE. 



If any of the readers of the Horticulturist^ or any of then- friends, desire to purchase a 

 fine country residence, in which fruit-culture is the principal feature, Ave refer them to the 

 advertisement of II. W. S. Cleveland, Esq., of Burlington, N. J. This gentleman is well 

 known to our readers as one of the most zealous and intelligent amateur horticulturists iu 

 the country, and for twelve years past he has been improving and planting his grounds. 

 Very seldom such a place comes into market, and we are sure that at the present time a 

 purchaser will not long be wanting. 



A very palpable Eeroe. — A leading agricultural .journal in the course of a recent 

 article on Budding, says: "Several sorts of stocks are used for the Clierry — the Doucicm, 

 Malialeb^ and Paradise are the most suitable." It is almost incredible that any man who 

 writes upon horticulture should make such a blunder. The Doucian and Paradise are 

 stocks for the Apple, and no man since the creation has ever done such a thing as bud 



Cherries upon them. 



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Your correspondent, A. D. G., ia yonr April number, by some means was greatly misinformed 

 respecting several of the trees and plants of Florida. lie strangely enough informs your readers 

 that "in the latter jiart of February, and early in March, trees of all kinds put forth fresh leaves," 

 " and the towering Magnolia {grandifiora) takes on new adornments of thick, glossy leaves, and 

 large white flowers. Soon the scarlet blossoms of the Pomegranate appear, and the little brown 

 flowers of the long trailing moss." Who, with any pretensions to understand such subjects, 

 could have undertaken to state that the Magnolia graadiflora put forth new leaves and blossoms 

 in February or March, or have imagined the Black "Walnut [Juglans nigra), or the May Iliekorj', a 

 very common variety of Cargo, even put on their spring garments before April, it is somewhat 

 ditflcult to conceive. As to the brown flowers of the long moss {TiUandsia Usneoides), whether 

 large or small, the existence of them is here unheard of. That plant is now just about to blossoni> 

 though I have not yet seen any of the flowers open. The blossoms are very minute, but slightly 

 conspicuous, of a yellowish pea-green, three-petaled, and pleasantly odorous when several of them 

 are collected in a bouquet. The whole plant is quite curious, and in many respects interesting. 

 Seen through a microscope, the dull, gray uniformity of its color gives place to several shades, 

 the most prominent of which is a delicate purple. It is entirely a;rial, depending solely on the 

 atmosphere for subsistence. The seed vessel bears some resemblance to that of mustard, and to 

 each minute seed is attached an egret of a delicate silken texture, by which it is supported in the 

 air and borne about by the breeze. 



Among the uses of this singular vegetable, one of the most common is to form the stufling of 

 mattresses — though for this purpose it may be regarded as a rather coarse material. It is exten- 

 sively used, and probably far the greater number of beds iu our fashionable hotels are formed of 

 this matcriak Saddles are frequently stutfed with it. It is eaten freely by cattle and sheep, and 

 probably by some wild animals. 



So far is the Magnolia grandijlora from flowering in Februarj^, or March either, that it is still 

 in blossom while I wi-ite (June 3). Other varieties of that splendid genus, particularly the 

 deciduous ones, in many if not most cases, put forth their flowers in April. One of these I have 

 not seen described in any work on botany. The tree seldoms becomes. veiy lai'ge, though too 

 large to be designated as a shrub. The leaves are large, though less than those of the Macro- 

 phglla, and in sliape resemble the leaves of the aquatic plant called Sagattaria. Perhaps it might 

 not imjiroperly be named Magnolia sagittifolia. Tiic leaves and flowers appear together, and 

 both seem to wear an appearance of fragility and delicacy. At this time, the cone, if it may be 

 so called, seems to have arrived at nearly its full size, and tlie wliole tree pi'csents an image of 

 luxuriant verdure and freshness. 



