KDITOK'S TAllLH 



TiiK I'lurTiiAi Land Dbai.neb, by B. Muss, Landscape Gardener, New York. New York : C. M. Saxton. 1S55. 



Mr. .N[i xn's treatise hoa just been i)lace(l on ourtaldc as tlie closing pages of tins nuniher 

 go tt) pivps; so we have no si)are to say nuicii about it. We have given it a iiasty periisil, 

 antl regard it as a timely and useful work. Mr. Mixx, as a landscape gardener, has had 

 opportunities enough to acquire experience on the subject, and besides he has consulted the 

 best English authorities who have treated draining as a science. The information hero 

 brought together in a ^all volume could not otherwise be reached without referring to a 

 library of books and papers. Draining is but beginning to receive attention in this country. 

 Every man who cultivates either a farm or a garden, should know something of it. Mr. 

 Munn's book must be eagerly sought for. It will no doubt be found at all the bookstores. 

 Messrs. Saxton & Co, have sent it out in very creditable style. 



Om Native Forest Trees. — The attention that is now paid to the subject of our native 

 forest trees warrants the propriety of keeping before the public the importance of Michaux 

 d- yuttaVs Sylva of North American Trees. The work has been several times noticed in 

 this journal, but it may not be amiss to insert the following, which we clip from a Cleveland 

 paper, from the pen of that distinguished naturalist, Dr. Kiktland : 



" North American Sylva. — The recent issuing of a second and improved edition of Michaux <L' 

 Nuttal's Si/lva Americana is an evidence that public taste in the United States is advancing in the 

 right direction. Demands for it are coming from every part of the Union. This is all rigl>t; for 

 it can hardly be excelled fur beauty and usefulness, by any other publication. By its aid any 

 intelligent person can easily render himself familiar with the history and habits of our forest 

 trees. It is equally valuable fur the farmer, arboiiculturisf, botanist, and individual of taste. A 

 place should be assigned for it on the center-tab!e of every well regulated family, in lieu of the 

 trifling trash which too frequently abounds. It should be found in every public and extensise 

 piivate library, 



"The Managers of State and County Agricultural Fairs would diffuse much greater benefit by 

 offering it as one of their main premiums than by bestowing their thin and alloyed stuff called 

 plate, Jap.ed P. Kirtland. 



Received. — A Descriptive Catalogue (tcith priced list) of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 

 Garden Shrubs, Clhnlers, Roses, Grape Vines, Currants, and liaspherries : Green-House 

 and Parlor Pot Plants, Herbaceous Hardy Floicering Roots, Garden and Floicer Seeds, etc., 

 etc. Raised, cultivated, and for sale, at the Green-House, Cottage Garden and Nurseries, 

 ly John Rogers, Nurseryman, Kittery, Maine^ 



anshjtrs to Corrtsponbtnls. 



The Xaxnvbeury. — We have received the following communications in relation to the " Nanny- 

 berry," inquired about by a "Kew Jersey Subscriber," in our April number: 



"In the April number of the Ilorticulturisf, a subscriber inquires about a shrub named Nanny- 

 berry." Viburnum lentago is called by Eato.\, "Sheepberry," and goes by the popular name of 

 "Xannyplum.*," from the resemblance of its fruit to this product of the farm-yard. I presume, 

 from the resemblance of names, this is the plant referred to, Kalmia augudifolia is called Sheep 

 and is a low shrub everywhere, from one to two feet high, 

 former grows from ten to fifteen feet in height, bears large clusters of small white flowers, 



