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flower is of a deeper blue, tubular, hnYing the appearance of a rniniiturc Glnxinea. It 

 will become popular. P. 



Onothava MacTocarpa, is a a very fine dwarf perennial "livening iirinirosc.' Tlio yellow 

 flowers are three inches in <linmeter, and, being borne on long footstalks, are elevated above 

 the recumbent branches. It should be classed with the Dicentra sj^cctaliilis in a collection of 

 fine hardy plants, though this only gives us a spring welcome; while the »* primrose" 

 smiles on our evening walks, and morning rambles the whole summer long. P. 



Weigela amabiliji, turns out very like a rogue. lie has not at any rate answered the expect- 

 ation I formed of him. To give it what is due, it seems botanicalhj distinct from W. rosea, — 

 the leaves are wedge shaped at the base and somewhat petiolate, and the flowers are on long 

 slender footstalks ; but in color and form as near alike to the common one, as two marrowfat 

 peas are to each other. P. 



The Compass Plant. — Botanical travellers tell us, that in the western States there is a plant 

 the leaves of which always present their several opposite edges north and south to such a cun- 

 stant degree, that the Indians can travel by it with certainty. This has been received as a 

 "travellers tale." In the writer's garden, about a dozen seedlings are growing strongly; every 

 leaf on them exhibits the propenisity noticed. As the leaves of the Gum trees (Eucalyptus) and 

 some other trees of Australia, " choose" to grow vertically, there is no reason why one of our 

 own plants (Silphium Sp.) should not enjoy some other vagary. . P. 



The Tamarind. — We hope the following from an exchange paper may be true : 

 The Tamarind has grown in Virginia from seeds, and is highly spoken of as promising to be 

 a valuable acquisition to our fruit trees, especially on the prairie lands of the West. Its 

 growth is rapid, its appearance very ornamental, and it is perfectly free from blight and from 

 the depredations of insects. Last season the trees in Virginia produced fruit as good as the 

 imported. 



New American Cherries. — In the Revue Ilorticole for Jlay 16, we find noticed under the 

 head of " New American Cherries" by M. Naudin, the seedings of Mr. Walsh of Charlestown, 

 near Boston which were briefly discussed at the last meeting of the Pomological Society. 



M. Naudin describes them as being remarkable for theii- size, agreeable flavor, and parti- 

 cularly for their lateness, all three ripening in October and at intervals of one week. M. Naudin 

 has either committed a great error, or has been incorrectly informed. We believe Mr. Walsh's 

 seedling which is described as being similar to the "Black Bigarreau of Savoy," ripens about 

 the same season as that variety, the last of July. 



Vi^e copy the discussion on this variety, from the proceedings of the American Pomological 

 Society pages 196 and 197. B. 



Mr. Cabot of Massachusetts. We have a cherry seedling in this neighborhood raised by 

 George Walsh of Charlestown. He states that there are three difi'erent seedlings ripening at 

 intervals, of about one week from each other ; but they are so much alike that it is difiScult 

 to tell them apart, except by the time of ripening. It is a very valuable large sized black 

 cherry. I propose that we call it Walsh's Seedling. 



Mr. Walker of Massachusetts. I have been acquainted with this cherry some fourteen 

 years. When it was first exhibited at the tables of the ISIassachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 there was some doubt as to its being a seedling, from the fact that a Mr. Brown of Danvers 

 had presented a cherry very much like it, which he called the Black Bigarreau of Savoy. I 

 happened to be upon a committee which was sent out to examine the tree. We did not make a 

 very thorough examination, but satisfied ourselves that the trees were not budded. We after- 

 came to the conclusion that it was a seedling of Mr. Walsh, as some years elapsed 

 such cherry was brought in by any other person. I think Mr. Walsh called it No. I. 



