VARIETIES. — BOOKS ON OUR TABLE. 



Celery. — It is a good plan to blanch a portion of your celery in the lollowing manner 

 Take hollow tiles, such as are used for drains, or two halves tied together if you can pro- 

 cure them more easily, and pull ofi" the small leaves of the celery plants ; gather the rest 

 together in your hand and put them through the hollow of the tiles. The plants make 

 rapid progress, and after a time put some additional length in, thrusting a stick inside, 

 both into the ground, to prevent the wind from blowing them down, and in 25 or 30 

 days, the celery will be blanched. Celery may be thus procured three feet long and ten 

 inches in circumference. It would be an improvement to have the tiles so constructed as 

 to admit of a collar on the under and upper tile, so as to fit on each other and exclude the 

 air at their junction. The benefit that would result, would pay to have a set of tiles to 

 use from year to year. Will some manufacturer produce some and let us see a sample ? 

 It is not too late for the present season. 



Profits of fruit culture in Oregon. — The following statement of P. W. Gillett of 

 Astoria, shows that the inhabitants of Oregon have not been idle in fruit culture, and 

 are likely to reap a fair reward for their labors : — 



Fruit-growing, the most pleasant, as well as the most profitable branch of agriculture, 

 is receiving increased attention with us. Indeed, no expense nor pains has been spared 

 in introducing and testing varieties. Oregon has now a splendid assortment of fruit 

 with a climate congenial to its growth. The summers are too cool, however, at the mouth 

 of the Columbia, to produce peaches of a fine flavor ; but the interior of the Teritory has 

 a climate adapted to the perfect development of the finest peaches, pears, and grapes. 



Green apples are worth from $8 to $10 per bushel, and ready sale at that. At this 

 rate one acre of land in apple-trees, allowing 14 bushels to the tree, which is a low estimate 

 for trees of mature age, and forty trees to the acre, gives the enormous sum of $4,480 per 

 acre. This is a matter of fact, and not speculation- It is true, our orchards, being 

 young, yield but from one to eight or ten bushels to the tree ; but it is the opinion of 

 some of our wisest men that good winter apples will command, in the San Francisco mar- 

 ket, as high a price for the next thirty years. 



JSoofes on our Qtailf. 



Price Current of August. Van Geert, Horticulturist, Ghent, Belgium ; autumn of 1855 

 and spring of 1856. 



Credentials of E. W. Bull, of Concord, Mass., the originator of the Concord Grape. 

 From J. D. Ingersoll, Hion, Herk. Co., New York. 



The testimony to the value of this grape, is certainly very full, and from well-known 

 horticulturists. The grape may be pronounced " large, handsome and excellent." 



Affleck's Soutliern Bural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar for 1856. — 

 Washington, Mississippi. — This neat little almanac is southern throughout, and as such 

 should be in the hands of all southern cultivators, to whom it will impart much informa. 

 tion. 



Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Evergreens, Flowering Shrubs, Plants, Roses, 

 &c., cultivated and for sale at the Hopewell nurseries, near Fredericksburg, Va. Henry 

 R. Robey, Proprietor. 



Pescriptive Catalogue of Strawberries. — W. R. Prince & Co., Flushing, N. Y 

 1856 



