THE MANOOSTEEN. 



loaviiiir asiilo specialities, wo will find that eversxreons removed durintrthe last lialf of 

 the iiiuiith of Ajiril and on through May, will seldom fail even in the hands of the 

 merest novice in tree-planting. 



Everirrecns are more liable to be destroyed in winter than deciduous plants. Their 

 foliage presents a large, evaporating surface, wliich must be supported by roots. 1'hc 

 past winter was more than usually severe here ; few evergreens that were removed 

 last fall survived, every leaf being stripped of Norway and hemlock spruces, and 

 Arbor-vitics browned past recovery, while those that I planted the last of May have 

 succeeded almost without a failure. 



{To be Continued.) 



THE MANGOSTEEN. 



"We have shown by actual experiment that our climate is superior to that of either 

 England or France for the production of various foreign fruits and vegetables; the 

 Victoria Kegia was found to produce larger flowers and leaves than abroad ; already 

 the Stanwick Nectarine has fruited in Boston and Philadelphia better than in Eng- 

 land or France. The Mangosteen must next be tried by some enterprising cultivator. 

 We find the following in the Gardeners' Clironide; it may prove a stimulus to our 

 fruit growers; the Mangosteen should be tried also at the South: 



The opinion of practical men concerning the merit of bringing the Mangosteen fruit 

 to maturity in England, has now been pronounced in the strongest manner possible by 

 the award of the Judges of the Horticultural Society on the 16th, when a Gold Banksian 

 Medal was assigned to the beautiful specimen sent from Syon to Gore House by order of 

 the Duke of Northumberland. We believe there is no other instance of a medal equal 

 in value to the Horticultural Society's Gold Banksian having been awarded to a single 

 fruit, nor could anything have justified so great a departure from custom except the com- 

 bination of the greatest skill in gardening with results as important as those obtained by 

 the production of fruit like the Mangosteen. Had the Horticultural difficulties been 

 fewer, or the quality of the fruit been below the highest, the advent of the Mangosteen 

 could not have been celebrated in such a manner. 



It is not surprising that those who have had no opportunity of tasting this delicious 

 fruit should be incredulous as to its excellence. It is difficult indeed to speak of it with- 

 out an appearance of exaggeration. Nevertheless it will be found that the statements of 

 every traveler who has written about the Maylay island, assign it the highest place at the 

 dessert ; and, so far as our own taste can be trusted, we wholly concur in that opinion. 

 Not to ocupy space with quotations frcm English works we will merely cite the words of 

 RuMPHius, the celebrated Dutch Governor of Amboyna, who speaks of it in these terms: 

 " When ripe the fruit is delicate and agreeably sweet as the finest Lansehs (another 

 famous Malay fruit tree, of which a variety called the Dulcu is the domesticated repre 

 sentation which ought next to engage the attention of the wealthy), and may even 

 mistaken for ripe Grapes. It is at the same tiae so juicy, that many people can 



