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Cling', (preserves,) Early Melocoton, Late 

 Melocoton, Eed Cheek Melocoton, Old 

 Newington, Oldmixon Cling, Oldmixon 

 Free, President, and Van Zandt's Superb. 

 If the amateur has no curiosity, and cares 

 but little for preserves, the Blood and Lemon 

 Clings, with the Dwarf Orleans, may be left 

 out. 



Nectarines. — As these are so precarious 

 from the attacks of the curcuHo, we select 

 but 2, the Elruge and Violet Hative. 



Apricots. — Of these, 5 will be enough : 

 Dubois' Early Golden, Hemskirke, Large 

 Early, Moorpark, and Peach. 



Grapes. — For open air culture, Twrth of 

 Baltimore, the Isabella and Catawba. For 

 culture under glass, Black Hamburgh, Black 

 Prince, Chasselas Musque, Grizzly Frontig- 

 nan, White and Black Frontignan, Royal 

 Muscadine, Muscat of Alexandria, West's 

 St. Peters, Black Lombardy, and Prince 

 Albert. South of the point indicated, nearly 

 every variety of the grape will succeed in 

 the open air, provided they are cultivated 

 in a proper manner, regard being had to 

 drainage, soil, aspect, and a judicious use 

 of the knife. 



Quinces. — The Large Orange, and the 

 Pear-shaped. We have not yet seen the 

 " Chinese Scarlet flowering, with scarlet 

 fruit" and dont know of any one who has. 



Maspherries. — American Red, the True 

 Red and Yellow Antwerp, Fastolff, and 

 Pearson's Prolific Red. The first is per- 

 fectly hardy ; the others, in tliis climate, 

 require a little protection in winter. South 

 of Maryland, they will stand the winters 

 very well. 



Strawberries. — " Five of the very best 

 varieties, for general cultivation," are Large 

 Early Scarlet, Crimson Cone, Burr's New 

 Pine, Hovey's Seedling, and Black Prince. 

 To these, a sixth will, in all probability, be 

 added — the American Scarlet, an exceed- 



ingly promising variety, raised by Mr. 

 Huntsman of this village. The Aberdeen 

 Bee-Hive, Burr's Mammoth, Burr's Seed- 

 ling, and Taylor's Seedling, are now on 

 trial in our garden. The results will be, 

 in due time, communicated. 



Currants. — Black Naples, Red and White 

 Dutch, and the Cherry Currant. The last 

 is new and very large. 



Of gooseberries, figs, and the miscella- 

 neous fruits, we feel no disposition to make 

 a selection, because we find it rather a 

 bother to do so for ourselves, and care too 

 little for all or any of them to seek further 

 experience. 



The object we had in view when we sat 

 down to write this article, has now been ac- 

 complished. We presume not to say that 

 our experience is as extensive as that of 

 many of the gentlemen who are contribu- 

 tors to the Horticulturist ; for it is only 

 within the past 10 years that we have given 

 the subject of horticulture much attention, 

 yet during that time, we have not been 

 idle. The knowledge we would impart to 

 the amateur is the result of our own well 

 tried investigations. Others may differ 

 from us ; that is to be expected ; for men's 

 tastes differ as much as their faces ; and 

 not unfrequently they will differ for the 

 mere love of the thing. It is, unfortunately 

 for the advancement of a most interesting 

 science, too much the prevailing passion to 

 grow immense quantities of fruit, instead 

 of select assortments. Nothing that we 

 know of seems to act as a check upon it ; 

 on the contrary, it is encouraged in various 

 ways, by private growers, to a considerable 

 extent, and by nurserymen to excess. 



In all the attempts to raise new varieties 

 too, from the seed, there is a manifest care- 

 lessness, as surely detrimental as it is ab- 

 surd. It is admitted to be true, that not a 

 seedling fruit is worth saving and naming 



