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Nonpareil keep so well as formerly. The author well remembers, that, sixty 

 years ago, hotli these kinds of apples were plentiful in May ; but it is not so 

 at present. This is attributable to two causes ; our summers lately being more 

 moist, and perhaps too many free and paradise stocks used in the nurseries. 

 It has been deeitied a good practice to raise the Golden pippin from cuttings 

 or layers. This plan is quite practicable ; and some practitioners have been 

 very successful in raising ])lants from cuttings, intended for potting. Trees 

 may also be raised by layers from stools kejjt on purpose in tlie nursery." 



Mr. Rogers recommends Millett's Mignonne peach, for forcing in 

 pots or boxes. Mr. Brown, gardener to the late Lord Cremorne, 

 at Chelsea, kept all his in tubs or boxes, like orange trees, for years, 

 and supported them chiefly by the use of liquid manure. This was 

 composed of soft water, horse droppings, and a little soot. The sorts 

 Mr. Brown considered best for growing and forcing in this manner 

 were, the French Mignonne, Violette hatif, Early admirable. Mil- 

 let's Mignonne ; and, for later fruit, the Bellegarde. 



In the Review Department we find notices of the three first annual 

 Addresses delivered before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 We had the opportunity last fill of sending these pamphlets to the edi- 

 tor, with others, by a friend, thinking it would be a source of gratifica- 

 tion to the authors of the addresses, as, also, a great pleasure to our 

 Horticulturists, to let our transatlantic friends see how rapidly we are 

 progressing in the various departments of gardening, literary as well 

 as scientific. The reviewer says, " These Addresses are eloquent 

 and exceedingly well written. It is delightful to see the independent 

 and patriotic spirit displayed hi the toasts, and in the explanatory 

 sentences which accompanied the different epithets." 



In our last we were obliged to omit our review of the March 

 number of this Magazine ; it being in type, we now present it to our 

 readers. The 1st article in this number is "an excursion in search 

 of OrchldecE, up the river Masseroni" in Demerara. By Mr. 

 Henchman. 



" After a tedious passage," he says, "of nearly two months, it was with 

 great pleasure, and in the highest spirits, that I landed in Georgetown, 

 Demerara, on the 12th of March, 1834. The appearance of Demerara 

 from the sea is by no means inviting, nothing being visible except a dense 

 mass of mangrove bushes, many of which are growing within the limits 

 reached by tlie tide. Justly has Demerara been called the land of mud : 

 not a grain of sand, not a single rock does it present, for the eye to rest on ; 

 and were it not for a few cocoa-nut and cabbage palms, and a tall chimney 

 or two, which are visible, at intervals, along the coast, one could scarcely 

 credit that such a spot could have been selected for a European settlement." 



On the 13th of April he sailed for the Ampa creek : — 

 " Ampa is situate about sixty miles from the mouth of the river Essequi- 

 bo ; and there being inany Indians who were in the habit of frequenting 

 Ampa, Mr. Mackie promised to procure some to paddle me up the river. 

 The majestic Essequibo is said to contain from three to four himdred islands. 

 Among the largest are Laguon and Wakenham, which produce, perhaps, 

 half the sugar exported from Demerara. Higher up are Hog Island and 

 Fort Island ; the latter of which was formerly the seat of the Dutch govern- 



