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the season, stands unrivalled in charming and gorgeous 

 beauty. 



Those varieties mentioned, as requiring to be kept growing 

 in winter and dormant in summer, I may distinctly specify at 

 another time. ARC 



Pennsylvania, July 22, 1835. 



A more beautiful family, and one deserving more general 

 cultivation, is not to be found in the whole catalogue of green- 

 house bulbs, than the Amaryllideffi: the diversity of their 

 colors, their various shaped flowers, and their splendid ap- 

 pearance, should give them a place in every collection ; ad- 

 ding to this, the facility with which new varieties are raised, 

 and the certainty of procuring beautiful kinds, their value is 

 doubly enhanced. We can testify to the results of the 

 method of practice, as detailed in the above communication, 

 they having come under our observation, and would recom- 

 mend to lovers of this tribe a careful and attentive perusal of 

 it. If they have heretofore cultivated with disappointment, 

 they will, we are sure, after reading this, not be subjected to 

 such for the future. This is the second conmiunication we 

 have received from our friends at the south, but we have had 

 many more promised us, which we hope in due time to pre- 

 sent to our readers. — Conds. 



Art. V. The Jlpple Orchard. By Mr. E. Savers, New York. 



Messrs. Editors, 



In calling your attention to the apple orchard, I hope also 

 to invite the attention of a portion of your intelligent 

 readers, not with a supposition that my subject is altogether 

 of a correct conclusion, but deserving a full investigation, as 

 a consequence of national welfare. 



I think no person will dispute my assertion, in considering 

 the apple as the staple fruit of North America, which is 

 clearly seen, when its qualities are a moment duly esti- 

 mated. The apple forms a prominent feature in the dessert, 

 at almost all seasons of the year; it is used green and ripe, in 

 tarts, puddings, pies, and in sauces, preserves, and the like; 

 and lastly, in a liquid form, we obtain cider, vinegar, and so 

 on; and in all these domestic uses, I believe it to be consid- 



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