12 Norton^ s Meloti Apple. 



In New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other southern 

 and western cities, we have no returns from our correspond- 

 ents, but we believe a very large and profitable business has 

 been done the last year. 



Garden Literature. 



The year has not been prolific in Horticultural publica- 

 tions : the principal works have been reprints, and new 

 editions. Bridgman's Ga?'de?ier^s Assistant has passed to a 

 new edition ; Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees has also 

 reached the seventh edition, and the colored copy, with 70 

 plates, has also appeared; a Dictionary of Modern Gardening 

 by G. W. Johnson, edited by D. Landreth ; a new edition of 

 the New England Book of Fruits. The new works are. 

 The Cidture of the Grape by J. F. Allen : The Rose^ its His- 

 tory, <^'c., by S. B. Parsons, which will be reviewed in a 

 future number ; and our Fruits of America, a new periodical 

 to appear every other month, in royal octavo and quarto size, 

 with elegant colored plates, three numbers of which have 

 already appeared. Part VIII. of Colman's European Agri- 

 culture has appeared ; and two more numbers complete the 

 work. 



Art. II. Norton^ s Melon Apple. By Messrs. Ellwanger &. 

 Barry, Nurserymen, Rochester, N. Y. 



Dear Sir, — The apple which you figured and described in 

 the last number of your Magazine as the " Melon," was de- 

 scribed by us, in the Albany Cultivator of February 1845, and 

 in the Boston Cidtivator of March of the same year, as '' Nor- 

 ton's Melon," as you will find by referring to these papers. 

 We prefixed " Norton's," as we then stated, " to designate it 

 more particularly," as there was another apple in this vicin- 

 ity which has been known and cultivated as the "Water 

 Melon" for upwards of thirty years, and as we obtained the 

 first specimens of the fruit which brought it to our notice 

 from Major Reuben Norton of Bloomfield, in whose orchard, 



