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and the faster it grows, the greater will the tendency be to 

 fill up its pores ; so it follows that when plants are exposed 

 to great heat in a close house, and not in any way artificially 

 washed or syringed, they are placed in an unnatural con- 

 dition, and the very care of the gardener defeats, to some 

 extent, the object which he has in view. 



Art. II. Pomological Gossip. 



The capital report of Mr. Cabot, the Chairman of the 

 Committee on Fruit of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, for 1851, (now President,) in our last number, and the 

 anticipated resume of everything new among fruits, which 

 he has kindly promised us in season for our next, renders it 

 unnecessary for us now to refer to many of the varieties, 

 which will be particularly noticed by him. There are several 

 new pears, which have fruited in our collection the past year, 

 of much merit, and such as he omits in his article, we shall 

 give an early account of; and in the course of the volume, 

 full descriptions with outlines of some of the most remark- 

 able. 



Dr. Lindley's opinion of American Fruits. — We have, 

 from time to time, had occasion to notice the asperity with 

 which Dr. Lindley speaks of every fruit or plant of American 

 origin ; and though it matters but little what his opinion 

 may be, tinctured as it is by prejudice, or a determined will 

 to traduce everything American, it may gratify our readers 

 to see occasionally what he does say, when he condescends 

 to notice a country " little visited by Europeans " ! ! 



It appears that Mr. J. Shed Needham, of Dan vers, Mass., 

 sent one of his white, yellow or mulatto colored blackberries, 

 as a kind of rara avis, to the London Horticultural Society, 

 as one of the wondrous fruits of this Western Continent, 

 and with it the statement, which went the rounds of our 

 newspaper press, last summer, as to its tremendous qualities, 

 &c. The Present is made the subject of the leading article 



