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our recollection serves us, Mr. Thompson has described two 

 of these species or varieties, in a Journal published by the 

 London Horticultural Society, one called the Washington, 

 and the other the Jefferson ; in honor, we presume, of George 

 Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Americans, whom you 

 may have heard of There are many other sorts of equal 

 merit, but in a country "so little visited by Europeans," they 

 may not be known to you. We will name a few, and would 

 remark that they are nearly as good as the English varieties, 

 called the Diamond and Victoria. They are as follows : — Mc- 

 Ijaughlin, Imperial Gage, Duane's Purple, Yellow Gage, Al- 

 bany Beauty, Columbia, Emerald Drop, Huling's Superb, &-c. 



In regard to the peaches, apples, cherries and strawberries, 

 which the " old world " alone appears to have produced, it 

 might not be out of place to remark that our catalogues do 

 contain six or eight kinds of peaches, four or five of apples, 

 three or four of cherries, and one or tioo of strawberries, of 

 American origin, which are said to be eatable, if nothing 

 more. And now, trusting that we have given you. Doctor, 

 some information regarding the kinds of fruit raised in this 

 country, so '' little visited by Europeans," we hope you will 

 not misrepresent us again, especially to traduce a fruit we 

 esteem so highly as the Osage Orange, — by saying '' it is an 

 orange only in appearance." 



After noticing Mr. Needham's account of the White Black- 

 berry, which we have alluded to, we find the following 

 valuable memoranda concerning its culture, &c., which may 

 be important. Mr. Needham remarks that it is propagated 

 "by offsets" ! that it bears on "last year's canes" ! that the 

 best manure " is ashes leached or unleached " ! that it branches 

 out "like a pine tree " ! that it is sweeter than the common 

 blackberry " ! that it has a " fine mulberry flavor " ! and that 

 it is of "the color of the Sweetwater grape " ! In fine, if we 

 would believe Mr. Needham, it is, as Monsieur Boukhout 

 described a new pear to Mr. Rivers, after exhausting the 

 vocabulary of expletives, a " devil of a fruit ! " 



