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be like confining him to the culture of one kind of plants. 

 No, he wants all the information he can get, whether from 

 the north, or south, or west, and he is only to be pitied if his 

 organ of locality don't extend north of Philadelphia. There 

 are plenty of good reasons why such a journal should be 

 published and well supported, without attributing it to such 

 sectional causes. 



The work is neatly got up, and contains some good articles. 

 Among the contributors we find some of our own corres- 

 pondents. We wish the Florist every success. 



Art. II. The Culture of the Grape^ and Wine Making. 

 By Robert Buchannan : unth an Appendix, containing Di- 

 rections for the Cultivation of the Stratvbeny. By N. 

 Longworth. 1 vol. 12mo., pp. 142. Cincinnati, 1852. 



This is a second edition, somewhat enlarged, of a work 

 we have already noticed, (Vol. XII, p. 355.) The "first 

 edition having been soon exhausted, a second one has been 

 called for, and the task has been cheerfully undertaken with 

 a view to add such information as may have been acquired 

 during the last two years, on this so favorite a subject with 

 the author." 



To grape growers in the west, it will prove an interesting 

 volume. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JVotices. 



The Fuchsia. — This genus now contains an immense number of varie- 

 ties, many of which are worthy of being ranked with our finest ornamental 

 plants. All flower very profusely, remain long in perfection, and all are of 

 comparatively easy culture. Most of the varieties may be readily induced 

 to make strong vigorous growth during the winter and spring months, but 

 they have a natural tendency to produce bloom towards June, after which 

 time it is nearly impossible to excite them to active growth. Large, well- 

 formed specimens are more easily grown from cuttings than from old cut 



