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and other large, superb and delicious sorts, he would take 

 from four to six of each ? Why then mislead the amateur 

 cultivator by any such qualification as that of the Albany 

 and Rensselaer Horticultural Society, viz., "not so desirable 

 A VARIETY for CULTIVATION as souic othcrs " ? or as that of 

 the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society, " most valuable 

 for HOME cultivation " ? 



We may be in error, and if so, we can only say that it is 

 an error concurred in by most pomologists in our vicinity. 

 The Massachusetts Horticultural Society have often refused 

 to give a premium for superior specimens of the White Doy- 

 enne pear, as by doing so they might mislead many who are 

 new beginners as horticulturists, and take such reports as a 

 sure test of the merit of a fruit ; and, as a consequence, they 

 might plant out many trees of this variety, and lose years of 

 valuable time, finding out in the end, to their great disap- 

 pointment, that though tip-top as to quality, very uncertain 

 as a crop, and only "adapted to certain localities," as the 

 pomological conventions have said ; or, grown upon the 

 quince, as we would say. 



We think these instances are sufficient to adduce to show 

 the error of giving a prize to a fruit which is not, in the 

 language of the pomological rules adopted by several socie- 

 ties, " AT LEAST EQUAL, IF NOT SUPERIOR, to auy similar varie- 

 ties of the first rank already known." 



Art. YI. The Cultivation of the Cyclamen. From the 

 London Horticultural Magazine. 



In one of our earliest volumes, will be found an article on 

 the growth of this very beautiful and much neglected plant. 

 From February to May, no plant more richly repays the 

 room, care and attention given to it, than this : during 

 that period it continues to throw up a succession of its singu- 

 lar, yet beautiful and exceedingly fragrant blossoms. Trust- 

 ing that it may not be lost sight of in the rapid introduction 



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