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pondent, a few days ago. Another trial of it fully confirms 

 our previous opinion, and justifies all the praise awarded to 

 it by Dr. Russell. 



There have been so many pears received from Prance as 

 the Beurre Van Mons, Beurre de Mons and Poire de Mons, 

 that we supposed there might be some mistajte about the 

 name. As, however, no fruit, to our knowledge, has been 

 received under any other name like this, we are led to con- 

 clude it is a distinct variety, and identical with the one 

 described as the Beurre Van Mons, by Mr. Thompson, in the 

 last edition (1852) of the Catalogue of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. — Ed. 



Art. IV. Design for a Flower Garden, with a Selection 

 of Plants adapted for the saine. By the Editor. 



In a previous number of our present volume (p. 206) we 

 gave a design for a flower garden, copied from the Gardeners^ 

 Journal. Referring to the prefatory remarks which we then 

 made, relative to the lack of art displayed in the laying out 

 of most of our American flower gardens, we need not now 

 enlarge upon that point. It is our object in presenting the 

 annexed plan, as well as the one referred to, to aid somewhat 

 in forming a more correct taste for this department of gar- 

 dening ; and it will be our endeavor hereafter to add others 

 which may display either originality of design, harmony of 

 arrangement, or a general good effect. 



In the accompanying plan (fig. 37J no scale of measure- 

 ment is given ; but we may suppose the diameter of the 

 circle to be about fifty feet, walks about three feet, and the 

 beds in relative proportion : the Avhole laid out on gravel, 

 with Box edging. 



The lowest plants occupy the central beds, and the highest 

 ones the circumference, and it will be observed that they are 

 arranged in concentric circles from the centre to the circum- 

 ference. The whole plan seems to us admirable in every 



