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turning yellow and falling off, while the foliage of the former 

 continned green and healthy. 



It was, probably, a fortunate circumstance that the great 

 drought was not followed soon by a wet season ; that, accom- 

 panied by warmth, must have induced a late growth of the 

 trees, so late that the wood thus produced would not have had 

 time to mature ; as it was, but few trees that lost their foliage 

 in consequence of the drought put out new leaves, or com- 

 menced a second growth. As to what will be the conse- 

 quences to trees, of the trying ordeal through which they 

 passed, the loss of their foliage, in many instances, at a com- 

 paratively early period of the year, it would be useless to 

 conjecture, when facts must so soon take the place of conjec- 

 tures ; it is to be feared that they cannot but be injurious. 



There were not many new varieties of fruits exhibited during 

 the past year; not so many as, considering the attention given 

 to raising seedlings, and the efforts to obtain new kinds by 

 importations for several years past, were to have been expected ; 

 of some, however, that were new, or at least but little known, 

 descriptions will be attempted, accompanied with remarks 

 concerning some varieties of different species, of which de- 

 scriptions have already been given, when such will be thought 

 to convey information not generally known. 



Of the earlier fruits, as the strawberry, blackberry, rasp- 

 berry, «fcc., the crop was indifferent; probably injured, both 

 as respects size and quantity, by the drought; though the 

 favorable circumstances under which they were grown, or 

 the skill of individual cultivators, so far overcame the obsta- 

 cles presented by an unfavorable season, that of each of these 

 fruits some fine specimens were exhibited. Among these 

 fruits were none, however, that were entirely new, unless it 

 be a strawberry raised by Mr. Scott, Brighton, and called 

 Scott's Seedling. This strawberry has been known for a 

 year or two in the Boston market, where it meets a ready 

 sale, at an extra price ; but, as the fruit has never been exhib- 

 ited, nor the plants disseminated, it is new to most cultivators. 

 It is a very fine fruit ; berries large, in color bright crimson, 

 rather peculiar in form, being somewhat of a mulberry shape, 



